Maria Park

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1972. Munich, Germany

Education
2003 MFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2001 MFA program in Painting, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1995 BFA Interdisciplinary, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1993 Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
1992 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Counter Nature 3, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
2010 Counter Nature 2, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
2010 Counter Nature, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY (catalog)
2008 Crystal Leisure, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2006 Discrete Velocity, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 Strange Passages, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2005 Stasis, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2003 Introductions, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2002 Discrete Universe, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2000 reflex, Main Gallery, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA

Group Exhibitions
2011 Red, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2010 Sea to Shining Sea, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2009 For Excellence, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (catalog)
2009 Cornell Art Department Faculty, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2009 Drawing, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2008 Remix 2, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2008 Ten, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2008 Cornell Art Department Faculty, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2007 Critical Art: Faculty of the Cornell University Department of Art, Academy
of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (catalog)
2006 Summer Splash, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2006 Selections from the Contemporary's Flatfiles, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,
St. Louis, MO
2006 Duets: A Collaboration between Artists, Writers, and the Hand Print Press,
Gallery of Art, University of Missouri- Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
2005 Certain People I Know, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2005 Summer Sensations, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2005 Terra non-Firma, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2005 Urban Jungle, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2005 New4, Belger Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2004 Trinitas: Three Artists Expand the Boundaries of Painting, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2004 Refraction, Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation 2002 & 2003 MFA Grant Recipients, CUE Art Foundation,
New York, NY (catalog)
2004 Nuit Blanche, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA & Paris, France
2003 Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
2003 Cream 2003, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
2003 After Study of Deflection Investigate Joints, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2003 International Young Art 2003, Mars Gallery, Moscow, Russia (catalog);
Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel;
Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 Terminal Velocity, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, CA
2003 2002 KAFA Award for Visual Arts, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2003 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
2003 New California Masters, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA (catalog)
2002 Murphy and Cadogan Award Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2002 slant, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2002 surfacer, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 rethinking pink, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2001 Memory and History of Place, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA
2001 Crossing Bridges, CBS Marketwatch.com, San Francisco, CA

Grants/Awards
2011 John Hartell Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cornell University
2008 Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence, Cornell University
2005 University of Missouri- Kansas City Faculty Research Grant
2003 MFA Grant Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation
2002 Korea Arts Foundation of America Award
(Jurors: Henry Hopkins, Howard N. Fox, and David Pagel)
2002 Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
2001 San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Fellowship
2000 Washington University School of Art Scholarship
2000 Henrietta Wahlert Scholarship, Washington University
1995 Sobel Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1991 Hewlett-Packard Merit Scholarship
1991 Bank of America Award in Fine Arts