Mary Fortuna
EDUCATION
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
Foundry Workshop 1993 – 1996
EMPLOYMENT / PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Education Coordinator 2000 – 2004
Exhibitions Director 2004 to April 2014
Contemporary Arts Council/Art Detroit Now 2009 – 2012
Detroit Artist’s Market Exhibition Advisory Committee – 1998 – 1999
Detroit Institute of Arts/Friends of Modern Art Forum for Contemporary Art 1995 – 1997
Detroit Focus Exhibition Committee – 1994 –1996
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Exhibition Committee – 1997 – 1999
Ground Up, Bi–Monthly Arts Journal Founder, Editor 1995 – 1998
Artists Cooperative, The (A.C.,T.) President 1992 –1993; Secretary 1993 – 1994
2024
Tree of Life: Connecting the World
Glen Arbor Art Center
Glen Arbor, Michigan
Nostalgia & Outrage
Oakland University Art Gallery
Rochester Hills, Michigan
The Flood May Bear Me Far
KicstArt Gallery
Farmington, Michigan
2023
Great Bodies
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
2022
Printmaking in the Twenty First Century
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, Michigan
Confluent: Detroit Art and the University Art Collection
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
2021
Life is But a Dream
Galerie Camille
Detroit, Michigan
Faces
Public Pool
Hamtramck, Michigan
Personal Myths, Tales and Icons
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
2019
On Press – Printmaking Residency Invitational
Signal Return
Detroit, Michigan
Modern Female Archetypes
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
2018
Dia des Los Muertos
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
2017
Sacred Spaces
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
Kovan/Fortuna/Songer
Oliver Art Center
Frankfort, Michigan
2016
Myths of the North Woods
Charlevoix Circle of Art
2015
Mythos
ArtNxT Gallery
Birmingham, Michigan
2013
She Towers Above
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Birmingham, MI
2006
New Work
Flatlanders
Blissfield, Michigan
2003
Recent Works – Mary Fortuna and Jo Powers
BBAC
Birmingham, Michigan
2002
Hanging Garden
Detroit Contemporary
Detroit, Michigan
1995
Memory Lapse and The Event Horizon with Robert Taormina
Willis Gallery
Detroit, Michigan
1993
Terrors of the Flesh with Dave Roberts
Willis Gallery
Detroit, Michigan
1992
On and Off the Wall Artist’s Cooperative, The
Detroit, Michigan
Selected Group Shows
2018
BIG GROUP/small works
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
Chasing the Running Stitch
Charlevoix Circle of Arts
Charlevoix, Michigan
Peaceable Kingdom
Higher Art Gallery and
Michigan Artists Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
Gilda Snowden Exhibition
The Scarab Club
Detroit, Michigan
First Place Award
Artists Who Stitch
Detroit Artists Market
Detroit, Michigan
2017
Kovan/Fortuna/Songer
Oliver Art Center
Frankfurt, Michigan
Sacred Spaces
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs and Beasts
The Scarab Club
Detroit, Michigan
Map Art – Points of Interest
Charlevoix Circle of Arts
Charlevoix, Michigan
Lounge of Saturn
Popps Packing
Hamtramck, Michigan
2016
100×100: 100 Sculptors
Ella Sharp Museum
Jackson, Michigan
Insane
TOCA
Chicago, Illinois
Myths of the North Woods
Charlevoix Circle of Arts
Charlevoix, Michigan
Borders
River House Arts at Owens Community College
Toledo, Ohio
Detroit Little Libraries
MOCAD Mobile Homestead
Detroit, Michigan
The Dark Side
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Birmingham, Michigan
Traverse Higher Art Exhibition
ECCO Center
Traverse City, Michigan
Gallery Artist
Higher Art Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
Gallery Artist
Michigan Artists Gallery
Traverse City, Michigan
2015
It’s Like Toys In Here
Detroit Artists Market
Detroit, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts
The Scarab Club
Detroit, Michigan
Women’s Group Invitational
Ellen Kayrod Gallery
Detroit, Michigan
2014
New Strategies – The Chess Show
Popp’s Packing
Hamtramck, Michigan
If You Build It
Detroit Artists Market
Detroit, Michigan
Forced Collaboration
