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Mary TingEDUCATION
Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA, 2005
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, advanced studies diploma 1996-97
Parsons School of Design, New York City, BFA, 1983

SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Dean Project, LIC, NY (April)
        Kentler International Drawing Space, solo installation (Nov)
        metaphor contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Laboratory for Installation and Performance Art (LIPA), NYC
2005 Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY, Howard McCalebb & Mary Ting, recent work
2004 Circa Galerie, Montreal, Canada, “Elegy in Cloud Script”
2001 Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, Vermont
        Gallery 402, OIA, New York, “Month of Poison”
        Museum of Natural History, New York, “Paper Flower/Bitter Fruit”
2000 Durango Art Center, Colorado, “Records of a Journey”
        Donnell Library Center, New York, “Excerpts from the Memory Collection”
1998 Northwestern Missouri State University - Deluce Fine Art Gallery
1997 John Jay College Gallery, New York, “1986-96, Sculptures, Books, Thoughts”
1993 Univ. of MA, Amherst-Augusta Savage Gallery, "Memories & Wounds"

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Women Artist Biennale, 2009, Incheon, Korea
        Garage, San Diego, “Look Who’s Peeking”
2008 Dean Project: “Introduction: Future Dialogues”
        Henry Street Settlement, NYC, “INTERPLAY: Evolution of Artistic Process”
        OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Tradition and Innovation in Chinese Art
        Lower Eastside Printshop, Spring exhibition curated by Beth Campbell
2007 Center for Book Arts, “Black, White and Read”
        Noho Gallery, Remembering Ruth, Chenven Fellowship Awardees
        Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York, Tenri Cultural Center booth
2006 Carriage House, Islip, “Sites 06” (video installation)
        North Dakota Museum of Art, “Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand”
        Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, “Breaking the Mold”
        The Studio, Armonk, “The Teacher as Artist”
        Proteus Gowanus, Interdisciplinary Library
2005 Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY, “ Exploring the Creative Process ”
        Cuchifritos, NY, “Working Space”
        metaphor contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, “The Road So Far”
2004 Artists Alliance Inc, NY, Rotating Studio Program – Open Studio
2003 Axel Raben Gallery, NY, Lost Worlds: Apocalyptic & Utopian Visions
        Chelsea Art Museum, NY; Berliner Kunst Project, "Funky Fine Fall Line"
2002 Asian American Arts Centre, The 12th Annual Exhibition "Contrary Equilibriums"
        Islip Art Museum, "Cut Paper"
        Wave Hill, NY, "Insecta Magnifica"
2001 Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington,NY, “Three Installations-Altabef, Andrus & Ting”
        Bruce Gallery of Art, Edinboro University of PA, "Mapping Cultures"
        metaphor contemporary, Bklyn, NY, “Poetic Information”
2000 Univ.of MA, Amherst-A Savage Gallery,“Memory:Personal & Social Testimony”
        Art in General, New York, “Artists’ Studio Benefit Tour 2000”
1988 Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, “Preview 2000”
        Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, “Stillness Within”, installations
1999 Brooklyn Public Library, NY, “Scrolls, Slats and Slabs”
1998 Henry Street Settlement, New York, "In-Sites: Artist's Design for Public Schools
        Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY, "Papercuts: Contemporary & Traditional"
1996 Henry Street Settlement, New York, “Fresh AIR at 20”
1995 Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, "Workspace Artists"
        Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, "Shades of the Spirit"
1994 Berkshire Museum, Mass. "Essential Material"
        Center for Book Arts, New York, "Anthropomorphic Book"
        Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond, FL, "The Book Unbound"
        Peter Madero Gallery, New York, "Diagnosis: Breast Cancer"
        Art in General, New York, "Gathering Medicine"
        Granary Books, New York, "Site Readings", Artists Books on Women's Health
1993 Art in General, New York, "Good and Plenty"
        Progressive Culture Works, Jersey City, "Mom & Dad"
1992 Feszak Galleria, Budapest, Hungary, "Dialogues in Paper"
        Broome Street, New York, "Despair" window installation
        Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, "Against the Tide"
1991 Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD, "Prints & Books"
        Center for Book Arts, New York, "Selections-Lower Eastside Printshop"
1990 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, "A Decade of the Marketplace"
        Hillwood Art Museum, CW Post Campus, NY, "The Political Landscape"
        Art in General, New York, "Ancestors Known and Unknown"
        Jamaica Art Center, New York, "Coast to Coast: Artist Book Project"
        Ceres Gallery, New York, "Memories of Dancing Cranes" window installation
1989 AMMO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Wallworks"
        Cooper Union, “Center for Book Arts Celebrating 15 Years”
        ISD, New York, “Shamanism”
        Center for Book Arts, New York, "Signatures: Bookworks by Women"
1988 Art in General, New York, "Natural Transformations"
        Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, "Artist in the Marketplace"
        AIR Gallery, New York, (two person)
        Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY-Brownson Gallery, (two person)
1987 Univ. of WI-Milwaukee Art Museum, "Women’s Autobiographical Artist Books"
        22 Wooster Gallery, New York, Group show
        Henry Street Settlement, New York, “Progressions: Five Views One Studio"
        Ceres Gallery, New York, "The Political is Personal"
1986 50 West Gallery, New York, "Masks"
        Erie Art Museum, PA, "Bookworks Invitational"
        Asian Arts Institute, New York, "Fathers"
        Ceres Gallery, New York, "Images of Power"
        City Without Walls, Newark, “Pages of Revelations”
        "Silent Years" performance w/David Rousseve & Benoit LaChambre: NY;Toronto
        Images Gallery, NY, “Faces and Places”
1985 New Museum, New York, "Ornaments"
        Henry Street Settlement, New York, "Roots to Reality"
        Hand-in-Hand Gallery, New York, "Book Arts I & II"
        Hand-in-Hand Gallery, New York, "Black & White II"
        Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, "Between the Covers"
        Women's Interart Center, New York, "35 Under 35"
        American Cultural Center, Taiwan, “Prints by Artists from Pratt Graphics Center”
1984 New York Public Library, New York, "Center for Book Arts First Decade"
        A.I.R. Gallery, New York, "Fourth Holiday Invitational"

