María Korol

María Korol's artistic practice is rooted in drawing and painting. She is interested in storytelling, literature in conversation with history, memory, and transformation. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980, in the middle of a military dictatorship, she was exiled to Brazil for five years and later returned to grow up in her home country. She moved to the United States in 2004. Korol has shown her artwork nationally and internationally in places such as March Gallery and The Painting Center in New York City, Institute 193 in Lexington, KY, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, Cluster Contemporary in Rome, Italy, and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, among other places. Her artwork is in numerous collections. She is a distinguished fellow of the Junge Akademie der Künste, the Hambidge Center, and the Women's Art Institute. In recent years she was a finalist for the Atlanta Artadia Award and the recipient of the Edge Award with the Forward Arts Foundation. Her work has been mentioned in The New York Times, ARTFORUM, ART PAPERS, Burnaway, and ArtsATL. Her studio is based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is an assistant professor of art at Morehouse College.