b. 1982, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria Konder, Brazil/Portugal, b.1982 is a multi media artist who lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, New York, in 2009. In 2021 she completed an MFA in Fine arts from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London. 


2021-2022 // MFA, Chelsea College of Art, UAL, London
2008-2009 // MAT, Art Education, School of Visual Arts, New York
2004-2008 // BFA, Fine Arts, Parsons New School for Design, New York


2024 // Nem Só o Corpo Veste a Alma, Tropigalpão, Rio de Janeiro
2024 // A Conversation with Water, Hypha Studios, London
2023 // Marxismo, Rimmel, Gás, Kubik Gallery, Porto 
2023 // Still There are Seeds to be Gathered, Kupfer Project,   London
2023 // Fleshy Magic, Somers Gallery, London
2022 // Mothering, Kupfer Project, London
2021 // Stone Fifty Six, Bruton, Somerset
2021 // Rally, MFA Final Show, Chelsea College, London
2021 // Rally, Beijing
2021 // Postcards from Isolation, Archeology Museum, Innsbruck
2021 // WIP, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2021 // Heaven Loop, London 
2020 // Healing Landscape, The Cookhouse Gallery, London
2020 // Show-off!, Menier Gallery, London
2019 // Chapter I, Art Number 23, Athens, Greece
2019 // The Land of No Evil, Offshoot, London
2019 // CTA, Islington Art Factory, London
2019 // CTA, Scarborough Station, UK
2018 // Play, Arcade Projects, London
2018 // Hot Water, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau
2018 // 23.4 ̊, Mile End Art Pavillion, London
2018 // More or Less, Darren Bader, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2016 // ManPower, Woman Power, Festival, Lisbon

2014 // ManPower, CosmicMegaBrain, Lisbon
2014 // Plastic[o] Fantastic[o], Central Bank of the Bahamas, Nassau
2014 // Transforming Spaces, Hillside Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 // Crest of the Strawberry Moon, Gospel Flat Farm, Bolinas, California
2012 // Wallmania, Museo River, Buenos Aires
2009 // Let’s Go Home, S-KAI, Hamburg


2022 // Integrated Movement Performance Practice, ArtHaus, Berlin
2020 // Saloios de Sintra Residency, Portugal
2017 // The Essential School of Painting, The Bigger Picture with Bob and Roberta Smith
2017 // Plastic[o] Fantastic[o] Think Tank, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 // Plastic[o] Fantastic[o] Think Tank, Nassau, Bahamas
2012 // Procedência e Propriedade, Atelier Charles Watson, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2010 // L.I.S.P.A. London International School of Performing Arts, UK
2007 // Watercolour Workshop, Lorenzo de Medici, Florence, Italy
2006 // Modelage and Painting, Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2003 // Drawing and Painting, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2001 // Decorative Painting, Fundacao Ricardo Espirito Santo, Lisbon, Portugal