MARY O'MALLEY
b.1985
Long Island, NY
Education
M.A. Royal College of Art, Ceramics and Glass, London, UK, 2014-2016
Dissertation: The Value of the Creative Individual
B.F.A. The University of the Arts: Crafts–Ceramics, Philadelphia, PA, 2004–2007
Selected Exhibitions/Awards
(Solo) Artlink at Fort Dunree, Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland, 2026
Crosstown 2, Macon, GA USA 2024
Form and Function, 567 Center, Macon, GA USA 2023
House of Pots, London, UK, 2023
Works in Progress, C.R.E.T.A. Rome Italy, 2023
(Solo) The McEachern Art Center, Macon, Georgia 2022
(Solo) Wesleyan College, Macon Georgia 2022
Chun Art Museum, Somewhere in Time, Shanghai, China, 2019
Taste Contemporary, 5 Cubed, Parcours Céramique Carougeois Biennale Internationale de Céramique Contemporaine, La Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland 2019
2019 British Ceramics Biennial, China Hall, Spode Factory, Stoke-On-Trent, UK 2019
Saatchi Gallery with the UK Crafts Council, Collect Open 2019, London, UK 2019
(Solo) Arch Enemy Arts, A Seat at the Table, Philadelphia, PA 2018
Doddington Hall Sculpture Biennial 2018, Lincolnshire, UK, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Line of Sight: Lethal Design, Lusaunne, Switzerland 2018 (catalogue available)
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, They're Fired!, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA 2018
Royal Overseas League, Young Masters Art Prize, London UK 2017
The University of the Arts, Making It: UArts 140 Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA 2016
Christie's, The Emerging and the Established, London, UK 2016
Hockney Gallery, Off Centre, London UK 2015
(Solo) The Clay Studio, Mary O'Malley: Bottom Feeders, Kathryn Narrow Room, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Selected Residencies
Artlink at Fort Dunree, Artist in Reisdence, Donegal, Ireland 2025
TaoXiChuan Wang Ou International Residency, Longquan, Zhejiang, China
C.R.E.T.A., Artist in Residence, Rome, Italy 2023
Wesleyan College, Artist in Residence, Macon, GA, 2021
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Visiting Artist Scholar, Shanghai, China, Oct-Dec 2019
Western Carolina University School of Fine Art, Artist in Residence, Cullowhee, NC, USA 2019
Tate Modern, Material Action with Collective Matter, London, UK, 2016-2017
JingDeZhen Ceramic Institute, Inaugural Resident, JingDeZhen, JiangXi, China 2016
Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, American Craft Council
Fellowship, Rabun Gap, GA, June-July 2013
Teaching and Public Engagement
Mercer University, Assistant Professor of Ceramics and Sculpture, Macon, GA, 2022 - Present
Wesleyan College, Artist in Residence, Macon GA, 2021
Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Making Nature Workshop, Longquan, China, 2024
COCA International Conference 2019, Presenter, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 2019
The Potting Shed, Multi-Artist Public Engagement Project Curated by Collective Matter at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, UK 2019
Ceramic Art London, Presenter, Central Saint Martins, London UK, 2019
Breaking Ground, Jaipur Ceramics Triennial, Presenter Jaipur, India 2018
London Craft Week, Educator with Collective Matter, London UK 2018
NCECA, Co-Panel Presenter, Pittsburgh, PA USA 2018
Parrish Art Museum, Educator, Water Mil, NY 2018
Royal College of Art, Facilitator and Host, The Why Question: A Panel Discussion on the Dissemination of Material-Specific Education Within the Wider Visual Arts, London, UK, 2016
Brighton University, Visiting Lecturer, Brighton, UK, 2016
Camden Arts Centre, Educator, London, UK, 2016-2017
Collections
TaoXiCHuan Wang Ou Ceramic Art Center, Longquan, Zhejiang, China
The Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin Private Collection, Santa Barbara, CA
The Karen Zukowski and David Diamond Private Collection, New York, NY
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
JingDeZhen Ceramic Institute, JingDeZhen, JiangXi, China
21C Museum Hotel, Nashville, TN, USA
The Waskowmium Collection, Burlington, VT, USA
Selected Press/Publications
Morby, Alice: “Wide Open” , Crafts, January/February 2019, Pg. 52 - 53
Whitney, Kay: "Mary O’Malley: Salvage Ware", Ceramics Monthly, April 2018, Pg. 44-47
Bailey, Paul: “Colletive Matter”, Emerging Potters, January 2018, Issue 9, Pg 9-14
Jobson, Christopher: “Porcelain Dishwater Covered With Marine Life by Mary
O’Malley”, Colossal, November 20, 2014, http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/porcelain-dishware-covered-with-marine-life-by-mary-omalley/
Frank, Priscilla: “These Ceramics Encrusted with Crustaceans Are Our Aew Favorite Nautical Dishwater”, The Huffington Post, December 5, 2014, http://
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/mary-omalley_n_6251004.html
Beete, Paulette: “Art Talk With Mary O’Malley”, National Endowment for the Arts: Artworks Blog, February 25, 2014, http://arts.gov/art-works/2014/art-talk-mary-omalley
Francis, Xavier: “A conversation with ceramic artist Mary O’Malley”, Los Angeles Examiner, April 24, 2013, http://www.examiner.com/article/a-conversation-withceramic-artist-mary-o-malley
Saatchi Online, New This Week, Featured Artist, October 1, 2012, http://www.saatchionline.com/art-collection/Painting-Photography-Assemblage-Collage/New-This-Week-10-1-12/2/36396/view
Corzo, Miguel Angel and Sharon Church and Julian Zugazagoitia, Misterios: AnExtraordinary Evocation of the Creative Impulse and the Profound Enigma of Art,University of the Arts 2007, Pg. 122