Marilyn Banner -

STATEMENT

THROUGHLINES

themes and images recurring in my work over decades

Body, Darkness, Earth, Guardians, Spirit

I am interested in the relationship of resonant found objects – both natural and human-made – to body and to deep personal/ancestral memory. I respond to those objects, pick them up, hold them in my hands. In my art I work with the energy I sense in those things.

I might begin with a drawing of a sea bass skull or an African mask. A beautiful twig or lobster claw might inspire the next. I work until the drawing mirrors something “real” back to me, an inner truth.

It is then that I see the connections of my drawing to the world inside me and the world around me, to my own history and to the present time and place.

7502 Flower Avenue
Takoma Park, MD
@marilynbannerart
www.marilynbanner.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND MAJOR INSTALLATIONS

2026 Throughlines/Ceres Gallery, New York City
2025 New Work/M.David & Co at ArtCake, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Connections: Lost and Found/Ceres Gallery, New York City
2023 Just Walking/Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, Mass
2023 Remnants/As Far Back as Memory Reaches, Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA
2021 Claiming Space/Ceres Gallery, New York City
2019 Grounding/Ceres Gallery, New York City
2018 Flow/Artists&Makers Gallery/Rockville MD
2017 Still at the Edge/Ceres Gallery, New York City
2016 At the Edge/Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
2016 Watermarks/Adkins Arboretum Gallery, Ridgeley, MD
2016 Sands of Time/Northern Virginia JCC, Annandale, VA
2015 Shoreline/Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY
2015 When Looking Down Becomes Up/McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA
2014 H2O/Marymount University/Arlington, VA (2 person)
2013 Wind and Water/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Spring/James Madison U. Edith C. Carrier Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
2013 Rhythm and Resonance/Levine School of Music, Wash. DC
2012 Light/Flow/Resonance/Carroll Community College, Westminster, MD
2011 A Sense of Place/Adkins Arboretum Gallery, Ridgely, MD
2011 A Sense of Place/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Sacred Ground/Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
2009 Sacred Ground/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Scenes of Childhood/Georgetown University Lombardi Center, Wash. DC
2006 Soul Ladders/Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA
2006 Still With Us/Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD
2004 Rainforest Memories/Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington, DC
2003 I Am One/Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center, Fairfax, VA
2002 Still With Us/Paul Peck Humanities Institute/Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2001 Still With Us/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Darkness into Light, Greenbelt Art Center, Greenbelt, MD
1998 Ladders of Light/Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
1998 Ladders of Light/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Presence of Spirit/Georgetown University Lombardi Center, Wash. DC
1997 Ladders of Light/Art Space, Richmond, VA
1996 Presence of Spirit/CERES, New York, NY
1994 Overview/Glenview Mansion Gallery, Rockville, MD
1993 Soul Ladders/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Retrospective/Loyola College Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1993 As Far Back as Memory Reaches/retrospective/DCAC, Wash. DC
1990 Spirit Soundings/ Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD
1990 Rituals/Rights and Relics/C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH
1988 Skin: Beneath the Surface/School 33, Baltimore, MD and
1988 Skin: Beneath the Surface/Gallery 10, Wash DC
1986 In Search of Cambridge Springs/Edinboro University of PA, Edinboro, PA
1986 Passage: The Soul’s Journey, Capital Center, Lanham, MD

