MUSEUM NEWS | Mara Superior

Mara Superior is an American visual artist who works in porcelain. A native New Yorker, Superior made good use of her proximity to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, visiting constantly. From an early age, her life has been spent in the pursuit of art, beauty, history, and travel.

Her work demonstrates a thorough grasp of historical precedents with an added twist of her enchanting reinterpretations. She is known for her detailed narrative sculptures and wall reliefs with subject matter ranging from the personal to the political and environmental.

Superior has received a National Endowment for the Visual Arts fellowship and numerous individual artists grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, most recently in 2017. She is included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and her work can be found nationally and internationally in many public and private collections.

In 2018, through the generous support of the Kohler Foundation, gifts of art by Mara Superior were made to fifteen museums throughout the USA. Since 1970, the foundation has donated thousands of pieces of art to more than 300 museums and non-profits across the country, in addition to preserving in situ art environments. Kohler Foundation’s mission is to support the arts and education, with a focus on art preservation.

Albany Institute of History & Art  •  Bennington Museum  •  Everson Museum of Art
Chazen Museum of Art  •  Crocker Art Museum  •  Currier Museum of Art
Fuller Craft Museum  •  Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth  •  Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Peabody Essex Museum  •  Racine Art Museum  •  RISD Museum
The Chipstone Foundation  •  The Frick Pittsburgh  •  The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

CURRENTLY ON VIEW

Cool Clay: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics
Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, CA | July 21, 2019 – December 31, 2020

Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay
Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA | September 7, 2019 – March 14, 2021

Major Work On View at the PEM
Peabody Essex Museum of Art in Salem, MA | Currently on View, New Wing Opened in September 2019

A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects
Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY | November 16, 2019 – January 3, 2021

People’s Choice Exhibit
Bennington Museum | Bennington, VT | July 3 through November 3, 2020

ON VIEW in the Rowland Gallery
Chazen Museum of Art| Madison, WI

ABOUT MARA SUPERIOR