Artist CV
MOLLIE McKINLEY
Lives and works in Newburgh, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Agnes Varis Gallery at UrbanGlass, Accumulated Ether / Brooklyn, NY
2022 Turner Gallery at Alfred University, Dissolve Coagulate / Alfred, NY
2021 Ann Street Gallery, Summer Goth / Newburgh, NY
2017 Pioneer Works Art Foundation, Salt Priestess / Brooklyn, NY
2015 Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Temporal Monolith / Beacon, NY
2015 Matteawan Gallery, Cabin Fever / Beacon, NY
2013 Matteawan Gallery, Thresholds and Totems / Beacon, NY
ART FAIRS
2022 Fridman Gallery, EXPO Chicago / Chicago, IL
2021 Fridman Gallery, NADA x Foreland (solo presentation) / Catskill, NY
2019 Momenta Art, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Untouchable / New York, NY
2014 The New York Art Book Fair, MAD LIB[rary] Vol. 4, curated by Legacy Russell & Stina Puotinen, MoMA PS1 / New York, NY
2013 The New York Art Book Fair, MAD LIB[rary] Vol. 3, curated by Legacy Russell & Stina Puotinen, MoMA PS1 / New York, NY
2013 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New Mysticism, Curated by Natalie Kovacs (two-person presentation with Lita Albuquerque) / New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Private Public Gallery, Alchemist’s Embrace / Hudson, NY
2024 Kaatsbaan, 2024 Visual Arts Exhibition / Tivoli, NY
2023 The Contemporary Jewish Museum, First Light: Rituals of Glass and Neon / San Francisco, CA
2023 My Pet Ram, Paper Moon / New York, NY
2023 The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Notes for Tomorrow, co-curated by Independent Curators International / New Paltz, NY
2023 The Octagon House curated by The Sphinx, Arabella & Anita / Catskill, NY
2023 Bull Farm 1856, Convergence / Rock Tavern, NY
2022 The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy Glow / Troy, NY
2022 KUBE/Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Abstract Tapestry / Beacon, NY
2022 The Philosophical Research Society, Boiling and Divine / Los Angeles, CA
2022 Bull Farm 1856, Mother Earth / Rock Tavern, NY
2022 Fridman Gallery, Forward Ground / New York, NY
2021 Turner Gallery at Alfred University, Suspended Light/Subverted Tension / Alfred, NY
2021 Fridman Gallery, Time Lapse / Beacon, NY
2021 The Museum of Arts and Design in collaboration with Northlands Creative, Glass, Meet the Future / New York, NY
2020 The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Collecting Local: Twelve Years of the Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award from the Permanent Collection / New Paltz, NY
2020 Turner Gallery at Alfred University, Come Hell or High Water / Alfred, NY
2020 Paradice Palase, The Sublime / Brooklyn, NY
2020 One Mile Gallery, Ten Year Anniversary Show / Kingston, NY
2019 The Coach House of Dublin Castle, Ireland Glass Biennale / Dublin, Ireland
2019 Artfare, Inaugural Exhibition / New York, NY
2018 Momenta Art, Untouchable / Newburgh, NY
2018 The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art , Time Travelers / New Paltz, NY
2017 Art in Odd Places in collaboration with The Golden Dome, She Has Risen! / New York, NY
2016 Field Projects, Ghosts / New Rochelle, NY
2015 Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, In The Cloud / New York, NY
2015 Coaxial Arts Foundation, The Golden Dome / Los Angeles, CA
2015 One Mile Gallery, Haunted Summer / Kingston, NY
2013 The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Pop Rally: Abstract Currents / New York, NY
2013 LUMEN Video and Performance Festival / New York, NY
2013 Dimensions Variable Gallery, Finishing School: Video Works by New Female Artists / Miami, FL
2013 Present Company Gallery, Pluto / Brooklyn, NY
2012 Anna Kustera Gallery, Never Ever Everland / New York, NY
2012 Independent Curators International, Mad LIB[rary], / New York, NY
2012 The Garrison Art Center, Therefore I Am / Garrison, NY
2012 Wassaic Mill, The Wassaic Project Exhibition / Wassaic, NY
2012 Black Sundae, performance in collaboration with Cathy Fairbanks, Gridley Chapel / Wassaic, NY
2011 Anthology Film Archives , New Filmmakers New York / New York, NY
2011 FADO Performance Art Centre, SPANE: Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment / Toronto, Canada
2010 The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Hudson Valley Artists: Contemporary Art and Praxis, New Paltz, NY
COMMISSIONS & SPECIAL PROJECTS
2022-2023 TROY GLOW, Partner Site Window Installation Downtown / Troy, NY
2021 Ann Street Gallery, Veil Altar / Newburgh, NY
2020 The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Sublimation Into Stone performance / New Paltz, NY
2019 Orange County Arts Council & The Newburgh Sculpture Project, Dune/Shift, temporary public sculpture commission / Newburgh, NY
