Introducing the new FLAD / AiR 351 grant recipient (2025 edition): Maura Brewer.

Maura Brewer (United States, 1984) is a video artist based in Los Angeles and New York.

Maura Brewer makes investigative essay videos that explore the relationship between art, money and crime. Her practice is research-based and interdisciplinary, resulting in video, installation, writing, and drawing that draw together materials from a variety of sources.

Her work combines documentary-style footage with hand-drawn animations, appropriated media, and public records, to create essayistic collages that tell stories about the financialization of art. Her projects aim to bridge the gap between the lived experiences of artists and the invisible legal and economic systems that govern and constrain their actions.

Brewer is a Guggenheim fellow, and a recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Lens Award at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA, Art in General, the MCA and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and her projects have received press coverage in outlets including Art in America, Bomb, Hyperallergic and the Paris Review. Brewer received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2011 and was a Whitney Independent Study Program fellow in 2015. In addition to her art practice, Brewer works as a private investigator at Lynx Insights and Investigations in Los Angeles.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest in this call, to the selection committee members (Nathalie Anglès, Lilian Tone and Sébastien Pluot) for their precious collaboration and to FLAD (Luso-American Development Foundation) for making this opportunity possible.

We look forward to welcoming Maura to our Cascais headquarters for a residency of 3 months.

For more information please visit our website (section Residencies, Future).