PERFORMANCE MARY TING
1986, 87 “Silent Years” w/David Rousseve & Benoit LaChambre, Morse Center, NY; Music Box, Toronto
co choreographed, performed and produced

GRANTS
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts, drawing fellowship
2006 Ruth Chenven Foundation award
2003-2006 Tide Foundation –Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, visual arts
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts- Drawing fellowship
        Puffin Foundation - project grant
        American Craft Council- Emerging Artist grant
1999 Money for Women, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. grant
        Craft Alliance of New York State grant
1998 Manhattan Graphics Center, printmaking scholarship
1991 Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant, Sculpture fellowship
1988 New York State Council on the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Special Arts Service

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
CUNY at John Jay College, NYC- adjunct asst. professor, 2003 - present
        Undergraduate intro to drawing and painting, intro to sculpture
Transart Institute MFA in New Media : Berlin, Germany/NYC
        Graduate Studio art faculty member & mentor, 2007 – present
                Workshops: Exploring Poetics: The Spatial and the Temporal, 2007
                Collections, Obsessions, and the Display of the Other, 2008
                Spatial Perceptions, 2009 (upcoming)
SUNY at Nassau Community College, LI – adjunct, 2005 – 2007
        Undergraduate 3D design, sculpture
Pratt Manhattan, NYC- Bookarts, 2D/3D paper instructor, 2000-present
Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYC Drawing/Sculpture instructor, 2000- 2003
Art in General – AIR Contemporary Arts in the Schools, NYC 1999-2001
Lower Eastside Printshop, NYC instructor – collographs, 2000

SELECTED VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER (artist talk unless indicated )
Pratt Manhattan/NYFA artist talk, 2008
Nassau Community College, art forum series, 2006, 07, 08
   “The Grand Tour: Venice Biennial, Documenta, Muenster 2007”
   “Transformation in Fairy Tales and Contemporary Art
   “Examining the Artist Process and Inspirations”
Concordia University, Montreal, Visiting Artist MFA Program, 2004
New York State Summer School of the Arts, Rochester. 2004
New York University, APA Studies/NYFA Public Service, 2002
Johnson State College, Vermont, 2001 Visiting Asian scholar/artist residency
American Museum of Natural History, NY, 2001
Middlesex Community College, NJ, Art Dept., 2001
Nassau Community College, NY, Women’s Studies Dept., 2000
Lower East Side Printshop, NY – Artist Lecture Series, 1999
Textile Study Group of New York – Monthly Artist Lecture Series, 1999
Dieu Donne Papermill, NY – Lecture and Workshop Series, 1999
Parsons School of Design, NY – Undergraduate printmaking, 1999, 93, 84-87
Northwestern State University of Missouri – Art Department, 1998
Drew University, NJ - Contemporary Artists Series, undergraduate, 1998
Niagara University - Castellani Museum, Curator’s lecture, 1998
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China – Sculpture Department, 1996
University of Mass. at Amherst - exhibition and artists lecture, 1993
Henry Street Settlement, Arts Education –artist teacher 1986-95

