RESUME

Maya Kabat was born in Portland, Oregon in 1971. She received a BA from Oberlin College in 1993 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis, in 2000. She was a founding member of the artist-run gallery, Mercury Twenty, in Oakland, California, and served as president on the Oakland Art Murmur Board of Directors in 2011-2013. In 2016 she attended The London Intensive, a residency sponsored by the Camden Arts Centre in London, England, which culminated in an exhibition at the museum. In 2018 she attended the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Artist Residency in New Berlin, New York. In 2022 she attended the Gambrell Gallery Artist Residency in Ashland, Oregon which culminated in an exhibition at the gallery. This year she will have her first solo exhibition with Vielmetter Gallery in Los Angeles, California. 

Notable public commissions and collections include Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, Cisco Systems, Palo Alto, California, Stanford Hospitals, Palo Alto, California and the Neiman Marcus Collection, St. Louis, Missouri, Short Hills, New Jersey, and Dallas, Texas. In 2018 she completed a large commission for the Kaiser Center in Oakland, California that was permanently installed in the main lobby. In 2021 she completed her largest commission to date for the lobby of the Kaiser Permanente, Berkeley Medical Offices in Berkeley, California. 

Her studio is located in Oakland, California at The Dome, workspaces established in 1976 by the artists Anne and Peter Voulkos.

Education

M.F.A. 2000 University of California, Davis, CA

B.A. 1993 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 

Selected One and Two-Person Exhibitions

2024 Always Already Anew, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Super Spatial, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Always Already Again, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2022 Re:Configuration, SLATE Contemporary Off-Site Exhibition, San Jose, CA

2022 Contingencies, Gambrell Gallery, Ashland, OR

2021 Maya Kabat Selected Works, Post Montgomery Center, San Francisco, CA 

2019 California Modern, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2018 Maya Kabat and Peter Dreyfuss, 555 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2016 Maya Kabat and Andrzej Michael Karwacki, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2015 Urban Abstraction, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2013 City and Place, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2012 The Lab, Caffe Museo, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

2011 InSight, 5 Claude Lane Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011 Infinite Expansion Inward, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2011 Small Waters Seeping Upwards, Victorian Rat Gallery, Oakland, CA    

2010 Living Cities, B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR

2010 This Living Process, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2009 Thin Cities, SFMOMA Artist Gallery Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

2009 Cities and Desire, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2008 New Urban Landscape, B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR

2008 Invisible Cities, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 TBA, Cura Contemporary , Morgan Hill, CA

2022 The Non-Objective Moment, LAAA Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2022 The Affordable Art Fair, NY, Clark Gallery, Booth E7, New York, NY

2022 Cosmic Geometries, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 

2021 The Crocker Kingsley Museum National, Roseville, CA

2020 New Visions, Stern Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2019 Aqueous, Tubac Center For The Arts, Tubac, AZ

2019 Ink And Clay, Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA

2019 Made in Paint, Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Gallery, New Berlin, NY

2019 Analog/Digital, Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA

2019 Palm Springs Art Fair, SLATE Contemporary Booth 302, Palm Springs, CA

2018 140 Characters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 

2018 It’s Complicated, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA

2018 About A Box, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Let Me Eat Cake, P0ST, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Color:Primary To Tertiary, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn NY

2016 The London Intensive, Camden Arts Centre, London, England

2016 Abstract Women, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA

2014 Drawing Invitational, Conocophillips Gallery, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AL

2012 Terra Incognito: Imaginary Landscapes, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO

2012 Cartographies, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2011 True Paint, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2010 Landscape in the 21st Century, B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR

2010 Strange Nature, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2006 Referencing Nature, Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, Seattle, WA

2004 Meditations, Los Medanos Community College, Pittsburg, CA

Selected Public and Private Collections

Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices, Berkeley, CA

UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

The Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA

Cisco Systems, Santa Clara, CA

Neiman Marcus Collection, Dallas, TX

Neiman Marcus Collection, Short Hills, NJ

Neiman Marcus Collection, St. Louis, MO

Neiman Marcus Collection, Walnut Creek, CA

Nordstrom, San Jose, CA

Nordstrom, Houston, TX

Stanford Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA

Stanford Hospitals, Emeryville, CA

The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Inc., New Berlin, NY 

American Campus Communities, San Antonio, TX

Wood Partners, Oakland, CA

Philip Seel and Serena Mah, New York, NY

Lisa Kassel, Brooklyn, NY 

Leo Michelson, Portland, OR

Brian Thomson, Denver, CO

Kristine Schomaker, Los Angeles, CA

Arthur Huang, Tokyo, Japan

Press

Maya Kabat Paints the Crazy Quilt of Urban Patterns and Puzzles, Mary Corbin, 48 Hills, San Francisco, July 2023

Ye Good Olde Modern, by DeWitt Cheng, Berkeley Monthly, June 2019

Maya Kabat, Six Paintings, (Essays by George Lawson and Danielle Fox) Edition One Books, January, 2017

Surfaces of Oakland by Alex Bigman, East Bay Express, September 4, 2013

Maya Kabat Exhibit in SFMOMA Cafe distracts by Devin Holt, SF Weekly Blog, December, 2012

Neiman Marcus purchases works of Berkeley artists by Ross Todd Kerr, Berkeley Times, February, 2012

Maya Kabat and Ross Fink at 5 Claude Lane by DeWitt Cheng, Art Ltd. Magazine, September, 2011

Bay Area Galleries Explore Visions of Home by Jennifer Modenessi, San Jose Mercury News, September 9, 2010

Critic's Pick by DeWitt Cheng, The East Bay Express, June 2010    

Critic's Pick by DeWitt Cheng, The East Bay Express, August 2009

Both Here and There:, KQED Gallery Crawl, February, 2008

Residencies/Awards/Grants

2022 The Gambrel Gallery Artist Residency. Ashland, OR

2018 The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Artist Residency, New Berlin, NY

2016 The London Intensive, Artist Residency, Camden Art Centre, London, England

2015 Fljotstunga Artist Residency, Reykolt, Iceland

2013 Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA

2011 Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA