Mary Mattingly

Mary Mattingly (b. 1978, Connecticut) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose interest in home, travel, and cartography have propelled her to create photographs, sculptures, ‘wearable homes’ and ecological installations that reject the impinging control of corporate and political entities in a time where our physical environments are endangered. Educated in New York at Parsons School of Design, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, Mattingly is also the recipient of the Yale University School of Art Fellowship. Her work has been shown at: the International Center of Photography, New York; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; the New York Public Library; and in exhibitions in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, and Dubai. Mattingly has had solo shows at Robert Mann Gallery, NY and in 2006 she released a multimedia opera at White Box entitled Fore Cast that featured installation and music performance depicting World War IV as predicted by Albert Einstein. From June to September 2009 she worked on the Waterpod, an amazing collaborative project involving a multinational team that sailed the waterways surrounding Manhattan and for a while was moored at Governor’s Island, NY.  The project was a catalyst and served to underscore a new habitat to confront the global warming conditions with a sustainable, self-sufficient environment. Her work has been featured in ArtForum, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, Le Monde Magazine, ICON, The Brooklyn Paper, Aperture, BBC News, MSNBC, Fox 5, WNBC. 

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