EDUCATION
2006 M.F.A. Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY
2002 B.A. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2000 Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 She Would Have Thought Twice, Possibly Three Times. Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
2010 Awful…I scratch and bite. Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA.
Cheap vodka and salon products, sometimes these things happen. Coleman Burke Gallery. Portland, ME.
2009 Like an elastic spark: I made this for you. Neda. Brooklyn, NY.
I was waiting for you to entertain me. 47e3rd. New York, NY.
2008 Lingering on... Neda. Brooklyn, NY.
Valley of the Vapors. MARCH. New York, NY.
PUBLIC ART
2011 Almost Semiquincentennial: A Celebration of Queen Charlotte. Community based public art project in Charlottesville, VA in conjunction with Second Street Gallery.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 The Sketchbook Project. Art House Co-op. Brooklyn, NY.
Now Showing. Astor Center, New York, NY.
2010 The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Legacy Exhibition. World Financial Center, New York, NY .
2009 Wassaic Project. Wassaic, NY.
Selections: Alumni Artists 1979-2001. The Packer Collegiate Institute. Brooklyn, NY.
2008 First Traces. Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Rockport, ME.
Biennial Juried Exhibition. Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Rockport, ME.
Drawn from Maine. Nancy Margolis Gallery. New York, NY.
Windows Brooklyn. Neda. Brooklyn, NY.
If I told you you were beautiful, would you date me on the regular? Curated by Nicholas Weist. Oliver Kamm Gallery. New York, NY.
2007 Perfect Competition. Curated by Kate Werble. Addison/Ripley Fine Art. Washington, DC.
2006 Maine Printmakers: 1980-2005. Curated by Bruce Brown. Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Rockport, ME.
Summer Salon. Curated by Kate Werble. Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY
Columbia University, Visual Arts Division, MFA Thesis Exhibition. Curated by Jenny Moore. Brooklyn, NY.
Biennial Juried Exhibition. Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Rockport, ME.
Panoply. LeRoy Neiman Gallery Columbia University. New York, NY.
2005 Copilandia. Sevilla Entre Culturas Arts Festival, Sevilla, Spain.
Metaphase. Curated by Jeffery Uslip. Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY.
No Nouns Allowed. Curated by Danny Balgley. LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University. New York, NY.
AAF Contemporary Art Fair. New York, NY.
2004 After Goya. LeRoy Neiman Gallery Columbia University. New York, NY.
2002 Elizabeth Sherman & Mara Sprafkin. Kresge Gallery, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
2001 Rome if You Want To. Fishbowl Gallery, Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME.
AWARDS
2005 Agnes Martin Fellowship, Columbia University. New York, NY
LeRoy Neiman Fellowship, Columbia University. New York, NY
2002 The Anne Bartlett Lewis Memorial Prize in Visual Arts, Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME
Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon Visual Arts Fund Competition. Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME
BIOGRAPHY
2011 Nolan, Joel: "She Said, He Said" ArtNowNashville.com, December 2, 2011
2008 Germinsky, Lisa: "Getting Deep in Shallow Waters: Mara Sprafkin Makes Pop Culture Her Art" psychoPEDIA.com, May 13, 2008
Lawrence, Vanessa: "If These Walls Could Talk" Women's Wear Daily, February, 28, 2008
2006 McQuaid, Cate: "Maine aesthetic celebrated in prints" The Boston Globe, December 8, 2006
Foshee, Rufus: "Prints: CMCA in full sway" Village Soup, November 15, 2006
Greben, Diedre Stein: "Start the Presses" ARTnews, October, 2006
Vogel, Carol: "Warhols of Tomorrow Are Dealers' Quarry Today" The New York Times, April 15, 2006
2005 "First year SOA Students Present Work in Metaphase," The Record, Columbia University, April 8, 2005