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CURRENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS The CAMP Gallery, We've Got the Power, Oct 11- Dec 20, Miami Wassaic Project, A Space Between Worlds, Dec 7 to March 2025 AWARDS 2024 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts 2019 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Association National Juried Show "Color". Best in show, gold award by juror Jocelyn Miller of MoMA PS1. 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts 2015 Mamaroneck Artists Guild “Small Works” show, Larchmont, NY. Best in Show, David Allen Dunlop, juror 2013 Mamaroneck Artists Guild “Small Works” show, Larchmont, NY. Award of Distinction, Anne von Stuelpnagel, juror SOLO SHOWS Garage Art Center, The Untitled Space, NYC, online solo show, April 10 to May 10, 2024 LaiSun Keane Gallery, March 2024, Boston Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, Jan/Feb 2020 SaveArtSpace billboard in Sunset Park, Brooklyn October 2019-April 2020 MUSEUM SHOWS Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, "Through the Eye of the Needle", Peekskill, NY, 2023 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY. 76th Regional Exibition, 2019 MOCA Westport, "Selects 2018", mini-solos juried by Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson of Pierogi Gallery, Westport, Ct. SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2024 Zurcher Gallery, 11 Women of Spirit, September 2-8, East Village, NYC Bravin Lee Programs, "The Golden Thread", South Street Seaport, NYC AHA Fine Art, "Knockout", Chelsea, NYC Cover Lover Remix, Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, NYC Among Friends 4, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn Kenise Barnes Fine Art, "Cool & Collected '24", Kent, Ct. 4-person show Flinn Gallery, "Home Sweet Home", Greenwich, Ct. 4-person show. 2023 The CAMP Gallery, "This Is Not a Doll's House", Miami AHA Fine Art, 2-person show with Akwasi Gyambibi, Chelsea, NYC Soft Machine Gallery, 2-person show with Anthony Smith, Jr., Allentown, PA AHA Fine Art, Balls to the Walls, Chapter 3, group show, June/July, Chelsea, NYC LaiSun Keane Gallery, "Come Together", Boston Birdhouse Brooklyn, "A Light Exists in Spring", Williamsburg, Bklyn ArtWRKD Gallery, Fiber Art Exhibit, Newtown, PA Silvermine Galleries, "Narrations", New Canaan, Ct Ice Cream Social Gallery, "Greater Gravity", Port Chester, NY Kenise Barnes Fine Art, 4 person show, Cool & Collected '23, Kent, Ct. El Barrio's Artspace, Women Celebrate Women, NYC 2022 ArtsWestchester, The Social Fabric, October- January, White Plains, NY ArtsWestchester, Spectrum, Oct. White Plains, NY bG Gallery, Too Much Fun!, September, LA Silvermine Galleries, Art of the Northeast, Sept/Oct, New Canaan, Ct. Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Clay and Textiles, Sept/Oct, NYC Silvermine Galleries, Summer Salon, through August 18, New Canaan, Ct. LaiSun Keane Gallery, Stitch, through August 21, Boston Equity Gallery, "Among Friends", NYC LES Chris White Gallery, "Let Me Tell You", Wilmington, Delaware The Birdhouse Gallery, "The Birds", Hancock, NY Dineen Hull Gallery, "Living in the Invisible", Jersey City, NJ. Curated by Woolpunk New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame Benefit, NYC Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, "Hooked by Design", Cedarburg, Wisconsin 2021 The Royal Society of American Artists, "Small Works", Williamsburg, Bklyn AHA Fine Art, "Ham Sandwich", Brooklyn LaiSun Keane Gallery, "Harbinger", 3 person show with Jackie Shatz and Mary DeVincentis, Boston Aero Kunsthal Museum, Aero, Denmark, April-September 2021 AHA Fine Art, "Summer Salon" Bushwick, Bklyn, NY Silvermine Galleries, "Summer Salon", New Canaan, Connecticut ArtsWestchester, "together apART", White Plains, NY Every Woman Biennial, London, UK BWAC, "The Sky Continues Beautiful", Bklyn, NY The Untitled Space, "Unraveled" Tribeca, NYC ArtPort Kingston, "Let the Good Times Roll," Kingston, NY The Untitled Space, "Untitled", Tribeca, NYC Pelham Art Center, "With Every Fiber", Pelham, NY 2020 Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis. Seams AHA Fine Arts Gallery at Local Project, LIC, NYC Soul Cakes Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Ct. At Home BBFL AND COPE NYC, online exhibit Art Meets Fashion, Brooklyn Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Currents Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Wide Open 11 Ely Center for Contemporary Art, June online exhibition, Ordinary Life in Unusual Times, curated by Amina Khokhar Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, Ct., "Fiber 2020" Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC, "The Female Gaze" 2019 Silvermine Galleries, "Art of the Northeast", New Canaan, Ct. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, "Color", Red Hook, Bklyn. ArtsWestchester, "The Chair Show," White Plains, NY Silvermine Galleries, Summer Salon. New Canaan, Ct. BWAC pop up-- 3 weekends in Red Hook with BWAC and Chashama artists. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Recycle, 5/11 - 7/11 La Bodega Gallery, "Rendering Likeness Volume 2, 695 5th Ave. Brooklyn The Untitled Space, "IRL: Investigating Reality", 45 Lispenard, NYC Van Der Plas Gallery, "Blue, Yellow, Red", 156 Orchard St, NYC "Among Friends/Entre Amigos", Clemente Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk St. NYC Rye Arts Center, "Fiber Now" curated by Jill Parry "KOllision" Fashion Show sponsored by Cope NYC. March 9, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Ct. Small works The Yard, South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, "Overstating the Obvious", 3 person show. Silvermine Arts Center, New Members Exhibit 2018 Silvermine Arts Center, Guild Group Exhibit juried by Susan Eley. Rowayton Arts Center, Autumn Juried Show, juried by Katerina Lanfranco. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, The Really Affordable Art Fair, Red Hook. La Bodega Gallery, "Re: Re: patterns", Brooklyn. Loft Artists Association, "Relishing Restraint", Stamford, Connecticut. Juried by Krista Scenna of Groundfloor Brooklyn Gallery. Blue Door Gallery, group show, Yonkers. Site: Brooklyn, "Faces", Gowanus, Bklyn. Katonah Museum Artists` Association, "Order/Disorder", Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Valhalla, NY. Howland Cultural Center, "Girlhood" curated by Bibiana Mattheis, March 3-April 1, Beacon, NY. Katonah Museum Artists' Association, "The Blues", Ridgefield Guild of Artists gallery in Ct. Blue Door Art Center, Annual Juried Member Show, Yonkers, NY. The Untitled Space Gallery, One Year of Resistance, Tribeca, NYC. Catalyst Gallery Annual Small Works Show, Beacon, NY. 2017 Blue Door Art Center, 2017 Holiday Show, Yonkers, NY. Katonah Art Center, Call of the WIld, Goldens Bridge, NY. The Really Affordable Art Fair. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook. October 2017. BWAC Wide Open 8, Red Hook, Brooklyn. Julio Valdez Project Space,Two person show, March/April 2017, East Harlem, NYC. 100!, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY. March 2017 Katonah Museum Artists' Association exhibit, "Chance", Schoolhouse Theater Gallery, Croton Falls, NY. Blue Mountain Gallery, 2 pieces selected for 2017 Juried Exhibition. Chelsea, NYC. February 2017 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Gallery, NYFA Folk/Traditional Arts Fellows and Finalists Show, DUMBO, Brooklyn National Association of Women Artists, 127th Annual Members Exhibition, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, NYC Blue Door Art Center Putting It All Together: Assemblage and Collage, Yonkers, NY National Association of Women Artists The Creative Muse, Crayola Gallery at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA Blue Door Art Center Big Ideas in Small Packages, Yonkers, NY Mamaroneck Artists Guild Small Works, Larchmont, NY 2015 Field Projects Gallery Show #28, 526 West 26th Street, NYC National Association of Women Artists Gallery, New Members show, 80 5th Ave, NYC Barrett Art Center, New Directions ‘15, Poughkeepsie, NY The Art Students League of