MARY ANN PETERS Born: Beaumont, TX 1949 Lives and works in Seattle, WA EDUCATION 1978 M.F.A University of Washington, Seattle, WA; painting/drawing 1971 B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; printmaking ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2025 myself inside your story, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA (forthcoming) the threads that bind, James Harris Gallery, Dallas, TX 2024 the edge becomes the center, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2022 pulse of time, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2021 continental drift, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2019 traveler, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2017 slipstream, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2015 what stays the same is never so, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2013 Seattle University, Seattle, WA 2012 from a history of ruin, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2010 if thinking is form: a visual diary, Edmonds Community College Art Gallery, Edmonds, WA 2009 and the edge becomes the center, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007 in an instant, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2006 this world is mine, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2000 Palimpsest Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA 1999 Myself Inside Your Story, onsite drawing, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 1998 If Thinking is Form, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA 1996 Myself Inside Your Story, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA 1995 Four Corners Open Studio, Seattle, WA 1994 Notes, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR 1989 Espana, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA And Now This, "Eyes of Love; Windows on AIDS" project, Seattle, WA 1988 The Pool, 911 Contemporary Arts Center Windows Project, Seattle, WA 1987 Eide (working drawings), Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA 1985 The Picture Wall, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA Notes Towards the Picture Wall, Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA 1984 Silent Partners, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR 1983 Silent Partners, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA 1981 New Work, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA 1980 Site Unseen, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2025 General Conditions, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY 2023 Songs for Ritual and Remembrance, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 2022 Shadow Time, Studio E Gallery, Seattle, WA 2018 The Map Is Not a Territory, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR 2016 Genius / 21 Century / Seattle, Frye Art Museum, WA Out of Site, King Street Station, Seattle, WA 2013 Chamber Music, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2011 Seattle As Collector, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2010 Show of Hands, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 2009 Gathering Image, Fugitive Form, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 2007 8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 2005 A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating the Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Lucky 7, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2004 Paperworks, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA Perspectives; Selections for City of Seattle, 1% Program Trade & Convention Center, Seattle, WA 2003 Variations of Abstraction, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA 2002 Northwest Masters, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA 2002 Artist in Residence, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, OR 2000 Neddy Fellowship Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA 1998 Neddy Fellowship Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA Drawing, national invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA North Westerners, Fresh Paint Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1997 Meeting in Art I, International Art Workshop, invitational, Istanbul, Turkey Drawing, national invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA 1996 Surface Stories, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 1995 Visionaries, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle , WA Metaphor, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR Seattle Noir Invitational, Vox Populi Gallery, Seattle, WA 1994 Spatial Flux: A Means of Expression, Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA Telling Stories: Looking for Narrative in Visual Art, Newmark Center, Seattle, WA 1993 Invitational, 1004 Gallery Port Townsend, WA Art Works for AIDS invitational, Seattle, WA Proposals: New Projects at the Port Italia Gallery, Seattle, WA 1992 Lingua Franca, Falkirk Cultural Center, Richmond, CA Women Painters in the Northwest, Viking Gallery, Bellingham, WA Bill of Rights, David Shearer Gallery, Seattle, WA Poncho Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991 The Big and The Small of It, Northview Gallery, Portland Comm. Col., Portland 1991 Artists Respond to the War, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA Visual AIDS Project, New York City, NY Poncho Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA Notes towards Akbar’s Muse, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Notes towards Akbar’s Muse, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA 1990 Organic Abstraction, Bumbershoot Arts Festival invitational, Seattle, WA 1989 Northwest Annual, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 1988 University of Washington School of Art 1950-1980, Safeco Corp., Seattle, WA 1987 Aspects of Drawing; Abstraction, City of Seattle Public Art Space, Seattle, WA. Focus: Seattle, San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA Structures, Northwest Building Corporation, Seattle, WA Decade of Abstraction, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA 1986 Abstract Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Centrum Prints, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA 1985 New Seattle Work, Safeco Corp., Seattle, WA 1984 Sylph Elegy, Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA New Acquisitions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1983 Newcomers '83, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pacific Northwest Today, Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO Seattle Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art, Rental Gallery San Francisco, CA Salon de Refuses, Seattle, WA 1982 Selected Gallery Artists Tom Lutrell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981 Large Scale Painting, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA 1980 Eight Seattle Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Cranberry Drawing Invitational Cranberry Institute, Boston, MA 1979 Collections from the City, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Seattle Drawing, and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA 19 Artists, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA Seattle Selects, Arctic Building, Seattle, WA GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES 2021 McLaughlin Foundation Grant, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands, CA 2020 Artist Trust Fellowship, Seattle, WA 2016 Camargo Foundation residency 2015 Stranger Genius Award, visual art 2014 New Foundation travel grant SOMA residency Mexico City, Mexico 2013 Art Matters Grant, New York, NY 2012 artist in Residence, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 2010 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire 2009 Jentel Artist Residency, Sheridan, Wyoming Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA (residency) 2003 Northwest Institute of Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy (NIAUSI) residency 2002 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts masters residency and workshop director 2000 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA painting award recipient Honors Program, King County Arts Commission Purchase Award winner 1998 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA finalist, painting award Artist Trust Ten-Year Presidents' Award for Artistic Achievement and Leadership, Washington State recipient International Art Workshop, Association of Museums of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul, Turkey residency fellow 1995 Art Matters Foundation, New York City, NY individual artist fellow Pilchuck School artist residency 1987 Private patronage, Barcelona, Spain residency 1986 Centrum Foundation, Northwest Print Project, Port Townsend, WA residency 1980 Seattle Arts Commission, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA exhibition grant 1978 Ford Foundation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA study grant Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA master painting class scholarship PUBLIC COLLECTIONS City of Seattle, WA Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA King County Regional Justice Center, Seattle, WA Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Northwest Art, La Connor, WA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA University of Texas, San Antonio, TX Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA