Maria Park

Maria Park’s work examines ways that technology intervenes in our perception and participation in the world. Ranging from serially based paintings to site-specific installations and public art projects, her work explores human presence and agency within a media-reliant society.

Park’s works have been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Museum projects include solo exhibitions at Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Rosa; group exhibitions at The Seoul National Museum of Art and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. Public art commissions include San Francisco Arts Commission and an interdisciplinary collaborative installation for Governors Island, New York City, sponsored by FIGMENT/AIANY. Training Setting, her collaboration with her late partner, architect, and theorist Branden Hookway, was published in the Berlin-based journal Interface Critique. Awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, the Korea Arts Foundation of America Award, and Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation.

Born in Munich, Germany, Park grew up in Seoul and the Bay Area and has resided in Ithaca since 2006. After studying at Parsons The New School for Design and Wimbledon School of Art, Park received her B.F.A. in interdisciplinary art and her M.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She served as the Director of Cornell AAP Exhibitions from 2017–19 and is a Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.