PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & BIO
SELECTED Public Collections
The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Lee County Justice Center, Fort Myers, Florida
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
Municipal City Hall, Be’er Sheva, Israel
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
State of Connecticut Superior Court Complex, Enfield
Tajimi Middle School, Tajimi City, Gifu, Japan
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
United States Department of State, Art Bank Program, Washington, DC
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Danmarks Keramikmuseum, Grimmerhus, Middlefart, Denmark
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
BIOGRAPHY
Marylyn Dintenfass is an internationally known artist whose work is found in major public collections. Among the institutions that have acquired her work are: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This year, her newest sculpture Almost Like The Blues was installed at LongHouse Reserve and Sculpture Garden as a part of their 2017 season, alongside works by John Chamberlain, Sol LeWitt, Bryan Hunt, and many others.
Her 2010 Parallel Park installation at the Lee County Justice Center in Fort Myers, Florida is one of the largest and most noteworthy of the last decade. Her work has been widely reviewed, and her 2011 and 2012 Driscoll Babcock Galleries exhibitions were both selected as one of the year’s top 100 shows by Modern Painters Magazine.
Dintenfass has twice been a MacDowell Fellow and has received both an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and two Project Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded the Silver Medal at the First International, Mino, Japan, and The Ravenna Prize at the 45th Faenza International in Italy. Academic positions have included Visiting Professor at the National College of Art and Design in Bergen and Oslo, Norway; Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel: Sheridan College in Toronto, Canada and Hunter College in New York City. She was, for ten years, a member of the faculty at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Books on the artist’s work include the monograph Marylyn Dintenfass Paintings written by Lilly Wei and published by Hudson Hills Press [2007], Aliza Edelman’s, Marylyn Dintenfass Parallel Park published by Hard Press Editions [2011] and the hardcover catalogue for the exhibition Marylyn Dintenfass Drop Dead Gorgeous written by Scott Indrisek and published by Driscoll Babcock Galleries [2012].
In April of 2023 Dintenfass was honored at The New York Foundation of the Arts and inducted into their Hall of Fame.