MaryKate Maher

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Brooklyn, NY

Year at Millay: 2023

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (2020, 2016, 2012); Grant Recipient, Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (2017, 2011); Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2017, 2010, 2008); A.I.R. Fellowship, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016); Artist-in-Residence, Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2016); Nominee, Emerging Artist Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY (2015); Fellow, Open Studio Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN (2012); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012); Fellow, Sculpture, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2011); Fellow, Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY (2008); Artist-in-Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2008); Artist-in-Residence, Takt Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany (2008); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2006); Award Winner, MFA Faculty Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2004); Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Program, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY (2004).

Website: https://marykatemaher.com/

MaryKate Maher was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from Arcadia University. She studied abroad at the Glasgow School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Maher has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Exhibitions have included Hesse Flatow, New York; Formah Gallery, New York; Shelter Gallery, New York; Gold/Scopophilia, New Jersey; JEFF, Texas; MoCA Westport, Connecticut; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania; Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Germany, Takt Berlin/Leipzig, Germany, and CICA Museum, South Korea. Her work has been written about in Artsy, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, L Magazine, BOMB, Art Zealous, and ANTE magazine. Maher is represented by Formah Gallery, New York.