LUIZA MAIA (Brazil)

Luiza Maia is a Brazilian artist currently based in San Francisco, where she received an MFA degree from the Academy of Art University. The artist’s taste for aesthetics dates back to her undergraduate education in fashion design in Rio de Janeiro, where she later worked as a costume designer for television shows. Luiza discovered her passion for fine arts when she spent the summer of 2017 in New York City studying at the School of Visual Arts and The Art Students League of New York, then moved to California the following year.

Emerging artist Luiza Maia has already been featured in three issues of Vanity Fair UK, as well as in Southwest Art Magazine in the Artistic Excellence competition in 2020, and in Juxtapoz magazine in 2021.

GROUP SHOWS:

2024 Salon at the Triton - Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

2024 Art House - MK Apothecary, Collingswood, NJ

2024 San Francisco Art Fair - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2024 Women in Art: Great Artists Who Just Happen to be Women - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023 Holiday Group Show - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023 Aqua Art Miami - Miami, FL

2023 Art Fair 14C - Jersey City, NJ

2023 Autumn Exhibition - Signet Contemporary Art, London, UK

2023 Art Market San Francisco - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023 Women in Art: Great Artists Who Just Happen to be Women - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023 The Tiny Show - Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

2022 Aqua Art Miami - Miami, FL

2022 Art Fair 14C - Jersey City, NJ

2022 Art Market San Francisco - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022 Reminiscence - MK Apothecary, Collingswood, NJ

2022 Women in Art: Great Artists Who Just Happen to be Women - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021 Holidays SUGAR Show - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021 Welcome Show Luiza Maia - Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art Gallery, Charleston, SC

2021 Still Lifes of Emerging Artist Luiza Maia - Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021 Patterns & Symmetry - San Francisco Women Artists, San Francisco, CA (juried by Hillary Olcott)

2020 tiny - Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 tiny - Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 SNAP! - Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2024 Cover, Back Cover and Art Section, Jet Fuel Review, Spring Issue #27

2021/2022 Artistic Excellence, Southwest Art magazine, Vol. 51, N. 4

2021 38th Annual Art Competition, Artists Magazine, Vol. 38, N. 06

2021 Episode 105. Luiza Maia, Podcast Interview, Arte Academia

2021 “A Look into Academy of Art University's 2021 Spring Show", Juxtapoz, June 7

2020/2021 Artistic Excellence, Southwest Art magazine, Vol. 50, N. 7

2020/2021 Hall of Frames, Vanity Fair UK, No. 724

2020 Deck the Walls, Vanity Fair UK, No. 723

2020 Picture Perfect, Vanity Fair UK, No. 722

COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS:

2021 Finalist – Artistic Excellence Competition, Southwest Art Magazine

2021 Finalist - Global Design Graduate Show in collaboration with Gucci – Arts Thread

2021 1st Place - Still Life/Interior, Student Division, Artists Magazine 38th Annual Art Competition

2021 1st Place - Still Life, Academy of Art Annual Spring Show

2020 Finalist – Artistic Excellence Competition, Southwest Art Magazine

EDUCATION:

2021 MFA Painting & Drawing, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, US

2013 BFA Fashion Design, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

2024 Trompe L’oeil Painting with Nathalie Featherston, Online, USA

2018 Figure in watercolor with Marcos Beccari, Par de Ideias, Brasília, Brazil

2017 Oil Painting/Watercolor Painting, Ateliê Chiaroscuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2017 Portrait Painting/Watercolor Painting/Figure Drawing, School of Visual Arts, New York City, NY

2017 Oil Painting, The Art Students League, New York City, NY

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS:

2023 - 2024 Signet Contemporary Art, London, UK

2022 – present MK Apothecary, Collingswood, NJ

2021 – present Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021 - 2022 Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art, Charleston, SC