Discipline: Visual Art

Maja Kihlstedt

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981

Maja Kihlstedt is a visual artist known for her drawings and mixed media pieces. She earned a B.A. in fine arts from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, attended New York Studio School of drawing, painting, and sculpture, and studied painting, photography, print-making, and drawing on full scholarship at Yale School of the Arts’ Norfolk Summer Scholarship Program. She has also been a resident or fellow at Roger Williams College, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Millay Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, and more. Kihlstedt is the recipient of the Magnus Laurentius Medices Medal and the Lorenzo il Magnifico Premie at Bienniale Internazionale della Arts Contemporanea in Florence, Italy as well as grants from Woodstock Art Guild, Palenville InterArt, and The Langman Foundation. Her work has been exhibited worldwide.

Studios

Eastman

Maja Kihlstedt worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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