NY’s Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery at Vytlacil, Summer Exhibition R Dixon Gallery, By and About Women: Celebrating the Female Spirit, Seneca Falls, NY Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Small Works, Larchmont, NY. Best in Show Award Schoolhouse Theater Gallery, Katonah Museum Artists' Association show, Croton Falls, NY Katonah Museum Artists' Association show, Close to the Edge, Pound Ridge, NY REPRESENTATION Good Naked Gallery, Brooklyn ART FAIRS SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW NYC 2023 with the CAMP Gallery, NYC SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW NYC 2021, curated by LaiSun Keane Gallery Superfine Art Fair 2018 New York Affordable Art Fair 2015 New York BOOKS Textile Portraits: People and Places in Textile Art by Anne Kelly. Published by B. T.Batsford Ltd, UK. p. 33 PRESS HYPERALLERGIC, August 18, 2024, by Rhea Nayyar and Maya Pontone, hyperallergic.com/943689/new-york-fall-art-fairs-2024/ Epicenter-NYC, June 10, 2024, Featured Artist, by Nitin Mukul epicenter-nyc.com/mary-tooley-parker-textile-artist/ HYPERALLERGIC, March 12, 2024, by John Yau. https://hyperallergic.com/877004/a-slice-of-americana-told-through-mary-tooley-parker-tapestries/ Cate McQuaid Substack, Feb. 27, 2024, by Cate McQuaid, art critic for The Boston Globe. https://catemcquaid.substack.com/p/the-core-of-her-happiness?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 Rural Intelligence, Jan. 30, 2023, by Lisa Green. https://ruralintelligence.com/arts/at-kenise-barnes-fine-art-cozy-is-the-operative-word Artnet News, August 18, 2022. https://news.artnet.com/buyers-guide/spotlight-stitch-group-show-laisun-keane-2161257l The Boston Globe, July 28, 2022, article by Cate McQuaid https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/26/arts/laisun-keane-united-state-stitch/ Houston Chronicle, April 29, 2021, article by Kyrie O'Connor, "What Is Good Taste?," with my piece "Annie E. Pettway, Gee's Bend Quilter, in Klimt" used as art. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/thepage/article/What-is-good-taste-16135712.php Westchester Magazine, February 2021 https://westchestermagazine.com/things-to-do/february-2021/ Hyperallergic, January 9, 2021, https://hyperallergic.com/613108/artists-quarantine-with-their-art-collections-18/ Gothamist, WNYC, "New Yorkers On Why They Love NYC, Now More Than Ever" By Jen Carlson, DEC. 22, 2020 7:00 A.M.gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/new-yorkers-why-they-love-nyc-now-more-ever New York Times, June 28, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/nyregion/how-big-mike-a-barbershop-painter-broke-into-the-art-world.html New York magazine`s "The Cut", May 2, 2018. https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/the-superfine-art-fair-opens-in-new-york-today.html Create! magazine, Issue ll, January 2017 in print and online. https://www.createmagazine.com/blog/2017-1-11-mary-tooley-parker ArtsWestchester's ArtNews March 2019, cover. BLOG INTERVIEWS ArtSpiel with Etty Yaniv, 2019 http://artspiel.org/mary-tooley-parker-the-process-of-making/ Crow of Minerva with Georgie Wren, 2019 https://www.crowofminerva.com/blog/2019/2/4/mary-tooley-parker Mackenzie Belcastro, 2018 https://mackenziebelcastro.com/marytooleyparker/ TELEVISION PIX11, NYC, It's a G Thing, broadcast Oct. 17, 2024 HGTV's Uncommon Threads, 2 episodes, 2006 ASSOCIATIONS National Association of Women Artists, ArtsWestchester, Silvermine Guild of Artists PANEL JUROR New York Foundation for the Arts, Folk/Traditional Arts Fellowships, 2018 NYFA panelist for City Artist Corps grants, Summer 2021 EDUCATION BFA Dance, NYU Tisch School of the Arts COLLECTIONS Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Mass. Northwestern Mutual Corporate Collection, Milwaukee, Wis. numerous private collections EMPLOYMENT Vanity Fair and GQ Magazines NYC, Bloomingdales NYC, Children's Television Workshop, DeRobertis Pastry Shop LES-NYC, South Street Seaport Museum NYC, others EXISTENCE Northern Westchester County, NY |
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