BIG roundabout LOVE, 2011
Oil on aluminum
84 x 60 inches
Biography
EDUCATION
1984 MFA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1981 BFA, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 "For the Listener," GRAHAM, New York, New York
2009 “Touch” New Paintings & Drawings, GRAHAM, New York, New York
2007 “New Paintings,” GRAHAM, New York, New York
2005 GRAHAM, New York, New York
2005 “Paintings” Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 GRAHAM, New York, New York
2004 Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
2003 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 Gallery II, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2002 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2002 The Viewing Room/Margaret Bodell/Caroline Kerrigan, New York, New York
2000 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
2000 “Cold August” Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, New York
1997 Albert Insinger Gallery, New York, New York
1993 Gallery II/A.I.R.Gallery guest exhibition, New York, New York
1992 Akin Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, Virginia, "Art=Text=Art: Works by
Contemporary Artists: Selections from the Sally and Wynn Kramarsky
2011 Apexart, New York, New York, "Private Stash: A Musician's Eye"
2011 Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont,“Arcadia Now"
(catalog)
2011 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, “Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on
Paper”
2010 Arts Gallery of the School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, curated by Isabel
Taube and Tom Huhn, "Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in
Contemporary Painting" (catalog)
2009 "New York New Drawings 1946-2007: Selections from the collection of Werner
Kramarsky," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia,
Spain (catalog)
2008 Kunst-und Gewerbeverein, Regensburg, Germany “Amerika trifft Bayern”,
(catalog)
2005 Delaware Center for Creative Arts, Wilmington, Delaware “Scratching the
Surface/Abstraction Now"
2004 GRAHAM, New York, New York “Working on Wood”
2004 The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, “Paintings That Paint Themselves
or so it Seems"
2004 The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine “Exquisite Corpse”
2004 The Lower East Side Girl’s Club, New York, New York, “A Woman’s Work is Never Done”
2004 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, “4 Abstract Paintings”
2004 Space, New York, New York, “Dialogue Abstract”
2003 DMJM Rottet, Houston Texas, “Genius Loci: The Spirit of the Place”
2002 Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, New York “Playground”
2001 The Viewing Room, New York, New York “Up, Up and Away”
2001 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts “Summer Group Show”
2001 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas “Mary McDonnell/Casey Williams/
William Wood"
2001 Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, New York “Abstraction”
2000 Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, New York “NURTUREart Silent Auction”
2000 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts “Summer Group Show”
2000 Wall Street Viewing Room, New York, New York, “Summer Viewing”
2000 Wall Street Viewing Room, New York, New York, “Fifty-two Artists We Like”
2000 Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, “Group Show”
1998 Lindenberg Gallery, New York, New York, “Five New Abstract Painters”
1998 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, New York, juror Ealan
Wingate, "Small Works"
1994 Gallery, Baltimore, Massachusetts, “Jennifer Dixon McBrien/Mary McDonnell”
1992 Akin Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, “Jon Groom/Mary McDonnell”
1992 Akin Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, “Symphony of Prosperity”
1992 Akin Gallery, Boston Massachusetts, “Salon Show”
1988 Bowery Gallery New York New York, “Invitational Show”
1987 Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1985 Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York “Finger
Lakes Exhibition"
1984 Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, New York, “Biennial Exhibition”, juror Kim Levin
Penrose Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts
1984 Visual Language Workshop, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Syzygy”
1984 Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1981 Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, Michigan
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2010 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Virginia
2009 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Virginia
2008 SOS Grant, New York State Foundation for the Arts
2007 Residency Fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
2007 Milton and Sally Avery Foundation Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony,
Peterborough, New Hampshire
2005 Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York
2004 Fellowship Award, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
2004 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, Virginia
2001 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Virginia
1997 Artist–in–Residence, Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore National Park, Empire, Michigan
1997 Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
1991 Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Werner Kramarsky, New York, New York
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Pfizer Corporation, New York, New York
Fidelity Investments, San Francisco, California
Hilton Americas Houston, Texas
Copper Beech Capitol Management Inc, New York, New York
Ritz Carlton Battery Park City, New York, New York
90 Tremont, Boston, Massachusetts
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire, Michigan
Selected Press
ART=TEXT=ART at University of Richmond Museum
August 15-October 16, 2011
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Mary McDonnell, "Touch", by Tom McGlynn, Left Bank Art Blog
October 27, 2009
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'Accumulation' by Marjorie Welish, The New York Observer
October 21, 2009
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Mary McDonnell in Elle Decor
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Mary McDonnell at James Graham & Sons, ARTnews January 2006
