MARIA KREYN

Maria Kreyn is an American artist known for evocative paintings that merge figuration, abstract geometries, and elemental atmospherics. Her education in mathematics and philosophy (The University of Chicago), merged with interests in neuroscience and mythology, produces atypical and polymathic connections between disparate fields, offering stirring visual metaphors for complex scientific ideas. She distills these references into a personal vocabulary of forms and geometries that result in hybrid compositions situated at the intersection of formalism and Romantic painting. Her expansive canvases are emotionally charged meditations on nature, the body, and the mystery of deep time.

Kreyn's public works include a collection of 8 monumental paintings based on Shakespeare, commissioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, now on permanent display in the lobby of London's historic Theater Royal Drury Lane. Kreyn’s solo exhibition during the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 was presented by the MoN Art Foundation, staged at St. George’s Church in Venice, Italy.

Maria Kreyn lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.