Maya Kabat
Artist Bio Artist Work
Maya Kabat received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis, in 2000. Notable exhibitions include a solo show at the Caffe Museo at SFMOMA in 2012 and a two-person exhibition at 5 Claude Lane Gallery in San Francisco, California, which was reviewed in Art LTD. Magazine in September 2011. She was a founding member of the artist-run space, Mercury Twenty Gallery, in Oakland, California, and served as president on the Oakland Art Murmur Board of Directors in 2011-2012. In August 2016, she attended the London Intensive, a residency sponsored by the Camden Arts Centre in London, England, which culminated in a group exhibition at the museum. In 2018, she attended the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Artist Residency in New Berlin, New York, and in 2022, she attended the Gambrell Gallery Artist Residency in Ashland, Oregon. Last year, she had her first solo exhibition at Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles.
Notable public collections include Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA; Cisco Systems, Palo Alto, CA; Stanford Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA; and The Neiman Marcus Collection, Short Hills, NJ, and St. Louis, MO. In 2018, she completed a large commission for the Kaiser Center Building in Oakland, CA, that was permanently installed in the main lobby. In 2021, she completed her largest commission to date at 12 x 7 feet for the lobby of the newly constructed Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices in Berkeley, CA.
She is represented by Brenda Taylor Gallery, Boston, MA, and Cura Contemporary in Morgan Hill, CA. Work is also available through Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, and Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA.
Her studio is located at The Dome, the warehouse and former home and studio of Peter and Ann Voulkos, located in Oakland, California.
Education
2000 M.F.A. University of California, Davis, CA
1993 B.A. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Selected Public and Private Collections
Kaiser Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA
Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices, Berkeley, CA
The Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
Cisco Systems, Santa Clara, CA
Neiman Marcus Collection, Dallas, TX
Neiman Marcus Collection, Short Hills, NJ
Neiman Marcus Collection, St. Louis, MO
Stanford Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA
The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
The Hotel Adagio, San Francisco, CA
Headlands Hotel and Spa, Pacific City, Oregon
American Campus Communities, San Antonio, TX
ABS Capital, San Francisco, CA
Hodo Soy Beanery, Oakland, CA
Vantage Point Ventures, San Bruno, CA
Wood Partners, Oakland, CA
Philip Seel and Serena Mah, New York, NY
Charlot Malin, San Francisco, CA
Leo Michelson, Portland, OR
Arthur Huang, Tokyo, Japan
Brian Thomson, Denver, CO
Hunter Potter, Brooklyn, NY
Jerome Blake, Los Angeles, CA
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
2022
The Gambrel Gallery Artist Residency, Ashland, OR
2018
The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Inc, Artist Residency, New Berlin, NY
2016
The London Intensive, Artist Residency, Camden Art Centre, London, England
2015
Fljotstunga Art Farm, Artist Residency, Reykolt, Iceland
2013
Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA
2011
Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA
2004
Finalist, Berkeley Art Center Members Show, Berkeley, CA
Selected One and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024
Always Already Anew, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Super Spatial Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Always Already Again, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2021
Maya Kabat: Selected Works, Post Montgomery Center, San Francisco, CA
Super Spatial, Cedar Street Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2019
California Modern, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland CA
2018
Maya Kabat and Peter Dreyfuss, 555 Gallery, 555 12th St. Oakland, CA
2016
Maya Kabat and Andrzej Michael Karwacki, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2015
Urban Abstraction, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
Maya Kabat and David Ruth, 555 Gallery, 555 12th St., Oakland, CA
2013
City and Place, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2012
The Lab, Caffe Museo, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2011
InSight, 5 Claude Lane Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Infinite Expansion Inward, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
Small Waters Seeping Upwards, Victorian Rat Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010
Living Cities, Brad Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR
This Living Process, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009
Thin Cities, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Cities and Desire, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008
New Urban Landscape, Brad Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR
Invisible Cities, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007
Maya Kabat: New Work, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Layers, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2022
The Non-Objective Moment, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Cosmic Geometries, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
New Abstracts, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2021
Berkeley Art Center, Selections, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
Crocker Kingsley Museum National, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2020
Black And White, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2019
Aqueous, Tubac Center For The Arts, Tubac, AZ
Ink And Clay, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA
Analog/Digital, Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA
Made in Paint, The Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2018
140 Characters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
About A Box, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Let Me Eat Cake, P0ST, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Color: Primary to Tertiary, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Moderna, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2016
The London Intensive, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Abstract Women, San Ramon Valley Convention Center, San Ramon, CA
2015
SLATE Contemporary Booth 223, Art Market Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Botanica, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2014
Spring Collection, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
Drawing Invitational, ConocoPhillips Gallery, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AL
2013
Scouting Oakland, Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
Introductions, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
After the Fall, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012
Terra Incognito: Imaginary Landscapes, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
Cartographies, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011
True Paint, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010
Landscape in the 21st Century, Brad Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR
Strange Nature, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006
Referencing Nature, Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004
Meditations, Los Medanos Community College, Pittsburg, CA
Press
Maya Kabat Paints the Crazy Quilt of Urban Patterns and Puzzles, Mary Corbin, 48 Hills, San Francisco, July 2023
Ye Olde Moderne, Dewitt Cheng, East Bay Monthly, June 2019
Attempt To Cross: Six Paintings, with essays by George Lawson and Danielle Fox, SLATE Contemporary, Edition One Books, January 2017
Surfaces of Oakland by Alex Bigman, East Bay Express, September 4, 2013
Maya Kabat Exhibit in SFMOMA Cafe distracts by Devin Holt, SF Weekly Blog, December 2012
Neiman Marcus purchases works of Berkeley artists by Ross Todd Kerr, Berkeley Times, February 2012
Maya Kabat at 5 Claude Lane by DeWitt Cheng, Art Ltd. Magazine, September 2011
Bay Area Galleries Explore Visions of Home by Jennifer Modenessi, San Jose Mercury News, September 9, 2010
Critic’s Pick by DeWitt Cheng, The East Bay Express, June 2010
Critic’s Pick by DeWitt Cheng, The East Bay Express, August 2009
Both Here and There, KQED Gallery Crawl, February 2008
First Friday Art-Walk, by Ross Todd Kerr, Piedmont Post, February 7, 2007
Artists of Collective 9, San Francisco Chronicle, February 2005
Meditations puts passion into the landscape, by Jennifer Modenessi, Contra Costa Times, April 2, 2004
‘Four in One’ Fills Sacramento Gallery, Davis Enterprise, June 22, 2000
Affiliations
Chandra Cerrito Art Advisers, Oakland, CA
The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York, NY, 2009-2013