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Born 1956, Oxford
Lives and works in London, UK


STUDIES

Byam Shaw School of Fine Art, London
(now University of the Arts)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2009 Free and easy, Mummery&Schnelle Gallery, London, UK
2008 Yet, Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2007 For it seems, a reading of the Hoffman Collection, Berlin
        Rohkunstbau, Drei Farben-Weiss, Schloss Sacrow Berlin,          
2006 Limits: (collaboration with Alighiero Boetti, Ellen Gallagher, Louise Hopkins), Andrew
        Mummery gallery, London, UK    
        Les Mots Pour le Faire, Musee D’Art de Clamecy, France
        Idyll, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
2005 [Who is refused], Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA            
        Reading Room, Moca, London, UK
2004 Can't Wait [letters RL], Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
2003 Vera’s Room, Kunstpunkt, Berlin, Germany                       
        Recent Paintings, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
        Eh (iii), Maison des Arts de Bagneux, France
        Eh (ii), Artotheque, Caen, France
2002 K, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
        Eh (i), Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens, France
        Recent Paintings, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Why Don’t You, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
2000 Recent Paintings, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
        Company, Watertoren Galerie,& W3 galerie, Vlissingen, Holland
        Put Yourself in my Shoes, Maze Galerie, Turin, Italy
1999 Mimic, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Cumbria, UK
        Eyeballing, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
1997 Spoken Image (ii), Museum Goch, Germany
        Perpetua, Gallerie Awangarda B.W.A. Wroclaw, Poland
        Spoken Image (i), Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany
1996 Weight, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
1994 Recent Paintings, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
        Perpetua, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1993 Caput Mortum, The Warehouse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992 Safe, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
1991 Art Frankfurt, Germany
1990 Small Paintings, Brasenose College, Oxford, UK
        Visibility, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
1989 Tantamoun, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
1987 Recent Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
1986 Recent Paintings, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, Wales
        Recent Drawings, Mario Fletcha Gallery, London, UK
1985 Not Drowned, Midland Group, Nottingham, UK
1982 Stalke, Air Gallery, London, UK           


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2010 A Thousand Yard Stare, Art Space Gallery, London, UK
        Michael Landy’s Art Bin, South London Gallery, London, UK
2009 Travelling Light, WW Gallery London & 53rd Venice Biennale (‘Making Worlds’)
2008 Mauer Museum, Berlin, Germany
        Altro Mondo, Galerie Casini, Paris, France
        Gleichheit-Rowno, Program Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
        Gleichheit – Rowno, Rohkunstbau project at Program Galerie Warsaw, Poland
2007 Altro Mondo, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
        Slought in Berlin/The New Epistemology, Galerie Heike Curtze,
        Berlin, Germany                                              
2006 Artists Books, ICA, London
        From Vera (Festival of the Word), Charite-sur-Loire, France   
2005 Lekker, APT gallery, London UK
2004 Quand j’en trouve j’en mets a la carte, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France
2003 20 x 5 Drawings, The Eagle Gallery, London, UK
        Translater’s Notes, curated by Irene Amore, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK
        Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
2002 Peintures, Rennes, France
        Stoff, Malerie, Plastik Installation, Städtische Galerie, Albstadt, and Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren,
        Germany
        De Singuliers Debordements, Maison de la Culture, Amiens, Fr
        Fluent, Centenary Gallery, London, UK
2001 3 Painters, Marianne Hollenbach Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
        La lune sur le pont, un masque bleu, Galerie Philippe Casini, 
2000 Oeuvres d’etre, Temple University, Rome, Italy
        Cultural Ties, Jariwala Westzone Gallery, London, UK
        Nouvelles Peintures, Galerie Phillipe Casini, Paris, France
        The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK            
        Movin’ on up, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK                       
1999 Chora, curated by Sue Hubbard and Simon Morley, Underwood Street, London, UK
        Hoxton New Music Collaborations, curated by Eagle Gallery, London, UK
1998 Tescani Artists in Residence, Bacau Museum of Art, Romania
        Places: Works from the Collection, Lothbury Gallery, London, UK
1997 Prescencing, Eagle Gallery, London, UK
        Artoll Lyrik Tage, Cologne, Germany
        Lemonade....., Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
1996 Andata e Ritorno, British Artists in Italy 1980-1996, Spacex Gallery, and City Museum, Exeter, UK
        Permission to Speak, Worcester Museum and Art Gallery, UK
1995 White Out, Curwen Gallery, London, UK
        New Painting, Darlington Arts Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
1994 Identita e Rappresentazione Cartografico, Museo Pigorini, Rome, Italy
        Mostre, British School at Rome, Italy
1993 Four Artists, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
        Paintings from the Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
1992 The Discerning Ey”, Selected by Marina Vaizey, Mall Galleries, London, UK
        Whitechapel Selection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1991 Crossover, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
1990 The Theory and Practice of the Small Painting, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
        XXII International Festival of Painting, Chateau Musee Grimaldi, France
1986 Four Painters, City of London, UK Guildhall, London, UK
1985 Air Gallery Retrospective, London, UK
1984 Landscape, Memory and Desire, curated by Tony Godfrey, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
        Four Painters, Riverside Studios, London, UK
1984 New Images: Printmaking, Blond Fine Art, London, UK
1983 New Blood on Paper, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1983-89 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
1982 The London Group, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
        British Drawing, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1981 Art and the Sea, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and ICA, London, UK


