Mary Fortuna

Mary Fortuna
fortunamary@gmail.com
www.maryfortuna.com


EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Associate in Applied Science 1986
Oakland Community College, Union Lake, Michigan

Foundry Workshop 1993 - 1996
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan


EMPLOYMENT / ASSOCIATIONS

Paint Creek Center for the Arts Education Coordinator 2000 – 2004
Exhibitions Director 2004 to present

Art Detroit Committee 2009 - present
Contemporary Arts Council

Detroit Artist’s Market Exhibition Advisory Committee - 1998 - 1999

Forum for Contemporary Art September, 1995 – May, 1997
DIA/Friends of Modern Art

Detroit Focus Member 1991 – 1996
Exhibition Committee – 1994 –1996

Ground Up, Bi–Monthly Arts Journal January, 1995 - January 1998
Founder, Editor

Artists Cooperative, The (A.C.,T.) President 1992 –1993
Secretary 1993 – 1994


ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITS

2011 New Dolls (scheduled)
Bookbeat Back Room Gallery Oak Park, Michigan

2006 New Work
Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan

2003 Recent Works – Mary Fortuna and Jo Powers
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, Michigan

2002 Hanging Garden
Detroit Contemporary Detroit, Michigan
1996 Sinister Objects
Start Gallery Birmingham, Michigan

1995 Memory Lapse and The Event Horizon with Robert Taormina
Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan

1993 Terrors of the Flesh with Dave Roberts
Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan

1992 On and Off the Wall
Artist’s Cooperative, The Detroit, Michigan


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

2011 Beautiful Creatures
Madonna University Art Gallery Detroit, Michigan

2010 In Spite of the Evidence
The Gallery Project Ann Arbor, Michigan

Weasel Camp 2
Popp’s Packing Hamtramck, Michigan

Let’s Talk About Love, Baby – Traveling Exhibit
Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection Chicago, Illinois

Detroit Works
Media Nox Gallery Maribor, Slovenia

International Bongo Bongo Brigade – Traveling Exhibit
Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art Prague, Czech Republic

Bread & Butter
Butter Projects Royal Oak, Michigan


2009 Year of the Weasel
Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan

Changing Cities: Pure Detroit
Art Channel Gallery Beijing, China

Aus Detroit
Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan

Vienna Art Fair
With Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Vienna, Austria

Collected
Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan

Artprize
American Seating Park Grand Rapids, Michigan

2008 Changing Cities: Made in Detroit
Galerie Eva Bracke Berlin, Germany

Changing Cities: Detroit – Bregenz
Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Bregenz, Austria

Changing Cities
Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan

Changing Cities: Detroit
Three Walls Chicago, Illinois

Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition
Bohemian National Home Detroit, Michigan

Material Matters
Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan

2007 Azutunarasharedo – four person show
Zeitgeist Gallery Detroit, Michigan

Harvest – four person show
Alley Culture Detroit, Michigan


2005 Wall to Wall – sculpture invitational
Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan

Actual Size
CAID Detroit, Michigan

2004 Group Show
Street Level Gallery Highwood, Illinois

2003 DAM Members Invitational
Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan

Selecti
Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Juror – Lawrence Rinder, Whitney Museum of Art

Alumni Exhibition: Sandra Cardew, Mary Fortuna and Catherine Peet
Wayne State University Community Arts Gallery Detroit, Michigan

8 Mile – Detroit Relics from the Future
Street Level Gallery Highwood, Illinois

Actual Size
Detroit Contemporary Detroit, Michigan
2000 Past, Present, Future - DAM 2000
Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Actual Size
Detroit Contemporary Detroit, Michigan

German Art / Michigan Art
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan

1999 Content Contained
Ann Arbor Art Center Ann Arbor, Michigan

Body and Soul
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan

Documenta
Museum of Contemporary Art Ponticac, Michigan
Traveling exhibit

1998 Undefining Sculpture
Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan

Assemblage
CCS Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan

1997 Beneath Nature
Buckham Gallery Flint, Michigan

Sculpture Pontiac ’97
Indoor / Outdoor Sculpture Show Pontiac, Michigan
Co-curator

Suspended in Space
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan

1996 Celebrate Michigan Artists
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan Third Place Award

Out of Solitude
Michigan Gallery Detroit, Michigan

In Residence
Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan

Art from Detroit
Western Illinois University Gallery Macomb, Illinois

Michigan Fine Arts Competition
Birmingham–Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, Michigan Honorable Mention

1995 The Holiday Show
CCS Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan

These Animals May Appear Tame
The Gallery at Marygrove College Detroit, Michigan

Michigan Annual XXIII
Mount Clemens Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan President’s Award

1994 Artist’s Books
Artist’s Cooperative, The Detroit, Michigan
Curator

Weapons and Playthings
Artist’s Cooperative, The Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit Show
Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan

1993 Transforming Ideas
Michigan Gallery Detroit, Michigan

Honor the Earth
Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan

1991 Hard Choices
Michigan Gallery Detroit, Michigan


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/GRANTS/COMMISSIONS

2010 Artist Talk & Demo – Soft Sculpture Class
College for Creative Studies Detroit, Michigan

Juror
Macomb Community College Student Exhibit

Juror - Blooms, Bugs & Beasts
The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan

