Maria Yolanda Liebana
Queens, New York
Education
Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, MFA 2013
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, BFA 2001
Solo Exhibitions
2025 TBD, Kravet|Wehby Gallery, NY, NY
2024 Diverse Voices Empowering Narratives, Butterfield Library, Cold Spring NY
2022 Awakening, Kravet|Wehby Gallery, NY, NY
2020 Devour, Departure Studio, Long Island City, NY
2018 ¿Tres Marias, Donde Esta Mi Felicidada?, Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024 Untitled Art Fair, Kravets Wehby Gallery, Miami, FL
2024 Off Brand 3.0, JH Art Talks, Queens, NY
2024 In the Echoes, Corner Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Every Women Biennial: NY I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, NY NY
2024 On Her Terms: Feminine Power Empowered, Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2023 Untitled Art Fair, Kravets Wehby Gallery, Miami, FL
2023 Off Brand 2.0, JH Art Talks, Queens, NY
2023 All You Can Eat, Kravets|Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Co/Lateral, curated by Jody MacDonald, @ska.Artspace NY NY
2023 Stir Crazy, Kravets|Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Untitled Art Fair, Kravets Wehby Gallery, Miami, FL
2022 Camp Paradice, curated by Kat Ryals, Paradice PalaseThe Other Art Fair
2022 Party for One, My Pet Ram, NY NY
2022 A Diasporic State of Mind/El Estado Mental Diaspórico, Praxis Gallery NY, NY
2022 Home Coming: Alumni Exhibition, Kates-Ferri Projects, NY, NY
2022. FEMME, FLXST, curated by Michael Rangel, Chicago, IL
2022 Vernacular Glamour, curated by Juan Omar Rodriguez, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2021 Maximum Self, curated by Yiyi Mendoza, Collarworks, Troy, NY
2021 In Praise f Magic 2.0, curated by Sandra Lapage, Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, Queens, NY
2021 In Praise of Magic, curated by Sandra Lapage, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Drool, curated by Emily Saltman, Kravets Wehby Gallery, NY, NY
2021 CAMOUFLAGE: The art of invisibility curated by Lisa Rockford, Bailey Contemporary Arts (BaCA), Pompano Beach, FL,
2021 Made in Queens, curated by Fatima Shabbar, King Manor Museum, Jamaica, Queens, NY
2020 A Place to Visit V.2, curated by Jip Gallery & Olimpia Gallery, online
2020 Celestial Opera, Human Cathedrals, Curated by Paradice Palase & Guest Curator, Lauren Wolchik, Online
2020 Craft in Contemporary Art, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 FOOD SHOW, curated by Jeffrey Morabrito and Chantal Lee, SFA Projects, NY, NY
2020 Winter Exhibition, Urban Studio Unbound, Yonkers, NY
2020 Ride Through the Heart, AHA Fine Art, NY, NY
2019 Altars, Portals & Grottos, curated by Jana Astanova, The Park Church Co-OP, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Entre Espacios, curated by Susie Ximenez, Latinx Project, Kingston, NY
2019 Cultural Cousins, curated by Jeanne Jalandoni, Chashama, NY NY
2019 Every Woman Biennial, curated by Cristine Finley, La Mama Gallery, NY, NY
2019 Latinx, curated by Cristina Ferrigno, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Drink Me, Taste Me, Curated by Norma Homberg, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island CIty, NY
2018 Black Friday II, curated by Lobo Gallery and Paul Whiting, George Gallery, Bushwick, NY
2018 WHERE WE'RE WEAR, Curated by The Art Institute of America, Portland, Maine
2018 Midnight, Paradice Palace, Bushwick, NY
2018 Allow Me to REintroduce Myself, Curated by Krista Scenna and Carolina Piñafiel, Cigar Factory, Queens, NY
2018 Latinx, LIC Arts Open curated by Cristina Ferrigno, Long Island City, NY
2018 Site Menagerie, Ruff Arts, Yonkers, NY
2017 Gifts by Artists, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Craft Marketplace: Exhibition and Sale of the Handmade, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2017 Botanical, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
2017 Pandæmonium, curated by Seth Larson and Abigail Entsminger, Long Island City, NY
2017 Ruff Arts, Yonkers, NY
2017 Other Side of the Rainbow, ABD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
2016 Square Foot, Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL
2016 Salon Show, LIC Arts Open, Long Island City, NY
2016 +1, curated by Melissa Staiger, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Accumalating Experience, curated by Betty Jarvis, NAC Open Doors Festival, Newark, NJ
2016 Space 776 Salon Show BOS 2016, Space 776, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Social and Culture Lab, the Opening!, Alewife, Long Island City, NY
2016 Rare Humdrum by Lady Art NYC, Idio Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Hole History: Origins of American-Style Donuts, Asymmetrick Arts & Win Wilder Hall, Rockland, ME