WORKS IN COLLECTIONS (SELECTED)

Museum of Bacau, Romania
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Art Collection
New Hall College, Cambridge
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany
Herbert Smith
Morgan Stanley
Ernst & Young
Glaxo Holdings
Oldham Art Gallery
Brasenose College, Oxford
Bolton City Art Gallery
WorldBank
British Council
Gulbenkian Foundation
Arts Council of England
Contemporary Art Society        


PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

2010 Frederic Regard, ‘Un effet de Manche: lecture de « K. A Notebook » de Maria Chevska et Helene         Cixous’, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, France
2009 Michael Berkeley, ‘Private Passions’ (interview), BBC Radio 3, London Lois Stonock, ‘Maria         Chevska: Free and easy’ Turps Banana, Issue 6, London
2008 Pennina Barnett, ‘Stain’, published in Shame & Sexuality, Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture,                 Routledge, ISBN:978-0-415-42012-9
        Frederic Regard,essay: Entre: lecture de ‘K, a notebook’ de Maria Chevska & Helene Cixous,                 Sorbonne, Paris   
        Michael Berkeley, Private Passions: interview for BBC radio 3.
2007 Rebecca Fortnum, Contemporary British Women Artists, in their own words
        published by I.B.Tauris, ISBN: 1-84511-224-5
        Reviewed: Rachel Campbell-Johnson The Times, and, Cate Elwes, Contemporay.              
        Isabelle Baudino, Review of “Vera’s Room, The Art of Maria Chevska”, Etudes
        Britanniques Contemporaines,Fr. ISBN:1168-4917
        Cahiers de Breves, Les Mots Pour Le Faire, No. ISSN:1625 659X
2006 Helene Cixous, “Ex-Cities” collaborative project, published by Slought Foundation
        Contemporary Arts, USA  ISBN:D-9714848-8-0 
        Emma Hill, “New Dimensions: Artist’s Books” Printmaking Today, vol. 15 no. 2
2005 Helene Cixous, Tony Godfrey “Vera’s Room, the art of Maria Chevska” monograph,
        Black Dog Publishing, ISBN: 1 904 772 29 3         
2005 Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski “Reading as Revolution” Reading Room MOCA, ISBN 0-9539650-3-1
2004 Rebecca Geldard, “Can’t Wait”, Time Out, April
2003 Sue Hubbard, “20 x 5 Drawings”, The Independent, November
        Xavier Alexandre, “Les jours d’ecriture de Maria Chevska”, Ouest, France
        Philippe Dagen, review, Le Monde, February
2002 Veronika Mertens, “Der Vorhang ist das Bild” Stoff malerei, Plastik, Installationen
        ISBN:3934439-17-9 Galerie Albstadt, Germany
        Olivier Grasser, catalogue essay for “De Singuliers Debordements”, Maison de la
        Culture, Amiens, France
        Carl-Johan Malmber, “Maria Chevska”, Contemporary, November
        Raymond Godefroy, “Le Corps de Lamante”, Le Journal, January/February
        Review “Maria Chevska”, Le Journal des arts, February/March
        Philippe Piguet, “Le Mot et L’image”, L’oeil, no. 533
        review, Connaisance des Arts, Winter Issue
        Ann Hindry, “Interweaving Language: the work of Maria Chevska”, catalogue essay
        ISBN:2903082-83-9 for Eh, Amiens, France
2001 Sally O’Reilly, “Why Don’t You”, Time Out
        Sue Hubbard, “Why Don’t You”, Independent on Sunday
        Louisa Buck, review, The Art Newspaper, September
        Mark Gisbourne, “Memory Matters”, Profile, Art Review April
        Lavinia Garulli, “Oeuvres D’etre”, Arte Critica
2000 Olga Gambari, “Put Yourself In My Shoes”, La Repubblica
        Philippe Dagen, “Langages, code, dereglement”, Le Monde, April
        Review, “Maria Chevska”, Paris Capitale, no. 60
        Ernst Jan Rozendaal, “Watertoren”, Kunst cultuur, February
        Hugh Stoddart, “Chora”, Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 26
1999 Sue Hubbard, “Chora”, catalogue essay ISBN:0 9536924 0 1
        Charlotte Mullins, “Chora”, Independent on Sunday, September
        Tony Godfrey, “I Am About To Tell You A Story”, catalogue essay Company, ISBN:0 9534204 1 8
        Simon Morley, “The Painted Word”, Contemporary Visual Arts, June
        Martin Coomer, “Maria Chevska”, Time Out, April/May
1998 Literature 9, publication Glencoe McGraw-Hill, USA
        Simon Morley, “Presencing”, review Untitled
