1971

Born in Portland, OR

Lives and works in Oakland, CA

2000

MFA, University of California, Davis, CA

1993

BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

One and Two Person Exhibitions

2024

"Always Already Anew," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2023

"Super Spatial," Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

"Always Already Again," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2022

"Re:Configuration," SLATE Contemporary Off-Site Exhibition, San Jose, CA

2021

"Maya Kabat Selected Works," Post Montgomery Center, San Francisco, CA

2019

"California Modern," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2018

"Maya Kabat and Peter Dreyfuss," 555 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2016

"Maya Kabat and Andrzej Michael Karwacki," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2015

"Urban Abstraction," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2013

“City and Place,” SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2012

“The Lab,” Caffe Museo, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

2011

“InSight, 5 Claude Lane Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Infinite Expansion Inward,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Small Waters Seeping Upwards,” Victorian Rat Gallery, Oakland, CA

2010

“Living Cities,” B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR

“This Living Process,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2009

“Thin Cities,” SFMOMA Artist Gallery Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

“Cities and Desire,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2008

“New Urban Landscape,” B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR

“Invisible Cities,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2007

"Maya Kabat: New Work," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

"The Non-Objective Moment," Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

"Cosmic Geometries," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

"New Abstracts," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2021

Berkeley Art Center, Selections, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA

Crocker Kingsley Museum National, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA

2020

"Black And White," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2019

"Aqueous," Tubac Center For The Arts, Tubac, AZ

"Ink And Clay," Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA

"Analog/Digital," Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA

"Made in Paint," The Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY

"140 Characters," Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2018

"About A Box," Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA

"Let Me Eat Cake," P0ST, Los Angeles, CA

2017

"Color: Primary to Tertiary," Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

"Moderna, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2016

"The London Intensive," Camden Arts Centre, London, England

"Abstract Women," San Ramon Valley Convention Center, San Ramon, CA

2015

SLATE Contemporary Booth 223, Art Market Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

“Botanica," Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2014

"Spring Collection," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

"Drawing Invitational," Conocophillips Gallery, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AL

2013

"Scouting Oakland," Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Introductions," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA

"After the Fall," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2012

"Terra Incognito:Imaginary Landscapes," The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO

“Cartographies," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2011

"True Paint," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2010

"Landscape in the 21st Century," Brad Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR

"Strange Nature," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

2006

"Referencing Nature," Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, Seattle, WA

2004

“Meditations,” Los Medanos Community College, Pittsburg, CA

Bibliography

2023

Kendal, Gracie. "Artist Spotlight: Maya Kabat," Art and Cake, August 14

Corbin, Mary. "Maya Kabat Paints the Crazy Quilt of Urban Patterns and Puzzles," 48 Hills, San Francisco, July

2019

Cheng, Dewitt. "Ye Olde Moderne," East Bay Monthly, June

"Attempt To Cross: Six Paintings," with essays by George Lawson and Danielle Fox, SLATE 2017

"Contemporary," Edition One Books, January

2013

Bigman, Alex."Surfaces of Oakland," East Bay Express, September 4

2012

Holt, Devin. "Maya Kabat Exhibit in SFMOMA Cafe distracts," SF Weekly Blog, December

Kerr, Ross Todd. "Neiman Marcus purchases works of Berkeley artists," Berkeley Times, February

2011

Cheng, DeWitt. "Maya Kabat at 5 Claude Lane," Art Ltd. Magazine, September

2010

Modenessi, Jennifer. "Bay Area Galleries Explore Visions of Home," San Jose Mercury News, September 9

Cheng, DeWitt. "Critic’s Pick," The East Bay Express, June

2009

Cheng, DeWitt. "Critic’s Pick," The East Bay Express, August

2008

"Both Here and There:," KQED Gallery Crawl, February

2007

Kerr, Ross Todd. "First Friday Art-Walk,” Piedmont Post, February 7

2005

"Artists of Collective 9," San Francisco Chronicle, February

2004

Modenessi, Jennifer. "Meditations puts passion into the landscape," Contra Costa Times, April 2

2000

"‘Four in One’ Fills Sacramento Gallery," Davis Enterprise, June 22

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2022

The Gambrel Gallery Artist Residency, Ashland, OR

2018

The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Inc, Artist Residency, New Berlin, NY

2016

The London Intensive, Artist Residency, Camden Art Centre, London, England

2015

Fljotstunga Art Farm, Artist Residency, Reykolt, Iceland

2013

Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA

2011

Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA

2004

Finalist, Berkeley Art Center Members Show, Berkeley, CA

Public and Private Collections

ABS Capital, San Francisco, CA

American Campus Communities, San Antonio, TX

Arthur Huang, Tokyo, Japan

Brian Thomson, Denver, CO

Charlot Malin, San Francisco, CA

Cisco Systems, Santa Clara, CA

Headlands Hotel and Spa, Pacific City, Oregon

Hodo Soy Beanery, Oakland, CA

The Hotel Adagio, San Francisco, CA

Hunter Potter, Brooklyn, NY

Kaiser Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA

Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices, Berkeley, CA

The Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA

Kristine Schomaker, Los Angeles, CA

Leo Michelson, Portland, OR

Neiman Marcus Collection, Dallas, TX

Neiman Marcus Collection, Short Hills, NJ

Neiman Marcus Collection, St. Louis, MO

Philip Seel and Serena Mah, New York, NY

The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY

Stanford Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA

Vantage Point Ventures, San Bruno, CA

Wood Partners, Oakland, CA