RESIDENCIES & PROJECTS
2007 Lower East Side Print Shop, keyholder residency
2004 Artists Alliance Inc. – Lower Eastside Rotating Studio Program
2001 MacDowell Colony
2000 Millay Colony
        Soaring Gardens Artist Residency
1999 Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Fellowship
1998 Manhattan Graphics Center, scholarship fellow
1993 Dieu Donne Artist Workspace recipient
1990 Lower East Side Print Shop, Special Editions Project
1988 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artist in the Marketplace
        Henry Street Settlement, Artist-in-Residence Studio program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
Glimpse Journal, May 2009 (artist feature)
Around the Town, Daily News, Oct.12, 2007
Benjamin Genocchio, Those Who Teach, Can, New York Times, Oct. 27, 2006
Maddy Rosenberg, Artistbook Library at Proteus Gowanus, Umbrella, Vol 29, No.3, Sept.2006
Lynne Crevier, Great Sorrow, ICI, Montreal, April 2004
New York @ Chelsea Art Museum, NY ARTS, May 2003
Deborah Frizzell, Insecta Magnifica, NY ARTS, June 2002
William Zimmer, With Webs & Wings, New York Times, May 12, 2002
Mary Ting, Red Papercuts/Yellow Earth, Surface Design Journal, Jan/Feb. 2002
Margaret Rothman, Textile Study Group of NY at the Phoenix Gallery, Fiber Arts, Jan/Feb 2001
Chris MacLeod, Paper Cuts, Resident, February 11, 1999
Edward Sozanski, Shades of the Spirit review, Philadelphia Inquirer, February 24, 1995
Laurance Wieder, Workspace Program 5 Years, Dieu Donne Papermill, 1995 (catalog)
Vivien Raynor, Artistic Visions, New York Times, June 14, 1992
Eleanor Charles, Environmental Art, New York Times, May 10, 1992
Karin Lipson, Environmental Themes, Newsday, April 20, 1990
Phyllis Braff, Fate of the World as a Theme, New York Times, April 8, 1990
Ruth Bass, Natural Transformations, Art-Talk, December 1988
William Zimmer, Marketplace Joins Artist Seminars, New York Times, July 31, 1988
Michael Brenson, The Blue Angel, New York Times, April 1,1988
Karin Lipson, Asian Reflections on Fathers, Newsday, June 11, 1986

INDEPENDENT CURATOR CREDITS
2008 Virgil Wong: Male Pregnancy, Designer Babies, Art Gallery, John Jay College, NYC
2007 Nola Romano: Before vs. After, 2007, Art Gallery, John Jay College, NYC
2006 exhibition consultant for Rye Arts Center
2004 James Wong: Federal Alliance vs. Lethal Killers, Henry Street Settlement
2002 Modern Mythologies, Four Tibetan Painters, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, NYC
        Transversing Cultures: Observations in Time and Space, at the Henry Street Settlement - International Cultural Collaboration (ICC)
                w/Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Trace foundation, & the Asian Cultural Council.
        Paper Trails… In Real Time: Halls of the People, 2 mo. series-paper/print history, American Museum of Natural History.
1999 Paper: Contemporary and Traditional, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, 18th century to current works from eight countries, accompanying brochure
1998-2002 Museum of the Chinese in Americas, Consultant, Cultural Projects
1998 Metaphor: Inspirations and Folk Traditions, Henry Street Settlement, 1998
1997/98 Papercuts, Henry Street Settlement; traveled: Castellani Art Museum, Niagara
1997/98 UNICEF-CHINA, 9 photo exhibitions Beijing:Great Hall of the People, Red Gate Gallery, International Art Palace, Jindu Gallery,         Lidu Gallery, Sheraton Great Wall Gallery, and the Palace Hotel.

ARTS ADMINSTRATIVE POSITIONS
Exhibitions /AIR Program Coordinator, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, NYC
Exhibition Coordinator. Asian American Arts Centre, NYC
Exhibition Coordinator, Pratt Graphics Center, NYC

SELECTED LISTING OF JUROR/PANELIST/COMMITTEE MEMBER
2009 Lower Eastside Printshop panelist
2008 LMCC panelist, MCAF grants
2008 Henry Street Settlement, AIR program, panelist
2007-present John Jay College, exhibition committee member
2007 CUNY Faculty Development Grant reviewer
        Tides Foundation – Lambent Fellowship in the Arts nominating committee
2006 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Delaware Division, artist fellowship panelist
2004 Artist Alliance Inc. Rotating Space Program, jury panelist
2003 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist fellowship panelists, works on paper
        Mid Atlantic Foundation for the Arts, Maryland State Council fellowship panelist
        Manhattanville College, NY, juror for student scholarships
        Haym Solomon Foundation , City wide exhibition juror
2002 reviewer for John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1999-2002 YWCA, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, exhibition committee member
2000 Proposal Evaluator, Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship
1999 Amerasia – MetLIfe art student competition juror
1991 Lower Eastside Printshop, panelist for Special Editions fellows
1988 Art in General, panelist for exhibition