MARYA KROGSTAD

Birthplace  Seoul, S. Korea

Lives and works  NorCal/San Francisco, CA, USA      

email krogstad.marya@gmail.com  

websites   www.maryakrogstad.com ,   www.maryakrogstad.blogspot.com

instagram https://www.instagram.com/maryakrogstad/

EDUCATION

M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, Sculpture-New Genres, 2009

B.S., Nursing, California State University, Sacramento

M.A., Art, California State University, Sacramento (Studio, Painting)

B.A., Art, California State University, Sacramento

AWARDS & RESIDENCY

Lucid Art Foundation Residency, Inverness, CA, 2016

Kala Art Institute, Artist in Residence, Berkeley, CA, 2014

Headlands Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2013-14, 2012-13, 2011-12

SECA Award nomination, SFMOMA, 2012

Increase Robinson Memorial Graduate Fellowship Award-R.W. & Joyce Witt Fellowship Award, CSUS

SELECTED EXHIBITS & EVENTS

2023

The First Ten Years, Biennale, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA

2019/2020

The Sea of Time, 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture, UABB, Dapeng Fortress, Curator,Yang Yong, Shangqi Art, Shenzhen, China

2019

Space between Space, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

Orium III, fundraiser event, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA

2018

Altered, OFFspace at Minnesota Street Project, with partnered guest curators, San Francisco, CA

2017

Lucid Art Residency Exhibit, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA

Investigations, Off-Space, Many Labs, fundraiser event, San Francisco, CA

2016

Transience, curated by Off-Space, Oakland Art Murmur, Classic Cars West Art Gallery, Oakland, CA 

2015

Everybody's Ocean, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2014

APAture 2014, Kearny Street Workshop, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Electronic Pacific, curator Justin Hoover, Fei Contemporary Art Center, run by Li Xiaofei, Shanghai, China

United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival, honorable mention, Rutgers University Film Co-op and Cinema Studies, New Jersey

Artists’ Television Access, Window Gallery installation, and Film/Video Screening, solo installation and screening, San Francisco, CA

Artists' Residency exhibition, Kala Art Insitute, Berkeley, CA

Kallassal, Seven Wonders, fundraiser for Kala Art Insitute, Berkeley, CA

2013 

Electronic Pacific, curator Justin Hoover, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

Translocura: Art at the Brink of Madness, curator John Jota Leaños, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2012

Hypnagogic, solo exhibit & Artist talk, featuring videos by R. Parks-Ramage, J. Sajda, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA

Artist talk, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2011

Emerging Video Artists, Big Screen Project, New York, NY

Ever After, jurors Lauren Davies & Robert Wuilfe, OFF Space curatorial project, Oakland, CA

Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Ruptures, 21 Grand Art Space, curated by OFF Space, Oakland, CA

2009

Nuevo Invierno, Adobe Books Window Parlor, curator Devon Bella, San Francisco, CA

Vernissage, MFA thesis exhibition, Herbst Pavillion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

French Snow, Diego Rivera Gallery, solo exhibit, San Francisco, CA

2008

Chordata, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

Black Swans, Diego Rivera Gallery, solo exhibit, San Francisco, CA

2007

Constructions, solo exhibit, & Artist's talk, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

21st International, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, juror Laura Hoptman

Made in California, City of Brea Gallery, City of Brea, CA, juror Michelle Urton

2006

Berkeley Art Center, Membership Showcase, finalist, Berkeley, CA

2005

City of Brea Gallery, honorable mention, City of Brea, CA, juror Alma Ruiz

Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA, juror Philip Linhares

2004

Innovation Fiber Arts II, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, juror Carole Beadle

EXPERIENCE/EMPLOYMENT

Clinical Research Nurse, RN, University of California, San Francisco, CA /San Francisco VA, San Francisco, CA

2008  Graduate Teaching Assistantships for Allan deSouza; and, Blixa Bargeld, New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fariba Bogzaran, A Place of Creation. San Francisco, CA, Lucid Art Foundation, 2024

Wu Qian/Zheng Yanling (Eds.), 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture The Sea of Time, exhibition catalog, 2019-2020

Conrad Myers, Willis Myers,et al., First 50 A Visual History of Aggregate Space Gallery. Oakland, 2018

Alex Biese, Martial Arts Film 'Maya' a Highlight of Super 8 film fest, Ashbury Park Press, Feb 12, 2014

Roula Seikaly https://www.kqed.org/arts/123671/what_are_we_saying_electronic_pacific_at_somarts July 23, 2013

Kelly Inouye,  In Conversation with Aggregate Space, Oakland, SFAQ, http://www.sfaqonline.com/ May 12, 2013

Heidi De Vries, Hypnagogic, Engineer's Daughter, July 11, 2012 

JD Beltran, SF Gate, Freshly Varnished and Ready for Their Close Up, May 2009

Jakki Spicer, In the Galleries, East Bay Express, May 9, 2007.

Richard Chang, The Orange County Register, https://www.ocregister.com/2007/02/04/local-exhibits-feature-art-made-in-california/ Feb 4, 2007

REFERENCES  Available upon request.

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http://ngdetritus.wordpress.com/ 
http://adobebooksbackroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/12/marya-krogstad-rashin-fahandej.htm