A quiet voice in contemporary art, Siner’s paintings are prized for their enduring qualities: a perfect sense of the fleeting moment, exquisite clarity of light, bold gestural brushwork, delicately balanced structure, fine craftsmanship, the captured moment of absolute recognition and beautiful whimsical takes on the everyday world. Her subjects range from the intimate (a handful of cherries), to the monumental (earth and sky), to intimate portraits and unpredictable combinations of objects.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Siner studied at the Art Students League of New York, graduated from Boston University (BFA) and American University (MFA) and has lived for extended periods in France, China and Italy. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums for over 40 years and is in hundreds of collections around the world.

Siner's work is classically derived. She paints exclusively from life, using direct visual perception to translate human visual experience into material form. While the nuances of color relationships are the foundation for her evocations of light, space and movement, her deep understanding of optics and visual sensation itself allows colliding color patches to resolve into recognizable moments of life. She is a master of paint, and her apparent loose and gestural handling belies a powerful geometric structure.

Siner is also a devoted teacher who has influenced a generation of painters. She has been on the faculty of L'Institut d’Universités Américaines and Lacoste School of Art in France, a visiting professor at Xiamen University in China, Artist in Residence at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Dean of Faculty at the Washington Studio School and teaches many workshops and seminars. She is a frequent guest artist and public speaker appreciated for her revealing lectures on the internal workings of painting.

In 1976 she moved to France, taught painting and art history at European university programs and exhibited in Aix-en-Provence, Paris and Marseilles. She also studied medicine at the Faculté de Médecine in Marseilles, taught anatomy at Georgetown Medical School and completed facial reconstructions to assist law enforcement in the USA. She is well known for her expertise in artistic anatomy and movement. In 1991 she lectured in six major art academies in China, after which she spent a year teaching at Xiamen University and has returned several times. Since 2008 she has lived and painted in Venice, Italy, enamored of that city's ever-changing surfaces.

Education

-1976 MFA, American University (cum laude)

-1973 BFA, Boston University (cum laude)

-1986. Georgetown University Medical School, Gross Anatomy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

-2024 Maggie Siner, Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC

-2023 Galleria Arke, Arte, Venice Italy

-2023 "Hommage to Ordinary Things”, Calloway Fine Arts, Washington, DC

-2022 Galleria Arte Arke, Venice, Italy

-2021-22 “Field of Vision” Calloway Fine Arts, Washington, DC

-2020. "Luce e Colore” Galleria Visioni Altre, Venice, Italy

-2020 Calloway Fine Arts, Washington, DC

-2019 Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington, DC

-2018 Galleria Arte Arke, Venice, Italy

-2017 J. Cacciola Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ

-2016 Leiper's Creek Gallery, Nashville, TN

-2016 795 Gallery @ Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy

-2015 Galleria Arte Arke, Venice, Italy

-2015 Ca' Pisani, Venice, Italy

-2015 Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, VA

-2014 Cooley Gallery, Leesburg, VA

-2014 Lagerquist Gallery, Atlanta, GA

-2014 Bodzin Gallery, Fairfax, VA

-2013 Galleria Arte Arkè, Venice, Italy

-2013 Washington Studio School Gallery, Washington, DC

-2012 Galleria San Eufemia, Venice, Italy

-2012 ArtSquare, Leesburg, VA

-2010 Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA

-2010 Lagerquist Gallery, Atlanta, GA

-2010 Galleria San Eufemia, Venice, Italy

-2010 Alliance Française of Washington, DC

-2008 Rose Gallery, Hudson, NY

-2007, 04 Ways & Means, Lagerquist Gallery, Atlanta, GA

-2006, 03, 01, 00, 98 Gallery 222, Leesburg, VA

- 2006 Marin-Price Galleries, Bethesda, MD

-2005 The Studio, Middleburg, VA

-2002, 00 Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, VA

-2000 Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA

-2000, 97, 95, 93, 91 Courtyard Gallery, Washington, DC

-1998 Rose Gallery, Leesburg, VA

-1996 The Artist's Museum, Washington, DC

-1994 Durham Arts Council Gallery, Durham, NC

-1993, 92 Greater Washington Collection Gallery, Leesburg, VA

-1992 Mas d'Artigny, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Nall Foundation, Vence, France

-1989, 87 City Gallery, Washington, DC

-1986 Stoneman Gallery, Washington, DC

-1982 Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC

-1978 Tour Philippe-le-Bel, Avignon, France

-1977 Galerie Les Amis des Arts, Aix-en-Provence, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

-2019 - 2021 “Relative Relations”. Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, HUC-JIR, New York, NY

