Maria Mijares
Page 1 | Biography
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Born: NYC
Lives: NJ
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Rutgers University / Livingston College, NJ, BA Fine Art (Studied with Leon Golub), 1978
Art Students League, Woodstock, NY, 1975
New England School of Art, Boston, MA, 1970
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�By the Mystery of Faith� IN-PROGRESS 1989-PRESENT
�Like a foreign movie� Fairleigh Dickinson University, Jan 1989
�Casino Nocturnes� New York University Graduate Art Department, April-May 1987
�I can�t hear the Spanish people� Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, Sept-Oct 1986
�Maria Mijares� Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Santander, Spain, June 1984
COLLECTIONS:
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Washington DC � the estate of John Cardinal O�Connor �
NJ State Senator John Lynch � Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes (Santander, Spain) �
Newark Museum � Montclair Museum � NJ State Museum � Jersey City Museum �
Zimmerli Museum � Noyes Museum� Morris Museum.
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Morris Museum � Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC � Jersey City Museum � Mason Gross School of the Arts � New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ � El Museo del Barrio, NYC � St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC � The Consul General of Italy, NYC � Catholic Museum of America, NYC � Progressive Culture Works, Jersey City �Bronx Museum of the Arts � Hudson River Museum � Center for the Fine Arts, Miami � Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM � Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA � Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, CO � Southwest Museum, LA,CA � Instituto Cultural Mexicano, San Antonio, TX � Monmouth Museum � Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, New Castle, PA � Casa de Espa�a, NYC � Hudson River Club, NYC � Jacob Javits Federal Plaza, NYC � Pindar Gallery, NYC (John I. H. Baur, juror) � University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery � Ramapo College � A.I.R. Gallery � 80 Washington Square East Galleries � Middlesex County College � Stedman Gallery, Rutgers Camden � Tweed Gallery � NJ Institute of Technology � Mongerson Gallery, Chicago � Brookdale Community College � Prudential � Schering-Plough � Bell Laboratories � Merck � Exxon.
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USA
New York Times, William Zimmer, January 27, �02,
Vivien Raynor, January 23, �83; John Caldwell, September 20, �81
Star Ledger/Newark, Dan Bischoff, November 19, 2004 (foto) January 20, �02.
Eileen Watkins, Fotos: November 23, �96, January 6, �89, May 20, �87,
August 21, �86, July 11, �78, June 11, �78; and December 20, �96,
October 9, �88, September 11, �86, November 14, �85, July 31, �83,
January 23, �83, September �82, August 13, �82, June 4, �78.
The Suburban News, January �02, February 28, �01, June 16, �99,
June 9, �99, April 28, �99, November 4, �98
The Westfield Leader, June 17, �99, June 10, �99
The Jersey Journal, October 23, �92, Beth Kissinger
The Sunday TV Mass Guide, Archdiocese of Newark (WWOR-TV Ch 9)
Covers: Vol IV No 1 & 2, December �89-May �90, May �90-November �90
The Catholic Advocate/Newark, Robert Dylak
July 7, �93, October 19, �88, September 28, �88 (Spanish)
Art Matters, July - August �87
Philadelphia, PA, Vol. 6. No. 10
Modern Maturity, February-March �89 (Regional: West), foto
�AHA! Hispanic Art News/NYC
December �88, August-September �87
El Diario/NYC
November 27, �88
Vanidades, �Maria Mijares y Espa�a�
November �86, Miami (Intercontinental) p. 10
Rutgers Alumni Magazine, D. J. Wilson, December �86
Inside front & back covers, p. 26-27, fotos
Artists Observed, Harvey Stein, 1986,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NYC, p. 30-31
Photography Annual 1982
�American Artists in Their Environments� Harvey Stein
Home News/New Brunswick
November 14, �82, full page with 3 fotos, June 4, �78, foto, Doris Brown
Courier News/Bridgewater
March 19, 2003, Evelyn Apgar, November 3, �98, Bernice Paglia
December 4, �88 and August 28, �88 (fotos) Emanuel Haller;
August �83, January 7, �83, September 5, �81, Forrest Clark
News Tribune/Woodbridge, Frances Burke, May 26, �78, foto
SPAIN
Critic�Art/Santander, Salvador Carretero Reb�s, May-June �89, foto & p. 26
Alerta/Santander, Jes�s Hoyos Arribas,
August 17, �87, July 27, �86, November 25, �85, November 8, �84, July 26, �84,
June 9, �84, May 12, �84, full page with 2 fotos
Diario Monta�es/Emilia Levi, August 27, �87 (foto), June 10, �84
Hoja de Lunes/Paco Revuelta Hatuey, June 4, �84
Guia/Monts� Pica, June 16-22, �84, cover foto
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FELLOWSHIPS
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper, 2000
HEART GRANT Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders,1998, 1999
New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Painting), 1987, 1982
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Inc. (Painting), 1985
Union County Cultural & Heritage (Painting), 1985
HONORS
The World Who�s Who of Women Commemorative Tenth Edition,1989
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) Washington, DC
(nominee for post-doctoral research grant toSpain), 1988
International Who�s Who of Professional and Business Women, 1988
Outstanding Young Women of America, 1987,1985
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PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF QUADE & DOUGLAS (1997-current)
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System / NJ TRANSIT
Bergenline Avenue Plaza, Union City, NJ
Design team with chief architect
Four murals in porcelain enamel on steel: marquee (8� x 13�6") and three street-level 11� x 10�6�
NJ TRANSIT (2002- current)
Ridgewood Rail Station, Ridgewood, NJ
Pedestrian underpass art, fifteen images and a scatter of stars in porcelain enamel on steel
PRESENTATIONS
�Religious Iconography for a Secular World� one of three-artist panel
Jersey City Museum, �artTalks,� (March 24, 2002)
�A Painted Journey� a presentation of slides, stories and soundtrack,
toured 12 nursing homes (HEART Grant, Union County Freeholders), schools, community, cancer and caregiver support groups. (1998-)
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�Mark�s Silver Linden,� MARK JOHNSON CD cover, �Green Summer Rain�
Strong Recordings, Nashville, TN, April 2005
�The Politics of Artmaking: Interrogating Power/Courting Authority�
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Kress Foundation Department of Art History
Symposium 2001/ twenty art historians and artists
"For My Art�s Sake: Facing off with Power" (paper presented March 3, 2001)
�Memoria de un Fin de Siglo�
Fernando Zamanillo Peral, 2001, Gobierno de Cantabria, Spain , p.158-59
The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper fellowship with the
New Jersey State Council on the Arts to publish hand-colored lithograph, �7 City Subway.�
�Caring for Your Parents� work as artist and caregiver featured in WOR-TV documentary.
�Fearless Creating� Dr. Eric Maisel, 1995, G.P. Putnam�s Sons, xv, p.189
�Artists Observed� Harvey Stein, 1986, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NYC, p. 30-31
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