maría sparrow
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María Sparrow is a multidisciplinary artist-scholar whose family spans the northern US and northern Argentina. They use fiber, printmaking, painting, and installation in combination with historical research to address questions of memory, identity, gender, belonging and alienation. They are particularly curious about language and the ways that social realities are constructed and reconstructed through linguistic strategies. Sparrow holds a master's degree in art education from UMass Amherst and a bachelor’s in studio art from Amherst College and lives in western Massachusetts.
Check out María's CV below.
shows
2024 - (group show)
Pliable Entanglements, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA
2024 - (solo show)
Looky Here, Greenfield, MA
2024 (group show)
Femme Locale, Amherst, MA
2023 (solo show)
The Bloomery, Northampton, MA
2022 (group show)
Looky Here, Greenfield, MA
2021 (solo show)
ancestors / ancestras, LAVA Center, Greenfield, MA
2021 (group show)
Looky Here, Greenfield, MA
residencies, fellowships & awards
Artist in Residence Fellow, Slavery North Initiative, University of Massachusetts - Amherst 2025-2026
Hillside Curatorial Fellowship, University Museum of Contemporary Art and Archives & Special Collections, University of Massachusetts - Amherst 2024-2025
Hayward Basile Scholarship for studies in art education, University of Massachusetts - Amherst 2023-2025
Alpha Delta Phi Award for thesis work in studio art, Amherst College 2014-2015
Gregory S. Call Grant for Research for creative thesis research, Amherst College 2015
Mead Art Museum Summer Fellowship, Amherst College 2013
Amherst College Scholarship, Amherst College 2011-2015