        Sue Hubbard, “Out of the Void”, Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 17
1997 Martin Holman, catalogue text for “Presencing”, Eagle Gallery, November
        Mark Gisbourne, “Maria Chevska”, review Untitled
        Tony Godfrey, review, Burlington Magazine
        Renè Hirner and Joerg Becker, “Spoken Image”, catalogue essay for solo exhibitions at                 Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, and Museum Goch, Germany ISBN:3-929935-09-0
        Kunstmuseum im Radio, review “Spoken Image” German Radio
1996 Sacha Craddock, “Maria Chevska: Weight”, The Times, November
        Sue Hubbard, Maria “Chevska: Weight”, Time Out, November
1996 Griselda Pollock and Marina Warner, catalogue essay for Women’s Art at New Hall
        Deborah Dean, “Permission to Speak”, essay for Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery
1995 Sacha Craddock, “New Painting”, Arts Council Collection publication
        Tania Guha, White Out, Time Out, November
1994 Simon Morley, “Maria Chevska”, review Art Monthly
        Michael Archer, “Perpetua”, catalogue essay for solo exhibition at Angel Row Gallery
        Lucille Meloni, catalogue essay for Museo Pigorini, June
        Mary Bryden, “The Painted Text: Maria Chevska and Hélène Cixous”, Word and Image vol.10 no.4         October-November
1993 Found Drawings, artist’s pages for Atlas Magazine
        Sarah Kent, “Hanging Matter”, Time Out, May
        Tim Hilton, review, The Independent on Sunday, May
        Stuart Morgan, “Maria Chevska”, essay text for Warehouse Gallery, Amsterdam
        Tony Godfrey, “Maria Chevska”, review Art in America, April           
1992 John McEwan, “Maria Chevska”, review Sunday Telegraph, October
        Jane Norrie, “Maria Chevska”, review Arts Review, November
        Simon Morley, “Visibility”, Art Monthly, November
        Sue Hubbard, “Maria Chevska”, Time Out, November
        Greg Hilty, “Reading Matter”, essay for solo exhibition at Anderson O’Day Gallery,                         October/November
        Sister Wendy Beckett, “The Gaze of Love,Meditations on Art”
        Published by Marshall Pickering, ISBN:0-551-02810-6
1991 Rebecca Fortnum, “Double Speak: Maria Chevska’s Diptychs”, Women’s Art Magazine
1990 Jenny Murray, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, Nov. 7th 1990
        John McEwan, “Postcards from the Edge”, The Sunday Telegraph, November
        John Russell Taylor, “Cut and Dried Assembly”, The Times, November
        Marina Vaizey, “Drawing out the Feminine”, The Sunday Times, November
1990 Rebecca Fortnum, “Figurative Fragments”, Oxford Today, University Magazine,
        November/December
        Mary-Rose Beaumont, “Maria Chevska”, Arts Review
        Sarah Kent, “Maria Chevska”, Time Out
        Tanya Harrod, “Down an Old Familiar Road to the Discovery of the New”, Independent on Sunday,         October
        Exhibition Catalogue, 22nd festival International de la Peinture Chateau-Musee Grimaldi, Cagnes-         sur-Mer, France
        Andrew Renton,“Maria Chevska” catalogue essay ISBN:1 87221702 8 solo exhibition at Anderson         O’Day Gallery, London
1989 William Feaver, Box Office, Channel 4
        Astrid Schmetterling, review, Women Artist’s Slide Library Journal, April/May
        Andrew Renton, “Maria Chevska”, review Flash Art
        Sarah Kent, Critic’s Choice, Time Out, February
        Mary-Rose Beaumont, “Maria Chevska”, Arts Review
        Marina Vaizey, “A Brush with Experience”, The Sunday Times Magazine
        Mark Currah, “Maria Chevska”, review City Limits, February
1988 Sister Wendy Beckett, essay for Contemporary Women Artists, Phaidon Press
        ISBN:0 7148 2536 0
1987 Visible Women, published by Camden Press London, UK
        Mary-Rose Beaumont, “Maria Chevska”, Arts Review, March
1986 David Briers, “Maria Chevska”, Arts Review, July
1985 Anna Bonshek, “Feminist Romantic Painting: A Re-constellation”, Artist’s Newsletter
        Robert Ayers, “Maria Chevska”, catalogue essay for solo exhibition at Midland Group Gallery,         Nottingham
1984 Tony Godfrey, “Landscape, Memory, and Desire”, catalogue essay, Serpentine Gallery,
        London, UK

 

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