Maggie Cao

Maggie Cao Artist Biography

Originally from China, Maggie Cao exhibited a love of drawing and art from a young age. Her formal studies focused in journalism and included a graduate degree from University of South Carolina. After working at Johns Hopkins University, Maggie took up painting full-time in 2006.

Her art education included one year full-time study of traditional oil painting methods, sculpture, watercolor and anatomy at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, many courses with the Continuing Studies in Maryland Institute College of Art, and workshops with a number of nationally known artists.

In 2007, Maggie was awarded first prize in portraiture and third prize in landscape in the Artist’s Magazine student competition. In 2009, she was selected to be in the "Rising Stars: 10 artists to watch" show at McBride Gallery, Annapolis and won third place in Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition.

In 2010, Maggie won second place in Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition and third place in Mountain Maryland Plein Air Competition, was named a finalist in the Artist’s Magazine Art Competition in the portraiture and still-life categories, and was juried into the American Impressionist Society national show in Nashville, Tennessee.

Maggie is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionist Society. She currently shows her paintings at McBride Gallery in Annapolis and Gallery International in Baltimore.