“wickedly surreal paintings”
Jillian Steinhauer for The New York Times “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in January 2024”
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“In a pair of sibling oils, ¡Adentro! (Inside, all works 2023) and ¡Afuera! (Outside), the artist’s familiarity with modern dance’s occultish somatics births soirees between a chimeric giraffe, frog, chicken, and more, whose anatomies are at once aberrant and credible.”
Sean J. Patrick Carney for Artforum “Critic’s Pick”
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María Korol's artistic practice is rooted in drawing and painting. She is interested in storytelling, literature in conversation with history, memory, and transformation. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980, in the middle of a military dictatorship, she was exiled to Brazil for five years and later returned to grow up in her home country. She moved to the United States in 2004. Korol has shown her artwork nationally and internationally in places such as March Gallery and The Painting Center in New York City, September Gallery in Kinderhook, NY, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, among other places. Her artwork is in numerous collections. She is a distinguished fellow of the Junge Akademie der Künste, the Hambidge Center, and the Women's Art Institute. She was a finalist for the Artadia Award in 2022, the recipient of the 2020 Edge Award with the Forward Arts Foundation, and was selected for The Creatives Project and the Hughley Fellowship. Her work has been mentioned in The New York Times, ARTFORUM, ART PAPERS, Burnaway, and ArtsATL. Her studio is based in Atlanta, where she is an assistant professor of art at Morehouse College. María Korol is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery.
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington. Emphasis: Painting and Drawing. 2014
Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Irvine. Major Field: Studio Art. 2009
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Bichos. Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA.
2021 Rango de mareas (Tidal Range). Marcia Wood Gallery. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2020 Nightwork. Swan Coach Gallery. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2018 La casa de Ariadna. WonderRoot Gallery. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2017 Cazadora nocturna (Night Hunter). The Box Gallery at Knox College, IL, USA.
2016 New Drawings. Susan Hensel Gallery. Minneapolis, MN, USA.
2014 Unravel and Bound. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, USA.
SELECT GROUP SHOWS
2024 The Sea Swept the Sandcastles Away. (To wake up in Atlanta!), curated by Daniel Fuller. MARCH gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2024 In the pale moonlight, curated by Kristen Dodge. September gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA.
2024 Bone of my Bone, Flesh of my Flesh, Heart of my Heart: The Figure in Contemporary Art, curated by William Downs. Day & Night. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2024 Pollinators, curated by K. Joy Peters. Sinclair Gallery at The Arts XChange Community Art Center. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2024 What Fierce Looks Like, curated by Pat Olson and Chris Cinque. Form + Content Gallery. Minneapolis, MN, USA.
2023 Afar. Sonnestein Loft, Hybrid Art Space at Kunstuniversität Linz. Linz, Austria.
2023 Hidden Gems, curated by Danille Taylor. Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA.
2023 38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Bradley University Galleries. Peoria, IL, USA.
2022 Finding a Memory, curated by Erika B. Hess. Piano Craft Gallery. Boston, MA, USA.
2022 Reimagine Peace: The Art of Resistance, curated by Charmaine Minnifield. Sinclair Gallery at The Arts XChange Community Art Center. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2021 All Eyes on Georgia, curated by Melissa Messina and Sarah Higgins. Laney Contemporary Gallery via Artsy.
2021 Welcome. Back. Marcia Wood Gallery. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2021 A Cow in the Backyard. Collaboration with Elena Rykova. Plug and Play, Territory Festival. Performed by Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. Moscow, Russia.
2020 A Cow in the Backyard. Collaboration with Elena Rykova. Invited by Bettina Junge and performed by ensemble mosaik. Chimeras at Kesselhaus. Berlin, DE.
2020 Celebrating Georgia Artists of Hispanic/Latinx Descent. Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2019 Controlled Burn. Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2019 Study in Yellow and Violet. Collaboration with Elena Rykova. Invited by Bettina Junge and performed by ensemble mosaik. Up to Three at Friedriechstadt Palast. Berlin, DE.
2019 Transcend, new works by artists in The Creatives Project. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2019 The High Rise Show. Fulton County Arts and Culture. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2018 MINT Fifth National Juried Exhibition, juried by Jiha Moon. MINT Gallery. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2018 Nova, new works by artists in The Creatives Project. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2018 Artistas Abstractos de Latino América en Atlanta. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2018 Ni Aquí Ni Allá. The Bakery. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2018 Recent Acquisitions of the Agnes Scott College Collection. Dalton Gallery. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2018 Behoven, A Subversive Group Show, curated by Zachary Carlile. IU Kokomo Downtown Gallery, IN, USA.
2017 Under Construction. Collaboration with Elena Rykova. Akademie der Künste. Berlin, DE.
2017 Showing Thinking. Dalton Gallery. Decatur, GA, USA.
2016 Open Studios. Akademie der Künste. Berlin, DE.
2016 Eight National Juried Exhibition, juried by Graham Nickson. Prince Street Gallery. New York, NY, USA.
2015 Faculty Show. Cyrus M. Running Gallery. Moorhead, MN, USA.
2014 Inside and Out. The Painting Center, New York, NY, USA.
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2024 Estudio Marte. Selected by Taka Fernández and Pablo Arredondo Vera. CDMX, Mexico.
2023 Residencia Cobertizo. Jilotepec, Mexico.
2022 Artadia Award Atlanta Finalist.
2020 Edge Award with the Forward Arts Foundation of Atlanta, GA, USA.
2020 Distinguished Fellowship to The Hambidge Residency. Rabun Gap, GA, USA.
2020 Hughley Fellowship with WonderRoot Art Center in Atlanta, GA, USA.
2020-2018 The Creatives Project, artist residency with studio at The Goat Farm in Atlanta, GA, USA.
2016 Young Akademie Fellowship, scholarship for a three-month residency with Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Germany.
2015 Women’s Art Institute, scholarship for a six-week residency and workshop at Saint Catherine University, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
SELECT PRESS
2024 What to see in N.Y.C. in January. Jillian Steinhaur for The New York Times.
2024 Art Show Review Madeleine Seider for Burnaway.
2023 Critic’s Pick. Sean J. Patrick Carney for ArtForum.
2023 Action, Spectacle. Invited to showcase my artwork by editor Ashley Farmer.
2021 Constitutionally Flawed. Art project including an essay and an animation by María Korol for ART PAPERS.
2020 Conversation with Images, Stories at Play. Review of Nightwork by Jerry Cullum for ArtsATL.
2020 Mood Ring. Art project including poems and images by María Korol for Burnaway.
2020 Our Favorite Stories of 2020. Mood Ring by María Korol selected as a highlight by Logan Lockner.