Born: 1951, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
   
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016

“Demons”, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2014

“Paradise”, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2012 "Beautiful Beast", Studio 10, Bushwick, Brooklyn
2010 "Faded Flag", Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, NY
 

"Flags, Plates & Demons", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
  “Faded Flag”, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2001

“The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”, Bill Maynes Gallery, NY
1999 “From Nature”, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1994 Holly Solomon, New York, NY
1992 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Michael Klein, inc., New York, NY
1986 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
   
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 New Gallery/New Work, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
2016

Conference of Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, curated by Brenda
             Zlamany, Borough of Manhattan Community College, NYC
 

Chasing the Rose, The Dutch Barn, Clinton Corners, NY
2014

20th Anniversary Show, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 

Pressed Flowers, curated by Catherine Howe, Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC
2012

“Rockslide Sky”, curated by Carleen Sheehan, Fordham University at
            Lincoln Center, New York, NY
 

“Text”, Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY
 

“Textility”, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
  “Spring in Boston”, Drive-By Gallery, Watertown, MA
  “Sculpture”, Big, Small and Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2011 “Flag Day”, Islip Museum, Islip Long Island, NY, curated by Janet Goleas
 

“Spiral Bound”, curated by Howard Foster, University of California,
            San Diego, CA
2010 “Cognitive Unconscious”, curated by Robert Walden, Lesley Heller Gallery,
            New York, NY
  “Bruised Childhood”, curated by Monroe Denton,
            Fredericke Tayler Gallery,New York, NY
2009 “Big, Small and Casual”, Mary Carlson & Laura Newman;
            Big, Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY
 

“Twin, Twin”, curated by Matt Freedman; Big, Small/Casual Gallery,
             Long Island City, NY
 

“By a Thread”, curated by Miles Manning, Elizabeth Harris Gallery,
            New York, NY
 

“Re-Accession,” curated by Philae Knight and Amanda Steck,
            FLAG Foundation, New York, NY
2007 “Group Show”, Rose Burlingham & Lindsey Brown, Clinton Corners, New York, NY
2006

“B-Side”, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
  “Color Correction”, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
2005

“Monochrome”, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY     

 

“Somewhere Outside It”, Schroeder/Romaro, Brooklyn, NY
 

“Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration”,
             Pace University's Fingestin Gallery, New York, NY
2004

“Power T's”, Pierogi Gallery and Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
2003 “Pins and Needles”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
  “Water, Water”, curated by Lilly Wei, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 

“Williamsburg Salon”, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
 

“Vessels”, curated by Joe Fyfe, Jane Hartsook Gallery,
            Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2001

“Brooklyn”, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
  “Sculpture”, Flipside Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  “Wonderland”, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (catalog)
  “Collecting Ideas:Works for the Polly and Mark Addison Collection”,
            Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2000 “Snapshot”, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
  Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zurich, Switzerland
  “Ethereal and Material”, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts,
             Wilmington, DE
 

“Muscle – Power of the View", Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,
            Boulder, CO
 

"Quirky", Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
 

“Gallery Artists”, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “Skin”, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
 

“Avoiding Objects”, Apex Art, New York, NY
  “Lab Works”, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
1998 “Conversation – Gregory Botts and Mary Carlson”, Art Resources Transfer,
             New York, NY
  “Surreal Pop”, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  “A.R.T.”, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
  “Engel, Engel”, Kunsthalle am Wien, Vienna, Austria
1997 “Engel, Engel”, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  “Projects.doc”, Shiffler Collection, Cincinnati, OH
1996 “Shirts & Skins”, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
 

Sculpture Center at Roosevelt Island, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
  “Body Language - New York", Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
 

“Thin Air: Examining the Ethereal,” Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
1995 “Identia e Alterita”, Venice Biennale, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
 

“. . . It’s How You Play the Game”, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
 

“More Than Real”, Gallery 404, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
 

Susan Inglett Gallery, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, NY
1994 “Created/Mutated”, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, NY
 

“Material Concerns”, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 

“Whateva”, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York
1993 “Exquisite Corpse”, Drawing Center, New York, NY
  “Artists’ Early Work”, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
 

“Group Show”, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  “Clothing as Metaphor”, The Art Museum, Florida International University,
            Miami, FL
  “Mapping: An Index of Experience”, Germans van Eck, New York, NY
  “Patently Missing”, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
  “Bodily”, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
1992

“Getting to kNOw you”, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and
            Stadtisches Kaufhaus, Leipzig, Germany
  “A New American Flag”, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1991 “The Interrupted Life”, The New Museum, New York, NY
1990

“Something Strange”, White Columns, New York, NY
  “Blood Remembering”, Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
  “Death and Desire”, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Psychological Abstraction”, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
1988 “Ironic Abstraction”, University Art Galleries, University of South Florida,
            Tampa, FL
 

Window Installation, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
 

“Desired Paths”, Outdoor Sculpture at Schulman Park, White Plains, NY
  “Shape as Form”, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
1987

“The Level of Volume”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1986 Group Show, Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
  "Emerging Artists 1986", Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art,
            Cleveland, OH
 

“New Sculpture”, Michael Klein, inc., New York, NY
1985 “Summer Selection”, Castelli Uptown Gallery, New York, NY
 

“New Art”, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  “Appropriations: Black & White”, Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016

Maine, Stephen, "Mary Carlson's Favorite Demons", Hyperallergic,
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2015

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2014

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2012

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  Dickson, Jane, "Beautiful Big Blue Beast", BOMB, October 25
 

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2006 Johnson, Ken, “Listings”, The New York Times, April 14
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2000 Omlin, Sibylle, “Nicht nach der Nature", Neue Zurcher Zeitung, January 12
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1998

"Pop Surrealism", exhibition catalogue, The Aldrich Museum of
           Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connection, 1998
 

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1997 Nahas, Dominique, “Review”, Mary Carlson, December 1
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  Denton, Monroe, "Mary Carlson: Furnished", exhibition catalogue,
           Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, February
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           The New York Times, January 6
1994

Wallach, Amei, “Dialogue Among Curators Is a Mind Game With Art”,
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  Levin, Kim, “Choices”, The Village Voice, December 27
1993 Larson, Kay, "Clothing as Metaphor", exhibition catalogue,
           The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, January 
  "Getting to Know You: Sexual Insurrection and Resistance",
           exhibition catalogue, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Spring
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1992 Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review”, The New York Times, April 10
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1991 "The Interrupted Life", exhibition catalogue, The New Museum of
           Contemporary Art, New York, September
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1990 Zimmer, William, “Everyday Expectations with a Twist”,
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1987 Rinder, Larry, “Corporate Culture”, Manhattan, Inc., February
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GRANTS & AWARDS
2015 Tiffany Foundation Grant
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
1993 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (sculpture)
1988 National Endowment for the Arts (sculpture)
   
EDUCATION
1973 School of Visual Arts, B.F.A.