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González received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1979 from Florida International University, and an Master of Arts in sculpture in 1983 from San Francisco State University.
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Maria Gonzalez
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In 1999, González received widespread acclaim for her site-specific outdoor sculpture, Magic Carpet/Home. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, it was originally installed in Brooklyn, New York, and subsequently in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California. In the summer of 2005, González was a resident faculty member at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
In 2005 and 2008, she was also a Visiting Artist faculty member at the Cooper Union School of Artist
Her homes and studios are in Brooklyn and at Basel in Switzerland. She had her first solo exhibition in New York in 1991 at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
González has been awarded grants from organizations that include the Cintas Foundation (1989, 1994). The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1991, 1998).
Anonymous Was a Woman (1997).
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1997). The Joan Mitchell Foundation (1998). The Creative Capital Foundation (1999, 2001).
The Cuban Artists Fund (2000).
The Penny McCall Foundation (2001). And the New York State Council on the Arts (2003).
Selected solo exhibitions Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Guggenheim Museum, New York Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen, Germany Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands The New School for Social Research, New York Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.
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Cuba