Resume

Education

Parson’s School of Design - New York, BFA, 1980, with Honors

Awards

All About Women - Marin Society of Artists, California, Honorable Mention, 2023
Ragdale Foundation Residency - Lake Forest, Ill., 2020
Images 2010 - Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, PA, 2010, Merit Award
Ragdale Foundation Residency - Lake Forest, Ill., 2005
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2001 Fellowship
An American Experience 2002 - Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC, Merit Award
National Juried Exhibition - Lafayette Art Association, LA, 1994, First Place 3D
Southern Berkshire Community Arts Council - Lenox, MA, 1980, First Prize Excellence in Sculpture

Selected Exhibitions - Museums And Universities

Texas National 2024 - Stephen F. Austin State University

Crocheted Vessels and Reconstructed Art - SUNY Orange, Newburgh, NY, 2017
Innovator and Activist Visual Artists: SUNY Celebrating New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships - SUNY Orange, Middletown, NY, 2017
Images 2010 - Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, PA, 2010
Act Two - Recycled and Transformed - St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY, 2010
Beadwork: 21st Century Style - Mt. Ida College, Newton, MA, 2006
Lancaster Museum of Art Crafts National - Lancaster, PA, 2006
Trashformations

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton,, MA, 2005
American Museum for Wine, Food & the Arts, Napa, CA 2006
Southern Ohio Museum, 2007

Recycle - Reuse: Transformations - Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 2005
Fiber Celebration 2005 - Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO, 2005
BEAD International

Huntington Museum of Art, W. Va, 2004
Myhelan Cultural Arts Center, Long Valley, NJ, 2005

Texas National - Stephen F. Austin State University, 2004
The Westchester Biennial - College of New Rochelle, NY, 2004
Fiber Arts” Patterns & Expressions - University of Minnesota, 2002
Alexandria Museum of Art 16th Annual Competition - Alexandria, LA, 1998
Westchester Community College - White Plains, NY, 1995
In Your Own Backyard - College of New Rochelle, NY, 1993

New York Times, article, ART; 'In Your Own Backyard,' Some Mysterious Goings-On, Aug 1, 1993

The Walls at the Hall - Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ, 1993
Dishman Competition - Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 1993
Paper and Clay - Memphis State University, Texas, 1987
Washington Craft Show - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1982-1987
Philadelphia Craft Show - Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1985
Contemporary American Fibers”- Redding, Museum, Redding, CA, 1983

Selected Exhibitions - Galleries

Open Call - ArtsWestchester, 2024

Arts North International 28 - Hopkins Center for the Arts, 2023
Modern Craft - Indianapolis Art Center, 2022
Excellence in Fibers - Schweinfurth Arts Center, 2022
Excellence in Fibers - Fiber Art Now Magazine, 2022
Threads That Bind - BWAC, Brooklyn, NY, 2021
All About Women - Marin Society of Artists, CA, 2021
Floyd Center for the Arts 2021 Juried Exhibition - Floyd, VA, 2021
The Art Effect at the Trolley Barn - Poughkeepsie, NY, 2021
With Every Fiber - Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, 2021
The Idea Kitchen - Larchmont, NY - 2021
Fiber 2020 - Silvermine Arts Center, Norwalk, CT, 2020
Fiber Now - Rye Arts Center, NY, 2019
Recyclables Reconsidered - Solo Exhibition - Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2019
Open 2018 - Gallery 25, online exhibition
BEAD - Greater Reston Arts Center, Virginia, 2015
Star Spangled - C. Parker Gallery, Greenwich, CT, 2014

ctpost.com, article, Giving Glory to Old Glory: Artists Tap the Power and Pop of the Stars and Stripes, June 26, 2014

From the Mundane to the Magnificent - Recologie, New Rochelle, NY 2013
Female Contact - Art from Feminine Perspectives - transFORM Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, 2012

transFormgallery.com, article, video, Female Contact - Art from Feminine Perspectives, Nov 2012
New York Times, article, Legs and Legends in a Domestic Setting: Art From Feminine Perspectives, at transFORM Gallery in New Rochelle, Dec. 28, 2012

American Craft Today - the Bascom, North Carolina, 2012
Piecing It Together ─ ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY, 2009
Reclaimed - Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, Va, 2009
Hanging By A Thread - ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY, 2009
Resurrect: The Art of the Reclaimed Object - Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, Az, 2009
Full Circle - Pen and Brush, NYC, 2008
Mass Consumption - Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, 2008
beyond basketry - Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, 2008
BEAD International - Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, 2008, 2004
27th Annual Contemporary Crafts - Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ, 2006
National Prize Show - Cambridge Art Association, MA, 2000
All Media Summer Exhibition - Berkshire School of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, 1994
Materials Hard and Soft - Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX, 1993
Fine Crafts at Matrix ’93 - Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1993
Geometric Abstraction - Masked Media - City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, 1991
Paper/Fiber XIII - Iowa City, IA, 1990
Vehicles for New Forms/New Functions - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 1990
St. Peters Church - NYC, 1990
Del Mano Gallery - Los Angeles, CA, 1989
Pindar Gallery - NYC, 1988
Three Rivers Arts Festival - Pittsburgh, PA, 1988, 1985

Collections - Public And Corporate

Neuberger Museum of Art - Purchase, NY
Pepsico, Inc. - Purchase, NY
World Bank Library - Washington, DC
Neutrogena Corporation - Los Angeles, CA
AT&T - NJ
Bell Atlantic - NJ
DuPont - Wilmington, DE
Institute for Defense Analyses - Alexandria, Va
The Sickles Group - LaJolla, CA
American Ultramar - Tarrytown, NY
Advest - Hartford, CT
MFN - White Plains, NY
Capital One - Arlington, Va
IBM - Raleigh, NC
Citibank - NYC

Commissions - Public And Corporate

Delta Airlines Headquarters - Atlanta, Ga
Delta Airlines Executive Lounge - JFK Airport, New York
Delta Airlines Executive Lounge - San Francisco Airport, California
Delta Airlines Executive Lounge - Heathrow Airport, London
Westchester Material Recycling Facility Lobby and Education Room - Yonkers, NY
Westchester County Airport Permanent Installation - White Plains, NY
Lobby Installation Oliver Carr Company, Shirlington, Phase II - Arlington, Va
AMS Advertising - NYC
Eastman Pharmaceuticals - Malvern, PA
Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch - Morristown, NJ
National Reinsurance Corporation - NYC
United Federal Bank - Clearwater, FL
TransCanada Pipelines - Washington, DC
Robinson Development Center - Pittsburgh PA
P.A. Computers and Telecommunications - Princeton, NJ
Allen Morris and Troisi - NYC
Fine, Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash, Black and England - Miami, FL
Hanes Converting Company - Conover, ND
Wunder & Diefenderfer - Washington, DC
Zutz Insurance - Wilmington, DE
Weingarten Siegel Group - Manalapan, NJ
Leucadia, Inc. - NYC

"My three-dimensional mixed media constructions are made from recycled, reclaimed, reconstructed "stuff" using a variety of techniques and materials."

─ Mary Ann Lomonaco [Read More}