Fiona Joy McDermott is a California Bay Area-based artist who works primarily in colored pencils and acrylic paints, and whose true love is bright and vibrant colors. Her style captures her dream-like perspective on the world, breaking down the organic patterns and rhythms of visual reality into a workable mosaic. Her drawings and paintings often explore themes of memory, biological entanglement with the nonhuman animals around us, and feminist views of how our bodies impact the ways in which we are socialized and perceived. Fiona’s works have been exhibited in the shows Bodies of Evidence (2025), Two Doors (2025), and Figurative Realities (2024) all at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery. She was awarded a spot in the Advanced Studio Critique Program in fall of 2025, and has concluded her studies at the University of California, Berkeley to earn a BA in Art Practice.