MARIA GONZALEZ
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC READINGS PROJECTS
SOLO:
2006
READINGS: Flirting with the Classics
Miami Book Fair International Street Fair. Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. Miami, FL
BACK TO THE WALL…
The Gallery at UTA. University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX
READINGS: The Brownings: The Poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL
READINGS: VIZstories
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Miami, FL
2005
READINGS: Don Quixote and READINGS: New Orleans / The Mississippi Gulf Coast
Miami Book Fair International Street Fair. Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. Miami, FL
2004
READINGS: The Graphic Novel
Miami Book Fair International Street Fair. Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. Miami, FL — presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Graphic Novel
READINGS: Vizcaya
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Miami, FL — series of readings presented at Vizcaya's Free Sundays
2003
READINGS by Maria Gonzalez
Miami Book Fair International Street Fair. Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. Miami, FL — presented in conjunction with the exhibition Turning Pages: Celebrating South Florida Artist-Made Books
1999
LIBRARY: READINGS / VISUAL INVESTIGATIONS
Bridge Tender’s House. The Wolfsonian–Florida International University. Miami Beach, FL
1996
AS YOU WISH…
La Serre. École Régional des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Étienne, France
1993
MORE THAN YOU KNOW…
Fine Arts Gallery. University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA
1990
AFTER THE FACT/S
E.J. Bellocq Gallery. Louisiana Tech University. Ruston, LA
1988
Hard To Tell…
Moreau Galleries. Saint Mary’s College. Notre Dame, IN
1987
You Never Know…
The Friends of Photography Gallery. Carmel, CA
GROUP
2006
Spoken Word Café: Transgressions: Poets and Writers Champion the Importance of Books
Reading presented in conjunction with The Big Read, a project of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College and the Florida Center for the Book. ArtCenter/South Florida. Miami Beach, FL
2004
South Florida Fiber Artists and Friends
Futernick Family Gallery. Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center. Miami, FL
2003
Turning Pages: Celebrating South Florida Artist-Made Books
Centre Gallery. Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. Miami, FL (traveled)
2002
The Miami Alphabet, A-Z
Main Library, Miami-Dade Public Library System. Miami, FL
Continuum: (no space) Reunion Show
Gadsden Arts Center. Quincy, FL
2001
WORDWORKS
Eutopia: Rare and Fine Old Books. Miami Beach, FL
1996
Artists in Residence
Alliance Française de la Nouvelle Orleans. New Orleans, LA
1994
Empowered Images
An Arts America / USIA exhibition (traveled 1994-1997)
1993
The Transparent Object
Contemporary Arts Center. New Orleans, LA
Maria Gonzalez / Leroy Young
Louisiana Tech University. Ruston, LA
1991
de-Persona
Oakland Museum. Oakland, CA
Figure / Ground: Louisiana Photography Today
New Orleans Museum of Art — joint exhibition with the Contemporary Arts Center. New Orleans, LA
1990
Small Format
Galeria Joan Prats. New York, NY
1989
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC (traveled)
Personal Histories / Fictitious Selves
Evanston Art Center. Center for the Visual Arts. Evanston, IL
Maria Gonzalez / Sandra dal Poggetto
Memorial Union Art Gallery. University of California, Davis. Davis, CA
Maria Gonzalez / Fernando La Rosa / Lew Thomas
Galerie Simonne Stern. New Orleans, LA
1987
Personal Iconography: The Figure
The Gallery at the Plaza. Security Pacific National Bank. Los Angeles, CA
Twenty New Orleans Artists
Contemporary Arts Center. New Orleans, LA — exhibition in conjunction with Arts Against AIDS
The In-Famous Image
Main Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center. California State University, Fullerton. Fullerton, CA
1986
Biennial I
The Contemporary Arts Center. Cincinnati, OH (traveled)
1985
70th Indiana Artists Show
Indianapolis Museum of Art. Indianapolis, IN
1984
Current Works, 1984
Morgan Gallery. Kansas City, MO (traveled)
1982
Contemporary Photography as Phantasy
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, CA (traveled)
PUBLICATIONS (offset works created as artist pages)
Art Papers. Issue 4 (July / August 1996). p. 32.
Thomas, Lew, ed. Louisiana Artists’ Pages: Love in the Ruins. New Orleans: Contemporary Arts Center, 1989.
GRANTS
1988 and 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant in Photography
1987 Grant from The Penny McCall Foundation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Galerie Municipale du Château d’Eau. Toulouse, France
Miami-Dade Public Library System's Permanent Art Collection. Miami, FL
New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, LA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, CA
SELECTED REVIEWS AND CATALOGS
Barrett, Nancy. “Figure / Ground: Louisiana Photography Today.”
Arts Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1 (January / February / March 1991), pp. 7-9.
Bookhardt, D. Eric. “Maria Gonzalez, Fernando La Rosa, Lew Thomas.”
Art Papers, vol. 14, no. 1 (January / February 1990), pp. 55-56.
The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial. Columbus, OH: Dialogue, An Art Journal, 1986.
de-Persona. Essays by Ronald Jones, Peter Schjeldahl, and Paul Tomidy.
Oakland, CA: The Oakland Museum, 1991.
Empowered Images. Essay by Sandy Ballatore. Washington, DC: USIA, 1994.
Green, Roger. “Taking Photography Beyond the Obvious.”
The Times-Picayune, October 20, 1989, Lagniappe, p. 21.
Hugo, Joan. “Dreams of Games and Figures.” Artweek, October 17, 1987, p.1.
New Orleans Review. vol. 20, nos 1 & 2 (Spring / Summer 1994), pp. 51-53 and 59-62.
Parker, Fred. R. Contemporary Photography As Phantasy.
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1982.
Personal Histories / Fictitious Selves. Evanston, IL: Evanston Art Center, 1989.
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s. Essay by Joshua P. Smith. Washington, DC:
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.
Rodriguez, Juan. "Spell Bound." Miami New Times, vol. 18, no. 32 (November 13-19, 2003), p. 41.
Salinas, Alex. “Art in the House.” Miami New Times, vol. 14, no. 37 (December 23-29, 1999), p. 40.
Shields, M. Kathryn. “Maria Gonzalez / Narcel Reedus.”
Arlington, TX: The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, 2006.
Turner, Elisa. “Tiny places bulge with big ideas.” The Miami Herald, December 18, 1999,
Living and Arts, pp. 1 and 3.
Turning Pages: Celebrating South Florida Artist-Made Books.
Miami, FL: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, 2003.
Waddington, Chris. “ ‘Transparent Object’ a case of the Emperor’s New Clothes?”
The Times-Picayune, May 28, 1993, Lagniappe, p. 13.
Yandle, JoAnn. “You Never Know…Prints by Maria Gonzalez."
re:view, vol. 10, no. 3 (March 1987).
LECTURES
2008 Lowe Art Museum. Coral Gables, FL
2006 University of Alabama at Birmingham. Birmingham, AL
University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX
1996 École Régional des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Étienne, France
University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
1993 Louisiana Tech University. Ruston, LA
1990 Louisiana Tech University. Ruston, LA
1988 New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, LA
1987 California State University, Fullerton. Fullerton, CA
The Friends of Photography. Carmel, CA
EDUCATION
M.L.S. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN
M.A. California State University at Fullerton. Fullerton, CA
B.A. Barry College. Miami Shores, FL