Mary
Griffin
MARY GRIFFIN
Born in Flagstaff, AZ
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
2021 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Transient Realities: Stirring Memory With Desire, 121 Artspace, Taipei City, TAIWAN
2023 Strange Vistas, Dreamsong Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Drawings, Paintings, Maybe a Sculpture 4, Everybody Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Voices Embodied, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 NICE WORK 2, Sulk Gallery, Chicago, IL
PAINTING SHOW, HAIR+NAILS Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
nido, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
2021 Constant Practice, Brook Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Goodbye Horses, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL
Quiet, Cold, Jargon Projects, Chicago, IL
Graduate Thesis Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
Macabre Babies, Bubbles Gallery, Chicago, IL
Crosshatch Project, Chicago, IL
2019 Picnic on the Precipice, MacLean Open Studios, SAIC, Chicago, IL
MOCAF installations, Ashes Music Festival, Flagstaff, AZ
With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Halo Halo, Pintô International, New York, NY
Post-Baccalaureate Annual, MacLean Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018 Spring Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff, Flagstaff, AZ
2017 Bodies and Conditions of Presence, Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff, Flagstaff, AZ
2014 Tucson Sculpture Festival, The Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Maiden Exhibition, Tucson Contemporary Art Collective, Tucson, AZ
RESIDENCIES
2022 nido, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, ITALY
AWARDS
2023 Robert Rauschenberg Medical Grant
2020 Daniel D Van Degrift Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018 Recognition Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Dick Beasley Memorial Art Scholarship, Northern Arizona University
LECTURES
2021 Graduate Noontime Lecture, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2023 Voices Embodied: 'Uplifted' Artist Panel, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Mary Griffin. Strange Vista, Gregory Smith, Meer Magazine,
2023 'At Home With Strange Vistas', MPLS ART.
2017 Wellspring MOCAF Moves Into Bodies & Conditions of Presence Diandra Markgraff, Flag Live, vol 23. Issue 11