About Maria Kruschewsky
A Brazilian-born contemporary artist in Orlando, Florida — two decades of paintings, monotypes, and engravings shown from the Louvre to Tokyo.
Memory, gesture, and presence
Maria Kruschewsky is a contemporary visual artist whose practice is rooted in poetic abstraction. Working with painting, works on paper, and mixed media, she investigates the tension between materiality and emotion — layering, repeating, and revising until each surface holds the traces of every gesture beneath it, a dialogue between control and chance, permanence and transformation.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, biennials, and contemporary art fairs across Europe, Asia, and the Americas — including the Salon d'Art Contemporain at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, the International Printmaking Biennial of the Douro in Portugal, the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Macedonia, printmaking exhibitions in Tokyo, and galleries in New York and Miami. Her work is held in institutional collections, including the Consulate General of Brazil in Miami.
From her Orlando studio, Kruschewsky continues a global conversation on contemporary abstraction. She is open to curatorial dialogue, exhibitions, and institutional collaborations — and shares her monthly practice with collectors through The Studio Circle.
- 20+ Years exhibiting internationally
- 10+ Countries, across 3 continents
- 6 International biennials
- 1st Public Prize, Carrousel du Louvre
Exhibitions & recognition
Recent
- USA Guest artist at Solana Fine Art, Florida
- Bulgaria Miniprint Kazanlak — Art Gallery Kazanlak (Honorary Mention, one of six among 120 artists from 35 countries) Award
- Portugal 10th International Printmaking Biennial of the Douro
- USA Group exhibitions at Saphira & Ventura Gallery, New York — including “Urban Transitions: Art & Architecture,” curated by Alcinda Saphira
- Brazil “Between the Lines — Plots and Narratives,” international contemporary exhibition, São Paulo, curated by Heloísa Azevedo
- Brazil Exhibition at Casa Cor Bahia
- Brazil Exhibitions at the Concept House (three spaces) and Pena Cal Gallery, Bahia
- Brazil “Arte Gente,” Salvador, Bahia
- Europe Featured in the Mapping Printmaking World book and the ICM Artista Index
- Online 3D Gallery Showroom International — ArtMov
2019
- Germany 5th “Enter into Art” International Installations (miniprint and mixed media) — shown in Bernkastel-Kues (Nicolas Cusa Museum), Nassau (Municipal Museum), Cologne, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Bad Breisig, and Bad Ems
- USA Member of the Academy of Visual Arts; Visual Arts Awards 2019, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- USA Volunteer at the Orlando Museum of Art
- Portugal Global Print 4, Douro
2018
- France Salon International d’Art Contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris — awarded the 1st Public Prize (Heclectik-Art Gallery, Stand G4) Award
- France MoLA (Museum of Living Art) auction, Paris — one of only three of 240 Brazilian artists whose work sold
- France Special participation, Guide International de Catalogage d’Oeuvres d’Art, Paris
- Portugal 9th International Printmaking Biennial of the Douro — Douro Museum and Côa Museum (Aug 10–31)
- USA “Celebration of Motherhood and Art — Unwritten Stories,” Miami Beach
- USA Exposition of Miami Beach Standards — representing Brazil
2017
- Japan Exhibitions at Manabu Mabe Gallery and Tomie Ohtake, Tokyo
- UK Espacio Gallery, London; Expo Art Brazil UK, Galeria Espaço
- USA Award finalist, Figurative Painting — Focus Brasil, Miami Award
- USA Expo Art NYC Conventions, New York
- USA Art Blend Gallery and Art Brazil (Gallery Art Serves), Fort Lauderdale
- Portugal 3rd Global Print, Douro
- Brazil Jury and curator at UFBA, Ichu; workshop coordinator, jury, and curator of Ação Gráfica
2016
- Brazil Solo exhibition at Palacete das Artes — Museu Rodin, Salvador, with the launch of the book “Paintings and Engravings”
- Macedonia Osten Biennial of Design and Osten Drawing Biennial, Skopje
- USA Miami River Art Fair, Miami Convention Center (Art Basel week); “Fragments,” Duo Gallery, Miami
- USA Art Brazil at ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale
- Brazil 44th Contemporary Art Fair Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André, São Paulo
- Brazil Collective exhibition, Surreale International Gallery, São Paulo
- Bulgaria Miniprint Kazanlak Biennial
Earlier
- Portugal 8th and 1st International Printmaking Biennials of the Douro
- Bulgaria Kazanlak Miniprint Biennial — 2nd place, print Award
- Brazil Collective and solo exhibitions, Salvador, Bahia
In the studio
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