Contemporary Artist Fula: A Journey of Determination and Creative Passion
"Art is not what I do, it is how I live. My creative practice is the language through which I define existence, identity, and understanding. Every piece I make is a continuation of a dialogue between survival and transformation."
Fula is a contemporary visual artist whose work explores identity, transformation, and spiritual rebirth. His art practice blurs the boundaries between abstraction and portraiture, using bold color, layered texture, and symbolic form to reflect the human experience of rebuilding the self. Rooted in lived experience, his creations express themes of perseverance, perspective, and creative freedom.
Born and raised in East Somerville, Massachusetts, Fula grew up in a home framed by movement and noise, train tracks on one side, highway on the other. His earliest studio was the basement of a century-old house, a space where his imagination took shape. Raised within the Jehovah’s Witness tradition, he was taught that the world would soon end, an idea that shaped his early understanding of time, mortality, and purpose. Art became his way to claim control in a short lived existence.
Fula began drawing as a form of reflection and survival, sketching images inspired by religious publications and emotional memory. After leaving high school at sixteen, he faced economic hardship, working as a janitor while facing rejection after rejection from prestigious Boston art schools due to lacking formal credentials. These early experiences formed his belief that art could exist beyond institutional validation. His education was a self-taught journey guided by experimentation, introspection and the art community itself.
Today, Fula’s work integrates personal narrative with universal emotion. Each painting or mixed-media piece functions as a psychological document, investigating questions of belonging, individuality, and the human experience. He has exhibited in public and private spaces throughout Boston, creating installations and collaborations that invite viewers to engage with the process of transformation itself.
Fula’s artistic philosophy challenges the commodification of creativity. For him, art is not a product but a lived condition, a continual dialogue between faith, doubt, and renewal. Through his use of vibrant color, expressive strokes, and fragmented form, he honors the tension between destruction and creation.
His current body of work continues to evolve in connection with contemporary dialogue around cultural identity, and social architecture. Collectors and curators recognize Fula’s art for its emotional resonance, depth of symbolism, and authenticity of voice. Each work is a call to embrace art not as decoration, but as a vital act of existence.
Exhibition Representation
The New England Art Center (NEAC) - The Art Gallery (TAG)
NewEnglandArtCenter.com
460 Harrison Ave., C-2, at SoWA Arts and Design District
The New England Art Center (NEAC) - The Art Gallery (TAG)
NewEnglandArtCenter.com
460 Harrison Ave., C-2, at SoWA Arts and Design District
Professional Artist Member
The Copley Society of Art, Co|So
CopleySociety.org
158 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116