Artist Bio & Exhibitions
Classically trained, advertising influenced, and terminally online—so anything goes.
Printmaking • Mixed media • Conceptual
Naomi María is a printmaker and illustrator in Richmond, Virginia. She’s back to the fine art thing after a long break to set up Veramine Press, her home studio with six printing presses. Her work is dreamy, silly, or occasionally challenging and presented in whatever media suits the idea best. She has exhibited work on both sides of the Atlantic and holds a BFA in printmaking from Herron School of Art + Design.
Currently, she’s working on prints for a new solo show in Chicago later in 2025 that is only words, continuing to knit an 840 foot long tube for an installation, and creating fonts and illustrations for a show and book about artificial intelligence.
Solo Shows
Madero
Indie Indy • Indianapolis, Indiana
Linda Preciosa I & II
Indy Swank • Indianapolis, Indiana
Victims of Victoria
Gnosis Gallery • Indianapolis, Indiana
Columbus Art Walk
Kidscommons Children’s Museum • Columbus, Indiana
Selected Group Exhibitions & Printmaking Exchanges
Open Print Exchange 2025
Open Press Project • Cologne, Germany
Art From The Heart
Gotham GSO • Greensboro, North Carolina
We Made This…And We’re Sorry
Herron School of Art + Design • Indianapolis, Indiana
Sketchbook Project: Limited Edition
Brooklyn Art Library • Brooklyn, New York
Major Malfunctions & Delicate Disasters
Marsh Gallery • Indianapolis, Indiana
100 Under $100
3040 Indie • Indianapolis, Indiana
National Arts Program Exhibition
Garfield Park Arts Center • Indianapolis, Indiana
Miscellany
Gnosis Gallery • Indianapolis, Indiana
Shin Tanaka’s Kami Zoo Paper Craft Exhibition
Less Rain Basement Gallery • Berlin, Germany
Media
‘Oppenheimer’ Inspires Road Trips and Far-Flung Flights as Movie Buffs Clamor for the Ideal Viewing Experience
Jennifer Calfas • Wall Street Journal
Will Crowdsourced Designs Save Me Money?
Naomi Maria Szczesiul (and Jenna Hall) • Sales Factory
How to Win Your First Graphic Design Project as a Freelancer
Tom May • Creative Boom
Episode 31: Naomi María Szczesiul Coale
Chi Lee • Bézier
Label 228: A Street Art Project
Camden Noir • Soft Skull Press
The Sketchbook Project Limited Edition: Volume 3
Art House Projects
Education
VCU Brandcenter
Art Direction
Wake Forest University School of Business
Digital Marketing
Brainco
Art Direction
Indiana University
Herron School of
Art + Design
Printmaking & Art History
Technical Skills
Book
Pamphlet stitch, stab binding, coptic binding, case binding, diamond fold, box building, popup engineering, paper making
Drawing
Graphite stick, graphite pencil, conté crayon, chalk pastel, oil pastel, vine charcoal, charcoal pencil, chalk, dip pen, color pencils, silverpoint, solvent and water based markers, anything that makes a mark
Fiber
Spinning, needle felting, wet felting, sewing, crochet, knitting, embroidery
Intaglio
Copper plate, zinc plate, steel plate, acrylic, etching, aquatint, spitbiting, drypoint, engraving, collagraph
Letterpress
Vandercook electric presses, manual cylinder tabletop presses, wood and lead type, polymer plate, pressure printing
Lithography
Stone, aluminum plate, polyester plate, tusche, crayon, Sharpie flats
Monotype
Subtractive and additive
Painting
Acrylic, oil, underpainting with glazing, ink wash, spray paint, murals, watercolor, gouache, stretcher building (including curved sides!)
Photography
Pinhole, 35mm film, instant film (manipulation), digital, black and white development, cyanotype
Relief
Linoleum and wood block, styrofoam, potatoes (yes, I said potatoes)
Sculpture
Paper forms, porcelain and clay hand building, plaster casting, plaster carving, aluminum casting, TIG welding, carpentry, building forms and pouring concrete reinforced with rebar
Serigraphy
Photo emulsion, drawing fluid & screen filler, paper stencil
