Maja Padrov moved to Canada in 1997 from Novi Sad, Serbia, and graduated from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design with diploma in Studio Ceramics in 2001. She has been working with clay professionally over the last 20 years as a studio artist, and has worked as a part time instructor at NBCCD (2009-2017). She attended and taught numerous workshops in Canada, United States and Europe, and participated in ceramic residencies in Canada, Hungary, Serbia and France. Maja received several grants and awards from the New Brunswick Arts Board, Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts and Canadian Clay and Glass Association. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is part of public and private collections in North America, Europe and Asia. She lives in the Village of Gagetown in New Brunswick, acknowledging that the land on which she lives and works is the traditional unceded territory of the Wəlastəkwiyik Peoples.

Maja’s work is about exploring sculptural possibilities of functional pottery, as well as research in glaze chemistry.