-2020 “Still” Y Art gallery, Baltimore, MD

-2019 Visioni Altre, Venice, Italy

-2019 “Still Happenings”, Kaplan Gallery, Rockville, MD

-2018 D’Arista Legacy, Katzen Museum, Washington, DC

-2017 The Secret Life of Things, WSS Gallery, Washington, DC

-2016 J. Cacciola Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ

-2014-2016 Claremont Gallery, Sevenoaks, UK

-2014 Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston MA

-2014 Affordable Art Fair, Gallery Be and Art, New York, NY

-2013 XXXVme "Le colonete", Venice, Italy

-2012, 2013 Galerie Envie d'Art, Paris, France

-2010, 2012 San Eufemia Gallery, Venice, Italy

-2010 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

-2010 South Street Gallery, Easton, MD

-2009 L. Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN

-2009, 08 Loretta Goodwin Gallery, Birmingham, AL

-2007 Katzen Center Art Museum, American University Washington, DC

-2007, 06 Rose Gallery, Hudson, NY

-2005 Paradigm Fine Arts, Taos, NM

-2001-2012 Lagerquist Gallery, Atlanta, GA

-2000 New Directions, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY

-1999-2009 Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, VA

-1999-2004 Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

-1986-2000 Courtyard Gallery, Washington, DC

-1997 The Artist's Museum, Washington, DC

-1995 Washington Figurative Sculpture, MD College of Art and Design, MD

-1992 Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC

-1991 Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France

-1989 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC

-1986 Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA

-1981 Galerie Les Amis des Art, Aix-en-Provence, France

-1979 Centre Culturel, Marseille, France

-1976 Kreeger Award Nominees, American University, Washington, DC

-1975 Drawings Corcoran Musuem, Washington, DC

Academic Appointments

-2004 Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Visiting Professor of Painting

-2003 Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
Artist in Residence
Professor: Advanced Painting, Formal Aspects of Painting, graduate level

-1993-2006 Washington Studio School, Senior Instructor: Painting, Drawing, Anatomy, Sculpture

1996-1997 Dean of Faculty

-1992-1993 Xiamen University, Xiamen, China: Painting Professor

-1989-1991 Cleveland Art Institute, Lacoste School of Art, Lacoste, France
Professor of Painting

-1987-1988 Georgetown University Medical School: Anatomy Instructor

-1985-1987 American University, Washington, DC: Drawing Instructor

-1981-1991 Artist Studio School, Leesburg, VA, Founder, Director, Instructor

-1976-1978 Institut d'Universités Américaines, Aix-en-Provence, France
Instructor: Painting and Drawing, Survey of Art History, Modern French Painting

Lectures & Demonstrations

-2022 Fabric as a Vehicle for Gesture, Three-part Online Painting Demonstration, Winslow Art Studio

-2022 Painting & Observation, Online Painting Demonstration, Penn Studio School of Art

-2022 The Draped Figure: Form, Gesture and Space, Online Painting Demonstration, Warehouse 521, Nashville TN

-2022 Selection & Modification; Multiple Ways of Seeing, Three-part Online Masterclass Painting Demonstration.

Washington Studio School, DC

-2022 Transcribing Titian, Live Online Painting Demonstration, Washington Studio School, DC

-2021 Landscape Painting Demonstration from Provence, Online, Warehouse 521, Nashville TN

-2021 The Gesture of Shape, Online Painting Demonstration, Warehouse 521, Nashville TN

-2021 Deconstructing Degas, Online Painting Demonstration, Warehouse 521, Nashville TN

-2021 Red & Green: A Study in Complementarity, Online Demonstration, Warehouse 521, Nashville TN

-2020 Simplifying the Figure, Painting on Paper, Online Demonstration, Warehouse 521

-2020 Transcribing Titian, Online Painting Demonstration from Venice, Washington Studio School

-2020 Gestural Still Life, Online Painting Demonstration, Washington Studio School

-2020 Online Studio Visit, Calloway Fine Art, Washington, DC

-2020 Online Painting Demonstration, Y Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

-2020 The Secret Life of Objects, Online Painting Demonstration, Warehouse 521

-2020 Portrait: Form and Likeness, Online Painting Demonstration, Warehouse 521

-2020 Fabric as Gesture, Online Painting Demonstration, Warehouse 521

-2020 Still Life, Online Painting Demonstration, Warehouse 521

-2017 The Secret Life of Things, WSS Gallery, Washington, DC

-2014 Color and Form: Two Painters of Provence, Circolo Italo-Brittanico, Venice, Italy

-2014 The Painter's Hidden Geometry, Washington Studio School, Washington, DC

-2012 Chardin & the Secret Life of Objects, Circolo Italo-Brittanico, Venice Italy

-2011 Rembrandt & The Painters Secret Geometry, Circolo Italo-Brittanico, Venice Italy

-2011 Rembrandt & The Painters Secret Geometry, William Woodward School, Warrenton, VA

-2011 Maggie Siner: Life and Work, William Woodward School, Warrenton, VA

-2011 The Hidden Order, six-part lecture series, Rust Library, Leesburg, VA
The Portrait and the Painter
What Happens Next? The Narrative of Color, and Shape"
The Medium and the Message; Texture, Brushwork, and Handwriting in Painting
The Illusion of Space
Let There Be Light
Still Life: The Observer Effect

-2010 The Painters Secret Geometry,Loudoun Academy of Art, Leesburg, VA

-2009 The Painter's Secret Geometry, Washington Studio School, Washington, DC

-2004, 03 Meaning and Method in Painting (four part series), George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA

