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b. 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
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
Installations and Projects
2012 Johns Hopkins Hospital, commission and permanent installation, Baltimore, MD
Selected 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,
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 Trinitas: Three Artists Expand the Boundaries of Painting, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Santa Rosa, CA, curated by Gay Dawson
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 Art Fairs
2010 Aqua Art Miami, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL
2008 Bridge Berlin, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2008 Pulse New York, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2008 Bridge New York, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 Flow Miami, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL (catalog)
2007 Bridge London, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, London, UK (catalog)
2007 Red Dot, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 Pulse Miami, Margaret Thatcher Projects, Miami, FL
2006 Flow Miami, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL
2006 Pulse New York, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2006 Scope New York, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Scope Miami, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL
2005 AAF New York, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Nova Chicago, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Scope Miami, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL
2004 Scope New York, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, New York, NY (catalog)
2004 Scope Los Angeles, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Los Angeles
2003 Scope Miami, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL
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
(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
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
Bibliography
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 Jean Korelitz, Real Simple, December 2003/January 2004
2003 Debra Koppman, Artweek, "Cream: The Right Stuff", October, Vol. 34, Issue 8
2003 Olaniyan Adams, "Introductions 2003", Stretcher.org, September 27
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
Academic Appointments
2006- Assistant Professor, Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art and Planning,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2003- Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-
06 Kansas City, Kansas City, MO