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Maria Lobo
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Maria Lobo's art training took her to Italy, Spain and the USA. Studying at the University of Santa Clara and the San Francisco Art Institute, she gained degrees in Fine Art and Painting in 1985. Having been part of the San Francisco Hunters Point artists’ community, Maria returned to Hong Kong in 1994 and now spends her time between Vancouver and Hong Kong. She frequently exhibits her work in the US, Canada and Hong Kong. Maria looks to her heritage for inspiration. Her work is "East Meets West" in both imagery and technique, reflecting her multi-cultural background as well as the East/West environment in which she lives.
About her new collection “Love Knots”, she states: “My inspiration for this work is Asian Calligraphy but I am trying to work now in a more playful way, from my heart, not so much from my head. The strokes are looser now. I am using the idea of calligraphy as pure pattern and abstract shapes. I am not interested in any words or any meaning, just the forms that are created or the fragments of the characters that make interesting forms. Patterning and use of negative space have always been part of my visual vocabulary, as well as the East-West influence, which is ever present. I have also always used a sense of pattern, symmetry and balance in all my abstract work, since 1999. This tends to give me a sense of "order on chaos" or "organizing the abstraction". By using the grid system here, I am doing the same, with a color palette including reds, blacks, earthy tones and neutrals, with some metallic.”
Education and Background
1993-1994
Graduate Studies in Advanced Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, USA.
San Francisco City College Artists’ Critique Seminars, Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA
1987-1989 Independent Study, Barcelona, Spain
1985 BFA, University of Santa Clara, California, USA
1983-1984 Art history and Painting, Loyola University of Chicago, Rome Center, Rome, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Love Knot, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
2006 Circular, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
2005 Layered Heritage, Gateway Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
2004 East Meets West, Fiction Five, North Vancouver, Canada
Maria Lobo, Chouinard Gallery, Chicago, USA
2003 MTRC Project Installation, Tseung Kwan O station, Hong Kong
2002 HK/NY, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA
Maria Lobo, Chouinard Gallery, Chicago, USA
2001 Layers Of Life, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong.
2000 Maria Lobo Open Studio 2000, Artist's Studio, Hong Kong.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Tribes, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
2007
Art Summer, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
40 Plus, 40 Minus, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
Woman, Arlene Lachman Gallery, Panama City, Panama
2006
Princeton in Asia, Angel Orensanz Ctr. for the Arts, New York, USA
Watchdog Annual Fund, The Aberdeen Marina Club, Hong Kong
Art Saturdays, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
2005
A Changed Perspective, Maria Lobo and Andrew Chan, Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2004
Totally Manipulated : Digital Art Today, CityScape, North Vancouver, Canada
Maria Lobo and Dafine Blanco, Studio 2, Vancouver, Canada
Art by Asian Women, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, USA
Art in the Garden, North Vancouver Arts Council, Vancouver, Canada
Explore Asian Heritage, The Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada
Through the Kaleidoscope, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong
2003
Hong Kong Cyberport Summer Show, Hong Kong
Watchdog Annual Fund, The Aberdeen Marina Club, Hong Kong
Traditions: the Blessing and the Curse, Invitational, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, USA
6th International Show, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, USA
2001
Small Works Great Thought, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong
In Celebration of Art: Hong Kong Arts Centre 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Watchdog Annual Fund, Invitational Show, Hong Kong
Import/Export, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, USA
2000
Galerie Martini, Salon D’hiver 3, Hong Kong
Public Commission
2003 Layers of Tradition, 7 ft x 40 ft mural.
HK Mass Transit Railway Corporation, Tsueng Kwan O, Hong Kong
Corporate Commissions
Crown Hotel, Macau, China
Shangri-la Hotel, Shanghai, China
MGM Grand Hotel, Macau
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