2009 Juror – Mount Clemens Art Fair
Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan

2008 Guest Reviewer, Senior Critiques
Adrian College Adrian, Michigan

2007 Juror
Lenawee County Annual Show Adrian, Michigan

Juror
Flint Street Gallery 12 x 12 Show Lake Orion, Michigan

2006 Artist Talk
Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan

Artist’s Choice Presentation
Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan

Guest Reviewer, Senior Critiques
Adrian College Adrian, Michigan

2003 Artist Demonstration
Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan

1997 Sculpture Pontiac ‘97
Co-curated a multi-site indoor/outdoor sculpture exhibit in
Pontiac, Michigan

1996 Putting Grapes Back On The Vine
Sculpture installation in Grand Circus Park and on DIA lawn
Art On The Move 1996 Artist Residencies Detroit, Michigan

MCACA / Detroit Council of the Arts Minigrant
for publication of two special issues of Ground Up, a journal
devoted to the visual arts in Detroit and surrounding areas

1995 The Robber’s Nightmare
Set design and construction commission
Prospero Theater Company at the Performance Network Ann Arbor, Michigan

1994 Asylum/Asylum
Set design and construction commission
Prospero Theater Company at The Performance Network Ann Arbor, Michigan

1993 Pepsi Art Fence
Designed and painted 8’ by 160’ outdoor mural - commission
Department of Natural Resources / Michigan State Fair Grounds Detroit, Michigan

An Evening in the Death of Enrique Miasmo
Set design and construction commission
Prospero Theater Company at The Performance Network Ann Arbor, Michigan


PUBLICATIONS

City of Possibilities – Exhibit shows why Berliners embrace motor city
Mazzei, Rebecca Metro Times, July 23, 2008

Berlin and Detroit swap artists
Hodges, Michael H. The Detroit News, July 3, 2003

Changing Cities: Berlin to Detroit - Detroit welcomes Berlin artists to the Museum of New Art
Voss, Elizabeth H. Crain’s Detroit Business - Detroit Make It Here.com

Tip of the Week - Changing Cities: Detroit
Wise, David Mark New City Chicago, March 5, 2008

Windy City trade – Area artists send their works to Chicago gallery for art exchange
Voss, Elizabeth H. The Oakland Press, February 24, 2008

Azutunarasharedo
Sousanis, Nick TheDetroiter.com, October 12, 2007

3 planets in one night
Mazzei, Rebecca Metro Times, September 26, 2007

Playing with Dolls
Deb King markszine.com, June, 2006

All dolled up: The elusive air of Mary Fortuna’s art
Mannisto, Glen Metro Times, September 20, 2006

Unique display is as different as night and day
Hakanson Colby, Joy Detroit News, February 15, 2003

Naturists
Mannisto, Glen Metro Times, April 24, 2002

4 shows plus novel seating
Guten Cohen, Keri Detroit Free Press, April 21, 2002

Unusual parts are added together to make a surreal, humorous whole sculpture
Hakanson Colby, Joy Detroit News, April12, 2002

A Future on Woodward
Guten Cohen, Keri Detroit Free Press, June 4, 2000

Mary Fortuna – Memory Lapse; Robert Taormina – The Event Horizon
Castile, Kevin Ground Up #5, July 1995

Artists put the problem of abuse in sharp focus
Miro, Marsha Detroit Free Press, July, 1994

A.C.,T. encourages energetic new artists by giving their work a venue
Hakanson Colby, Joy Detroit News, July 1994

8 female artists put attitude in their work
Miro, Marsha Detroit Free Press, November, 1994


COLLECTIONS

Dr. Jan and Sheila van der Marck Huntington Woods, Michigan
Dr. Terry and Meryl Podolski Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Dr. Rudolf Sagmeister, Curator, KUB Bregenz, Austria
Kenneth Neumann, Neumann/Smith Associates Architects Southfield, Michigan
Rick Carmody, Au Courant Design Huntington Woods, Michigan
Giorgio Gikas, Venus Bronze Works Detroit, Michigan
Dan Graschuck Detroit, Michigan
Ken and Mary Thompson Blissfield, Michigan
Skip Davis Southfield, Michigan
Dawn Badger Rochester Hills, Michigan
Aaron Timlin Ferndale, Michigan
Yoriko Cronin Farmington, Michigan
Marilyn Trent Rochester, Michigan
Valerie Parks Beverly Hills, Michigan
Christine Hagedorn Troy, Michigan
Madeline Nelson Chicago, Illinois
Steve Magsig & Janet Hamrick Ferndale, Michigan
Robert Bielat Ferndale, Michigan
Todd Erickson Redford, Michigan
Marsha Friedman West Bloomfield, Michigan
Douglas Bulka Detroit, Michigan
Margot Delido Ferndale, Michigan
Jane Shapiro Chesapeke, Virginia
Robert Tucker Rancho Mirage, California
Joe & Wendy Davis Chicago, Illinois
Pat Ferrill Farmington Hills, Michigan
S. Kay Young Madison Heights, Michigan
Doug Bulka Detroit, Michigan