Maria Gaspar

Maria Gaspar
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
EducationBFA Pratt Institute, MFA University of Illinois at Chicago
Known forInstallation art, Sculpture, Performance art, Social Practice
Notable workRadioactive: Stores from Beyond the Wall, Unblinking Eyes, Watching, Sounds for Liberation, 96 Acres Project, Brown Brilliance Darkness Matter, On the Border of What is Formless and Monstrous
AwardsLatinx Artist Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts; United States Artists Fellowship; Art Matters Award; Robert Rauschenberg Artist As Activist Fellowship; Creative Capital Award; Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant; National Endowment for the Arts; Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award, National Museum of Mexican Art

Maria Gaspar (born 1980)[1] is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator.[2]

Her works have been exhibited at venues including the MoMA PS1[3] in New York, Pérez Art Museum Miami,[4] Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art located in Chicago,[5] Artspace in New Haven, CT,[6] African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA, University of California, Santa Cruz, and many others. Gaspar's work has been written about in the New York Times Magazine,[7] Artforum, The Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic, and many other publications.

  1. ^ "Brown Brilliance Darkness Matter | National Museum of Mexican Art". nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  2. ^ "Bio". Maria Gaspar. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  3. ^ Cotter, Holland (2020-09-24). "Making Art When 'Lockdown' Means Prison". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  4. ^ "Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  5. ^ "UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work: Maria Gaspar". MCA. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
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  7. ^ Bradley, Adam (2022-08-11). "The Artists Taking on Mass Incarceration". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-09.