About
Maya Brodsky (b. 1984, Minsk, Belarus) was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. She received a BFA in painting and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008. In 2010 she graduated with an MFA from the New York Academy of Art where she was awarded a Post-Graduate Fellowship for 2010-11. She was the recipient of an Acadia Foundation Artist’s Residency in 2013, and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2014 and 2018. She currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA.
Education
2010 MFA, New York Academy of Art
2008 BFA, BA Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Behind Closed Doors, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Instants, RARE Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Awake, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
2013 Far and Long Gone By, RARE Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Relative Relations, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at HUC, New York, NY
2019 Outside In: Maya Brodsky, Amanda Case Mills, Alla Lazebnick, Musa collective Boston, MA
2018 HOME(less), Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at HUC, New York, NY
2017 IN THE DETAILS, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport MA
2014 Scope Miami, Rare Gallery, Miami FL
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s New York, NY
Behind the Curtain, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Compulsion, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby's, New York, NY
Not for Sale, The Lounge Underground, New York, NY
NYAA Summer Exhibition, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Living Things, Art Foundry, New York, NY
Fiction/Non Fiction, Hersh Fine Art, Glen Cove, NY
NYAA Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Scope NY, Rare Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Scope Miami, Rare Gallery, Miami, FL
Salvaged, Island Weiss Gallery, New York NY
Future Perfect, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Under the Radar, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York, NY
NYAA Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
From the barn to the apple, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA
2010 On What, Anya Tish Houston, TX
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Young Talent exhibition, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, SCOPE Basel, Switzerland
Remnants, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY
NYAA Summer Exhibition ,New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Highlights, Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Poetry of Space, Artana Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, NYAA,New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
The Near and Far, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA
2008 Between the Hour and the Age, BFA exhibition, Student Union Gallery, Amherst, MA
RED, Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Group Exhibitions
2018 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2013 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2013 Acadia Foundation Artist’s Residency award
2011 The New York Academy of Art Post-Graduate Fellowship
2010 Vasari Award for Excellence in Painting
2010 Nominee for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
2008 Robert D. Gordon '48 and Nancy M Gordon '49 Scholarship in Fine Arts
2008 The Leslie T. and Frances U. Posey Foundation Scholarship
2008 New York Academy of Art Scholarship
Awards
2015 Artists on Art Magazine, Spring Issue
2015 Fine Art Connoisseur, February Issue
2014 The Figure: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Margaret McCann, published by Skira Rizolli
2013 America Art Quarterly, Powerful Intimacy by Flora Armetta, Summer Issue
2011 Hampshire Gazette, February 24
2010 American Arts Quarterly, Tradition as “Avant-Garde” by Donald Kuspit, Fall issue