Maria Zahle holds a postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Royal Academy Schools, London, UK, and a BA(Hons) Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
 
Zahle makes woven textile objects, hand coloured paper collages, wall dyes, and visual poetry. The work focuses on the felt and the formal, the touch and the cut.
 
Zahle has exhibited widely both locally and internationally, for example at Rønnebæksholm (Næstved, DK), Violet (Antwerp, BE), Arcade (Brussels, BE), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, DK), Vandrehallen Hillerød Bibliotek (Hillerød, DK), Friese Kunstlerhaus (Hamburg, DE), Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge, UK).
 
Maria Zahle co-runs the project Polychrome, a space for music, art, and poetry, in Amager, DK