Bio
Maura McHugh has been making art for over 20 years. Her work has been exhibited in several venues across the United States including the Santa Fe Contemporary Art Center, University of Missouri - Columbia George Caleb Bingham Gallery, The Oceanside Museum of Art, and the Puffin Cultural Forum in New Jersey. She received the PepsiCo Enable Art Show - Best of Show Award ($500) in 2012. McHugh's artwork has been published in several issues of Hysteria Magazine. She garnered her Master of Fine Arts at Vermont College in 2011. She has participated in many feminist activist art projects including Nancy Azara’s REPRERESENT SoHo20 Feminist Project and Micol Hebron’s The (en) Gendered (in) Equity-Gallery Poster Project. McHugh was raised on the West Coast in Washington and California and has been making art in New York since March 2011.
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Maura McHugh
Email: mauramchughartwork@yahoo.com
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Exhibitions
April 2022 Jen Tough Art Alliance Online Gallery, “Green” Group Exhibition curated by Emily Wilker, Jonney Unitas, 2021.
May 2020 North Dakota Museum of Art, Art in Isolation Group Exhibition
August/Sept 2017 University of Missouri George Caleb Bingham Gallery, It Happened Exhibition curated by Katina Bitsicas and Lee Ann Woolery. 3 Football Series drawings and She’s Still Crying (pink tights) from Coochie Series.
May/July 2017 Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe (CCA), Cryin’ Out Loud Exhibition curated by Micol Hebron. She’s Still Cryin’ (Pink Tights piece from Coochie series).
May/June 2016 Gallery Tally Project, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA
January 2016 Drawing “Elliott” published in Hysteria Magazine; http://www.hystericalfeminisms.com
Oct/Dec 2015 Gallery Tally Project, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
Sept/Dec 2015 Gallery Tally Project, Looking Forward, Looking Back, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
May/June 2015 Gallery Tally Poster Project, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Il
January 2015 Drawing “Ready” published in Hysteria Magazine
2014 Gallery Tally Poster Project, XX Redux: Revisiting a Feminist Collective, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2014 Gallery Tally, Area: Lugar de Projectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico
April 3, 2014 BuzzFeed.com, Online Review by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, Image: Cirrus 81% Men from Gallery Tally Project
August 2014 Gallery Tally Project, OC Academy, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA, 2014.
March 2014 Margin Release Right: Gallery Tally: Calling for Gender Equity Poster Project. For Your Art, Los Angeles, California
March 2014 Women’s History Month Exhibit, The Puffin Foundation, The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
November 2012 Lore Degenstein Gallery 4th Annual Figure Drawing & Painting Competition, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
October 2012 Green Point Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Annual Drawing Show
February 2011 VCFA MFA Graduate Exhibit
Art Employment
Aug 2014 – 2015 SANDRA LERNER ARTWORK, New York, NY, Artist Assistant
May 2014 – Aug 2014 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM & SCHOOL, New York, NY, Executive Assistant to the Director
Dec 2012 – May 2014 ILLUSTRATION HOUSE, New York, NY, Administrative Assistant to the President
Residencies
2016 Feminist Summer Camp Residency, Curator/Facilitator Founder Micol Hebron, Birch Creek Ranch, Spring City, UT
Press
2017
https://www.abqjournal.com/991005/emotional-expressions.html
http://www.columbiatribune.com/entertainmentlife/20170910/uncommon-courage-on-display-in-exhibit-addressing-sexual-violence
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/art-exhibition-brings-attention-to-sexual-violence-on-campus/article_bc4e9d80-9297-11e7-9e38-fbdaee2a6fb5.html
http://kbia.org/post/thinking-out-loud-it-happened#stream/0
http://www.komu.com/videos/art-exhibit-8-29
2014
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mbvd/where-are-all-of-the-women-artists
Artist Grants/Honors
2012 PepsiCo Enable Art Show: Best of Show ($500 award)
2011 -2012 The National Association of Women Artist Inductee
2010 –Fall Alumni Artist in Residents – University of San Diego
2008 Spring Student Research Grant – University of San Diego ($500 award)
Art Situations
2013 - Nov Shirin Kazemi - assisted in curating her show at SoHo20
2013 - Oct. Darla Bjork --studio assistant, NYC
2008 – 2011 Artist Teacher – ARTS: A Reason to Survive Art Center
2006 – 2007 TRA LA LA (collaborative artists group)
2003 – 2011 San Diego Art Institute, Volunteer, The Gathering Committee
Education
2011 M.F.A. Visual Arts Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts (Studied Feminism Art with Faith Wilding, Ulrike Mueller, Rebecca Campbell, Micol Hebron, Judie Bamber, and Hillary Mushkin)
2008 B.F.A.Visual Fine Arts Program, Painting Emphasis,
Univ of San Diego
2001 – 2004 Studied at the Athenaeum (La Jolla, CA) with painter Pat Kelly
2001 B.A. in Psychology, University of San Diego