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Maya Sokovic (b. Belgrade, Serbia) is a San Antonio–based artist working in painting, mixed media, photography, and installation. She earned a BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Sokovic’s work explores abstraction, memory, and landscape, engaging audiences in both gallery and community spaces.
Recent solo exhibitions include Encounters at Un Grito Gallery (San Antonio, 2025), Personal Landscape at The Artist Collective (San Antonio, 2024), and Fragments of Landscapes at Musical Bridges Around the World Gallery (San Antonio, 2022). Group exhibitions include the 35th Red Dot Art Show Contemporary at Blue Star (San Antonio, 2025), Less Is Always More, Flight Gallery (San Antonio, 2025), Golden, Un Grito Gallery, (San Antonio, 2025), Fountains of Imagination, Agarita Loft Gallery, ( San Antonio, 2024), VOLTA at Gallery Azur (Madrid, 2020–2021), Favorite Thing at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts (Sebastopol, CA) and multiple iterations of Art Heals Hearts (San Antonio, 2017–2024). Encounters was selected for Glasstire’s Top Five in December 2024.
Her work has been featured in San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio Current, Glasstire, and Arts Alive San Antonio, and is held in collections including Sweetgreen (Los Angeles) and University Health, Texas. Sokovic has collaborated with musicians Rachel Eckroth (St. Vincent) and John Hadfield (Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble), demonstrating her commitment to both professional and community engagement.
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Artist Style: Visual Art: Abstract, Contemporary, Minimalism
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
My work is shaped by memory, environment, and moments of emotion that remain within me over time. These experiences often live quietly until they are ready to surface. When they do, they find their way through color, shape, and line. My process is intuitive and reflective, guided by feeling rather than narrative.
Color is the driving force in my practice. I draw my palettes from nature, cultural memory, emotions, and everyday objects. Shape and line act as structures that hold color, carrying fragments of lived experience and personal history. Through abstraction, I seek to create a strong connection between inner experience and visual form.
Nature grounds my work. Although it appears chaotic and imperfect, it exists in a state of continuous balance—responding, adjusting, and becoming. This mirrors the human experience, and it is this ongoing state of change that my work seeks to reflect.
