Maria Dominguez

Maria Dominguez has exhibited within the Tri-state area including Europe, Japan and Africa. Dominguez’ career in public art-making, private commissions and community murals have gained her the respect of her contemporaries and art professionals in New York State.

In 2002 The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City commissioned “El-Views”. Where the Willet Stain Glass Studios of Philadelphia, PA eloquently transformed her 16 original paintings into dazzling stain glass jewels. Now permanently installed at the Chauncey Street subway station along the J/Z lines in Brooklyn, NYC. The following year the design was one of 15 to receive the prestigious “Excellence in Design” award by the New York Municipal Society. In 2005 as part of Artmakers, Inc. she completed When Women Pursue Justice a 3,300 square foot mural in Bedford/Stuyvesant Brooklyn, NY. Also Brooklyn in 2006 Brooklyn Connect commissioned Awake, Arise, Move Mural. In 2007 Bronx Allegory for Gunhill Community Health Center in NY.

Solo Exhibits: 2009/10 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Student Center, Brooklyn, NY 2008, WBGO Art Gallery, Newark, NJ, 2007 GOBA Gallery in Hoboken, NJ, Boricua College, Bk’lyn, NYC, Center of Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College in NYC. In 2005, Brooklyn Central Library, NYC.

Group Exhibits: 2009 Taller Latino Americano; Grady Alexis Gallery NYC, 2009 Center Cultural; Brussels, Belgium, 2009, Teatro Cesare Volta; Pavia, Italy, 2008 Na’tl Library of Cameroon, Yaounde, Africa 2008 Brofman Art Gallery; NYU, 2007 Augusta Savage Gallery, University Mass; Arte Antilles Gallery, NYC; Tengelsen Gallery Dix Hills, NYC; Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ. In 2006 St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, NY, The UBS Gallery in NYC.

She has been the recipient of prestigious grants such as The National Endowment for Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and has garnered nominations to the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Dominguez is currently a Teaching Artist for Young Audiences of New York and City Lore two respected organizations in NYC. She’s also worked for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Learning thru the Arts, Studio in the School. Also for seven years Dominguez headed El Museo del Barrio’s Museum Education Department in New York City.