Awards, Exhibitions, and Recognition

2026 - Solo Exhibition - Revisionist History: Chartres Cathedral - John P. Monahan Gallery, University of St. Thomas

2025- Permanent Installation - Anastylosis (Angkor Wat) - As part of a long-term effort to place the Anastylosis drawings, a digital print of the second drawing in the project was placed with the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Staff from the United States Embassy was instrumental in supporting the gift to the people of Cambodia.

2023 - Placement of the Anastylosis Project archive - The University of St. Thomas committed to holding and making publicly available the project archive, including research materials, preliminary drawings and studies, and other materials.

2021 - Commission: Tell Me a Story - Commissioned by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota for the Iverson Center for Faith. Read the St. Thomas news story here.

2019 - McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship - Awarded a 2019 Artist Fellowship to support continued work on the Anastylosis Project. Read the media release here.

Spring 2019 - Solo Exhibition – Wriston Gallery, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin

Winter 2018 - Solo Exhibition – University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa

Spring 2018 - “Displacement Displaced: Drawing on the Past”, Paper and presentation for Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum

Spring 2017 - Public Lecture: Descent into Detail
Mellby Lecture, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

Fall/Winter 2016 - Solo Exhibition - Mary Griep: Anastylosis Project 1998-2016
Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

Summer 2012 - Artist-in-Residence for the City of Salzburg, Austria at the Kunstlerhaus.

2010 - Featured in Minnesota Original, an arts magazine produced by Twin Cities Public Television

Mary Griep

2008 - Nygaard Foundation Grant to support Norwegian research leading to a drawing of a Stav Church

2007 - Anastylosis - Minneapolis Institute of Art

2007 - Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Fellowship

2007 - 2008 - Associated Colleges of the Midwest FaCE Grant for research on the Great Mosque - Divrigi, Turkey

Mary Griep