Myra Mimlitsch-Gray

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA from Philadelphia College of Art. She lives and works in the Hudson Valley in New York and is Professor of Metal at State University of New York at New Paltz.

Mimlitsch-Gray is an American Craft Council Fellow. She was recently awarded Master of the Medium by the James Renwick Alliance. Mimlitsch-Gray has received numerous awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and Chancellors Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in the collections of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (NY), Detroit Institute of Arts (MI), Museum of Art and Design (NY), National Museums of Scotland, and the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK).

Mimlitsch-Gray’s work interrogates the precious, the crafted, and the domestic object. During her Arts/Industry residency she experimented with archetypal forms and their relationship to industry, domesticity, and social circumstance.