About
BORN: Manila, Philippines
EDUCATION: BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Meet Me At The Center, Portland Center Stage, Portland, OR
2021
Sometimes It's Hard To See, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2018
Loss of Material Evidence, collaboration with Mark R. Smith, Ronna and Eric Hoffman
Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2016
When You Hold Me I Can Sleep, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2015
In and Out of Time, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2013
Fold Here, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2012
Everywhere All The Time, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2011
It’s Like This Every Day, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2008
Walking, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2006
Meet Me Here, The North View Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2004
The Tree, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2004
Because You Don’t Want To Get Old (Making Time), The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
1997
Hairline Loop, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
1997
Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1988
To Sow: A Fertility Ritual, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
PROJECTS
2021
Come Together As Light, Meta Open Arts, Meta - Spring District, Bellevue, WA
2014
You Know What You Signed Up For, Connecting Lines and Make-Coffee-Drink-Art, collaboration with Mark R. Smith, Percent For Art, Portland Police Bureau Training Complex, Portland, OR
2009
How Do You Get There?, Innovative Housing Inc., Broadway Vantage Apartments, Portland, OR
2008
Compass, collaboration with Mark R. Smith, Monthly Guest Artist Series, South Waterfront Artist in Residence (AiR) Program, South Waterfront, Portland, OR
1985
Significant Movements, collaboration with Mark R. Smith, Pleasant Village Community Garden, City of New York Operation GreenThumb, New York, NY
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2023
Arts3C Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2008
South Waterfront Artist in Residence, April Guest Artist, Portland, OR
2006
Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2003
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1991
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1989
The Drawing Center, Guest Curator, New York, NY
1988
The Drawing Center, Guest Curator, New York, NY
1988
Penny McCall Foundation, New York, NY
1987
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
1985
Manhattan Community Arts Fund, New York, NY
1984
Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Hold on Tight (as curator) Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2012
Nine @ 25, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2009
Green Oregon, Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2009
Making Camp, The North View Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2006
Self Portrait, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
2005
drawing(s), The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2002
Echoing Nature, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2001
Contemporary Skeins, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
2000
Resident and Transient, The Art Gym, Maryhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2000
Do Not Touch: An Exploration of Delicate Obsessions, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
1999
Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1998
1998 Sculpture Exposition, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
1995
Keeping an Eye on the Invisible, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1993
The Street, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1993
Obsessive Collection, Art in General, New York, NY
1992
Good Work, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1990
Emerging Sculptors, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1990
Garbage Out Front: A New Era in Public Design, Municipal Art Society, New York, NY
1989
Outside the Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Workspace '89, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
1988
Annual Small Works Show, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1988
New and Noteworthy, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1988
Selections 40, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1984
Art Against Apartheid, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
David Schell, The Semi-Finalists Are: Maria T.D. Inocencio and Mark R. Smith, The Semi-Finalist
2018
Linda Tesner, Loss of Material Evidence, catalog, Lewis and Clark College
2018
Jeff Jahn, PORT, "September Review Cluster," Sept. 26.
2018
Laurel Reed, "Processing Loss at Lewis and Clark," Oregon Arts Watch
2016
Jeff Jahn, PORT, “First Thursday Picks September 2016,” Sept. 1.
2014
Maxine Bernstein, OREGON LIVE, The Oregonian, “Local artists unveil public art project at Portland Police Training Complex,” Sept. 20.
2012
Patrick Collier, Oregon ArtsWatch, “Spot On: Time for Nine,” Sept. 24.
2012
Maria TD Inocencio, Nine@25, Portland, OR
2011
Linda Wysong, Ultra, “Maria T.D. Inocencio: It’s Like This Every Day,” March 29.
2009
Inara Verzemnieks, The Oregonian, “All roads lead to a mural,” October 12, Portland, OR.
2009
Alex Rauch, PORT, “Go Make Camp at PCC’s Northview Gallery,” February 8.
2008
Celina Monte, Vanguard, “Community. Collaboration. Cooperation.,” April 23. Portland, OR.
2008
Celina Monte, Vanguard, “Her Walks, Your Trees,” January 23. Portland, OR
2008
Linda K. Johnson, South Waterfront Artist in Residence (AiR) Program catalog, pp 20-21. Portland, OR
2004
Terri Hopkins, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, "Because You Don't Want To Get Old (Making Time)," February. Marylhurst, OR
2004
Dave Johnson, The Asian Reporter, “Making time one strand at a time,” March 9, p.11. Portland, OR.
2001
Bob Hicks, The Oregonian, Artsweek, “The Milk of Human Kindness,” July 22, pp. D1, D6. Portland, OR.
2001
Heather Wexler Rogers, Contemporary Skeins, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland OR
2000
Matthew Kangas, The Seattle Times, Visual Arts, “Magnificent Obsessions,” Feb. 3. Seattle, WA.
2000
Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “‘Do Not Touch,’ Invites a Close Look At Artists’ Delicate Obsessions.” Seattle, WA.
2000
Emily Hall, The Stranger, “Delicate Art, Obsessive Artists,” Feb. 10-16. Seattle WA.
1999
Sue Taylor, Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, Arts/Books, “Oregon Biennial: Two Views,” Aug. 1. Portland, OR.
1998
D.K. Row, The Oregonian, Arts and Entertainment, Visual Arts, “Curating on a Hunch,” My 8, p. 66. Portland, OR.
1998
Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, Arts and Entertainment, Visual Arts, “1997 Expands the Spectrum of the Local Art Scene,” Jan. 2, p. 53. Portland, OR
1997
D.K. Row, Willamette Week, “The Lair of the White Room,” Nov. 25, p. 62. Portland, OR.
1993
Ruth Libermann, Manual: Art in General 1992-1993, "The Collector and the Obsessive," pp 34-36. New York, NY
1991
Margaret Roleke, Women’s Art Magazine, “New York’s Emerging Sculptors: Past and Present,” March/April, p. 26. London, UK.
1990
Michael Brenson, The New York Times, “A Conceptual Installation with Luxury for All,” Dec. 21.
1989
Roberta Smith, The New York, Times, “Outside the Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis,” July 21, p. C30. New York, NY.
1988
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, “Beyond the Conventional,” Aug. 14, p. 20 LI. New York, NY.
1988
Margaret Moorman, New York Newsday, “Group Shows’ Varied Fare,” Aug. 8. New York, NY
1988
Grace Glueck, The New York Times, “An Immoveable Feast: Murals in the City,” July 22, p. C1. NY, NY