-2003 The Experience of Seeing, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

-2002 Dialogue Between East and West, Lacoste School of Art, Lacoste, France

-2000 The Life of Objects: Chardin et. al., Washington Studio School, DC

-1999 A Visual Legacy (panelist) American University, Washington, DC
Cultural Journey to China, Rust Library, Leesburg, VA
What is a Masterpiece? Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
What is Realism? Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

-1998 Van Gogh & Cezanne: Two Approaches to Form, Georgetown U. Washington, DC

-1998 Van Gogh & Cezanne: Two Painters of Provence, Rust Library, Leesburg, VA

-1998 Why Paint From Life? (panelist) Washington Studio School, Washington, DC

-1998 Analysis of Paintings (three-part series) WSS at National Gallery of Art

-1997 The Brushstroke as Building Block to Unity, Washington Studio School,DC

-1997 Looking at Paintings: The Hidden Order, Four Lectures, Rust Library, Leesburg, VA Shape as Meaning and Expression, Light as Illumination and as Subject The Illusion of Three Dimensional Space, What isRealism?

-1996 Cezanne and Visual Perception, Association of University Women, Richmond, VA

-1996 Painters and Cezanne, The Arts Club of Washington, DC

-1996 Origins and Interpretations of Space in Painting, Washington Studio School, DC

-1995 Teaching Painting in China, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

-1995 Contemporary Chinese Art Education (panelist),Asian Studies Conference, Durham, NC

-1993 Meaning in Western Painting, Beijing Central Fine Art Academy, China

-1993 The Visual Language in Western Painting, Sichuan Fine Art Academy, China

-1993 The Visual Language in Western Painting, Zhejiang Fine Art Academy, China

-1992 On Western Painting,Five Lectures, Xiamen University, China
Shape as Meaning and Structure,The Development of Spatial Illusion, Light in Painting, Order, Unity and The Grid, Brush Work and Use of Materials

-1991 Contemporary Western Figure Painting, Guangzhou Art Academy, China

-1991 Contemporary Figure Painters, Xiamen University, China

-1991, 90, 89 Maggie Siner: Her Life and Work, Lacoste School of Art, France

Visiting Artist/Workshops

-2023 Language of Color and Light, Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA

-2023 “Light, Space & Composition", Warehouse 521, Nashville, TN

-2023 “Visual Forces in Painting", Washington Studio School, Washington, DC

-2022 Red: Color Complementarity in Painting, Warehouse 521, Nashville, TN

-2021 Fabric as a Vehicle for Gesture, Painting Miles Studio, Raleigh, NC

-2019 - 2012 Washington Studio School, Washington, DC, What is Color and How Does it Work?, The Touch of the Brush: Mark-Making, Calligraphy and Gestural Unity in Painting, Painter's Secret Geometry, Essentials of Anatomy

-2019, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 08, 07, 06, 03, 01, 99

Arts en Provence, Les Bassacs, France, Landscape Painting

-2019 - 2014 Warehouse Studio 521, Nashville, TN, Color and Shape, Touch of the Brush, Essentials of Anatomy

-2019 - 2017 Painting Miles Studio, Raleigh, NC

-2017 Providence Art Club, Providence RI

-2017 - 2010 Art School at Sandy Springs Atlanta, GA, Oil Painting, Color and Shape, The Drama of Still Life, Calligraphy and Gestural Unity, Simplifying the Figure

-2017 - 2013 Waverly Arts Group, Cary, NC, Painting Workshop

-2017, 11, 09, 07 Brazier Studios, Richmond, VA

-2014, 13 Corse Gallery & Atelier, Jacksonville, FLA

-2014, 13, 12, 11, 10, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 01, 00 Loudoun Academy of Art, Leesburg, VA Painting Master Class, New Approaches to Composition, Anatomy for Artists, Landscape Painting, , Color and Shape, The Drama of Still Life, etc.

-2013 Arlington Artist's Alliance, Arlington, VA, Painting Workshop: Color and Shape

-2010 Strengthening Visual Sensitivity, Easton Studio & School, Easton, MD

-2010 Oil Painting with Maggie Siner, Art League of the Sandhills, Aberdeen, NC

-2009 The Painter's Secret Geometry, Washington Studio School, Washington DC

-2006, 98, 96, 95 Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA Painting, Figure Painting, Anatomy Drawing and Sculpture

-2005 The Studio, Middleburg, VA, Painting Master Class Painting, Figure Painting, Anatomy Drawing and Sculpture

-2001 Washington Studio School, Studio Survival Tactics

-2000 Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Visiting Professor of Painting Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FLA, Painting Master Workshop Washington Studio School, Calligraphy & Gestural Unity in Painting

-1996. Cincinnati Art Academy, Portrait Painting

-1995. Association of Medical Illustrators, Phoenix, AZ, Figure Painting

-1991. Institute for American Universities, Avignon, France, Landscape Painting

Collections

Work is in hundreds of collections around the world including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Chile, South Africa, Kenya, The People's Republic of China and Japan.