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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011   "For the Listener" Graham Gallery, New York, NY 
2009   “Touch” New Paintings & Drawings, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
2007   “New Paintings” James Graham Gallery, New York, NY
2005   James Graham Gallery, New York, NY
          “Paintings” Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2004   James Graham Gallery, New York, NY
          Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
2003   Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
          Gallery II, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2002   Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
          The Viewing Room/Margaret Bodell/Caroline Kerrigan, New York, NY
2000   Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
          Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
          “Cold August” Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, NY
1997   Albert Insinger Gallery, New York, NY
1993   Gallery II/A.I.R.Gallery guest exhibition, New York, NY
1992   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011  Richmond University Art Musuems,“Art=Text=Art”, curated by
          Elizabeth Schlatter and Rachel Nackman, Richmond, VA online catalogue
          Apex Art, "Private Stash, A Musician's Eye", New York, NY
          Christine Price Gallery, "Arcadia Now", Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
          Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY “Drawn/Taped/Burned:
          Abstraction on Paper” online catalogue
2010   Visual Arts Gallery of the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY,
          curated by Isabel Taube and Tom Huhn, “Between Picture and Viewer:
          The Image in Contemporary Painting” catalogue
2009   Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, SPAIN,
         “New York, New Drawings 1946–2007” catalogue
2008   Kunst-und Gewerbeverein, Regensburg, GERMANY
         “Amerika trifft Bayern”, catalogue
2006   James Graham and Sons, New York, NY “Summer Group Show”
2005   Delaware Center for Creative Arts, Wilmington, DE
         “Scratching the Surface/Abstraction Now”
2004   James Graham and Sons, New York, NY “Working on Wood”
          The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
         “Paintings That Paint Themselves or so it Seems”
          The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME “Exquisite Corpse”
          The Lower East Side Girl’s Club, New York, NY “A Woman’s Work is Never Done”
          Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA “4 Abstract Paintings”
          Space, New York, NY “Dialogue Abstract”
2002   Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY “Playground”
2001   The Viewing Room, New York, NY “Up, Up and Away”
          Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA “Summer Group Show”
          Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX “Mary McDonnell/Casey Williams/
          William Wood”
          Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, NY “Abstraction”
2000   Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, NY “NURTUREart Silent Auction”
          Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA “Summer Group Show” 
          Wall Street Viewing Room, New York, NY “Fifty-two Artists We Like”
          Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI “Group Show”
1998   Lindenberg Gallery, New York, NY “Five New Abstract Painters”
1994   Halcyon Gallery, Baltimore, MD “Jennifer Dixon McBrien/Mary McDonnell”
1992   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA “Jon Groom/Mary McDonnell”
          Akin Gallery, Boston, MA “Symphony of Prosperity”
1987   Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1985   Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
         “Finger Lakes Exhibition”
1984   Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY, “Biennial Exhibition”
          Visual Language Workshop, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA “Syzygy”

FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS

2010   Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
2009   Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
2008   SOS Grant, New York State Foundation for the Arts
2007   Residency Fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, GERMANY
          Milton and Sally Avery Foundation Fellowship, The MacDowell
          Colony, Peterborough, NH
2005   Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
2004   Fellowship Award, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
          Residency Fellowship, Le Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, FRANCE
2003   Distinguished Artist Award, Western Michigan University Art’s Centennial
2002   Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
2001   Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
1997   Artist–in–Residence, Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore National Park, Empire, MI
          Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1991   Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joan Waltemath, Art=Text=Art curated by Elizabeth Schlatter, The Brooklyn Rail,
     October 2011
Amy Ritchie, Richmond Arts Review, online arts blog, September 2011
Tod Lippy, Ellen Keiter, Drawn, Taped and Burned, Abstraction on Paper, online
     exhibition catalogue, Katonah Art Museum, 2011
Willliam Corbett, Mary McDonnell’s Back and Forth, exhibition catalogue,
     James Graham Gallery, 2011
Tom McGlynn, Arcadia Now, exhibition catalogue, Christine Price Gallery,
     Castleton State College, 2011
Isabel Taube, Between Picture and Viewer: the Image in Contemporary
     Painting, exhibition catalogue, School of Visual Arts New York, 2010
Tom McGlynn, Mary McDonnell Touch, at James Graham & Sons, The Left Bank
     Art Blog,  October 27, 2009
Marjorie Welish, Accumulation, The New York Observer, October 26, 2009
Walter Robinson, Weekend Update, Art Net, October 22, 2009
Mary McDonnell Touch, NY Art Beat, October 2009
Piri Halasz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, October 15, 2009
Robert Shuster, Fall Picks, The Village Voice, September 2009
Karen Schiff, Letter from SEGOVIA, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2009
Elizabeth Finch, New York / New Drawings, 1946 to 2007, exhibition
     catalogue, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, 2009
Amerika trifft Bayern, exhibition catalogue, Kunst-und Gewerbeverein, 2008
Weite zerfliest wie Farbe, Der Neue Tag, 11.28.2007
Elisabeth Hirzinger, Aagepickter Apfel ersetzt den Pinsel,
     Mittelbayerische Zeitung 12.6.2007
Valerie Gladstone, Art News, January 2006
Piri Halasz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, October 15, 2005
Meredith Fife Day, Art New England, Oct/Nov 2005
Eric Gelber, exhibition catalogue, James Graham Gallery, 2005
Cate McQuaid, Peeling Back the Layers, The Boston Globe, June 25, 2005
Piri Halasz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, June, 2004
David Coleman, Art/Mary McDonnell, Elle Decor, May 2004
Jessica Alverson, The Western Herald, March 10, 2003
Cate McQuaid, Angles of Perception, The Boston Globe, September 27, 2002
Ken Johnson, Playground, The New York Times, June 14, 2002
Images and Events, AbstractArt Online, May 2002
Piri Halasz, Jeest! Abstraction, Too? From the Mayor’s Doorstep, No. 39: April 15, 2002
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, April 8, 2002
John Yau, The Color of Air and Memory, exhibition catalogue, The Viewing Room, 2002
Pure Oxygen, Oxygen Media Network, May 2001
Critics Pick, Isthmus, Madison, WI, May 2000

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES, TALKS & WRITING

catalogue entries on Tad Mike and Joel Shapiro, exhibition catalogue,
     Drawn/Taped/Burned, Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah,
     NY 2011
Castleton State College, Castleton, VT, artist talk 2010
The Cedarwood Arts Center, Port Jervis, NY, artist talk 2008
catalogue entry on Sara Sosnowy, exhibition catalogue, New York/New
     Drawing, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, SPAIN, 2009
Workshop/Art Instruction Auvillar, FRANCE 2007
Grand Valley State College, Grand Rapids, MI, assignment for
     poetry & painting collaboration, 2007
Grand Valley State College, Grand Rapids, MI artist talk and student critiques, 2006
Kresge Museum of Art, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI,
     artist talk & student critiques, 2005
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, Adjunct Professor, 1985-86     

EDUCATION

1984   MFA Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1981   BFA Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1977–78   Delta College, University Center, Michigan