BACKGROUND

• Born in Warsaw, NY; lives and works in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, NY

• Studio: 62 18th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

 

EDUCATION

2009 Master of Science in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

2005 Master of Arts in Art Education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1998 Bachelor of Arts in Art, University of Charleston

 

GROUP

2022 Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, NJ

2021 Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, NJ

2018 Surface 7, ARENA at Brooklyn Dermatology, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Re: Re: Patterns, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Colorless, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO

2018 Three Squared, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2018 On Site, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Circular, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2018 Chromalicious, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2018 Superfine! NYC, New York, NY

2017 Art from the Boros V, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY

2017 Brave New Work, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2017 PORTAL Art Fair, New York, NY

2016 Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY

2016 Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2016 Brooklyn Art Space Members’ Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Fiber Art International, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

2012 Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Hard Twist 7: Touch Me, Feel Me, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

2011 Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber, World Financial Center, New York, NY

2010 Hard Twist 5: Chroma, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

2010 Collective Thread, University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art & Design, Warrensburg, MO

2007 Bridge Art Fair Miami, Catalina Hotel, Miami, FL

2007 Fiber Focus, Art Saint Louis, MO

2007 New Frontiers, Art House, McAllen, TX

2007 Nothing New: Fiber Art from Recycled Material, Textile Center of Minnesota, MN

2007 Stretching the Threads, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2007 Art Reincarnated, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN

2007 Painted Tongue: Union of Art and Word, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL

2007 A Common Thread, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

2007 Handcrafted, Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC

2006 Heavenly Bodies, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI

2006 Forms, Figures, Symbols, Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts, Pagosa Springs, CO

2006 Aha! Epiphanies and Breakthroughs, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL

2005 Looking Back/Leaping Forward: Metamorphosis, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005 Skin Deep, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

ONE + TWO PERSON

2008 Domestic Sunshine, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2007 Installation, Art on Armitage, Chicago, IL

2003 Marcy and Chris Sperry: Selected Works, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002 Marcy and Chris Sperry: Artificial Nature, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Jersey City Times - 11 Must-See Exhibitors at Art Fair 14C, November 13, 2021

• Arts Gowanus - GOS 2017 Top 10 Can’t Miss Studios, October 2017

• Hyperallergic -  Passing Through Portal, an Unpretentious Art Fair in Soho, May 2, 2017

• Blasting News - Interview with Artist Marcy Sperry, October 2, 2016

• Gothamist - Photo, September 4, 2016

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Fiberart International 2013 Adds to the Global Art Feel, April 28, 2013

• The Globe and Mail - January Blahs, January 7, 2011

 

GRANTS + AWARDS

2007 Community Arts Assistance Program grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018 Artist Talk at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2016 Artist Talk at 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2004 Teaching Assistant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

COLLECTIONS

Agnes Gund, AG Rosen, Dee Shapiro, Renee Ricardo and Paul Laster, numerous other private collections