Maya Hewitt
Her all-encompassing installations and individual oil paintings on birch wood panels impose fragmented scenarios, which are linked with a unifying sense of unease. The figures appear and recur through shifting cycles as perpetual incarnations of themselves.
Set within a framework of interior spaces such as public buildings, shops and diners, the works explore the artist's acutely introspective and immersive world. Seemingly lost in reflective loneliness, the figures exhibit a sense of detachment, yet they appear to be inextricably bound to one another. These spectral figures act as surrogates for the artist's undulating states of mind, the sense of reverie and longing filling the work with romance and melancholy.
Born in 1981, London, UK. Lives and works in London, UK and Tokyo, Japan
Education
| 2004: | BA Hons Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton. Degree Show Awarded NUA (Nagoya School of Arts) Commendation |
| 2003: | Six months scholarship residency at Nagoya University of Art, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2000: | Camberwell College of Art, The London Institute (Fine Art Drawing) |
| 1999: | Winchester School of Art, Foundation |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2011: | Solo show, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, June |
| Solo show, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, February |
| 2010: |
Nocturne, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London "Stones in Paws", Petite Robe Noir, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo |
| 2008: | Our Immortal Souls, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London |
| 2007: |
Mending Fences, RUN project space, London Underbelly Skirmishes, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (awarded with Daiwa Foundation Grant) |
| 2006: | The Janitors and their sheltered province, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London |
Selected Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs
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2011: |
Hong Kong Art Fair, BISCHOFF/WEISS and 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong |
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Happy Mind, Misako & Tosen, Tokyo |
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2010: |
Passion Fruits, Thomas Olbricht collection, Berlin |
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2009: |
Elusive Dreams, Group Show, IMOCA (Irish Museum of Contemporary Art), Dublin, Ireland Elusive Dreams, Group Show, La Cathedrale, Paris, France Art Brussels, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London Geba Geba, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo Parabiosis, Soka Art Center, Bejing and Taipei |
| 2008: |
NADA, Misako & Rosen, Miami Zoo Art Fair, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London |
| 2007: | From Tokyo From London, Maya Hewitt and Kazuyuki Takezaki, two person exhibition, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo Three Things, RUN project space, London Recent Works, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo |
| 2006: | George Polke Invites, London, UK Works on Paper, Flux Factory, New York, USA Discerning Eye, The Mall, London (nominated by Stuart Pearson-Wright) Preview Open, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo |
| 2005: |
Mondays in the Sun, FosterArt, London Summer Group Show, Marc Rome Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland |
| 2004: | Soliloquy of Ours, R.K. Burt Gallery, London Remember the sky always comes down to the horizon, University of Brighton |
| 2003: |
On the Paper, Plus Gallery, Nagoya Room with a view, Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton |
Awards
| 2009: | Tokyo Wonder Site Award, Artist in Residence |
| 2008: | Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Small Grants |
| 2003: | Nagoya University of Art Placement |
Publications
| 2009: | Our Immortal Souls, Maya Hewitt, text by Charles Danby Cella London, ISBN 987-0-9556293-6-5 |