Lives and works in London

Born Philippines 1988

mariacfarrar@gmail.com

Current group exhibition

12/2 - 27/6/21

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 

Past exhibitions

Solo

2020 Spring, Ota Fine Arts,Shanghai

2019 Too Late to Turn Back Now, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Singapore

2018 Eaves Deep, Mother's Tankstation project, London

2017 Straits, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin

2016 Marine, Supplement Gallery, London

2014 Paintings, Philippine Embassy, London

Group

2021 Works on Paper, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai

2020 Post Art Fair, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore

2020 Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

2019 Ways of Seeing, Whipps Cross University Hospital, Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019 and the Government Art Collection

2019 'Day Tripper' Liz Arnold, Maria Farrar and Samara Scott, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-sea

2019 Present Progressive, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

2018 Hypnogogia, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

2018 Known Unknowns, Saatchi Gallery, London

2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome

2016 Degree Show, Slade School of Art, UCL

2016 Pink Density, Clovis XV, Brussels

2014 Curious Struggle: Tim Patrick & Maria Farrar, Arthouse1, London

2012 Degree Show, Ruskin School of Art, Old Power Station, University of Oxford

2012 Debate, Curate, Collaborate, Krakow, Poland

2011 Watercolours, Dolphin Gallery, St John’s College, University of Oxford 

Prizes/Residencies

2016 Melville Nettleship Prize, Slade School of Art, UCL

2016 Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, British School at Rome

2014 Gwen John Scholarship, Slade School of Art, UCL

2013 Artist in residence, Mill Hill County High School, London

2010 John Farthing Anatomy Prize, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford

2009 Travel Scholarship: Copenhagen, Lincoln College

Education

2014 - 2016 MFA Painting, Slade School of Art, UCL 

2009 - 2012 BFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford

2008 - 2009 Art Foundation, Lincoln College of Art

Press

2019 'Too Late to Turn Back Now with Maria Farrar', Debbi Tan, Arthop SG 

2019 '色彩と愛がテーマ' Bijutsu techo

2019 'Icing on the Cake', Paul Teasdale, Gourmand magazine issue 12

2018 Sophia Stevi and Maria Farrar, Elephant magazine issue 37

2018 'Known Unknowns', Kate Enters, Wall Street International Magazine

2017 ‘Maria Farrar’ straits review, Gemma Tipton, Artforum Critics’ Picks

2017 ‘Maria Farrar: straits’, Rebecca O’Dwyer, mother’s annual

Collections

Government art collection, Magdalen College Library University of Oxford, and private collections