Current + recent
Exhibitions + press
Current public projects, museum exhibitions, commissions, awards, and selected writing about Mary Mattingly’s work.
Current + upcoming
2026Floating GardenMedina Triennial, Medina, New York2026Beneath the Surface: Mining and American PhotographyNational Gallery of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum2026Framing Nature: Gardens and ImaginationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston2026All Night I Hear the Noise of Water SobbingMaterials for the Arts, Queens, New York
Selected exhibitions
2025Our Common HomeDiözesanmuseum Bamberg2025Aldrich Contemporary Art MuseumRidgefield, Connecticut2025Night GardensRobert Mann Gallery, New York2025Edible Plant GuideBronx Museum of the Arts, New York2025Smart Museum commissionUniversity of Chicago2024Water Clock MemorialsEast Haddam, Connecticut2023LacrimaMUSE, Trento, Italy2023Ebb of a Spring TideSocrates Sculpture Park, New York2022A Year of Public WaterNew York City drinking-water project2021Vanishing PointFocal Point Gallery and Metal, UK2019Stormy WeatherMuseum Arnhem, Netherlands2018Open OceanMystic Seaport Museum
Selected press + writing
2026The New York TimesFloating Garden and American utopian experiments2025The Brooklyn RailA City of Humors2025Night GardensA meditation on nature, transformation, growth, and decay2025Robert Mann GalleryNight Gardens exhibition and press release2024Contemporary AbsurditiesFrom Planetary Core to the High Seas2023SculptureEbb of a Spring Tide: feature and interview2023MOLDA Trickle in Time2023The Brooklyn RailArt and the State of Water2023Jejune MagazineInterdisciplinary Artist Mary Mattingly2022The New York Times MagazineThe Optimistic Art of Mary Mattingly2022New York MagazineInterview on drinking-water systems, consumption, and ecology2021Amour FouLimnal Lacrimosa interview and feature2018The New York TimesAlong the Lines of Displacement2013Art21Mary Mattingly Owns Up
Awards + collections
Selected institutional history
2023RE/SISTERS: Ecologies, Communities and SurvivalBarbican Centre, London2022Mining PhotographyMuseum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg2021Wandamba yalungka / Winds change directionPerforma Biennial, New York2018Indicators: Artists on Climate ChangeStorm King Art Center2016Radical SeafaringParrish Art Museum2014Crossing BrooklynBrooklyn Museum2011Temporary StructuresdeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum2009Prix Pictet: WaterPalais de Tokyo, Paris2006EcotopiaInternational Center of Photography, New York
