Mary Finlayson

b. 1982, Victoria, BC

Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2023 JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming) 

2023 Zinc Contemporary, Seattle, WA (forthcoming) 

2022 Guy Hepner Editions, (forthcoming) New York, NY 

2021    From the Inside, Zinc Contemporary, Seattle, WA

2021    Life as an Indoor Cat, Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA

2019    Interiors, Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2022 Friends and Family Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 

2022    Lush II, Hashimoto Contemporary, NY, NY

2020    Community, Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA

            Not too Big, Not too Small, Zinc Gallery, Seattle, WA

            The Back Room, JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York, NY

2018    Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

            Beginnings, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes CA, 2018 

            Pattern Recognition, Woskob Gallery, Pittsburg, PA

East Cut Art Exhibit, San Francisco, CA

2017 Relish Exhibition, Gross, San Francisco, CA

2017 LA Artcore 3rd Annual Exhibition, LA ArtCore, Los Angeles CA

2010 Permanent Collection, Bohemia Gallery Ashland, OR

2009 On the Rise, On the Rise Artist Collective, Vancouver, B.C

2009 Group Works, Gropp Gallery, Vancouver, B.C 

2009 The Drift, Jem Gallery, Vancouver, B.C

2009 Longing, CityScape, North Vancouver, B.C

Art Fairs

2022 Toronto Art Fair, Bau-xi Gallery (forthcoming) 

2022 Seattle Art Fair, Zinc Contemporary

2022   San Francisco Art Market, Maybaum Gallery

2022   Affordable Art Fair, NY, JoAnne Artman Gallery

2021   Miami Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery 

2021   Affordable Art Fair, NY, JoAnne Artman Gallery

2020   CONTEXT, Art Miami, JoAnne Artman Gallery 

2020   Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, Seattle, Zinc Gallery

2019   Superfine Art Fair,  Los Angeles, CA

2018   Startup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA 

Commissions

2022    Google, San Francisco, CA

2021    Asana, San Francisco, CA

2019    Facebook, San Mateo, CA

2019    Google, San Francisco, CA

            Anthropologie, Philadelphia, PA

Mohawk, San Francisco, CA

2018 CANOPY, San Francisco, CA

Of a Kind, Chicago, IL 

Residencies

2019     Facebook AIR Program, San Francisco, CA

             New Company, San Francisco, CA

2018     CANOPY, San Francisco, CA

2017     OTIS College, Los Angeles, CA

2017     Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VA

Publications

2019 Bludoor Magazine, The Case for Color: Art, Design and Architecture at the JoAnne Artman Galleries

2019 Dwell Magazine: Artist Mary Finlayson’s Vibrant San Francisco Home Celebrates Color in a Big Way

2019 Art & Object: 5 Artists Bringing Diversity to Superfine! Los Angeles, featured artist 

2019 Financial Times: The best satellite fairs to visit during Frieze LA, featured artist 

2019 Of a Kind: An Artist's Guide to Doing San Francisco's North Beach Right

2019 Bob Cut Magazine: Painter and Printmaker Mary Finlayson Gives Us A Tour Of Her “Interiors”

2018 Honestly WTF: Painted Mary

2018 Rare Device Featured Artist: Interview with Mary Finlayson of Painted Mary

2018 Of a Kind: Meet the Designer, Painted Mary

2018 Mohawk Magazine Inside the Studio

2018 Renegade Featured Artist: Maker Spotlight

2018 The CONTEXT. Mary Finlayson: An Evolved Painter

2018 Wit & Delight: The Best Places to Find Affordable Art these Days, featured artist

2017 RELISH VOL.1 San Francisco Bay Area by GRØSS Magazine

Education

2010     University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Art Education, Vancouver, B.C.

2007     Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, Graduate Diploma Art Therapy, Vancouver, B.C.

2004     Queen’s University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kingston ON.