Biography
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (b. 1962) explores craft as subject and object, engaging the field’s history and methods to interpret utility and form. Her studio practice is at times speculative, theoretical, and in conversation with pedagogical concerns. She conceptualizes material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. Facture is explored as an idea and then constructed as an image; this research is reflected in the objects she generates.
Mimlitsch-Gray received her MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. An American Craft Council Fellow, Mimlitsch-Gray was recently named Master of the Medium by the James Renwick Alliance. As professor she received two Chancellor’s Awards from the State University of New York: Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Excellence in Teaching. She has been awarded individual artist fellowships by the United States Artists Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mimlitsch-Gray’s work is widely exhibited and included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museums of Scotland, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley of New York.
Contact Myra at mimlitschgray@me.com
Public Collections
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Enamel Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan Wisconsin
Kohler Co., Kohler, Wisconsin
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Metal Museum, Memphis Tennessee
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
National Museums of Scotland
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY-New Paltz, New York
University of Akron, Mary Myers School of Art, Ohio
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut