MARIA PARK
EDUCATION
2003 MFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2001 MFA 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
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
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
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
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
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2006~ Assistant Professor, Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2003-06 Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri- Kansas
City, Kansas City, MO
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