SELECTED 2 PERSON and GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Symbiosis, Adkins Arboretum Gallery, Ridgely, MD 2 person with Mary McCoy
2025 Next to you next to me, Farm Projects, Wellfleet MA
2025 Dioramas in Dialogue, Outsider Art Fair /M.David & Co, New York City, NY
2024 Diversity of Women’s Voices, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2023 Terra inFirma, traveling exhibition since 2019, Laura Kruger, Curator
2023 Black and White Thinking, Ceres Gallery, New York City
2022 Symbiosis, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD. 2 person with Mary McCoy
2022 What is Ours/ Sandy Spring Museum, Olney MD
2021 Jewish Authenticity and Identity, Adas Israel Synagogue, Washington DC Ori Z Soltes, Curator
2019 BMRE Bienniel Juried Exhibition/UMGC, Adelphi MD
2019 A Sense of Place in Contemporary Encaustic/Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
2018 Terra inFirma/Bernard Heller Museum of HUC, NYC Laura Kruger, Curator
2018 The Art of Stewardship/ RiverArts, Chestertown MD
2018 One House/ Blackrock Center for the Arts/Germantown, MD
2017 One House/ Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
2017 Sense of Place/ Castle Hill Gallery, Truro MA Patricia Miranda, Juror
2016 RiverArts Invitational/ RiverArts Gallery, Chestertown, MD
2015 Invitational/Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
2015 One Plus One/ “A” Gallery, Provincetown MA
2015 Summer Serenade/Ceres Gallery, NYC
2015 Fusion/Offline at Central Booking/ New York City, NY
2013 Ancestors, Guardians, and Guide/ Sumner School Museum, Wash. DC
2013 Cherishing the Legacy/ Corcoran Museum, Washington DC
2013 Transformed/ Blackrock Art Center/ Germantown MD (4 person)
2013 Envision/ Ice House Gallery/ Berkeley Springs, WVA
2013 Natura Viva/ ArtCurrent Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 Meet My Uterus/ Ceres Gallery, NYC
2012 Re:Sources /Using Our Resources, Sandy Spring Museum, Olney MD
2012 Envision/ Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
2012 Women and Wax/ Glenview Mansion Gallery, Rockville, MD
2012 Inside/Outside/ Ceres Gallery, New York City
2011 Exploring New Dimensions/ Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
2011 Beeline/ Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 Sanctuaries in Time/ Barnard College, New York City
2011 Women’s Nature/ Ceres Gallery, New York City
2010 WCA Group Show/ Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick MD
2010 Some Notion of Perfection/ Ceres Gallery, New York City
2010 VMRC National Juried Show, Harrisonburg, VA
2010 This is Our Body/ poet/artist collaboration,Takoma Park Com. Center, Tak. Pk, MD
2010 Drawing the Line/ National WCA/JWAN, Beverly Arts Center of Chicago
2010 Body Mind Spirit/, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
2010 Personal Armor (2)/ Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown
2009 Hot for Wax/ York Arts, York PA
2009 Personal Armor: Artists Look at Aprons/ Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA
2008 On the Edge/ Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2008 My Space on 7^th/Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2008 VMRC National Juried Show/ Harrisonburg, VA
2008 The Fine Art of Freedom/ Baltimore JCC, Baltimore, MD
2008 Letter Carriers, Shooting Star Gallery, Suffolk VA
2008 New Work/ Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD 3 person show

AWARDS/ HONORS/ FELLOWSHIPS

2012 Art Cart/Saving the Legacy, Washington DC
2012 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1992-2012: Ten Fellowship Residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
2000 Inclusion in Who’s Who of American Women, 57 ed.
1999 Corinne Mitchell Award, Women’s Caucus for Art/DC Area chapter
1990 Best of Show Cash Award/Matrix Gallery/Sacramento, CA
1986 Best of Show/MLK Gallery Washington, DC
1982 MSEd Thesis with Honors, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1967 Provincetown Workshop Scholarship, Provincetown, MA
1964 Full Scholarship, Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO

EDUCATION

Massachusetts College of Art (MSEd 1982); Washington University (BFA 1968); Queens College, CUNY (1968-69); Montgomery College; University of Maryland (teacher certification, K-12); Corcoran School of Art; R&F Encaustics; Yellow Chair Salon

SELECTED ARTS ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION

Co-Founder and Chairman, Washington Musica Viva Arts and Performance Project: 1998- present, Group Leader and East Coast Regional Coordinator for No Limits for Women in the Arts from 1987-2002; Conference Co-chair, National Women’s Caucus for Art 1991 conference, Panel Chair, WCA National Conference in 1992, Juror for BEAMS State Exhibition in Baltimore, 1992, Curator: Frankly Female, 2004, at The Collector in DC; Curator: “Strong Work, Hot Topics”, 2006 at Prince Georges Community College in Laurel, MD

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY

Farm Projects Print Room, Wellfleet MA