2012

MFA, Studio Art, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

BFA  Art & Design; BFA, Graphic Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

2024 

Noah’s Out-of-Order Ark-ade and Reliquary, Carnation Contemporary  |  Portland, OR

2023    

Nature is Healing, Buckham Gallery  |  Flint, MI

2022   

As Above, So Below (with Kyle Adam Kalev Peets), Carnation Contemporary  |  Portland, OR
The Art and Science of Species Revival (with Ken Rinaldo), Norman Rae Gallery, York University  |  York, UK

Waiting for the Flood, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR
Point of No Return, Antenna | New Orleans, LA

Famous Monsters, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR
Dominus, 355 PodSpace, VisArts Center | Rockville, MD

Playing House, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University | La Grande, OR
Balance and Barrier (concurrent with Katrina Majkut), Greenly Gallery, Bloomsburg University | Bloomsburg, PA

Dominus, DEMO Projects | Springfield, IL
Float, VisArts Center | Rockville, MD

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, Upfor gallery | Portland, OR

Float, University Galleries, William Paterson University | Wayne, NJ ( catalogue)

Rat Party City, Visual Art Exchange | Raleigh, NC
Magnify: Window Installation Project, Art Coop, Inc. storefront window, Lincoln Square Mall | Urbana, IL
Invisible Fences, Murphy Gallery, University of Illinois YMCA | Champaign, IL

Animal/Artifact, with David Ross Harper, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University | Chicago, IL

Made in Champaign: Work Produced During the Figure One Summer Residency, with Jason Patterson, Figure One Gallery | Champaign, IL

Museum for a Shark, indi go Artist Co-Op | Champaign, IL

Ten to Watch, Figure One Gallery | Champaign, IL
From the Midwest: Drawing and Paintings, Arts on Grand | Spencer, IA
Drawings and Paintings: Solo Exhibition, Memorial Union Gallery | Iowa State University | Ames, IA

Paintings and Drawings: Solo Exhibition, Gallery in the Round | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship | Ames, IA

Studio Exhibition, with Joshua De Marree, Suite 602, Legacy Tower | Ames, IA

Composition/Decomposition, SOIL  | Seattle, WA
A Drop in the Pond: Images of Underappreciated Landscapes, Gallery 114  |  Portland, OR

Nice;01, Midwest Nice art collective, Johnson Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northern State University | Aberdeen, SD
Between Spaces (curated by Raquel Mullins and Rachael Zur), Wavelength Space  | Chattanooga, TN
It’s Complicated: A year of collaborative exhibitions by Carnation Members, Carnation Contemporary  |  Portland, OR

Birds of a Feather (curated by Raquel Mullins), Stoveworks  | Chattanooga, TN
Time | Creature | Portal | Self: Staff and Faculty Exhibition, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College |  Walla Walla, WA

Over the Line: Regional Faculty Exhibition, Lewis-Clark State College  |  Lewiston, ID

The Extended Ear: An Artist Book Fair, Carnation Contemporary  |  Portland, OR

The Landscape Zine Reading Room, The Recreation Club (part of the Small Press Fest 2021) | Champaign, IL
Second Date, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR 

Low Boil, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR

[Create]ures: animals in contemporary art, Spartanburg Art Museum | Spartanburg, SC
A gallery of one’s own, Spartanburg Art Museum | Spartanburg, SC
Assembling Animal Communication, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University School of Art | Lubbock, TX (catalogue)

First Date, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR
Faculty Exhibition, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College | Walla Walla, WA

The Sexual Politics of Meat, The Animal Museum | Los Angeles, CA
Utopia/Dystopia, Washington State University Fine Arts Center, Washington State University | Pullman, WA

microMACRO, McLean County Arts Center | Bloomington, IL
AgriCulture, Campus Center Gallery, Dordt College | Souix Center, IA

In Place, Vacant Storefront #122, Global Mall | Antioch, TN
Champaign Contemporary, 102 S Neil Popup Gallery | Champaign, IL

Hunter/Gatherer, University Art Gallery, Truman State University | Kirksville, MO (catalogue)
Ecovisions, Mclean Arts Center | Bloomington, IL
Sky Gallery, 40 North Champaign County Arts Council billboard exhibition (collaboration with Jane Desmond) | Champaign IL
Prairie Center of the Arts Artist in Residence Regional Alumni Invitational, Prairie Center of the Arts | Peoria, IL

