selected curriculum vitae
Education
1986 Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Master of Fine Arts degree in Metalsmithing
1984 Philadelphia College of Art. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Metals, with Honors
Selected Honors
2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1999 Scholarship, Banff Centre for the Arts Visual Arts Thematic Residency. Canada
1998 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. State University of New York
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1995 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1992 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Peterborough, New Hampshire
1991 Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship
Current Professional Experience
1993 to present Professor, Art Department, Metal Program.
State University of New York, New Paltz
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Force Times Distance"
Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts
2005 "Drifting"
John Michael Kohler Art Center. Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2004 "Interpreting Utility"
gallery 81. New Haven, Connecticut
2003 “Conflation”
Sybaris Gallery. Royal Oak, Michigan
2000 “Myra Mimlitsch-Gray: Studies in Chain Mail”
Susan Cummins Gallery. Mill Valley, California
“Magnification: 500x”
Sybaris Gallery. Royal Oak, Michigan
1994 "Myra Mimlitsch-Gray: Sculpture and Objects"
Sybaris Gallery. Royal Oak, Michigan
Selected Group Exhibitions
(2008) ( International Metal - August, 2008)
(The Scottish Gallery. Edinburgh Festival. Scotland. Other venues, TBD)
(Thinking Body - Summer, 2008)
(Jordan Schnitzler Museum of Art. University of Oregon, Eugene
San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design - Fall, 2008)
(2007) ( 30th Anniversary Invitational - September-November)
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. Grand Rapids, Michigan
2007 Cross Over: Combining Traditions, Metals and Sculpture
Emily Davis Gallery. Myers School of Art. University of Akron, Ohio
Craft in America: Expanding Traditions
Arkansas Art Center. Little Rock, Arkansas
(Future venues through 2009:
Museum of Contemporary Craft. Portland, Oregon
Mingei International Museum. San Diego, California
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Texas
Cranbrook Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Oklahoma City
Fuller Craft Museum. Brockton, Massachusetts)
2006 The coffee was very slow in coming.
Paul Kotula Projects. Ferndale, Michigan
Think Again: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Art
Cranbrook Art Museum. Bllomfield Hills, Michigan
"Re:pair and Imperfection" invitational
Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago, Illinois
"Nest"
Paul Kotula Projects. Ferndale, Michigan
"Material and Space - an Exhibition of Contemporary Metalwork"
Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Travels through 2007
2005 "120 Views of Temptation" Invitational Exhibition
Cheongju International Craft Biennale. Republic of Korea
2003 "Kanazawa World Craft Forum"
International Craft Exposition. Kanazawa, Japan
2000 “The Renwick Invitational: Five Women in Craft” Renwick Gallery,
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC
Selected Publications
2005 McFadden, David Revere, "Of Hammers, History, and Household: The Metalwork of Myra Mimlitsch-Gray", Metalsmith , Spring, 2005
2004 Wittkopp, Gregory, Cranbrook Art Museum: 100 Treasures. Cranbrook Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 2004. Pp. 254-255
2001 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, A View by Two: Contemporary Jewelry.
2000 Kirkham, Pat, ed., Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference . Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
1999 Ames, Kenneth, “Craft Mediating Culture”. Metalsmith , Summer, 1999.
1998 Trapp, K. and Risatti, H ., Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery.
Smithsonian Institution; Washington DC
1997 City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs , Of Precious Objects: Do Not Touch .
Catalog essay by Ruth Dusseault.
1995 Baran-Mickle, William, "Interior Motives: Domestic Objects in the Service of Change - The Work of Myra Mimlitsch Gray ". Metalsmith , Fall, 1995.
1994 Lewin, Susan Grant, One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today . Abrams; NY.
Public Collections
Cranbrook Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, Michigan
The Greater Lafayette Museum of Art. Lafayette, Indiana
Mint Museum of Craft and Design. Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Arts and Design. New York, New York
Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, Massachusetts.
Racine Art Museum. Racine, Wisconsin
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art;
Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.
Royal College of Art. London, England
Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Providence, Rhode Island
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz
Victoria and Albert Museum. London, England
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