MaryLynne Wrye is an artist who works across time-based media, writing, and sound. Her experience in the borderland of Lesvos, Greece, as an artist and as part of the humanitarian community is the impetus for her current practice-led research.
Wrye has a Master of Research from the Royal College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. When away from the Big Smoke, she lives in the Big Apple with her wife, son, Bear the dog, and Ruby the Covid cat.
Publications
Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice, Queer Materiality Research Group, The Glasgow School of Art, 2023
Garden of Sleepers, MRes Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, 2022
Correspondence as Care Zine, MRes Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, 2022
Wrye, MaryLynne, Tearing Down the House of God: Afghanistan, 1966 - 1974, LOST III, New York, NY, USA, Kris Graves Projects, 2020
Wrye, MaryLynne, ‘The King’s Highway: A Polaroid Story’, Society for Commercial Archeology Journal, 36, no 1 (2018): 22-25
Wrye, MaryLynne, Journey, New York, NY, USA, Kris Graves Projects, 2015
Wrye, MaryLynne, ‘Fire Eater’, Mars Hill Review, 1, no 2, 1995
Exhibitions
Queereal Secretions, Annex Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK, 2023 (group)
Earthwise, PhD Cohort, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, UK, 2023 (group)
Unruly Encounters: In Ruined Time, at the Southwark Gallery, London, UK, 2022 (group)
Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts Main Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2020 (group)
The Wall: The Olive Grove, Riverside Church, New York, NY, USA, 2019 (solo)
Poetry Unleashed, Art for Change, New York, NY, USA, 2011 (group)
痕迹 (Henji), 1918 ArtSPACE, Hangzhou, China, 2011 (group)
Exhibition Lab, Foley Gallery and Sasha Wolf Projects, New York, NY, USA, 2010 (group)
Giatrakou 28, ReMap KM2, Athens, Greece, 2009 (group)
Illumination, Interval, Manchester, UK, 2008 (group)
After the Curtain Falls, Wolstenholme, Liverpool, UK, 2008 (group)
Taenu (Trace), tactileBOSCH Gallery, Cardiff, UK, 2008 (group)
Circling the Studio: New York, Print Space Labs, New York, NY, USA, 2008 (solo)
Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2008 (group)
Circling the Studio: Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2008 (solo)
Circling the Studio: London, Slade Studios, London, UK, 2007 (solo)
The Body Project, Woburn Square Studios, London, UK, 2007 (group)
Studio/Storage/Gallery, Woburn Square Studios, London, UK, 2007 (group)
residencies
Artist-in-Residence, Dirty Girls of Lesvos, Lesvos, Greece; 2018, 2019, 2020
Artist-in-Residence, ArtWorks for Youth, Joe Slovo Township, South Africa, 2018
Artist-in-Residence Collaborative: Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Paris, France, 2008
COLLECTIONS (publications)
Ingalls Library at Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives, New York, New York, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, New York, USA
Stanford University, Green Library, Stanford, California, USA
Arcadia University, Landman Library, Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA
Duke University, Rubenstein Library, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Massachusetts College of Art, Godine Library, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Press
MaryLynne Wrye in Conversation with Kris Graves, Blue Sky Gallery and Kris Graves Projects, June 12, 2020
Iftar with Islam Channel Show, Islam Channel, April 27, 2020
Opening This Week, After the Curtain Falls, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool, The (London) Independent, January 10, 2009
Awards
People’s Choice Award, Photography Book Now, Blurb Books, 2011
Portrait Award, Sasha Wolf Projects, New York, NY, USA, 2010
Studio Subsidy Grant, Chashama, New York, NY, USA, 2009
Patty Smith Poetry Award, Stanford University, California, USA, 1988