Maria Ol

Studio

   Studio visits by appointment
Amsterdam/CDMX
At dawn, after a dose of minty wind and warm sunny patches, she feeds her child. She offers it wax, paper, clay, water, fats and oils. It, the creature, takes it all, it smells it all, it absorbs it all through its skin and eyes and from under its fingernails, it lets it soak its veins. Intuitively it threads into its hair and lets it take control, it grows with insaciable hunger. Until it could stand by itself and surpassed her own size. Every second, its shape changes—fluid and uncertain, like her reflection trembling across water. She watches it, paralized and thrilled. 



 
Family Dynamics, sketch 
Amsterdam, NL – 2024







Black magic, liquid glitter. Misty river, burning cold. 
We float together, no resistance. Past behind, growing old.

Luminosity – 2025
Premium photography print 
Rome, Italy 








Wax trap, 30x42 mm 
Bee's wax, paraphine, japanese paper, ink
Amsterdam, NL – 2024









Untitled, 70x120cm  
Oil on linnen
Amsterdam – 2025






Untitled, 148x210mm 
Graphite grease
Amsterdam – 2025















Grasp, sister 120x100cm
Oil on unprepared linnen
CDMX, MX






Apparition, 80x50cm
Oil on linnen
Amsterdam, NL








Apparition 01, 30x40cm
Oil on unprepared linnen
CDMX, MX






Growing bodies, incomplete, 
with holes and cavities, 
textured.




















Primordium, 150x200cm  
Oil on linnen
Amsterdam – 2025







Portrait by 
Várvara-Tazelaar

Maria Ol Studio 



Maria Fernanda Olivera 
olimafer@gmail.com
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Maria Ol explores the intersection of magic, intuition, and ancestral memory through natural materials and organic forms. Her work seeks luminosity in matter revealing the unseen connections between body, earth, and spirit.



Arts and Design Education

Jassu Ceramics
Japanese Ceramics education
Amsterdam, NL – 2018 – 2021

CENTRO, CDMX, MX
2009 - 2013 
Visual Communication

ART CENTER, LA, USA
2013 – 2024
Visual Communication




Recidencies & Courses

Ard Artisans 
Group Recidency
Fez, MA – 2024


Casa Snowapple
Group Recidency
AI AI AI
CDMX, MX – 2023


Taller de Papel
Group Recidency  
Oaxaca, MX – 2012

Exhibitions

Paños Mojados
Group Exhibition, 
Dream Unit
Amsterdam, NL


AI AI AI
Group Exhibition
Casa Snowapple
CDMX, MX – 2023

Awards

AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers
Amsterdam, NL – 2023
Book Profane Verlichting

Mooiste Boekomslag
Amsterdam, NL – 2019
Book Salomons Oordel AIGA

La raíz del hombre
Premio Quorum 
Museo Franz Mayer – 2012

(in collaboration with artist Alejandro Magallanes and a team of designers from Centro)



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