MaryLynne Wrye is a PhD researcher at the Glasgow School of Art, School of Fine Art. 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 holds a Master of Research from the Royal College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London. When away from Glasgow, she lives in New York City with her wife and son.
Publications
The Olive Grove, TOTIM, 2025
Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice, Queer Materiality Research Group, The Glasgow School of Art, 2023
Translate, Artist’s Book, 2022
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
Tearing Down the House of God: Afghanistan, 1966 - 1974, LOST III, New York, NY, USA, Kris Graves Projects, 2020
‘The King’s Highway: A Polaroid Story’, Society for Commercial Archaeology Journal, 36, 1 (2018): 22-25
Journey, New York, NY, USA, Kris Graves Projects, 2015
‘Fire Eater’, Mars Hill Review, 1, 2, 1995
Exhibitions
Palimpsest, PhD Artistic Research, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 2026 (group)
Nordstrom Celebrates Pride, Nordstrom Flagship New York City, 2024 (group)
Queereal Secretions, Exhibition/Workshop, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 2023 (group)
Earthwise, PhD Cohort, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, 2023 (group)
Unruly Encounters: In Ruined Time, at the Southwark Gallery, London, 2022 (group)
Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts Main Gallery, New York City, 2020 (group)
The Wall: The Olive Grove, Riverside Church, New York City, 2019 (solo)
Poetry Unleashed, Art for Change, New York City, 2011 (group)
痕迹 (Henji), 1918 ArtSPACE, Hangzhou, 2011 (group)
Exhibition Lab, Foley Gallery and Sasha Wolf Projects, New York City, 2010 (group)
Giatrakou 28, ReMap KM2, Athens, 2009 (group)
Illumination, Interval, Manchester, 2008 (group)
After the Curtain Falls, Wolstenholme, Liverpool, 2008 (group)
Taenu (Trace), tactileBOSCH Gallery, Cardiff, 2008 (group)
Circling the Studio: New York, Print Space Labs, New York City, 2008 (solo)
Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2008 (group)
Circling the Studio: Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2008 (solo)
Circling the Studio: London, Slade Studios, London, 2007 (solo)
The Body Project, Woburn Square Studios, London, 2007 (group)
Studio/Storage/Gallery, Woburn Square Studios, London, 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)
Glasgow School of Art Library, Glasgow
British Library, London
Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York City
Stanford University, Green Library, Stanford
Arcadia University, Landman Library, Glenside
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena
Duke University, Rubenstein Library, Durham
Massachusetts College of Art, Godine Library, Boston
Ingalls Library at Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
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 City, 2010
Studio Subsidy Grant, Chashama, New York City, 2009
Patty Smith Poetry Award, Stanford University, California, 1988