Professional Activity

Large-scale works in the Anastylosis Project:

• Façade (Chartres Cathedral) - Chartres, France, 14' x 10' - mixed media, 1999-2000.
• Anastylosis – Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 32' x 8' - mixed media, 2001-02.
• Thatbyinnyu Temple – Bagan, Burma, 8' x 7' - mixed media, 2003.
• El Palacio del Gobernador – Uxmal, Mexico, 10' x 3' - mixed media, 2005.
• Ulu Camii – Divrigi, Turkey, 10' x 8' - mixed media, 2006-07.
• Borgund Stavekirke – Norway, 40" x 60" - mixed media, 2008.
• Dark Light – Borgund Stav Church, Norway, 40" x 60" - mixed media, 2008.
• El Castillo – Chichen Itza, Mexico, 10.5' x 4.5' - mixed media, 2009.
• Agios Dimitrios – Thessaloniki, Greece, 12' x 9' - mixed media, 2010-11.
• Franziskanerkirche – Salzburg, Austria, 36" x 48" - mixed media, 2012.
• The Marble Carpet – San Marco, Venice, 10' x 18' - mixed media, 2013-15.
• The Ocean Floor – San Marco, Venice, Italy, 10' x 18' - mixed media, 2015-16.
• El Baptistero de San Giovanni – Florence, Italy. 70" x 72" - mixed media, 2017.
• Santa Maria Assunta - Palermo, Sicily, 84" x 79" - mixed media, 2017-2018.
• La Giralda – Sevilla, Spain, 2.5’ x 14’ – mixed media, 2018.
• Palimpsest (Notre Dame du Chartres) - Chartres, France, 16' x 9' - mixed media, 2019-2022.
• Pitaka Taik (Library of Buddhist Scriptures) - Bagan, Burma, 64" x 74" -  mixed media, 2019.
• Hmannan Yazawin (The Glass Palace) - Bagan, Burma, 8' x 7' - mixed media, 2020.
• The 37 Nats (The Shwezigon Pagoda) - Bagan, Burma, 30" x 22" - mixed media artist book, 2021-2022.

