Servane Mary
Servane Mary works across the mediums of painting, photography and printing. She was the subject of a 2019 retrospective at the Los Angeles nonprofit JOAN (Remakes 2006–2018) and a major painting installation of hers was featured in Greater New York, 2021 at MoMA PS1. Also in 2021, Mary presented a large-scale painting installation as the inaugural exhibition at the nonprofit art center San Carlo Cremona, in Cremona, Italy. She has since curated the program of San Carlo Cremona's on-going, site-specific exhibition series, which has included solo exhibitions of the artists Mark Handforth, Dara Friedman, Robert Janitz, Arthur Simms, Olivier Mosset, and Jessi Reaves.
Mary was born in Dijon, France and currently lives and works in New York City. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in August 2023. She holds a BA with honors in the Art and Space department of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris; and she completed a one-year residency in the lithography department of the Ecole de Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Atelier de la Glaciere, Paris. Her work is held in the Schwartz Art Collection at Harvard Business School, Harvard University; at the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona; and at Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Franche Comté (FRAC), Île-de- France.
Untitled (Oxidation), 2023
Servane Mary's Oxidation series of paintings extends the artist's decade-long exploration of giving artistic material's their own agency. This exploration, which Mary has called in other contexts "re-figuration", began with transfers of photographic imagery, usually of famous as well as unknown women, onto industrial materials such as metals and plastics. This process became more abstract when Mary began using the image of a common pegboard as a silkscreen to create a grid or matrix on and through which paints could be applied. The largest examples of this process were featured at MoMA PS1's Greater New York exhibition. More recently, the specific Oxidation series, which uses copper and brass paints that are allowed to patinate for a period of time before being fixed by a clear coat, was featured at Palazzo Biandrà Mediolanum in Milan, Italy.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Project space @ 89 Greene, organized by Kathy Battista, June 18 – July 30, 2022
2022 In Themselves, 2022, 39 Great Jones ( window ), New-York, February 1 – March 31, 2022
2021 Glitches, San Carlo, Cremona, Italy September 15 – February 4, 2021
2019 Remakes 2006-2018, Joan, Los Angeles, March 2 - April 14, 2019
2018 Untitled (Tuscon AZ), 2018, Everybody Gallery, Tuscon, Arizona, January 26 - February 25, 2018
2017 Defamiliarization / Reactivation, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy, March 25 - May 13, 2017
2016 NADA, Triple V Gallery, Solo Presentation, NADA Miami Art Fair, Miami, December 1 - 4, 2016
2016 Surface Conversions, organized by Angela Missoni and A Palazzo Gallery, Missoni, New-York, October 26,
2016 - January 29, 2016
2016 Babyliss, Triple V Gallery, Paris, France, September 8 - November 5, 2016
2016 Mary a Mosset, La Capelleta Cultural Space, Carrer de la Come Gelada, Mosset, France, July 9 - 31, 2016
2015 American Cowgirls of the 40's, Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, September 10 - October 24, 2015
2013 Things Are What They Seem, Triple V Gallery, Paris, France, September 14 - October 27, 2013
2013 FIAC, Triple V Gallery, Solo Presentation, Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 24 - 27, 2013
2012 Orange Joyce, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada, July 5 - 28, 2012
2012 God Dies, Martos Gallery, New - York, February 17 - March 17, 2012
2009 The Golden Age, Martos Gallery, New York, September 17 - October 24, 2009
2008 Black Dawn, Maisonneuve Gallery, Paris, France, April 12 - May 10, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2022 Moon Webs organized by Bozidar Brazda and Caroline Snow, 95 Ave B, New York, November 16 – 22, 2022
2022 Sors de ta réserve #1, Frac Île-de-France, Les Reserves, Romainville, France, June 23 – October 1, 2022
2022 Strange attractors, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 3: Lost In Space, organized by Bob Nickas, A
Palazzo Gallery, Brescia IT, May 21 – September 18, 2022
2022 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, October 7, 2021 - April 18, 2022
2021 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, October 7, 2021 - April 18, 2021
2021 Peut mieux faire, Alain Bernardini, Servane Mary, Matthieu Saladin, Cally Spooner organized by Frac
Franche-Comte, Lycée Condorcet, Belfort, France, January 11 - February 5, 2021
2020 We gave a party for the gods and the gods all came, Servane Mary, John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone, A Palazzo
Gallery, Brescia, Italy, September 8 - November 20, 2020
2019 L’ Emploi du Temps, organized by the FRAC Franche-Comte, Musee du Temps, Besancon, France, June 22 -
September 22, 2019
2019 Another Music In a Different Kitchen: Studio Recordings & Records by Artists, Organized by Bob Nickas and
Matt Shuster, Karma Bookstore, NY, April 7 - May 12, 2019
2019 Notebook, 56 Henry, New-York, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, February 9 - March 31, 2019
