BFA Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University
MFA Visual Arts, Lesley University College of Art and Design
DFA Visual Art, University of East London
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Inhale, The Painting Center, New York
2024 Couched, Small House Gallery, London, UK
2023 Etched in Light, Pig Prints, Milan, Italy
2023 Shipwreck, Prince Street Gallery, New York
2020 Tanti Saluti! CICA Museum, Gimpo-Si, South Korea
2019 Desirable Residence, ( exhibition essay by Cherry Smyth, curated by Paolo Fiorentini), Poplar Union, London, UK
Public Collections
CICA Museum, South Korea
Brunel University, London, UK
Comune di Truccazzano, Milan, Italy
Istituto dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2026 Between Surface and Space, Chelsea Industrial, New York
Neither Here nor There, (curated by Sue Scott), PS122 Gallery, New York
Pentimento, Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina
2025 Paris Danube Print Salon, Hôtel du Danube, Paris, France
Open Studios, PS122 Project Studios, New York
2024 (three-person) Trasumanar, The Painting Center, New York
(Dis) Placed, Poplar Union, London, UK
Le Salon de Refusées, KrautArt, Berlin, Germany
Members Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum, New Jersey
Salon des Étrangers, (curated by Jon Baker) Siger Gallery, Venice, Italy
Guardare Ascoltando, Sala Manzu, Bergamo, Italy
2023 Claybash, (curated by Jennifer Martin), Hunterdon Museum, New Jersey
2023 Making the Cut, Shoebox Gallery, Los Angeles
2023 Book Launch, Gate 44, Milan, Italy
2022 Memento Mori, Palazzo Ducale, Atina, Frosinone, Italy
2022 Astarte, Gate 44, Milan, Italy
2021 Group Show, Shrine, New York
2020 Incipit, Gate 44, Milan, Italy
Ensemble, Together Again, The Painting Center, New York
A World without End, No Barking Art, London, UK
PassaggiAtina, Hartslane Gallery, London, UK
2019 Abstract Mind, ( curated by Lijin Kim), CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea
Boston Young Contemporaries, (curated by Ruth Erickson), 808 Gallery, Boston.
2018 Natura Madre, Castello Borromeo, Corneliano Bertario, Italy
At Home in Bow, The Apartment, Bow Arts, London, UK
Arte di Fare dei Libri, Arte su Carte, Modena, Italy
2017 A Titolo d'Ingresso, Spazio Arte, Fare D'Adda, Milan, Italy
2016 Clandestina, Silmar Contemporary, Milan, Italy
Stanze, Palazzo Arcivescovile, Gropello D'Adda, Milan, Italy
Showcase, AVA Gallery, University of East London, UK
2015 15/18, Castello Borromeo, Corneliano Bertario, Milan, Italy
Warehouse XI " Reclassified", Cambridge, MA
2014 Thirst, Bedlam Gallery, Brunel University, London, UK
2013 Deciphering Identity, Jewett Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Commissions
DeJorio Ltd, Genoa, Italy
Interiors, Tokyo, Japan
Azienda Agricola Bellaria, Avellino, Italy
Residencies, Fellowships, Affiliations
2025-2026 Painting Studio 122, Project Studio Program
2024 Judy Pfaff Studio-Compound Residency, Michael David Coordinator
2024 Yellow Chair Salon Cohort
2022 - Present Member, The Painting Center, New York
2021 Founder of London/Milan/Seoul-Based Waves Collective
2019 and 2021 PasseggiAtina Residency, Atina, Italy
2016 CAMAC, Marnay-Sur-Seine, France
2015 Vermont Studio Center
2013 The League at Vyt, Sparkill, New York
Awards and Honors
2017 Fellow Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists
2016-2018 £13,000.00 Bursary /Scholarship University of East London Professional Doctorate Programme
2015 $ 700 Vermont Studio Center Merit Scholarship
2013 $ 500 The League at Vyt, Sparkill, New York, Merit Scholarship
Bibliography
2016 Crippa, Stefano"Le Stanze". catalog (Milan)
2017 Catley, Kim, "Living Language" Interview with Kim Catley, St. Catherine's Now, Summer 17, Vol. 75 No.2
2017 Quiete, Enrico, "Recent Work Mary Crenshaw"
2019 Smyth, Cherry “What the soul has heard tell of: new paintings by Mary Crenshaw” exhibition essay
2024, Crippa, Stefano, “Guardare Ascoltando” catalog (Milan)
2026, Roper-Evans, Emma,, exhibition essay, "Discarded & Regarded"