10 Chancery Lane Gallery

MAYA HEWITT

b. 1981, London, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London, UK.

Maya Hewitt is an English painter whose work has a subtle Asian influence, inspired by Japanese culture as well as by her half-Filipino heritage. A talented figurative painter, Hewitt’s exotic narrative landscapes form an artificial space, constructed and staged in a state of suspension. They travel between the real and the fictional, between human and supernatural energies, and between artifice and nature. Her paintings are presented as environments of connecting plots or pieces within a larger narrative, and use symbols to explore the notion of reality and fiction. Personal symbolic objects draw references from across time, cultures and myths.

Born in London, 1981; lives and works in London and Tokyo.

EDUCATION

2003
Nagoya University of Art awarded placement

2001-2004
BA Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton

1999-2000
Art Foundation, Winchester School of Art

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
Maya Hewitt, 10 Chancery Lane gallery, Hong Kong
The Forgiven Ghost in Me, Misako and Rosen Gallery, Tokyo

2012
Art Stage Singapore, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Singapore

2011
Night is Imminent, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Fire Eyes, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Nocturne, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
Stones in Paws at Petite Robe Noire, Misako & Rosen, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan

2009
Tokyo Art Fair, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan

2008
Our Immortal Souls, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK

2007
Underbelly Skirmishes, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Mending Fences, RUN project space, London, UK

2006
The Janitors and their sheltered province, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Happy Mind, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo.
ART HK 11, BISCHOFF/WEISS and 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong.

2010
Passion Fruits, Thomas Olbricht collection, Berlin

2009
Elusive Dreams, Group Show, IMOCA (Irish Museum of Contemporary Art), Dublin, Ireland
Elusive Dreams, Group Show, La Cathedrale, Paris, France
Art Brussels, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London, UK
Geba Geba, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Parabiosis, Soka Art Center, Bejing and Taipei

2008
NADA, Misako & Rosen, Miami, USA
Zoo Art Fair, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
Volta Show, Bischoff/Weiss, Basel, Switzerland
Group Show, New Tokyo Contemporaries, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo 101, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan

2007
From Tokyo From London, Maya Hewitt and Kazuyuki Takezaki, two person exhibition,
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Three Things, RUN project space, London, UK
Recent Works, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan

2006
George Polke Invites, London, UK
Works on Paper, Flux Factory, New York, USA
Discerning Eye, The Mall, London (nominated by Stuart Pearson-Wright), UK
Preview Open, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan

2005
Mondays in the Sun, FosterArt, London, UK
Sine Qua Non, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
Beasts, Bulls and Blasphemer, Studio A, London, UK

2004
Summer Group Show, Marc Rome Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland
Soliloquy of Ours, R.K. Burt Gallery, London, UK
Remember the sky always comes down to the horizon, University of Brighton, UK

2003
On the Paper, Plus Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Exchange, Gallery Bee, Nagoya, Japan
Room with a view, Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, UK

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2009
Tokyo Wonder Site, Artist in Residence, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan

2008
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Grant

2003
Nagoya University of Art placement

PUBLICATIONS

2008
Our Immortal Souls Maya Hewitt, text by Charles Danby Cella, London, UK