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b. 1972. Munich, Germany
Education
2003 MFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1995 BFA Interdisciplinary, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Installations and Commissions
2018 Oculi, a collaboration with Austin + Mergold, Chris Earls, and Scott Hughes,
commission through Figment, AIANY, and SEAoNY / City of Dreams
competition, Governors Island, NYC
2016 Central Subway Chinatown Station, San Francisco, CA, commission through
San Francisco Arts Commission in partnership with San Francisco Municipal
Transportation Agency to design artwork for central subway temporary barricade
2012 Johns Hopkins Hospital, commission and permanent installation for The Charlotte
R. Bloomberg Childrens Center and Sheikh Zayed Tower, Baltimore, MD,
curated by Nancy Rosen (catalog)
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA, commission of site-specific temporary
installation for Trinitas: Three Artists Expand the Boundaries of Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Training Setting, a collaboration with Branden Hookway, Nancy Toomey Fine Art,
San Francisco, CA
2017 Training Setting, a collaboration with Branden Hookway, Bibliowicz Family Gallery,
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2014 Composition, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2013 Composition, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2012 Shelf Life, Milstein Hall Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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,
curated by Elizabeth Dunbar
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
2018 Light Years: A Celebration of 20 Years, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2018 text me, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2017 Hoping for Clear Skies, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2016 Summer Breeze, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2016 Cornell Art Faculty 2016, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2016 Fifty Shades of Red, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA,
curated by Trevor Richardson
2015 Hotspots, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2014 That's Where You Need to Be, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2014 Beyond Earth Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
curated by Andrea Inselmann
2013 New Year 2013, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
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,
curated by Jinyee Oh and Jina Kim (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, curated by Louis Grachos (catalog)
2006 Duets: A Collaboration between Artists, Writers, and the Hand Print Press,
Gallery of Art, University of Missouri--Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
curated by Craig Subler
2006 Summer Splash, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2006 Selections from the Contemporary's Flatfiles, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,
St. Louis, MO, curated by Paul Ha
2005 Certain People I Know, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
curated by Tommy Everett
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 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
curated by Sabina Ott
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
Selected Grants and Awards
2016 Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Rapid Response Fund, Cornell University
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
(Jurors: Clara Kim, Stephanie Syjuco, and Timothy Taylor)
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
Selected Publications
2018 Training Setting, co-written with Branden Hookway, Interface Critique Journal
Vol. 1, Berlin, Germany
2012 Art + Architecture, project catalog, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
2011 Counter Nature, exhibition catalog, essay by Patricia Phillips, co-published by
Margaret Thatcher Projects, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, and Sabina Lee Gallery,
New York, NY
2009 For Excellence, exhibition catalog, essay by Peter Frank and David Pagel,
Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2006 "Discrete Velocity", Hyphen Magazine, Issue 9, San Francisco, CA
2005 Strange Passages, An Installation by Maria Park, interview with Elizabeth Dunbar,
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2004 The CUE Art Foundation Presents an Exhibition of the Joan Mitchell Foundation
2002 and 2003 MFA Grants Recipients, exhibition catalog, essay by Gregory Amenoff,
Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2002 Trepan, Vol. 4, Cal Arts Literary Journal, School of Critical Studies, Valencia, CA
2001 New American Paintings, MFA Annual 2001, essay by Lisa Phillips, Open Studio
Press, MA
Selected Reviews
2018 Wilson Barlow, "Room to Breathe", Interior Design, September
2018 Alex Wong, "City of Dreams Pavillion Brings Artifacts of the Agro-Industrial Age to New
York City", The Architect Newspaper, July 19
2018 Maria Erman, "Austin+Mergold, Maria Park, & Cornell University Build City of Dreams from Metal
Grain Bins in New York", Design Boom, July 16
2016 Steve Pfarrer, "50 Shades of Red: UMass exhibit looks at primal color", Amherst
Bulletin, February 23
2015 Paul Hegarty, "Maria Park: Composition", Enclave Review, No. 12
2014 Margaret Wright, "Painters Point the Way at Richard Levy Gallery", Adobe Airstream,
August-September
2014 Leora Lutz, "'Composition' Solo Exhibition by Maria Park at Toomey Tourell",
San Francisco Arts Quarterly, January
2014 Kenneth Baker, "Bay Area Visual Arts Picks, Jan 30-Feb 2", San Francisco Chronicle,
January 29
2012 Tom Moore, "Plastic Trees and Plexiglas", The Cornell Daily Sun, September 14
2011 Sook Hee Chung, "Strange Nature", Korea Times, April 6
2009 Sook Hee Chung, "KAFA Artists", Korea Times, July 29
2008 Marianna Stark, "Park, Maria: Acrylic Science Fiction", thestarkguide.com, January
2006 David Bonetti, "Unexpected Discoveries", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 23
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 face 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 Debra Koppman, Artweek, "Cream: The Right Stuff", October, Vol. 34, Issue 8
2003 Olaniyan Adams, "Introductions 2003", Stretcher.org, September 27
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
Selected Interviews and Citations
2018 Danial Aloi, "Oculi Pavilion Opens to Public at NYC Arts Festival," Cornell
Chronicle, June 28
2018 Becca Bowes, "Faculty Team Wins NYC Sustainable Design Competition," Cornell
Chronicle, February 21
2014 "Ideas to Look At", Andrea Inselmann, ed. Emily Sanders Hopkins, Ezra, Summer
2012 Ernestina Snead, "Landscape: An Image or an Encounter with Nature?", Connecting
with Cornell, 23.1
2010 "Tips of the Trade" Emily Greenspan, OpenHouse New York, NBC,
August 29
2006 Marie Lee, "January 2006: Gallery Crawl", KQED, San Francisco, January
2005 Maria Park, interview with Steve Walker, "Arts Roundup", KCUR, July 22
2003 Jean Korelitz, "Who Inspires You?", Real Simple, December 2003/January 2004
2003 Corina Knoll, "So You Want To Be an Artist...", KoreAm Journal, March, Vol. 14, No. 3
Public and Corporate Collections
Fidelity Investments
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Academic Appointments
2013- Associate Professor, Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art and Planning,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Director of AAP Exhibition and Events (2017-)
Curated Exhibitions:
Beverly Semmes, Fall 2019
Paint Unpaint, Kota Ezawa, Spring 2019
1,000 Portraits, Mel Zeigler (co-curated with Jeffrey Chusid), Fall 2018
Estudios de Tensión, Nicolas Robbio, Spring 2018
In Silence, Doug Hall, Spring 2018
William Lim: The Architect and His Collection, co-curated with William Lim, Spring 2018
Inhabiting the World We Made, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Fall 2017
2006- Assistant Professor, Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art and Planning,
13 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2003- Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-
06 Kansas City, Kansas City, MO