About
Maria Meyer is a multidisciplinary artist investigating the social hierarchies embedded within objects. Her work examines how domestic and historical artifacts act as signifiers of class and belonging as they migrate through private and social spaces. By manipulating found photographs and objects, Meyer exposes the friction between inherited identity and the constructed self.
This inquiry is rooted in her own experience of growing up in a working-class family, where the materiality of aspiration was often performed through the careful curation of the domestic sphere. Meyer’s practice interrogates the “decorated” life, the optimistic, assemblages of household items that take on a life of their own, and signal a desire for upward mobility.
Bio
Maria Meyer recieved her MA in Fine Art from The University of Hertfordshire in 2021 and her BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University in 1994.
Solo exhibitions include:
Fragile Light, Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2025)
Thingchronicity, St Albans Museum and Gallery, St Albans, UK (2025)
Wafted from Paradise, Departure Lounge Gallery, Luton, UK (2022)
Strange Strangers, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, UK (2022)
Selected group exhibitions include:
inSite/exSite – Art + Design Gallery, Uni herts. (2025)
Ordinary Things – Workplace, London UK. (2025)
Gradient Descent – Gossamer Fog, London UK. (2024)
Biophilia, Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2024)
Collective Visions, Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2024)
Warm Up, Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2024)
The Wild Collective, OmVed Gardens, London, UK (2023)
Correspondence 01., Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK (2021)
Mayday, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2020)
Women’s Work, Rhodes Gallery, Margate, UK (2020)
a:tension, Masons Yard Gallery, London, UK (2019)
In 2024 Meyer was Artist in Residence at Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK and was shortlisted for The Tagli Artist Award. In 2023 In 2022 she was awarded the Critics Choice Bursary at Broadway Gallery Letchworth. In 2021 she was artist in residence at the Bayfordbury Observatory and Pinetum.
Email: mariameyerstudio@outlook.com