Ma Qiusha was born in 1982 in Beijing, China. She received her BA in Digital Media Art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (China) in 2005 and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University (U.S.) in 2008. She currently lives and works in Beijing. Ma employs multiple media such as photography, video, installation, and drawing to explore the life experience under sociocultural transformations. Often in an intimate visual language, her work addresses the themes between individuals and the collective, and private spaces and public spheres. Drawing on an anthropological perspective, her research on individuals, families, and intergenerational relationships raises questions of appearance and disappearance, and of the truth or mistruth of history.
Ma was a participating artist in Chengdu Biennale: Super Fusion (2021) and the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2014). Her solo exhibitions were held at Longlati Foundation (Shanghai), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough), OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Xi’an (Xi’an), Beijing Commune (Beijing), Chinese Arts Centre (Manchester), Taikang Space (Beijing), etc. Her works have also been shown at Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou(Paris), Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University (NY), Smart Museum of Art of Chicago University(IL), National Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome), Groninger Museum (Groningen), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf), ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Texas), Tampa Museum of Art (FL), St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts (FL), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery of Wesleyan University (CN), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul), International Contemporary Art Foundation of Bergen (Bergen), Stavanger Art Museum (Stavanger), Portland Institute For Contemporary Art(Portland), Para Site (Hong Kong), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Long Museum (Shanghai), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai), OCT Modern Artistic Center Shanghai (Shanghai), Doland Museum of Art (Shanghai), National Art Museum of China (Beijing), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing), and etc. Ma Qiusha was selected for the residency program of the Asian Cultural Council in 2013 and was nominated by Porsche China Young Artist Biennial (2019), Pierre Huber Prize (2014), and Young Artist of the Year by Award of Art China (2017). Her works have been collected by Taikang Collection (Beijing), Long Museum (Shanghai), New Century Present Art Foundation (Hangzhou), Daimler Art Collection (Berlin), Longlati (Shanghai), DSL Collection (France), K11 Art Foundation(Hong Kong), UBS Art Collection (Zürich), Smart Museum of Chicago University(IL), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (Paris), etc.
