CV
Education
2021 Masters of Fine Arts, University of Waterloo
2020 Fundamentals of University Teaching Certificate, University of Waterloo
2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art (Honours), McMaster University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Testing the Membranous Boundaries, in collaboration with Ingrid Bjørnaali and Fabian Lanzmaier, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
2023 Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass, in collaboration with Ingrid Bjørnaali and Fabian Lanzmaier, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
2023 Anoxic Memory, Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, ON
2022 Growth Units, Centre3, Hamilton, ON
2022 Solid Void Liquid Earth, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, ON
2022 Segmented Life, Regenerative System, SpacemakerII and Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
2022 Eating the Swamp, Mustarinda, Finland
2021 Rat Plastic Wood II, Parish Hall at 10 Tom St., Hamilton, ON
2021 Rat Plastic Wood, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2019 Cadence, in collaboration with Joshua MacDonald, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in collaboration with Ingrid Bjørnaali and Fabian Lanzmaier, Fiminco Foundation, Paris, France.
2024 Artists' Film International, in collaboration with Ingrid Bjørnaali and Fabian Lanzmaier, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa; Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States; Belgrade Culture Centre, Serbia; Center for Contemporary Art Afghanistan; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Brazil; The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; New Berlin Art Society (NBK), Berlin, Germany; Para Site, Hong Kong; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway and Forma, London, United Kingdom.
2024 Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, in collaboration with Ingrid Bjørnaali and Fabian Lanzmaier, curated by Karolin Tampere, Tallinn, Estonia
2024 Down in the Bog - Reverberations, in collaboration with Ingrid Bjørnaali, Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Art, Norway
2024 Cultivated Threads, ARTSPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
2024 If a tree falls in a forest, San Sheng Art Centre, curated by Tangent Collective for Contact Festival, Markham, ON
2024 Down in the Bog - Hibernation, Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Karolin Tampere, Tromsø, Norway
2024 Silent Hands of Sun and Sand, Ed Video, curated by Tristan Sauer, Guelph, ON
2024 bread, butter, tea, soup, artLAB Gallery, curated by the Creative Food Research Collaboratory, London, ON
2023 Splinten i øyet, NITJA Art Centre, Lillestrøm, Norway
2023 U Barracks, Timișoara, Romania
2023 BioCurious, Art Gallery of Windsor-Essex, Windsor, ON
2023 Marée Queer Tides, in collaboration with Ingrid Bjørnaali, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, NB
2022 Indelible Discards, Xpace, Toronto, ON (curated by Bunker 2)
2021 PLAY, PLATFORM centre, Winnipeg, MB
2021 Of Several Depths, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
2021 Temporary Collection, Ed Video, Guelph, ON
2021 Seeking the Periphery, Ryerson Architectural Science Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 TD Thor Wealth Juried Exhibition, Midland Gallery, Midland, ON
2020 Photophobia, Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
2019 Offcuts 2, Smokestack Studio, Hamilton, ON
2019 Reflectorchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra’s Intimate and Immersive
Performance, Hamilton, ON
2019 Artists for Climate Action, Spice Factory, Hamilton, ON
2018 Last Minute, Jamesville Ceramics, Hamilton, ON
2018 Something to Someone, Somewhere, HAVN, Hamilton, ON
2018 Fashion Art Toronto, Daniel’s Spectrum, Toronto, ON
Residencies
2024 Est-Nord-Est, Saint-John-Port-Joli, QC
2024 ED Video, Guelph, ON
2023 Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen, Norway
2022 Ecologies and Cosmologies, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
2022 Ars Bioarctica, Kilpisjärvi, Finland
2022 Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, Finland
2022 Text Collective, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON (Virtual)
2019 Factory Media Centre, Hamilton, ON
Teaching
2024 Undergraduate Sessional Instructor, Experimental Studio II/III, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
2022 Undergraduate Sessional Instructor, Making Art and Understanding Images and Technology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2022 Instructor, Creating Digital Growth Structures from Homemade Microbial Ecosystems, Ed Video, Guelph, ON
2021 Research Assistant and Ceramics Outreach Program Coordinator for Logan MacDonald, Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Art
2020 Undergraduate Sessional Instructor, Art Appreciation & Expression, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
2020 Teaching Assistant for Eva McCauley, Observational Drawing, University of Waterloo, ON
2019 Teaching Assistant for Lois Andison, Methods and Materials of Sculpture, University of Waterloo, ON
2019 Textiles and Natural Dye, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2019 Electronics and Interactive Art, Factory Media Centre, Hamilton, ON
2019 Textiles and Natural Dye Workshop, Centre3, Hamilton, ON
2018 Textiles and Natural Dye Workshop, ReCreate, Hamilton, ON
2018 Youth Installation Art Course, Gallery Stratford
Selected Awards/ Grants
2024 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2024 Arts Abroad, Canada Council for the Arts
2023 Arts Abroad, Canada Council for the Arts
2023 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts x UKAI Projects
2023 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2022 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council
2021 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council
2019 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council
2018 Media Artists Creation Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Media
2025 Peishan Huang & Maria Simmons at San Sheng Art Space, Esse Issue 113: Plastics, exhibition review, Sophie Dubeau Chicoine
2024 For 2025, the colour of the year will be a living green (which is also a dying green), CBC Arts, feature, Naomi Skwarna
2024 Metabolizing Our Way Through: In Conversation with Artist Maria Simmons,Public Parking, interview, Laura Demers
2022 Garden of Spoil: Maria Simmons’ Rat Plastic Wood, Peripheral Review, exhibition review, Chris Hampton
2022 Mixed Drinks, MOCA x Dean Baldwin Lew
2022 Indelible Discards - Bunker 2
2021 Hopping the Fence Podcast - by Rebecca Cassalino
2021 Aspic Culture IV, Public Parking - by Miles Rufelds
2021 The Artist’s Cookbook Volume 2 - by Carrie Perreault
2019 Time Is. Time Was. Time Is Past. - by Shauna Jean Doherty
2018 Cross Process Issue 2
Artist Talks + Research Presentations
2025 Tisch School of Art, New York University, NYC, USA
2025 Uncommon Senses V, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2024 McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2024 Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC
2024 Ed Video, Guelph, ON
2024 artLAB Gallery, London, ON
2023 MKG127, Toronto, ON
2023 Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
2023 Visual Arts Centre, Clarington, ON
2022 Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
2022 (Super)Natural Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2022 Femme Folks Fest with Covert Collective, Kitchener, ON
2021 University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2019 Hamilton Artist Inc, Hamilton, ON
2019 Factory Media Centre, Hamilton, ON
Commissioned + Public Work
2024 CAFKA - Public Art Installation
2022 Time Travel Agency - Speculative Documentary
2022 City of Hamilton - Vinyl Mural
2022 Video for When we speak at the same time we speak the same language
2021 Waterloo University - Vinyl Mural
2021 Downtown Kitchener Art Walk - Vinyl Mural