Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Contact: heymariabritton@gmail.com
Maria Britton makes art rooted in material abstraction. Working with used, patterned bed sheets, she sews multi-layered, wall-based works dripping with ruffles and improvisational painting. She recently exhibited at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and is featured in New American Paintings issue 178. Maria lives and works in Carrboro, NC.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Second Sleep, Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2025 Movements, Anchorlight, Raleigh, NC
2020 Dream Bodies, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
2019 Floral Spread, Snag, Seattle, WA
2019 Soft Storage, My Room, Chapel Hill, NC
2018 Low Relief, Lump, Raleigh, NC
2009 Deep Sleep, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2006 Renovations, Florence Museum, Florence, SC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 What Are You Doing in My Dream, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
Reworking a Bloom, Lump, Raleigh, NC (two person)
2024 Mélange, Nationale, Portland, OR
Slump, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2023 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Slump, Lump, Raleigh, NC
2022 Full Circle, Take it Easy, Atlanta, GA
Long View, Francis Marion Art Gallery, Florence, SC (two person)
2021 Bad Touch, Lump, Raleigh, NC
Break the Mold, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2020 Front Burner, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Space Case, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2019 Arboreal, Bailey Contemporary, Pompano Beach, FL
Soft Grit, Lobo Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Textile Based Abstraction, Smith Gallery, Appalachian State, Boone, NC Contemporaries, Light, Chapel Hill, NC
The Sea Wants to Take Me, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
2017 Fake Flowers, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA (two person)
2016 Anywhere But Here, Lump, Raleigh, NC
We Gave Our Best, Im Ersten, Vienna, Austria
Past Tense/Future Perfect, The Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC
2015 Spills, Stephen and George Laundry Line, Ridgewood, NY
Family Ties, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Static Cling 2, BAM, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
Bed Bath & Between, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Work City, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY
2014 New Works, (harbor) Regina Rex, New York, NY
Static Cling, Penelope, Queens, NY (catalog)
2014 Family Style, Formerly Pocket Utopia, New York, NY
Do It Yourself: Meanwhile, Back at the Farm, 195 Morgan, Brooklyn, NY
Economy Candy, Harbor Gallery, Queens, NY
2011 Winter Show, Green Hill Center for Art, Greensboro, NC
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2019 Hambidge, Rabun Gap, GA
2010 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2009 Petrified Forest National Park, Petrified Forest, AZ
2009 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY
Bibliography
Howe, Brian. Soft Storage. Indy Week. Aug 8, 2019.
Rawlings, Noah. How Green Was My Gallery. Indy Week. Mar 29, 2017.
White, Amy. BURNAWAY’S Best of 2016: Movers, Shakers & Newsmakers. BURNAWAY. Dec 21, 2016.
Seftel, Briana. Here’s Why You Must See This New Art Show on a Laundry Line in Ridgewood. Bushwick Daily.
Nov 16, 2015.
Better than the Beyond: Bed Bath & Between at SOIL Gallery. New American Paintings Blog. Feb 2015.
Edmonds, Brian. Bed Bath & Between at SOIL Gallery. Curating Contemporary Blog. Feb 2015.
International Painting Annual, Vol. 1. Manifest Press 2011.
White, Amy. Lori Waxman, rocking the art world, one review at a time. Independent Weekly. May 19, 2010.
Waxman, Lori. Maria Britton. 60 wrd/min art critic. May 6, 2010.
New American Paintings, No. 82. Open Studios Press. 2009.
Studio Visit, Vol. 1. Open Studios Press. 2008.
Greenberg, Blue. Art Guild exhibit anchors this year’s Art Walk. Herald Sun. April 13, 2008.
Natale, Michele. Critic’s picks. News and Observer. May 11, 2007.
Bailey, Justin. Florence Native puts Florence Museum “to bed”. Morning News. June 9, 2006.
Education
2007 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; MFA Painting
2004 Winthrop University; Rock Hill, South Carolina; BFA Painting; Art History minor