ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mary Griep received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Macalester College and a Master of Arts from Hamline University. She is currently based in Northfield, Minnesota. Her work has been shown nationally in exhibitions including Chicago Navy Pier International Art Expositions, as well as solo exhibitions in Texas, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Washington, D.C., the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Plains Museum among many others. Internationally, Griep’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Thailand, Cambodia, Finland, the Dominican Republic, and in the United States’ Art in Embassies Program. In 2025 a large scale print of her drawing of Angkor Wat was permanently installed in the library of the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Phen, Cambodia with the assistance of the U.S. State Department.

Griep has been awarded grants from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board, along with fellowships or residencies from the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria, Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, the state of Montana, the University of South Dakota at Vermilion, the College of St. Catherine, the Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, Minnesota, and the Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her work is part of collections throughout the United States, Thailand, and Cambodia.

THE STUDIO ARCHIVE OF MARY GRIEP 

Since 2025, the University Curator and Visual Resources Curator have been working with Griep to establish her artist archive. This archive will include the extensive supporting materials to the artwork that she has shared around the world. As custodian of Griep’s journals, sketchbooks, research, and drawings, the University of St. Thomas Art Collection will be the primary source for researchers, students, and scholars. Griep’s artwork can be found in collections throughout the United States, Thailand, and Cambodia.