Love Less Violently, with Shayna Egan and Cherie Fanning, Illini Union Gallery, University of Illinois | Champaign, IL
There/Here: A Mobile Exhibit | Grand Valley State University | Grand Rapds, MI
PostNatural | Isis Gallery | Notre Dame University | South Bend, IN
Lines, 3 Pillars Gallery | Benton Harbor, MI
Sightlines, South Bend Museum of Art | South Bend, IN
So Many Beasts of Burden, with Shayna Egan and Cherie Fanning, Illini Union Gallery, University of Illinois | Champaign, IL
Worked, ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art | Athens, GA
Post-Conceptual Glitter, Lawton Gallery | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | Green Bay, WI

2012 Residency Exhibition, Prairie Center of the Arts | Peoria, IL
Canis Familiaris, Amara | Urbana, IL
OMG! Kittens Kittens Kittens, Figure One Gallery | Champaign, IL
Animalier: The Animal in Contemporary Art, Graceful Arts Gallery and Studios (sponsored by Northwestern Oklahoma State University) | Alva, OK
Borders and Boundaries, Harwood Art Center | Albuquerque, NM
Small Works, K12/TEJAS Gallery | Dayton, OH
MFA 2012, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, IL
You I You See (non-juried), Co-Prosperity Sphere | Chicago, IL
Where We Are: Tectonic Shifts and the Dissolution of Boundaries, DeLuce Gallery | Northwest Missouri State University | Maryville, MO

30/30 (invitational), Address Gallery | Champaign, IL
Engage! Art + Design Grad Student Exhibition (non-juried), Link Gallery | Champaign, IL
More is More, Lexington Art League | Lexington, KY
A Live Animal, Root Division | San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Pink, Studio 659 | Whiting, IN
Artsplosia! (non-juried), Co-Prosperity Sphere | Chicago, IL
National Wet Paint Exhibition 2011, Zhou B. Art Center | Chicago, IL

All Together Now: Art + Design Grad Student Exhibition (non-juried), Link Gallery | Champaign, IL
Emerging Illinois Artists, McLean County Arts Center | Bloomington, IL

30 and Beyond: College of Design Alumni Exhibition, Gallery 181 | Iowa State University | Ames, IA

VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts) Residency  |  Lynchburg, VA
Ou-Telier, Gabriola Island  | British Columbia, Canada

Cow House Studios  |  Enniscorthy, Ireland
Stove Works Residency | Chattanooga, TN
Collage Artist Lab, Kolaj Institute  |  New Orleans, LA

Enos Park Residency (short-term resident, summer) | Springfield, IL

Center for New Art, William Paterson University | Wayne, NJ
Pop-up Studio Artist, 2-week public residency at [Co][lab] | Urbana, IL

Prairie Center of the Arts | Peoria, IL
Summer Residency – Figure One | Champaign, IL

“Irreverence and the Martyrs of the Anthropocene.” Artist talk and collage workshop,  Animal Studies Summer Institute | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Champaign, IL

In Conversation: Maria Lux and Nature is Healing, (recorded conversation with Michele LeClaire), Buckham Gallery  |  Flint, MI

Time | Creature | Portal | Self panel discussion, Whitman College  |  Walla Walla, WA

Guest on the Open Call Podcast, hosted by Anne Stagg and Laura Tanner

“Darkness, absurdity, and weirdness: Strategies for re-thinking, or avoiding real feelings, in visual art.” Plenary speaker, Animals and Society Summer Institute | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Champaign, IL

Visiting Artist Talk, Eastern Oregon University | La Grande, OR
"Balance and Barrier," Gallery Talk, Bloomsburg University | Bloomsburg, PA
Artist Talk (lecture series in conjunction with Faculty Exhibition), Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College | Walla Walla, WA

Miniature Floats, artist-led workshop in conjunction with solo show, VisArts Center | Rockville, MD

Visiting Artist Lecture, Beloit University | Beloit, WI
Artist Lecture, William Paterson University | Wayne NJ
Exquisite Eye: Seeing and Being Seen by Birds artist workshop, co-presented with Jane Desmond | Urbana, IL

"Big Pork," Pecha-Kucha Night, Volume 13 | Champaign, IL

Artist Lecture, UIUC MFA Exhibition Programming, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

“Monuments to Animal Explorers, 2019,” chapter for the German-language journal Tierstudien, issue 25, “Person und Persönlichkeit,” Ed. by Jessica Ullrich  |  Neofelis Verlag, Berlin, Germany

“Art as a way of knowing (and not knowing) animals”, essay for Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies, Vol. 2, Ed. by Margo DeMello  |  Columbia University Press