Popp’s Packing
Hamtramck, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts
The Scarab Club
Detroit, Michigan
DAM Garden Party
Detroit Artists Market
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit @ CTAC
Crooked Tree Art Center
Petoskey, Michigan
2013
U Build It
Public Pool
Hamtramck, Michigan
Under the [Inspired] Influence
Northville Art House
Northville, Michigan
Group Show
Buckham Gallery
Flint, Michigan
Detroit Collective
work: Detroit Gallery
Detroit, Michigan
2012
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby
MOCAD
Detroit Michigan; Traveling exhibit
Weasel Camp 3
Flatlanders
Blissfield, Michigan
Natural Structures
K & K Entenmann Gallery
Esslingen, Germany
2011
Slippery Weasel Society: Seven Cass Cafe
Detroit, Michigan
2010
In Spite of the Evidence
The Gallery Project
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Weasel Camp 2
Popp’s Packing
Hamtramck, Michigan
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby
Traveling Exhibit-Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection
Chicago, Illinois
Detroit Works
Media Nox Gallery
Maribor, Slovenia
International Bongo Bongo Brigade
Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art
Prague, Czech Republic
2009
Year of the Weasel Scarab Club
Detroit, Michigan
Changing Cities: Pure Detroit Art Channel Gallery
Beijing, China
Aus Detroit Museum of New Art
Pontiac, Michigan
Vienna Art Fair With Galerie Lisi Hammerle
Vienna, Austria
Collected Anton Art Center
Mount Clemens, Michigan
2008
Changing Cities: Made in Detroit
Galerie Eva Bracke
Berlin, Germany
Changing Cities: Detroit – Bregenz
Galerie Lisi Hammerle
Bregenz, Austria
Changing Cities
Museum of New Art
Pontiac, Michigan
Changing Cities: Detroit
Three Walls
Chicago, Illinois
Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition
Bohemian National Home
Detroit, Michigan
2007
Azutunarasharedo
Zeitgeist Gallery
Detroit, Michigan
Harvest
Alley Culture
Detroit, Michigan
2005
Wall to Wall Sculpture Invitational
Flatlanders
Blissfield, Michigan
2004
Group Show
Street Level Gallery
Highwood, Illinois
2003
DAM Members Invitational
Detroit Artist’s Market
Detroit, Michigan
Selecti
Detroit Artist’s Market
Detroit, Michigan
Alumni Exhibit: Cardew, Fortuna, Peet
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
8 Mile – Detroit Relics from the Future
Street Level Gallery
Highwood, Illinois
2000
Past, Present, Future – DAM 2000
Detroit Artist’s Market
Detroit, Michigan
German Art / Michigan Art
Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Rochester, Michigan
1999
Content Contained
Ann Arbor Art Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
1998
Undefining Sculpture
Detroit Artist’s Market
Detroit, Michigan
Assemblage
CCS Center Galleries
Detroit, Michigan
1997
Beneath Nature
Buckham Gallery
Flint, Michigan
Sculpture Pontiac ’97 – Co-curator
0various Pontiac Locations
Pontiac, Michigan
1996
In Residence
Detroit Artist’s Market
Detroit, Michigan
Art from Detroit
Western Illinois University Gallery
Macomb, Illinois
Michigan Fine Arts Competition
Birmingham–Bloomfield Art Center
Birmingham, Michigan
Honorable Mention
1995
The Holiday Show
CCS Center Galleries
Detroit, Michigan
These Animals May Appear Tame
with Matthew Hanna and Anne Lemanski
The Gallery at Marygrove College
Detroit, Michigan
Michigan Annual XXIII
Mount Clemens Art Center
Mount Clemens, Michigan
President’s Award
All Media Juried Exhibit
Detroit Artist’s Market
Detroit, Michigan
1994
Chain Letters
Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Rochester, Michigan
Artist’s Books
Artist’s Cooperative, The
Detroit, Michigan
Curator
Celebrate Michigan Artists
Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Rochester, Michigan
Weapons and Playthings
Artist’s Cooperative, The
Detroit, Michigan
The Detroit Show
Center Galleries
Detroit, Michigan
Feminists Understanding Carnal Knowledge II
Michigan Gallery
Detroit, Michigan
Michigan Fine Arts Competition
Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center
Birmingham, Michigan
Once Upon a Time…Happily Ever After
Galleria Office Center
Southfield, Michigan