Selected Works and Exhibitions

2026 - Juried Exhibition - Open Loop 2026 - Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2026 - Solo Exhibition - Revisionist History: Chartres Cathedral - John P. Monahan Gallery, University of St. Thomas
2025 - Permanent Installation - Anastylosis (Angkor Wat) - Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2025 - Image included in The Story of the Interior by Graeme Brooker - Published by Thames and Hudson, London
2023 - Placement of the Anastylosis Project archive with the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
2021 - Commission - Tell Me a Story - University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
2019 – Solo Exhibition. Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
2018 - Solo exhibition. University of Northern Iowa
2017 – Invitational exhibition - There is a Ladder – Anderson Residency Center, Red Wing, Minnesota
2016 – Solo exhibition - Mary Griep: Anastylosis Project 1998-2016 – Flaten Museum of Art, St. Olaf College – Exhibition audio tour
2015 – Dubuque Museum of Art – Biennial
2014 – The Studio Sessions – Minnesota Museum of American Art
2013 – Artist Residency - The Anderson Center, Red Wing, Minnesota
2012 – Solo Exhibition - The Art Center of Highland Park, Illinois
2012 – Solo Exhibition - St. Catherine University
2012 – Invitational Exhibition - Intersections – Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2010 – ArtPrize International Exhibition, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2010 – Dubuque Museum of Art – Solo Exhibition
2010 – Minnetonka Center for the Arts Biennial
2010 - Southeast Minnesota Regional Juried Art Exhibition
2010 – Macalester College Invitational
2009 – Vital Culture – Gallery 13, Minneapolis
2008 – Anastylosis 2007-9 - Groot Gallery - St. Olaf College
2008 – Sacred Sites/Sacred Sights: Architecture, Ethics and Spiritual Geographies – exhibition in conjunction with symposium, University of Minnesota
2007 – Anastylosis – Minneapolis Institute of Art
2006 – Exhibition – Rochester (MN) Art Center
2005 – Richardson Asian Art Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2004 – Joint exhibition – Flaten Museum, St. Olaf College
2003 – Solo Exhibition – Chiang Mai Center of Arts and Culture, Thailand
2003 – Solo Exhibition –Remembrance Drawings, Plains Art Museum
2002 – Solo Exhibition – U. S. Consulate, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2001 – Solo Exhibition – Anderson Center, Red Wing, Minnesota
2001 – Minnesota State Fair, Drawing Juror
2000 - Solo Exhibition - Intersections - Chiang Mai Contemporary Art Museum
2000 - Solo Exhibition - Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis
2000 - Arte Sagrado - Austin, Texas
1999 - Of Landscape, Space and Cathedrals - St. Olaf College
1999 - Sacred Arts Festival - St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota
1998 - National Juried Exhibition - The Spiritual in Art. Columbus, Ohio
1996 - Circus Hippolyta, Steensland Art Museum, St. Olaf College
1996 - Southeastern Minnesota Juried Exhibition, Rochester Art Center
1996 - Group Exhibition, Hamline University, St. Paul
1995 - Group Exhibition, Bridge Square Gallery, Northfield
1995 - Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis
1994 - Faculty Exhibition, Steensland Art Museum
1994 - Two works chosen for Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State
1993 - Group Exhibition, MC Gallery, Minneapolis
1993 - Northfield Artists Exhibition , Bridge Square Gallery
1993 - Invitational, Macalester College
1992 - Solo Exhibition, Hamline University
1991 - Faculty Exhibition, Steensland Art Museum
1991 - New Works, Solo Exhibition Mongerson Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990 - The Figure in American Art, Invitational, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul
1990 - Solo Exhibition, Mongerson Wunderlich Gallery
1988-1993 - Navy Pier International Art Expo, Chicago, Illinois - Represented by Mongerson Wunderlich Gallery
1987 - Recent Paintings, Solo Exhibition, MC Gallery
1987 - Furniture as Metaphor, Invitational Exhibition, Rochester Art Center
1985 - The New Land, Two-person Exhibition, MC Gallery
1985 - Invitational, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1985 - Invitational, Macalester College
1984 - Beyond Folk, Invitational Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
1984 - Ghosts and Dirty Linen, Solo Exhibition, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul
1984 - Vermillion Touch, Print Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
1983 - Directions in Paper, Invitational, St. Paul
1982 - Paperwork, Solo Exhibition, Suzanne Kohn Gallery, St. Paul
1982 - Young Minnesota Artists, University of Minnesota Art Museum
1981 - American Art: The Challenge of the Land, Juried Exhibition, Minneapolis
1981 - Invitational Exhibition, Art Museum of Kuopio, Finland
1980 - The Empress' New Clothes, Solo Exhibition, Suzanne Kohn Gallery
1979 - Art in Corporate Collections, Invitational, Minneapolis
1979&80 - Invitational, Friends of the Minneapolis Institute
1978 - Portfolio 15, Invitational, Minneapolis
1977 - Solo Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
1975 - Northern Lights, Juried Exhibition, St. Paul

Selected Works in the Collections of:

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN.
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN.
US Consulate, Chiang Mai Thailand.
Art Museum of Kuopio, Finland.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN.
Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Minneapolis, MN. Collection of the Publisher.
Padilla, Speer, Beardsley, Inc., New York and Minneapolis Offices.
Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, MN.
Banco, Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN.
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
Hammel, Green & Abrahamson, Architects, Minneapolis, MN.
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA.
Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
United States Veterans Administration. Washington, DC.
Government of Finland, New York Consulate.
La Escuela de Diseño, La Romana, Dominican Republic.
Ucross Foundation, Ucross Wyoming.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
Union League Club, Chicago, IL.
Union Center Plaza, Washington, DC.
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

Artist Residencies

Artist in Residence – Kunstlerhaus, Saltzburg, Austria. 2012
Visiting Artist, Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture, Payap University,
Chiang Mai, Thailand. 2001-03.
Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN 2001.
Artist-in-Residence, Holden Village, Chelan Washington, 1993.
Artist-in-Residence, College of St. Catherine, 1993.
Visiting Artist, Miles City, Montana, 1986.
Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, 1985.
Artist-in-Residence, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming. 1984.
Artist-in-Residence, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 1983

Selected Awards:

McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship, 2019.
St. Olaf College Faculty Development Grant for research in Sicily, 2016.
St. Olaf College Faculty Development Grant for study in India, 2011.
Nygaard Foundation Grant for research and study in Norway, 2008.
Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Initiative Grant, 2007.
Associated Colleges of the Midwest – FaCE Grant for study in Turkey, 2007.
Summer Opportunity Grant, St. Olaf College to study Mayan Temples of Yucatan as part of the Anastylosis Series, 2005.
Untenured Faculty Release Time Grant - St. Olaf College, 1995.
Minnesota State Arts Board, Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting, 1989.
Minnesota State Arts Board, Sudden Opportunity Grant, 1986.
Jerome Foundation Purchase Award, Young Minnesota Artists , 1982.
Purchase Award, American Art: The Challenge of the Land 1981.
Purchase Award, Portfolio 15, 1978.