Maria Chevska is an artist living and working in London. From 1990 until 2016, she was a Professor of fine art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
Foremost a painter, she often exhibits her sculpture, and installation alongside her paintings. Her works have specifically engaged with poetry, language, and selected writers, that connect to, and exist in dialogue with: philosophy, memory, history, and current events. The works emerge through the intersection of idea, material, gesture, and process - a fluid and provisional relationship between the paintings and objects is sustained that will find a completion through the role of a viewer’s participation and reception of the works.
Significant projects since the early ‘90s include collaborations with artists, and writers leading to numerous publications; a monograph ‘Vera’s Room, the Art of Maria Chevska’ was published by Black Dog in 2005. Solo exhibitions have taken place in the UK, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Poland, and USA.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Notes on saint’s hair… m2 gallery, London, UK
2018
Framing Vision, Liddicoat & Goldhill Project Space, Margate, UK
2014
Dubious to Reason, Vane, Newcastle, UK
2013
From the Diary of a Fly (in dialogue, Philip Akkerman), Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK
2011
Guest from the Future (collaboration with Simon Morley), Galerie8, London, UK
2010
And, Modernism, San Francisco, CA, USA
2009
Free and easy, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK
2008
Yet, Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2007
For it seems, Souterrain, the Hoffman Collection, Berlin, Germany
Farben-Weiss, Rohkunstbau, Schloss Sacrow, Berlin, Germany
2006
Limits, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
Mots Pour le Faire, Musee D’Art de Clamecy, France
Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
2005
[Who is refused], Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2004
Reading Room, MOCA, London, UK
Wait [letters RL], Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
2003
Vera’s Room, Kunstpunkt, Berli, Germany
Paintings, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
(ii) Artotheque, Caen, France; (iii) Maison des Arts de Bagneux, France
2002
K, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
(i) Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens, France
Paintings, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
Why Don’t You, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
2000
Recent Paintings, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
Watertoren Galerie; W3 Galerie, Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Yourself in My Shoes, Maze Galerie, Turin, Italy
1999
Mimic, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Cumbria, UK
Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
1997
Spoken Image, (i) Kunstmuseum, Heidenheim; (ii) Museum Goch, Germany
Gallerie Awangarda BWA, Wroclaw, Poland
1996
Weight, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
1994
Recent Paintings, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Mortum, The Warehouse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992
Visibility, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
1990
Language, Brasenose College Oxford, UK
1989
Seemingly, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
1988
Voyage Out, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
1987
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
1986
Echo, Mario Fletcher Gallery, London, UK
1985
Of Pyramids and Sailing Shoes, Midland Group, Nottingham, UK
1982
Stalker, Air Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Room selected by Graeme Todd, Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland (Online only)
Spiritual Exercises, Online exhibition, curated by Mark Dean @ UAL.
Focus. Online exhibition, MOCA, London
Created in Place, Online e-catalogue, Modernism, San Francisco, USA
Taster, 4 artists curated by Rob Kessler, Ken ArtSpace, London, UK
2019
Made in Britain - painters of the twenty-first century, The National Museum Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Salon for a Speculative Future, Chisenhale Art Place, London, and e-publication
Alive in the Universe,one-minute art films presented at Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice Biennale, by Caroline Wiseman
2018
Agency,curated by Mark Segal at Eagle Gallery, London, UK
Space Shift, curated by Sarah Kogan, APT gallery, London, UK
2018
Once I had a vision…the left hand of darkness, curated by Tony Godfrey, Manila, Phillipines
2017
the horizontal within, the horizontal within, Lubomirov-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
Art and the Word, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2016
It is one thing to sing the beloved, Dada da academy at Parallel, Vienna, Austria
2015
Abstract Apartment, (venue 1), Deborah House, London, UK
Crowd (video book), Off the s{h}elf: the eclectic in the artist's book, i’klectik Art-Lab, London, UK
2014
Group Exhibition, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
Painting About Painting, Simmons & Simmons, London, UK
Little patch of yellow wall, curated by Jane Bustin, Lion & Lamb, London, UK
2013
Do You Believe in Angels, Mo Space, Manila, & Equator Art Projects, Singapore
The Dark Would, curated by Philip Davenport, Summerhall, Edinburgh; Bury Art Museum & Gallery, UK
2011
Forward Looking, Oriel Mostyn and Solent Gallery, Southampton, UK
2010
Eye of the blackbird (collaboration with Stephen Lee), Tank, London, UK
A Thousand Yard Stare [Works on Paper], Art Space Gallery, London, UK
2009
Michael Landy’s Art Bin, South London Gallery, UK
Travelling Light, WW Gallery & Biennale di Venetia 2009, London, UK; Venice, Italy Mauer Museum, Berlin
2007
Altro Mondo, Galerie Casini, Paris, France
Slought in Berlin: The New Epistemology, Galerie Heike Curtze, Germany
Who’s on First, Royal Academy Schools Gallery, London, UK
2006
Artists Books, ICA, London, UK
Lekker, APT Gallery, London, UK
2003
Translater’s Notes, curated by Irene Amore, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK