White of Mine 2 Painting

Maria Pavlovska was born in Skopje, Macedonia (Former Yugoslavia) in 1975. BA (1999) and MA of Fine Arts (2001) she receved at the Faculty of Fine Art at the Cyril and Methodius University, PhD – Cultural Studies (2016) she earn at the Institute for Social and Humanities Research at the Euro Balkan University in Skopje, Macedonia ( Accreditation of East-West University). Her work has been featured around the globe in over 28 solo shows and more than 100 group international exhibitions including Art Basel Miami - USA, Citibank (New York, USA), MANA Contemporary Art Center and Drawing Rooms – NY, USA, The Kunsthalle-Vienna and Kunsthalle-Krems (Austria), Gallery Lang (Vienna, Austria), Cite Internationale des Arts, Les Docks, Institute de la Mode (Paris, France), Museum of Contemporary Art, The National Gallery, Museum of the City - Skopje (Macedonia), City House in Nurnberg (Germany), Station Gallery, Gallery MC, The Open Space Gallery, FLA Gallery (Connecticut, USA), Viota Gallery (San Juan - Puerto Rico), Prima Center (Berlin, Germany),. Her work is held in vivid private and public collections worldwide, including embassies, museums, galleries and libraries. Her artistic journey started at an early age. She took up residencies in Paris, Slovenia, Vienna and Nuremberg (Germany). After her first solo in New York in 2007, she has lived between Skopje and New York and continued to be active in the New York art scene. Her artwork has been featured in many magazines, newspaper articles, and museum and gallery catalogs world-wide. She was runner-up for the Venice Biennale in 2015 & 2017. Her project “A Reaction” was nominated to represent Macedonian Pavilion for that year. Maria participated in Art Basel Miami in 2014, represented by MANA, was awarded Citibank Artist of the Year - an Annual Solo Show at the 60th St/5th Ave. branch in NYC in 2011, also received Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, NYC award for painting at the “Mixing Media” international show hosted by Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation in 2015 and has been awarded 14 Arts grants throughout her career. Her studio residence has been at MANA Contemporary, a leading Contemporary Art Center in the New York City area since 2012.