2014 The Fringe Arts Festival, HIGH TIDE, HOLY WATER, performance in collaboration with Mary Mattingly’s WetLand / Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Sculpture/Dimensional Studies, Alfred University
B.A., Photography, Bard College
AWARDS
2022 SUNY Graduate Diversity Fellowship Award
2022 Outstanding Student Achievement Award, Honorable Mention, International Sculpture Center
2021 Haystack Award, Alfred University
2021 Full Fellowship, Alfred University MFA
2020 Full Fellowship, Alfred University MFA
2018 Fellowship in Glass, Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts
2018 Nominee, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Visionary Artist Scholarship
2012 Fellowship, The Wassaic Project
2011 Semifinalist, Creative Capital Award
RESIDENCIES
2024 Light Work / Syracuse, NY
2023 Visit Studios & ADS Warehouse / Newburgh, NY
2023 The Salem Art Works / Salem, NY
2018 Wheaton Arts / Millville, NJ
2015 Matteawan Gallery / Beacon, NY
2012 The Wassaic Project / Wassaic, NY
2012 The School of Making Thinking / Delhi, NY
2011 The School of Making Thinking / DeLancey, NY
2011 The Harold Arts / Chesterhill, OH
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Samuel Dorsky Musuem of Art, SUNY New Paltz
WRITINGS & CONTRIBUTIONS AS AUTHOR
2023 Museum Teen Programs How-To Kit, Edited by Simona Zappas, Nisa Mackie, and Dr. Yolanda J. Majors. Published by The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and printed by MUSUMECI S.p.A a socio unico, Italy
2023 Emergency Index Vol. 10+, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Summer Goth, BEING WITCH PRESSE, Alfred, NY
2016 “Play, Process, and the Unknown: Towards An Embodiment of Thought at The School of Making Thinking,” co-written with Sophie Traub and Aaron Finbloom, Performance Research Journal, Issue 21:6, On Radical Education.
2011 “Unbuilt Roads: Dreams in the Sea-Witch Boathouse by Mollie McKinley,” E-Flux Journal, website
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS
2023 Bravo, Tony. "Datebook Pick/First Light: Rituals of Glass and Neon Art," San Fransisco Chronicle, Dec. edition
2023 Ferrell, Jamie. "15 Coolest Museum Exhibitions To See In San Francisco Right Now," Secret San Francisco, Dec. 28
2023 Zigoris, Julie. "Embrace Hanukkah Through the Glow of Neon at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum," San Francisco Standard, Dec. 8
2023 Hurwitt, Sam. "A Luminous Pairing at the Contemporary Jewish Museum," Nob Hill Gazette, Nov. 30
2023 Moment, Matt. "11 Must-see events during Upstate Art Weekend," Albany Times-Union, July 16.
2022 Editors. “Must See: Forward Ground at Fridman Gallery.” Artforum, March
2022 Villarreal, Jose. “Fridman Gallery opens a multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the work of fourteen contemporary artists,” ArtDaily, March
2021 Rooney, Allison. “Memory As A Parallel Dimension,” Highlands Current, June 28
2020 New Glass Review 41, The Corning Museum of Glass
2020 Melissa Shaw-Smith, “Sidestepping Angst: Mollie McKinley,” Dirt Magazine, July 1
2020 Karlyn Benson, “The Survival Language of Beauty: Mollie McKinley,” Art Valley NY (blog)
2018 David Graver, “Dreamscapes of All Sizes at the ‘Sea Witch Space Witch’ Exhibition.” Cool Hunting (website) Aug. 2
2018 "Summer Arts Preview," Chronogram Magazine, June 2018
2018 "Editor's Pick: Time Travelers: Hudson Valley Artists 2018." Chronogram Magazine, June 2018
2018 Heather Zises, “Mollie McKinley.” Fjords Review, March 1
2017 Heather Zises, “Mollie McKinley: Photographs and Sculpture.” Pregame Magazine, December 1
2017 David Everett Howe, Interview, Clocktower Radio, June 10, 2017
2017 Maya-Roisin Slater, “Mollie McKinley: Mysticism Meets Ecology in Witchy Photos and Salt Block Sculptures,” VICE Magazine/The Creators Project, June 17
2015 Janine Stankus, “IN THE CLOUD at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts,” Cool Hunting, June 15
2015 Evan Louison, “A Chain of Attractions: Artist Residency, Curators of the School of Making Thinking,” 1985 Artists (website), May
2015 Evan Louison, “Mollie McKinley,” 1985 Artists (website), June
2014 “Temples and Resurgam by Mollie McKinley,” Apogee Literary Journal, Columbia University, Issue #4
2014 Marina Galperina, Interview, Animal New York, March 2014
2013 Susan Kaiser Vogel, “Mollie McKinley: The Garden of Unearthly Delights,” Vernissage TV Magazine. May
2013 Vernissage TV, Interview, “Natalie Kovacs Curates 'In Conversation' with Lita Albuquerque and Mollie McKinley at SPRING/BREAK Art Show.” March 12
2012 Allison C. Meier, “Why Weren’t You In Wassaic This Weekend?” Hyperallergic. Aug. 8.
TEACHING
Artist Educator, Dia: Beacon. 2020-2024
Instructor of Record, Alfred University, 2021
Visiting Teaching Artist, Dia: Teens program. Dia: Beacon. 2018—2019
Co-Director, The School of Making Thinking. 2013-2017
The Golden Dome, 2014, 2017