93,733 profiles ranked live

Back to the boardThe board
Platforms not linked yet.

María Elena González

✓ Source-basedrising

Cuban artist (born 1957)

United StatesArtistsBorn 1957 · age 69
CompareClaim
Fame39.7
Momentum10.1
Languages6
In century#247,133

María Elena González is a Cuban-American sculptor based in Brooklyn and the Bay Area. She is known for objects, installations and public art that interweave post-minimalist form, conceptual art and concern for materials and craft.

Photos 3

María Elena González, "Tree Talk" exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, 2019.María Elena González, "Tree Talk" exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, 2019.María Elena González, Magic Carpet/Home, 1999, Coffey Park, Brooklyn, NY, Public Art Fund.María Elena González, Magic Carpet/Home, 1999, Coffey Park, Brooklyn, NY, Public Art Fund.María Elena González, "Internal DupliCity" exhibition, Knoedler & Co., New York City, 2006.María Elena González, "Internal DupliCity" exhibition, Knoedler & Co., New York City, 2006.

Awards 3

2006Guggenheim Fellowship
2003Rome Prize
1997Anonymous Was A Woman Award

Connected to María 6

Judith BarryAlso won Anonymous Was A Woman AwardLourdes PortilloAlso won Anonymous Was A Woman AwardBetty TompkinsAlso won Anonymous Was A Woman AwardMichelle StuartAlso won Anonymous Was A Woman AwardAn-My LêAlso won Anonymous Was A Woman AwardJudithe HernándezAlso won Anonymous Was A Woman Award

About this person

María Elena González is a Cuban-American sculptor based in Brooklyn and the Bay Area. She is known for objects, installations and public art that interweave post-minimalist form, conceptual art and concern for materials and craft. Her early work explored themes of memory, family, identity, loss and dislocation through formal, architectural and mapping modes that address site, place and social circumstances; her later work makes connections between nature and art, engaging a broad range of media and sensory experience. In 2020, artist and scholar Ellen Levy wrote "González's art re-invents nature as culture" through an "exquisite attunement" that uncovers formal and thematic analogies between both realms and synesthetic connections between visual and aural senses.

Country
United States
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1957 · age 69
Written about in
6 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.