Maya Kramer
Born in Washington DC, USA, 1977. Lives and works in Shanghai, China.
EDUCATION
2003 - 2006
MFA, Sculpture, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA (Dean's List)
1997 - 2000
BA, Painting, Modern Culture Minor, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA (Dean's List)
1996 - 1997
BA, Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Dean's List)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Decoy, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2014
Against the Wind, Frontline Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2009
From Where It Springs, Truecolor Museum, Suzhou, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
2023
Not Limited by External Objects, Chantilly Art Center, Shanghai, China
Eco vision plan, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
The World Is My Image, Zhu Qi Zhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2022
The Belonging of Plants, Juanzong Cabinet, Xiamen, China (co-curated by Juanzong Cabinet & Capsule Shanghai)
Farm to Easel: Works by Amaranth Artbarn Residents, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, USA
2021
Soft City -- A Project For the Current Art Education at Colleges, Museum of Contemporary Art Chongqing, Chongqing, China (organized by Sichuan Fine Arts Institute)
2020
Sinan Yè, SiNan Art House, Shanghai, China
Down the Rabbit Hole, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2019
The Kind Stranger, UNArt Center, Shanghai, China
Let’s talk about art and life, Kerry Center, Shanghai, China (co-organized by Roche-Bobois & The Artling)
2018
Perspectives, Qing Art Space, Shanghai, China
2017
Extension at Sea, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016
Visions of Landscape, Ming Qi Art Park, Shanghai, China
Group Dynamics, Ming Qi Art Park, Shanghai, China
2015
City Vision, Shanghai, China
Why Why Art: Community Hospital Exhibition, Shanghai, China
To Be or Not to Be, Artoon Space, Shanghai, China
Robert Wilson's Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY, USA
Beyond Architecture, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2014
Unseen Existence, Dialogues with the Environment in Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
Soft Power, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
Robert Wilson's Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY, USA
2013
The Folly of a Species, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
Robert Wilson's Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY, USA
Laowai, BANK MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, China
2012
A City Sorrow Built, Masters and Pelavin, New York, NY, USA
2011
Collision Cross Section, Goggle Works, Reading, PA, USA
Utopia Nowhere: Views of Progress and Nostalgia, Art Plus Gallery, Shanghai, China
Comfortable Auction, Comfortable Collective: Maya Kramer, Jin Shan, Girolamo Marri, Gao Mingyan and Tang Di Xing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Parallel Worlds, Refracted Realities, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010
The Third Party, Platform Gallery, Beijing, China
There is Nothing You Can Measure Anymore, Ni Youyu, Jin Shan, Maya Kramer, Aike Gallery, Shanghai, China
Robert Wilson's Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY, USA
Double Infinity, Co-organized by Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven Holland and Arthub Asia, Dutch Cultural Center, Shanghai, China
Makeover, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009
Robert Wilson's Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY, USA
2006
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
Works on Paper, Andrea Wohl Keefe and Maya Kramer, 193c Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2000
Commencement Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Group Drawing Show, Charles County Community College, Baltimore, MD, USA
1998
Group Painting Show, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
AWARDS
2019
Residency, Artbarn, Amaranth, PA, USA
2016 - 2018
Critical Collaboration Fellow, New York University, New York, NY, USA
2009
Residency, Truecolor Museum, Suzhou, China
2006
Finalist, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, USA
2003 - 2006
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
2000
Walter and Betty Wilkinson Memorial Scholarship, Baltimore, MD, USA
1998
Maryland Senatorial Scholarship, Baltimore, MD, USA
1997
Robert T Finegold Award, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1996
Presidential Scholarship Recipient, Pittsburg, PA, USA
