Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

MaryKate Maher

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

MaryKate Maher born in Philadelphia, PA in 1979. She received her M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2004) and her B.F.A. from Arcadia University (2001). She also studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1999) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2008). Maher has received fellowships from Franconia Sculpture Park, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, A.I.R. Gallery and Socrates Sculpture Park. Exhibitions have included A.I.R. Gallery (NY), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NY), Interstate Projects (NY), Real Art Ways (CT), NURTUREart (NY), Franconia Sculpture Park (MN), with international exhibitions at Kunstwerk Carlshutte (Germany) and Das Gift gallery (Germany). Her work has been written about in Artsy, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, L Magazine, and BOMB. During her time at MacDowell, Maher worked on drawings and sculptures that influenced subsequent bodies of work.

Studios

Alexander

MaryKate Maher worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

Learn more