Maura Callahan

Maura Callahan is a PhD student studying contemporary American art with Professor Joshua Shannon. She received a BFA in painting and humanistic studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015, and an MA in art history from UMD in 2022. Her master's thesis examined the coherence of human subjectivity as expressed in the late portraits of Alice Neel. During her time at Maryland, she has served as the graduate assistant at the Stamp Gallery, where she organizes exhibitions of artwork by emerging and mid-career artists, while also interning at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Maura previously worked in television production and journalism, holding arts editor and deputy editor positions at City Paper and The Baltimore Beat, respectively. She has written art criticism and essays for national and international publications including Hyperallergic, Momus, and BmoreArt, and was awarded the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing in 2018.