BIO:
Margaret Pinto is a visual artist working across ceramics, sculpture and painting. Through the vocabulary of ceramic surfaces and forms which warp, melt and transform under external forces, her work explores the fallibility of structures and living bodies. Drawing reference from historical artifacts, rituals used to preserve the body and interweaving imagery from everyday life, her work explores how the objects and structures we surround ourselves with reflect our fears and beliefs.
Pinto has been an artist-in-residence at Zentrum für Keramik in Berlin, and in 2023, she participated in the MAPSpace Studio Residency in Port Chester, NY, which culminated in a solo exhibition. Pinto has exhibited across New York State and Brooklyn where she lived and worked prior to relocating to Richmond, VA. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Ceramics in the Craft/Material Studies Program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
RESIDENCIES
Nov-Dec 2024 Zentrum für Keramik Residency Program, Berlin
Oct-Nov 2023 MAPSpace Studio Residency, Port Chester, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
June, 2027, Forthcoming Solo Presentation, Fjord, Philadelphia, PA
March, 2026, Killing the Chimera, presented as a part of Late Breaking, 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
January 2023, Carapace Pierced, MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Aug. 2026, LATTICEWORK, via Neptune in June as a part of TRYST Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 2025, Two in the Hand, Seipel Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA
May 2023, Greater Gravity, Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY
June 2021, Gather, Hunt, online exhibition, Powder Free Vacuum Sealed
Feb. 2020, Either/Oreo, Pari Passu Gallery, group show, Queens, NY
April 2019, No Compromise, Pop-up exhibition, 1080 Wyckoff Ave, Queens, NY
Sept. 2016, Art Slope, Artist and Craftsman Supply, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY Mar.
2015 MAMA, Gallery 1019A, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2015 Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
2014-2015 Governor’s Office Exhibition, Governor Cuomo's office, Washington, DC
PUBLICATIONS
Nov 2025 Mortadella Issue 01 BINDER, artist feature
Jun 2024 Suboart Magazine Issue #24, artist feature
COMMISSIONS & OTHER PROJECTS
2026 Juror, Annual National Juried Ceramic Show, Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA
2023 Illustrations for “A Fluke” bronze edition by Rebecca Manson, produced by Phaidon with Artspace as a part of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art
2020 Illustrations for Greenway Botanical Garden at the Naval Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
Virginia Commonwealth University, Current MFA Candidate, Craft/Material Studies, Ceramics focus
SUNY Purchase College, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, 2015