Maura Biava trained at the 'Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera' in Milan from 1988 till 1992, and after that at the 'Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten' in Amsterdam from 1997 till 1999. Since 2005 Maura Biava has been teaching at the 'Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten' in The Hague. In 2008 she was in residency at the 'European Ceramic Work Center' now also known as 'Sunday morning' in s'Hertoghenbosh. In 2011 she has been in residency at 'The American Academy in Rome'.

Selected Group exhibitions:
1998 Supernova, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, leaflet, The Netherlands`.
2000 Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Firstsite, the Minories, Colchester, Great Britain, cat.
2001 Hortus Conclusus, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam,cat.
2002 A'dam & Eve, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Hedendaagse Landschappen STDSGLR, Herlen, The Netherlands cat.
2005 Going Dutch: new photograpy from NL, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, USA
2006 Cooling out , Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Drawing Typologies,  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. The Netherlands, cat.
2010 KAAP, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrech, The Netherlands.

Selected Solo exhibitions:
1996 Medusa & Delfina, Galleri Nicolaï Wallner, Copenhagen, Danimark
1999 Ermete, Aphrodite & Papillon, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
1999 Horaes, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Levanto, Bahnwärterhaus, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, cat.
2004 Doride, Gwen and Poly, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 Marta,Iride,Gwen,Doride, Poly & all the others that you don't know yet, Maison Grégoire,  Brussels
2007 De Ruimte, Kunstfort centrum voor actuele kunst, Vijfhuizen,The Netherlands
2007 Doride/Ultramarine, Maura Biava & Elspeth Diederix, Foam Photo Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Trinity, informing abstraction, Galleria Alessandro De March, Milan, Italy

Works by Maura Biava can be found in the following collections:
Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlnds.
Kunstfort Centrum Voor actuele kunst, Vifhuizen, The Netherlands. Akzo Nobel Artt Foundation, Arnhem, The Neterlands.
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and in a variety of private collections

In 1999 Maura Biava had a DVD published, it was an initiative of Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Baltic Gateshed, Great Britain. The title is: For Urano, 8'20 min., with Roderick de Man as music composer.
In 2001 Maura Biava had a book pubilshed as catalogue for the exhibition Astrid, at the Bahnwärterhaus, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.
In 2002 Maura Biava built a large scale permanent installation in front of the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
In 2007 Maura Biava together with Elspeth Diederix had a book published by d'Jonge Hond publisher, The Netherlands with the title Doride/Ultramarine.