Artists
Maria Park
Born 1972 in Munich, Germany.
Resume
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 |
Awards
| 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 |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2007 | Crystal Leisure, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | 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 |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2007 | Critical Art: Faculty of the Cornell University Department of Art, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (catalogue) |
| 2006 | Duets: A Collaboration between Artists, Writers, and the Hand Print Press, Gallery of Art, University of Missouri- Kansas City, Kansas City, MO |
| 2006 | Summer Splash, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Selections from the Contemporary’s Flatfiles, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO |
| 2005 | Certain People I Know, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Terra non-Firma, Howard House, Seattle, WA |
| 2005 | Summer Sensations, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY |
| 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 | Joan Mitchell Foundation 2002 & 2003 MFA Grant Recipients, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY (catalogue) |
| 2004 | Refraction, Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 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 (catalogue) |
| Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel | |
| Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2003 | 2002 KAFA Award for Visual Arts, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2003 | MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) |
| 2003 | New California Masters, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA (catalogue) |
| 2003 | Terminal Velocity, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, CA |
| 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 |
| 1999 | They Hold Up Half the Sky, SOMA Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA |
| 1996 | 57th Anniversary 2D/3D Competition, De Vincenzi Gallery, San Jose, CA |
| 1995 | Works on Paper, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA |
Publications
| 2006 | “Discrete Velocity”, Hyphen Magazine, Issue 9 |
| 2004 | Joan Mitchell Foundation 2002 and 2003 MFA Award Recipients, Exhibition Catalogue (essay by Gregory Amenoff), JMF Foundation, NY |
| 2003 | International Young Art, Exhibition Catalogue, ArtLink, Israel |
| 2002 | Trepan, Vol. 4, Cal Arts Literary Journal, School of Critical Studies, CA |
| 2001 | New American Paintings, MFA Annual 2001, Open Press, MA (Juror: Lisa Phillips, Director, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY) |
Bibliography
| 2005 | Kenneth Baker, “Rauschenberg is 80- how is his work aging?”, San Francisco Chronicle, December 31 |
| 2005 | Alice Thorson, “Art Captures Darker Side”, Kansas City Star, December 22 |
| 2005 | Alice Thorson, “Painting Against Time and Technology”, Kansas City Star, July 31 |
| 2005 | Rebecca Braverman, “Park Life”, The Pitch, July 14 |
| 2005 | Regina Hackett, “Terra Non-Firma Explores the Changing Faces of Landscape”, Seattle Post Intelligencer, June 24 |
| 2004 | Carol Cuzner, “Beyond the Painted Edge”, Art Contemporaries, Fall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA |
| 2004 | Gretchen Giles, “By the Beautiful See”, North Bay Bohemian, July 21 |
| 2004 | Yoohee Ahn, “Refractive Soul”, The Korea Central Daily, July 12 |
| 2004 | Lindsay Westbrook, San Francisco Bay Guardian, January, Vol. 38, No. 17 |
| 2003 | Damarys Ocana, “Tales of Suspense”, The Miami Herald, December 26 |
| 2003 | Jean Korelitz, Real Simple, December 2003/January 2004 |
| 2003 | Olaniyan Adams, “Introductions 2003”, Stretcher.org, September 27 |
| 2003 | Debra Koppman, Artweek, October, Vol. 34, Issue 8 |
| 2003 | Corina Knoll, KoreAm Journal, March, Vol. 14, Number 3 |
| 2003 | TG Moon, The Korea Times Los Angeles, March 20 |
| 2002 | Hyun-Ah Lim, The Korea Central Daily, May 15 |
| 2002 | JJ Rhee, The Korea Times, April 27 |
Teaching Experience
| 2006-07 | Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| 2003 | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Kansas City, MO |
Images
Maria Park - Passage 6, 2005, acrylic on expanded PVC, 39 x 37 and 39 x 33 inches, ea. (diptych)
Maria Park - Passage 14, 2005, acrylic on expanded PVC, 39 x 55 inches
Maria Park - acrystal, 2007, acrylic on Acrylite, 14 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches
Maria Park - CL(c), 2007, acrylic on polycarbonate, 30 x 36 inches
Maria Park - CL(a), 2007, acrylic and Letraset on Polycarbonate, 30 x 36 inches
Maria Park - CL(e), 2007, acrylic on polycarbonate, 30 x 36 inches
Maria Park - cl1, 2007, acrylic, transfer, and Letraset on Mylar, 24 x 16 inches
Maria Park - cl4, 2007, acrylic, transfer, and Letraset on Mylar, 24 x 30 inches
Maria Park - cl5, 2007, ink, Letraset tape, Xerox transfer, and acrylic on vellum, 24 x 36 inches