“Magnify” (images and text) | Antennae: the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 49: Making nature | London, UK

“Unwholesome” (images and text) | SLAG Mag (quarterly research journal of art): Vol. 3, Issue 3, MILK | Harrisonburg, VA

Much to Digest, collection of essays and images accompanying exhibition at Upfor gallery | self-published

Burger King (essay), The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore the Sexual Politics of Meat, Lantern Books | New York

LunchTicket literary magazine: Winter/Spring 2014 issue | Antioch University | Los Angeles, CA

Strung Together (nonfiction), PIECRUST Magazine (edited print publication) | Kansas City, MO
Maria Lux: Exhibition catalog and essays | Thesis work catalog, self-published | Lulubooks
Deke Weaver interviewed by Maria Lux – the Unreliable Bestiary | Antennae: the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Animal Influence II Issue 22 | London, UK

International Drawing Annual 6 (juried print publication) | Manifest Gallery | Cincinnati, OH
Masks Inkwell Magazine (juried online magazine)

Fieldwork: An exhibition of work by Steve Baker, (curated by Maria Lux with Sarah Bezan & Robert McKay) | Jessop West Foyer, University of Sheffield, UK

Accepted Knowing – Peer Review (co-curator), Figure One | Champaign, IL

“Nature is Healing: Art that proposes imperfect decolonization of unsafe places,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) annual conference |  Portland, OR
”Make Yourself at Home: Art on the role of shared human/animal domestic space in radical 1960’s animal research,”  Living with Animals V  | Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond KY
“MegaSkwrl: Inventing a human-sized alien flying squirrel to reflect on an uncertain future,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) Annual Conference, Arizona State University  |  Tempe, AZ  

“Point of No Return and Waiting for the Flood: Discussion of works in the artist showcase,” The Art and Science of Species Revival Symposium, University of York's Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity  |  University of York, UK  |  Online
“Making Monsters: A Horror-and-Humor  Based Alternative to Mainstream Extinction Stories,” Creaturely Fear: Animality and Horror Cinema Symposium  |  Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre, Sheffield UK  |  Online

Co-chair with Dr. Jessica Landau for "Unserious Ecocriticisms" panel, College Art Association Conference | Online

"Happy Endlings" (online presentation with Dr. Sarah Bezan), Sex & Nature Salon | Art and Culture, University of Exeter | Exeter, UK
Extinction in Public Symposium, (part of Q&A during online presentation by Dr. Sarah Bezan), Manchester Museum | Manchester, UK

"Asking ‘What if’ questions in artistic experimentation: Animals and risky speculations", Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual conference, Experimental Engagements | University of California, Irvine, CA
"Famous Monsters", Animal Remains conference | University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK
“Animal Language Pioneers: the Possibilities and Pitfalls of Reimagining Animals as Explorers through Visual Art” Animal/Language: An Interdisciplinary Conference | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

“Playing House: Radical cross-species families in 1960’s science through art,” National Women's Studies Association conference | Atlanta, GA
“Playing House: Visual art explorations of radical cross-species families in 1960’s science,” Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies conference, (Un)Common Worlds | University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute, appointed “Alumni Artist in Residence” and participant in week-long institute, co-sponsored by the Animals and Society Institute, Inc. and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute, selected participant in inaugural week-long institute, co-sponsored by the Animals and Society Institute, Inc. and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Unforseen Consequences of Co-existence with Vultures, Fruit Bats, and Viruses”, Living with Animals 3: Coexistence conference | Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

“Creativity’s limits: an arts-based perspective on the problems and potential of the word 'creativity'” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual conference, Creativity | Atlanta, GA

“Lossless Technology: Artificial animals, domestic animals, and extinction through art pieces” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual conference, After Biopolitics, Rice University | Houston, TX
“Thinking “Big”: Collaborative Processes between Artists and Scholars for Public Art Production” (Co-presentation with Dr. Jane Desmond) Living With Animals Conference, Eastern Kentucky University | Richmond, KY

“Dogs, Robots, and Border Wars: Toward Intersections Rather than Boundaries” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Animacies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI

“Arts Talk” Society for Literature Science and the Arts annual conference, Postnatural, University of Notre Dame | South Bend, IN
“Seeing Animals: Art that Looks at Animal/Human Vision” Animal Representation Conference, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI

Taking Animals Apart Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI

Non-presenting conference attendee, Interactive Futures: Animal Influence, Emily Carr University | Vancouver, B.C.

Non-presenting conference attendee, College Art Association | New York, NY