Maren Hassinger

Maren Hassinger
Born	1947 (age 69–70) Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973; BA, Bennington College, 1969
Awards	Grants, Joan Mitchell Foundation (1996), Anonymous Was a Woman (1997), and Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2007); Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, 2009

Maren Hassinger (born 1947) is an African-American artist. She is known for her sculpture and public art using natural and industrial materials. She works in "sculpture, installation, performance, and video."

Hassinger was born in Los Angeles, California. Hassinger graduated from Bennington College in Vermont with a B.F.A. in sculpture in 1969. Originally she had intended to study dance, which she had practiced since the age of five. She then enrolled at UCLA to study fiber and earned her M.F.A. in 1973.

She spent five years as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University. Since 1997, she has been Director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

A subway station in New York city, the Central Park North – 110th Street (IRT Lenox Avenue Line) station, installed a work by Hassinger during a 1998 renovation, called Message from Malcolm. It consists of mosaic panels on the platform and main fare control area's street stairs that depict quotes and writings by Malcolm X written in script and surrounded by mosaic borders.

Hassinger has work in the permanent collections of Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

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