b. South Dakota, USA
MARIA (b. Pierre, SD) is a high-femme Latine/American writer, performer and artist who moonlights as a karaoke host. She builds and writes sculptural installations, performances, video and sound that eviscerate and reassemble the intersections of solidarity, chronic illness, race and their respective cosmologies in relation to speculative worlds. By using herself and the body with its endless potentials and failures as a conduit and muse she shatters through mediums to reflect the shifting nature of self-growth and conceptions of reality. She combines and oscillates between natural and digital materials to engineer and imagine radical bodily connections between cyber and organic networks as sites for liberatory seeds. MARIA nurtures these by diving headfirst into exploring pain (bodily, emotional, communal, spiritual) and its possibilities as a grounding for transformation and transmutation.
MARIA was formerly based in Columbus, OH and while there, was a member of MINT Collective. Currently she is based in London, UK and has completed her MFA from Goldsmiths (2022) and is the 2023 recipient of the Acme Award, Bursary, and Residency. Her work has been shown internationally with shows i know it’s the end & I am full of beauty (2021) at Beeler Gallery at CCAD and #SpeakingThroughMasks (2020) at ABCNoRio in NYC and Oracles and Algorithms at Copperfield Gallery (2022). She also has recently opened shows in 2024 at Kupfer Projects and Studio Chapple (solo). Her work will be seen next at the Goodeye Projects Summer Show and at PILOT Gallery in Riga, Latvia.
Collaborators both part and present include: Samuel Barbier-Ficat, Casey Immel-Brown, LOVE-HIGHER, Lindsay Coffman, Dkéama Alexis, Dionne Custer-Edwards, Frank Joranko, Hana Ortiz Sanchez, Jo Snyder, Marisa Espe, Maritt Vaessin, Oriana Hirschberg, Torin Jacobs, Vanessa Walters, Valentino Stone, Francois Le Freak, Luce Taylor, Renee Xinying Zhong, Allison Balanc, Tiffany Wellington.
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