Mary-Ann Monforton
b. Windsor Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
111th Gold Metal Exhibition, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, November - December 2024
Grace Under Fire, The Shepherd, Detroit, MI, October 2024 - January 2025
Shibboleth Ice Box Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 2024
Art Fair | Detroit, Sept 27-29 2024
Drawing: Detroit, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI, February 2024
2023
Get Together, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit MI, February - May 2023
Luxe, solo exhibition, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham MI, December 2022-February 2023
2022
Proceed to the Route, jail cell installation, Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI, February - March 2022
Salon Redux, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI, January 2022
2021
I'm Not Done Playing with That, curated by Linda Griggs, Equity Gallery, New York, NY, December 2021
Play Station, solo booth with High Noon at OMG Art Faire, Kingston, NY, November 2021
2020
Sanctuary, High Noon, New York, NY, November - December 2020
2019
Spring Break, NYC 2019, curated by Robin Winters and Brigitte Engler, March 2019
Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, Contemporary Art Toledo, Toledo OH, January 25- March 22
2018
Charlotte Beckett and Mary-Ann Monforton, 2 person exhibition, La MaMa Galleria, NYC, October 2018
Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, Maier Museum, Lynchburg VA, September 2018
Summer Lovin, Mattress Gallery, NYC, Group Show, June 2018
2D or not 2D, Mattress Gallery, NYC, Group Show, May 2018
Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, Howl! Happening, NYC, May 2018
2017
BRIC’s 2017 OPEN (C)ALL: TRUTH exhibition, Brooklyn, NY November-December 2017
Mary-Ann Monforton and Lawrence Swan, Valentine Gallery, Ridgewood, NY, Jan. 6 - Feb. 5, 2017
Lintel, Mantel, Module, Shelf, with Lauren Bakst & Yuri Masnyj, Elliot Jerome Brown, Mary-Ann Monforton, Gahee Park, Isasc Pool, Curated by Samuel Draxler, La MaMa La Galleria Jan. 7 – Feb 4, 2017
2016
Family Show, La MaMa Galleria, Dec. 2015
Open –Studio with Anita Glesta, Hovey Brock, June 2016
2015
Family Show, La MaMa Galleria, Dec. 2015
2014
A Meditation on Clouds and Cubes, Apex Art, Double Take 12 with Matthea Harvey and Mary-Ann Monforton, Click to view
Visual Aids, Benefit Auction, Luhring Augustine
Family Show, La MaMa Galleria, Dec. 2014
RESIDENCIES
2013
Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
AWARDS
2019
Prix de Print, Art in Print Magazine
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, Howl Arts, NYC, May 13 – June 10 2018
Maier Museum, Lynchburg VA. September 14 – December 14, 2018
Contemporary Art Toledo, January 25- March 22
BOBBIE OLIVER: Paintings, Valentine Gallery, Ridgewood, NY, 2015
PATTERN OF WAR, Paintings by the late Leonard Rosenfeld, La MaMa Galleria NYC, 2015
“ARCH CONNELLY,” La MaMa Galleria NYC, March 2012
JANE DICKSON, ALMOST HOME, Galapagos Art & Performance Space, Williamsburg, NY, 1999
DENNIS OPPENHEIM, "BLUE COLLAR," Galapagos Art & Performance Space, Williamsburg, NY, 1998
"GRAFFITI," Klarfeld Perry Gallery, NYC, 1992
“KINGS OF SPRAY,” Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1985