I am a multidisciplinary artist and arts educator based in Massachusetts. Shaped by my lived experience with disability, including cystic fibrosis and organ transplantation, my work responds to the cycles of being chronically sick and the ways illness becomes domesticated within everyday life.
I make work in series of multiples, moving fluidly between experimental drawing, sewn textiles, painting, and performance. This approach allows my process to shift and adapt through both conceptual frameworks and intuition. I rely on labor-intensive, repetitive processes– mark-making, sewing, and detailed construction—to mirror the rhythms, interruptions, and repairs of illness. My methods position vulnerability as a source of power rather than weakness, resisting narratives of cure and productivity while honoring resilience.
My materials are often accessible art supplies, colored pencils, acrylic paint, fabrics, paired with medical supplies and hospital linens, most specifically hospital gowns. I choose materials that carry physical and emotional residue, holding traces of care, pain, transition, and transformation. During periods of diminished ability, I use my body as material as well, putting it on display through performative actions that break down the boundary between private and public experiences of care.
Informed by narrative medicine, my work has helped establish hospital aesthetics as a developing reference in disability arts discourse, highlighting art that resists the Medical Model of Disability by centering lived experience and embodied knowledge within healthcare institutions.
Quagliozzi received an MFA in Studio Arts from Cal State University, Los Angeles and a BA in Sociology from Providence College. His work is in the permanent collection at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and he has exhibited work in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Providence, Denmark and Sydney, Australia. In 2018, he was on the Keynote patient panel at the Nexus Summit for interprofessional care and education at the University of Minnesota. He served on the Arts Council for Creative Healing for Youth in Pain from 2020-2025, and has given workshops and lectures at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Chapman University, Cal State Los Angeles and Cal State Long Beach.
Parallel to his art practice, Dominic uses art as a method of teaching for medical students and health workers.