SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Slide, University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum, Hattiesburg, MS
2018 re-lay1,
re-lay2,
2016 Vernal Moves,
2015 B-side, Delta College, University Center, MI
Wait, Weathervane, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Touch, Graham Gallery, NYC
2007 New Paintings, Graham Gallery, NYC
2005 James Graham Gallery, NYC
Paintings Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 James Graham Gallery, NYC
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, NYC
2000 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
Cold August Margaret Bodell Gallery, NYC
1997 Albert Insinger Gallery, NYC
1993 Gallery II/A.I.R
1992 Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Making a Mark, Contemporary Drawings, curated by Sara Krajewski,
Portland Art Museum, OR
2021 Tactile, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, curated by John Back
2019 Oxalis, with Shane Bradford, Benedikt Hipp,Centro De Arte
2018 Dialogue Abstract, Anita Rogers Gallery, NYC
2017 Sally's Spring Invitational, NYC
2016 Incipiences, the Buggy Factory, Bushwick, NY
2015 Minimax, Bullet Space, NYC
Retrospective VCCA, La Chapelle Sainte-Catherine,
Port
On Paper, Weathervane, Brooklyn, NY
Cinco de Mayo, 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Art=Text=Art, Works by Contemporary Artists,
UB Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, NY
2013 Art=Text=Art, The Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, curated by
Elizabeth Schlatter and Rachel
curated by Marilyn Symmes, Elizabeth Schlatter and
Rachel Nackman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Arcadia
2011 Richmond University Art
Elizabeth Schlatter and Rachel Nackman, Richmond, VA
Private Stash: A Musician's Eye, Apex Art, New York, NY
Arcadia Now, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2010 Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting,
Visual Arts Gallery of the School of Visual Arts, NYC,
curated by Isabel
2009 New York, New Drawings 1946–2007, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, SPAIN
2008 Amerika
2006
2005 Scratching the Surface/Abstraction Now, Delaware Center for Creative Arts,
Wilmington, DE
2004 Working on
Paintings That Paint Themselves or so it
East Lansing, MI
Exquisite Corpse, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
A Woman’s Work
4 Abstract Paintings, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Dialogue Abstract, Space, NYC
2002 Playground, Sears Peyton Gallery, NYC
2001 Up, Up and Away, The Viewing Room, NYC
Summer Group Show, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Mary McDonnell/Casey Williams/William Wood,
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Abstraction, Jay Grimm Gallery, NYC
2000
Fifty-two Artists We Like, Wall Street Viewing Room, NYC
Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
1998 Five New Abstract Painters, Lindenberg Gallery, NYC
1994 Jennifer Dixon
1992 Jon Groom/Mary McDonnell, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
Symphony of Prosperity, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1985 Finger Lakes Exhibition Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1984 Biennial Exhibition, Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
Syzygy, Visual Language Workshop, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
2020 Dow Visiting Scholars and Artist Program
2019 CCA Andratx Residency, Mallorca, SPAIN
2019 The
2013 St. James Cavalier Centre Residency, Valletta, MALTA
2012 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Sweetbriar, VA
2009 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Sweetbriar, VA
2008 SOS Grant, New York State Foundation for the Arts
2007
Milton and Sally Avery Foundation Fellowship, The MacDowell
Colony, Peterborough, NH
2005 Blue Mountain Cente Residency, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
2004 Fellowship Award, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
Le Moulin à Nef Residency, Auvillar, FRANCE
2003 Distinguished Artist Award, Western Michigan University
Art’s Centennial
2002 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Sweetbriar, VA
2001 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Sweetbriar, VA
1997 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park, Artist–in–Residence, Empire, MI
Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship, Austerlitz, NY
1991 The MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Slide, exhibition catalog, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (forthcoming)
Im Bett des Imaginariums, Gina Mattiello, Passagen Verlag Publishers, Germany 2021
Martin Breuninger, LandschaftTom McGlynn, Mary McDonnell Clear Pause, The Brooklyn Rail web exclusive April 2014
Joan
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
James Graham Gallery, 2011
Tom McGlynn, Arcadia Now, exhibition catalogue, Christine Price Gallery,
Castleton State College, 2011
Isabel
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,
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
Weite
Elisabeth Hirzinger,
Valerie Gladstone, art review, 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,
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,
Piri Halasz,
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
Artist talk, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA | Maryland Institute College of Art 2021
University of Southern Mississippi Artist Talk, 2020
Podcast Reading Continues at Home Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, curated by Malou Solfeld, episode 10 2020
Podcast Art at Home, Thor Rasmussen, Saginaw Art Museum, 2020
with composer Fred Hersch Omni Arts Foundation 'Lean on Me' live broadcast May 2020
Theodore Roethke Museum, Artist Talk/In Conversation with composer Catherine McMichaelArt Workshop with kids, Theodore Roethke Foundation and Ezekiel Projects, Saginaw, MI,
2019, 2017, 2016Artist Talk Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 2018
Talk on Artist Christiane Geffers, Sunshine Hall Library, Eldred, NY 2018
Delta College, Artist talk, University Center, MI, 2015
Amherst College, Artist talk, Amherst, MA, 2015
SUNY Rockland, Artist talk, Rockland, NY, 2015
Wellesley High School, Artist talk, Wellesley, MA, 2015
Albion College, Artist talk, Albion, MI 2014
honor's course How to Love the World, 2014, 2012
Writing 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
Writing 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, 2006
Kresge Museum of Art, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI,
Artist talk, 2005
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, Adjunct Professor, 1985-86
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
New Mexico Museum of Art,
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, SPAIN
The St. James Cavalier Centre, Valletta, MALTA
The Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Werner
Meredith Monk, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, San Francisco, CA
Hilton Americas Houston, TX
Copper Beech Capitol Management Inc, New York, NY
Pfizer Corporation, New York, NY
Ritz Carlton Battery Park City, New York, NY
90 Tremont, Boston, MA
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire, MI
EDUCATION
1984 MFA Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1981 BFA Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1977–78 Delta College, University Center, Michigan