2018 Etant Donnes, a collaboration with Servane Mary and Sylvere Lotringer, Rocky Point Press, MECA, Puerto
Rico, November 16 - 19, 2018
2018 Time is the Game of Man, curated by Kasia Redzisz, Castello di Ama, Castello di Brolio, Colle Bereto, Felsina,
Gagliole, Borgo San Felice and Castello di Volpaia, Tuscany, Italy, July 1- October 14, 2018
2018 Easy Rider, curated by Luca Beatrice and Arnaldo Colasanti, La Venaria Real, Turin, Italy, July 6- December 30,
2018
2017 Sequence 67 / interieur nuit, Triple V Gallery, Paris, France, November 10 - December 22, 2017
2017 1107 PT. II, Spencer Browstone Gallery, New - York,Mark Dagley, Amy Granat, Jacob Kassay, Servane Mary,
Matthew McCaslin, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Virginia Overton, Steven Parrino, and Mai-Thu Perret, September
10 - December 7, 2017
2017 The Future Should Be Dangerous /Le Futur Doit Etre Dangeureux, organized by Amelie Lavin, Dole Beaux-Arts
Museum, November 11, 2016 - February 19, 2017
2016 Inaugural Exhibition 5 Rue du Mail, curated by Vincent Pecoil, Triple V Gallery, Paris, France, February 4 - 27,
2016
2016 Group Show, Christian Anderson, James Angus, Henry Codax, Raquel Dias, Stephane Kropf, David Malek,
Servane Mary, Olivier Mosset, Virginia Overton, Hugo Pernet, Gerald Petit, Sylvain Rousseau, et Pierre Vadi, Triple V
Gallery, March 17 - April 9, 2016
2015 Everybody Knows (Or Should), installation curated by Michel Auder featuring works by Sam Anderson, Mark
Handforth, Servane Mary, Olivier Mosset, Martos Gallery (back room), September 17 - October 31, 2015
2015 MOMMA organized by Bob Nickas, Servane Mary / Virginia Overton / John Miller / Olivier Mosset /Michel
Auder, Rothman's Hardware store, Southold, NY, September 4 - 20, 2015
2015 Servane Mary / Marine Provost / Virginia Overton / Morgane Tschiember organized by Olivier Mosset, Laleh
June gallery, Basel, Switzerland, September 4 - November 7, 2015
2015 Venice Meeting Point, Navy Officer's Club-Arsenale, Venice, May 5 - 8, 2015
2015 OMM, 138 Eldridge Street, New York, March 4 - 24, 2015
2015 Mary / Miller / Mosset / Overton, Triple V Gallery, Paris, France, January 17 - March 14, 2015
2014 The Museum of Love and Devotion, organized by Jason Metcalf, Fairview Museum of History and Art, Utah,
December 13, 2014 - April 11, 2014
2014 Lili Marlen, Vinyl Edition at Le Magasin , Grenoble for Art in Pop, October 10, 2014 - January 4, 2014
2014 Scripted Space, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles, October 9 - November 8, 2014
2014 Servane Mary / Virginia Overton / Olivier Mosset, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy, May 23 - September 15
Another, Once Again, Many Time More, Four Parts curated by Walead Beshty and Kelley Walker; Carol Bove; Ryan
Foerster; Bob Nickas and Virginia Overton, Martos Gallery summer location, East - Marion, New-York, July 12 -
September 14, 2014
2014 Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, January 23 - March 8, 2014
2013 Piston Head, Venus Over Manhattan, 111 Lincoln road, Miami, FL, December 3 - 8, 2013
2013 Social Photography III, Carriage Trade, NY, December 12, 2012 - January, 18, 2013
2013 Arsenio, curated by James Cope, Shoot The Lobster, Luxembourg, November 22 - December 21, 2013
2013 Hymns For Mr.Suzuki, curated by Karen Archey, Abrons Center, New -York, Sept 6 - Oct 6, 2013
2013 Objekt Underscore Object, organized by James Cope, Artaida, N-Y, Sept 5 - November 15, 2013
2013 No Place Like You, organized by Peter Scott, Shoot the Lobster , NY, June 20 - August 2, 2013
2013 Rock Art & the X-ray Style, organized by Ryan Foerster, Brooklyn, NY, August 10 - September 30, 2013
2013 LAT. 41° 7ʹ′ N. LONG. 72° 19ʹ′ W., organized by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery summer location, East Marion, N-Y,
July 13 - September 2, 2013
2013 Galaxie 500, Jacob Kassay / Servane Mary / Olivier Mosset, organized by Gianni Jetzer, Swiss Institute,
New-York, February 15 - 17, 2013
2012 Family Portrait, Carriage Trade, October 19 - December 9, 2012
2012 Davina Semo and Servane Mary, Shoot The Lobster, Marseilles, September 1 - 16, 2012
2012 Creatures from The Blue Lagoon, curated by Bob Nickas, Bridgehampton, New-York, July 21- September 3,
2012
2012 Can’t Stop Rock Lobster, curated by Merkx & Gwyne, Shoot the Lobster, New-York, June 19 - 30, 2012
2011 Exhibition and Auction for Women for Women International curated by Jenny Saville and Nadja Romain,
Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, September 27- October 1, 2011
2011 Sprung, organized by Rochelle Goldberg and Bozidar Brazda, The Hotel Chelsea, New-York, June 12, 2011
2008 Love, Love, Love, Martos Gallery, New-York, 2008
2008 Delicatesse des Couleurs, Hangar-7, The Red Bull Foundation, Salzburg, Austria, 2008
2006 This Ain’t No Karaoke, curated by Max Henry, Haas & Fischer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2006
2006 Helter Helter, curated by Max Henry, Anne de Villepoix Gallery, Paris, France, 2006
2005 Women On The Verge, Alona Kagan Gallery, New – York, 2005
Selected Collections
Schwartz Art Collection, - Harvard Business School, Boston, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Tuscon, Arizona, USA
Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Franche-Comté, France
Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Ile-de-France, France