Born 1991 Bay Area, CA
Lives and works in San Diego, CA
Education
2020 MFA Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, CA
2014 BFA Studio Art, New York University; New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2020 America’s Harvest Box, SME Gallery, La Jolla, CA *cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2018 America's Harvest Box, SME Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2017 In Transition, Studio 34, Long Island City, NY
2014 Azaadi Zindabad // Long Live Freedom, 80WSE Broadway Windows, New York, NY
Projects, Residencies, and Collaborations
2022 Erase the Silence Virtual Artist Residency, Holly & the Neighbors, Chicago, IL
2021 Virtual Residency Program, Private Practice, Austin, TX
2020 Singing on a Sinking Ship Virtual Artist Residency, Holly & the Neighbors, Chicago, IL
2020 Negotiating a National Identity: Flag Use in the United States (lecture & workshop), Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Irvine, CA
2018 Air Rights: a series of artist-made flags, Windmill Community Garden at Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Group Exhibitions
2022 Flourish, Pixley’s Oddities, San Diego, CA
2021 GHIDORAH LIVES!, Good Faith Gallery & Teros Gallery, San Diego, CA
2021 Domestic Geographies: 14th Annual Día de la Mujer Exhibition, The Front Arte & Cultura, San Ysidro, CA
2020 History of the Present, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA *cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2020 Decoration Adjustment for Inclusivity, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Irvine, CA
2019 Indigo, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, La Jolla, CA
2018 Air Rights: a series of artist-made flags, Windmill Community Garden + Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2018 You Are Here, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA
2017 We Lived Here, 238 Irving, Bushwick, NY
2017 Small Art Show, Gallery Shoshinkan, Nagano, Japan
2017 For These Times, Vision Festival 22, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
2016 ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, La Esquina, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
2016 Bowie-Ween Pop-Up Exhibition, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2016 Studio 34 Open Studios Group Exhibition, Studio 34, Long Island City, NY
2016 Break the Floor, Rabbithole Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Studio 34 Open Studios Group Exhibition, Studio 34, Long Island City, NY
2014 In This Place, In this Time, Commons and Rosenberg Galleries, New York, NY
2012 Neither/Nor, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Within___Distance, Brooklyn Artist Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011 We’ll Talk Tomorrow, Commons Gallery, New York, NY
Awards
2013 Wachtell Lipton Rosen Katz Scholarship
2012 May and Samuel Rudin Foundation Multimedia Technology Scholarship
Bibliography
2021 Julia Evans Dixon. “‘Ghidorah Lives’: A Love Letter to Organizers Past, Present and Future.” KPBS San Diego. May 27, 2021. Link.
2021 Alicia Tsuchiya. “Geografías Domésticas.” Femgrafia Foto. March 28, 2021. Link.
2021 Karla Peterson. “San Ysidro gallery honors the everyday heroines in our lives.” San Diego Union-Tribune. March 25, 2021. Link.
2021 Maya Grace Misra. “The Vexillologist’s Duty to Face White Supremacist Symbols.” Vexillum, No. 14. March 2021. Link.
2020 Tiffany Beres and Alexanndra Nicholls. History of the Present: Artists from the MFA Program UC San Diego. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Exhibition catalogue.
2016 Annie Raab. “Charlotte Street’s bold, searching Que Pasa USA? deserves to be answered.” The Pitch. December 20, 2016. https://www.pitch.com/arts-entertainment/visual-art/blog/20847308/charlotte-streets-bold-searching-que-pasa-usa-deserves-to-be-answered
2016 Issac Logsdon. Interview. “Maya Grace Misra on Decentering American Emblems and Iconography.” Informality Art + Culture Blog. November 6, 2016. http:// informalityblog.com/maya-grace-misra- on-decentering-american-emblems-and- iconography/
2016 Patricia Bordallo Dibildox. “Don’t Tread on Us: Disrupting Symbols of Cultural Assimilation.” The Collective Gap. November 23, 2016. http://collectivegap.info/bordallo- dont-tread-on-us/
2016 “Charlotte Street asks a timely question, leading your Third Friday rounds.” The Pitch. November 16, 2016. http://www.pitch.com/arts-entertainment/visual-art/blog/20843569/ charlotte-street-asks-a- timely-question-leading-your-third-friday-rounds
2016 “Charlotte Street Foundation Exhibit Examines What it Means to Be U.S. Citizen Today.” Image credit and exhibition feature. 435 Magazine. Accessed November 29, 2016. http:// www.435mag.com/ Charlotte-Street-Foundation-Que-Pasa-USA/
2016 Maria Vasquez Boyd. Interview with curator Lynnette Miranda. KKFI Community Radio: ArtSpeak Radio. Kansas City, MO. November 16, 2016.
2016 “Bowie-Ween Pop-Up Exhibition.” Digital Catalogue. B.Y.O. Fest. http://bit.ly/2fSxVLO
2014 NYU Steinhardt Recommends: Long Live Freedom by Maya Grace Misra at Broadway Windows. At a Glance: News From the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, June 13, 2014. http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/site/ataglance/2014/06/misra- broadway-windows.html
2011 56 days. Issue 1. Summer 2011. New York, NY.