Maria Park

Maria Park's work examines ways that technology intervenes in our perception of 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. Projects include solo exhibitions at The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Rosa, California; group exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Seoul National Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea; public art commission for the 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.  

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 AAP Exhibitions from 2017–19 and is a Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.  

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Drawing
  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Painting
  • Public art
  • Technology and art
  • Visual representation

Related Links

Related News

Classes (Selected)

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • Public art commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission/San Francisco Transportation Agency (2016)
  • Cornell University John Hartell Award for Distinguished Teaching (2011) and Cornell University Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence (2008)
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant Award (2003)
  • Korea Arts Foundation of America Award (2002)
  • San Francisco Foundation Murphy Fines Arts Fellowship (2002)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • Solo exhibition, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York City (2014, 2010, 2005)
  • Group exhibition, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul (2009)
  • Solo exhibition, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2005)

Publications (Selected)

  • Maria Park and Branden Hookway. "Training Setting." Interface Critique Journal 1, Berlin, Germany (2018).
Close overlay