Mary Miss (American, born 1944)

Mary Miss was born in 1944 in New York. She received her B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1966 and her M.F.A at Maryland Art Institute in 1968. Her early landscape works dealt primarily with the measurement of distances in relation to a specific location in a temporal work. Later works draw on the architecture, landscape design, gardens and history of worldwide cultures. Miss has collaborated closely with architects, planners, engineers, ecologists and public administrators on diverse projects. A recipient of multiple awards, Miss has been the subject of exhibitions at the Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge; the Brown University Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Architectural Association, London; Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design; and the Des Moines Art Center.