2016 The Alephs, Local Project Subterranean, curated by Carolina Montesinos, Long Island City, NY
2016 The Food Show, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
2016 Valentine Pop-UP 2016 Show, Arcilesli Homberg, New York, NY
2015 440 Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, curated by Amy Williams, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Holiday Bazaar, Leslie Heller WorkSpace, curated by John Baber, New York, NY
2015 Show #28, Field Projects, curated by Lauren Haynes, New York, NY
2015 GIRL POWER, Hewn Art Center, Jersey City, NJ
2015 "You've Got Mail," Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 apARTment #2, Graft Art, curated by Melissa Beck, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Last Dance @the Old Gem, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Art Walk, The Art Factory, Paterson, NJ
2015 Your Presence Is Requested, Resobox Gallery, curated by Maria Dimanshtein, Long Island City, NY
2015 Recycle Show, BWAC, Redhook, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Single, Local Project Gallery, curated by Maria Dimanshtein, Long Island City, NY
2014 Drawing Democracies, Stueben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2013 MFA Thesis Show, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2013 REvulsion, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2013 Best of the North East Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2012 Her Love Made Visible, ARTs East New York , Brooklyn, NY
2012 Quadriatic Formula, La Luna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2012 MFA Retrospective Show, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2012 1st Annual Gowanus Art Fair, Lowbrow Society of the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Lunation: Art of the Moon, Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 La Loteria, Boderline Project, Brooklyn, NY
2011 MFA Retrospective Show, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2000 Senior Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
GRANTS
2020, 2018 Queens Council of the Arts for New Works, Artist
PANELS
2018, 2017 Queens Council of the Art Grant Panelist
FAIRS
2017 Winter Market, Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY
2017 Art Fest Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2017 Betty Zine Fest "17, Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ
Film Festivals
2011 Portland Maine Film Festival, ICA, Portland, ME
Residencies
2021 Finalist, Field Projects Artist Residency, New York, NY
2021 Kates-Ferri Projects in partnership with Latch Key Gallery, New York, New York
2017 Pickwick Independent Press, Portland, Maine
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont
Awards
2013 Vermont Studio Grant
2011 -2012 Merit Scholarship, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Publications
2018 HOLE HISTORY: THE ORGINS OF THE AMERICAN-STYLE DONUT created by Alexis Iammarino and Maeve O'Regan, Little Legs Press
ONLNE and Print PUBLICATIONS:
2022 Unleashing Your inner Kitsch, Interview with Maria Yolanda Liebana by Christina Nafziger, Create magazine Print Issue 30
2022 Review : Femme at FLXST Contemporary by Jen Torwudzo-Stroh, Sixty Inches from Center
https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-femme-at-flxst-contemporary/
2021 Artist in Residence/Kates Ferri Projects/Maria Yolanda Liebana Interview, Crush Fanzine by Kahary Simon https://crushfanzine.com/artist-in-residence-kates-ferri-projects-maria-yolanda-liebana-interview/
2019 Exploring Liminal Spaces and Queer LAtinx Identities in “Entre Espacios’ by Kwame Holmes https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/exploring-liminal-spaces-and-queer-latinx-identities-in-entre-espacios/Content?oid=8992868
2019 Review: Cultural Cousins: a show of Latinx and Filipinx Artists at ChaShaMa Dr. Melissa Phruksachart https://medium.com/@mphruksachart/review-cultural-cousins-a-show-of-latinx-and-filipinx-artists-at-chashama-29ea1d3b6a47
2019 Cultural Cousins' Exhibition Illustrates the many Commonalities Between Latins & Filipinx Communties by Yara Simón https://remezcla.com/culture/cultural-cousins-latinx-filipinx-exhibition/
2019 Latinx and Filipinx Diasporas Unite in a New Exhibition by Hakim Bishara
hyperallergic.com/508487/latinx-and-filipinx-diasporas-unite-in-a-new-exhibition/
2018 It’s ok to be imperfect’: Queens artist explores happiness in new exhibit, ‘Tres Marias donde se Fue mi Felicidad?, By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
2017, About Themselves by Angle, Roderick. Maria Liebana
aboutthemselves.com/2017/12/09/maria-liebana/
2017, Natasha Lardera, Art is Too Powerful to Stay in One Place, www.iitaly.org/magazine/focus/art-culture/article/art-too-powerful-stay-in-one-place
2013, Kany, Daniel. "MECA Show Portends Good Things for MEart. May 19, 2013. http://www.pressherald.com/?s=meArt