Dominick Cocozza (b. 2001, Mazatenango, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan American (Maya Tz'utujil) painter currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. Cocozza earned his BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2024. Much of Cocozza’s artistic practice speaks to his transracial adoptee identity by shedding light on adoptee narratives, Indigenous ancestry, and themes of reclamation. His works invite viewers into a speculative worldbuilding orbit that forges cultural celebration, romance, and Latinx belonging.
Cocozza has participated in group exhibitions at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC; Kates-Ferri Projects in New York, NY; Southampton History Museum in Southampton, NY; The Pantheon Institute in Rome, Italy; Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA; United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC; Junior High LA Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Woods Gerry Gallery in Providence, RI; RISD Museum Gelman Gallery in Providence, RI; Providence Art Club in Providence, RI; 82Parris Gallery in Portland, ME; Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery in Glen Echo, MD; The Cherokee Town & Country Club Art Collection Space in Atlanta, GA; Radford University Art Museum in Radford, VA and the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. His debut solo exhibition Me acuerdo (I Remember), opened at Aunty's House in Providence, RI, in October 2025.
His works have been written about in the Boston Art Review, CNN, BBC News, Voice of America (VOA) News, Arlington Magazine, Soy Migrante, and Prensa Libre Guatemala. He is a recipient of the National Society of Arts and Letters Washington, DC chapter Highly Commended Award Scholarship and the 2024 Florence Leif Award sponsored by the RISD Painting Department. Cocozza is an alumni artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (VSC) in Johnson, VT, and Ma's House Residency in Southampton (Shinnecock Indian Nation), NY (2024). He works from his Providence studio at Aunty’s House, a community arts kinship collective and artist-run space.