Swale
2016–2020 · New York City waterways
Ebb of a Spring Tide
2023 · Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Artist · New York
Mary Mattingly’s sculptures, photographs, and participatory ecosystems examine water, land, extraction, and the infrastructures that shape collective life.
2023 Guggenheim Fellow
Collections including the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the New York Public Library
Robert Mann Gallery, New York
Biography + CVCurrent
Floating Garden
Selected works
Public projects that established a continuing inquiry into commons, survival, and ecological infrastructure.
Vanishing Point
2021 · Metal and Focal Point Gallery, Thames Estuary, UK
Along the Lines of Displacement
2018 · Storm King Art Center
Public Water
2021 · More Art, Prospect Park
What Happens After
2018 · BRIC, Brooklyn
Water, time, and transformation
Recent works use tidal systems, salt, plants, vessels, and photographic processes to materialize environmental change.
2001–present
Archive
Public artworks, sculptures, photographs, drawings, research, and collaborative projects.
ArchiveCurrent + recent
All exhibitions + press2026Floating GardenMedina Triennial, Medina, New York2026Beneath the Surface: Mining and American PhotographyNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC2026Framing Nature: Gardens and ImaginationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston2026All Night I Hear the Noise of Water SobbingMaterials for the Arts, Queens, New York