
January – March 2020 Amazon Artist in Residence
Mandy Greer
Mandy Greer is a Seattle-based multi-disciplinary artist who creates heightened narrative space through fiber-based installation, photography, performance, film and community-based action. In 2012, she was awarded the Arts Innovator Award from Artists Trust/The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation. In 2011 she was awarded the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and an installation at Centro di Cultura Contemporanea at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy. She has been awarded 4Culture Individual artist grants, City Artist Grants and Artist Trust GAP grants multiple times, as well as an Artist Trust Fellowship. In the Northwest, she has shown at Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and Roq la Rue Gallery. Nationally, she has shown at Bucheon Gallery and The Lab Contemporary Art Center, in San Francisco, the Tampa Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, in Portland, Catalyst Project in Washington, D.C. and Aqua Art Miami. She has been featured and reviewed in many publications including the New York Times, Hi-Fructose Magazine, Redefine Magazine, Seattle Magazine, Art Ltd, Art Week, TextilKunst Seattle Magazine and the cover of Fiberarts Magazine. Her ongoing project — site-embedded crocheted installation and community action — Mater Matrix Mother and Medium has traveled from Seattle to Agnus Scott College, Herbert Bayer Earthworks, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NY and traveled the Northwest with the 4 Culture SITE SPECIFIC program.
Since 2012, she’s done residencies in Iceland and France. In Fall 2013, Mandy was invited to create an installation and performance for the international fiber installation exhibition MINIARTEXTIL, in Como Italy. She premiered an elaborate construction engaging with the entire 17th century theater inside Villa Olmo, on the banks of Lake Coma, as well as a haunting performance collaboration with her husband artist Paul Margolis and their child. The installation/performance traveled to Paris in Spring 2014.
In 2014, she premiered new installations, photography and films in a solo exhibition at The Hudson River Museum, NY, which was reviewed in the New York Times, Huffington Post and Hyperallergic.
In 2015, Mandy attended Caldera Artist Residency in Sisters Or. with a New Foundation Residency Grant and support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation.