M A Y A K R A M E R
Maya Kramer Artist Environment Sculptor Shanghai
Maya Kramer, b. 1977, Washington DC, obtained her BFA in 2000 from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD and received her MFA in 2006 from Hunter College in NYC. She was based in New York City for nine years, during which time she worked in the curatorial department of the Guggenheim Museum and for private collectors. In 2010 she moved to Shanghai and has since exhibited internationally in conjunction with institutions such the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland, and The Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China, among others. She is the recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship, and her works have been featured in media such as Fortune Art, Randian, and Blouin Art Info. She is a regular contributor to Frieze magazine and Cobo Social, is a Clinical Professor of Art at NYUSH and is represented by Capsule Gallery in Shanghai.
E D U C A T I O N
2003-06 MFA Hunter College, New York, NY
1997-00 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996-97 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
E X H I B I T I O N S
SOLO
2018 Decoy, Capsule Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014 Against the Wind, Frontline Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2009 From Where It Springs, Truecolor Museum, Suzhou, China
GROUP
2020 Art House, Sinan Ye, Shanghai, China
2020 Down the Rabbit Hole, Capsule Gallery, Shanghai China
2019 The Kind Stranger, UN Art Center, China
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
2016 Group Dynamics, Ming Qi Art Park, Shanghai, China
2015 City Vision, Shanghai, China
2015 Why Why Art: Community Hospital Exhibition, Shanghai, China
2015 To Be or Not to Be, Artoon Space, Shanghai China
2015 Robert Wilson’s Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY
2015 Beyond Architecture, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2014 Unseen Existence, Dialogues with the Environment in Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
2014 Soft Power, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014 Robert Wilson’s Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY
2013 The Folly of a Species, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2013 Robert Wilson’s Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY
2013 Laowai, MAB Society BANK, Shanghai, China
2012 A City Sorrow Built, Masters and Pelavin, New York, NY
2011 Utopia Nowhere: Views of Progress and Nostalgia, Art Plus Gallery, Shanghai, China
2011 Comfortable Auction, Comfortable Collective: Maya Kramer, Jin Shan, Girolamo Marri, Gao Mingyan and Tang Di Xing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2011 Parallel Worlds, Refracted Realities, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 The Third Party, Platform Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 There is Nothing You Can Measure Anymore, Ni You Yu, Jin Shan, Maya Kramer, Aike Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 Robert Wilson’s Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY
2010 Double Infinity, Co-organized by Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven Holland and Arthub Asia, Dutch Cultural Council, Shanghai, China
2010 Makeover, Group Exhibition, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009 Robert Wilson’s Watermill Benefit, Watermill, NY
2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY
2006 Works on Paper, Andrea Wohl Keefe and Maya Kramer, 193c Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Commencement Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2000 Group Drawing Show, Charles County Community College, Baltimore, MD
1998 Group Painting Show, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
A W A R D S
2019 Residency, Artbarn, Amaranth, PA
2016-18 Critical Collaboration Fellow, New York University, New York, NY
2009 Residency, Truecolor Museum, Suzhou, China
2006 Finalist, Fine Arts Work Center. Provincetown, MA
2003-6 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, New York, NY
2000 Walter and Betty Wilkinson Memorial Scholarship, Baltimore, MD
1998 Maryland Senatorial Scholarship, Baltimore, MD
1997 Robert T Finegold Award, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 Presidential Scholarship Recipient, Pittsburg, PA
P R E S S , L E C T U R E S , P U B L I C A T I O N S , O T H E R
2019 “Review, Mark Bradford: From Los Angeles to China”, CoBo Social,
https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/mark-bradford-los-angeles/
2019 Art and Value Panel, Co-Organizer and Panel Moderator, NYUSH, Shanghai, China
2019 “Review- Tank Shanghai- No Longer “Under Construction”,
https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/tank-shanghai-under-construction/
2019 “Review, Goshka Macuga, What was I?” https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/goshka-macuga-what-was-i/
2018 “Review, Shanghai Biennale Proregress Goes in Circles”,
https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/proregress-goes-in-circles/
2018 “Critics’ Guide: With Shanghai’s Busiest Art Month Underway, Highlights of the Best Exhibitions in Town”.
https://frieze.com/article/shanghais-busiest-art-month-underway-highlights-best-exhibitions-town
2018 Leigh Tanner “Review, Maya Kramer: The Allure of Nature”, CoBo Social,
https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/maya-kramer-the-allure-of-nature/
2018 Jin, Shunhua, “Review, Maya Kramer, Uncontrollable Absence”, in Art Monthly, (2018):13-14.
2018 “Review, Lettres du Voyant: Joseph Beuys x Nam June Paik”, CoBo Social,
https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/joseph-beuys-nam-june-paik-how/
2018 Art and Globalization Panel, Co-Organizer and Panel Moderator, NYUSH, Shanghai, China
2018 “Review-Shanghai Dandy”, Frieze Magazine, https://frieze.com/article/shanghai-dandy
2017 “Review- Geng Yini”, Frieze Magazine, https://frieze.com/article/geng-yini
2017 “Review- Toshiyuki Konishi”, Frieze Magazine, https://frieze.com/article/toshiyuki-konishi
2017 “After Us”, https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/after-us/
2017 “Being There”, https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/james-turrell-immersive-light/
2016 “Asking in Uncertain Times”, https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/asking-in-uncertain-times-shanghai-biennale-2016/
2016 “On Viewing 10,000 Waves and My Epidemic”, Cobo Social, https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/on-viewing-ten-thousand-waves-and- my-epidemic/
2016 “She, Good Intentions Faulty Execution”, Cobo Social, https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/she-long-museum/
2015 “Recognizable in the Ruins”, Jin Shan Exhibition Catalogue, BANK Gallery
2015 Wang, Jin Yang, “Special Report: Three American Artists in Shanghai, American Women Artists talk about their Creative Life in a Foreign Country”, Fortune Art, February 2015, 52-53.
2015 Soft Power Exhibition, City Beat, International Channel Shanghai, Shanghai CN, ICS, January 22nd, 2015, 6:49
http://www.icshanghai.com/video/2015-02-04/30797.html
2014 Chun, Julie, "Making Visible What is Unseen", Randian-Online, December 29th 2014, http://www.randian-
online.com/np_review/making-visible-what-is-unseen/
2014 Unseen Existence, HKAC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5IKtyqJpmc
2013 Gaskin, Sam, "Interview: Shanghai Artist Maya Kramer on Painting with Coal, Blouin Art, November 12th, 2013,
http://encn.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/983744 /interview-shanghai-artist-maya-kramer-on-painting-with-coal
2012 Review of the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Artlink, Volume 32 No. 4, (2012): 84-85
2012 Preface, Feng Mengbo: My Private Museum, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three on the Bund.
2011 Beautiful Because it is Brief, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three on the Bund.
2011 New York Residency Program, Visiting Artist
2011 Haegney, Din, "Everything Transforms", Art 21 Blog Interview, June 15th, 2011
http://blog.art21.org/2011/06/15/everything-transforms/
2010 Zhao, Chan. “Off Site Art in Shanghai.” Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Volume 9, Number 5 (2010): 61-70.
2010 Butcher, Claire., ed. Double Infinity. Eindhoven: Uitgever, 2010.
2004 MFASO Lecture Series, Co-organizer
2002 Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces, @ Guggenheim, co-author, {Brochure}