Biography

Maria Positano (b.1995) is a visual artist living between Italy and London.

Her work has been presented in international art institutions. She completed her education in London, where she graduated from the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and the Royal College of Art in 2023. In 2024, she received the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, also, in 2023 the artist won the AiR Award at South Thames Colleges Group, London, UK. 
Maria has been invited to participate in several international artist residency programs, some examples include: StudioBlock M74, Mexico City, MX; ViaFarini.org in Milan, IT; JETLeg, Munich, GE. 

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Recent exhibitions include:  Il Peso del Vuoto, MARec - Museo dell'Arte Recuperata (2024); Not from this place, Nashira Gallery, Milan (2024); Studio Responses #4, Saatchi Gallery, London (2024); Matter, Flowers Gallery, London (2023); Beyond the Matter, Galerie Der Kunstler*Innen, Munich, DE (2023); A perfect place, Studio Block M74, Mexico City (2022); Identity, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, CN (2021). Drawing from her upbringing as a Third Culture Kid, the artist makes her work from a sense of cross-cultural kinship, supported by her nomadic and often on-the-move lifestyle. For this reason, Mary's work is often expansive and includes a variety of materials and formats. Her polymorphic work invites new interpretations of protective and defensive devices, redefining stories of violence into practices of human transformation. Her works have been exhibited and acquired in private collections internationally, including the 54 Collection and Prometheus Gallery.