about
Mary Lamb is a collage artist and zine maker based in Charlottesville, VA. Her work is informed by her training as an archivist and incorporates found objects, lost photographs, feminine motifs, and the natural textures of paper ephemera. Her cut and pasted collages dissect historical images of women to create imagined queer stories and sapphic fantasies.
Every month she assembles COMMON SOURCE, a curated collage zine for visual artists.
education/residencies
2021-2022 Incubator Residency Program, McGuffey Art Center | Charlottesville, VA
MS, Library and Information Science, Simmons College | Boston, MA
BA, Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA
group exhibitions
2024
The Art of Collage, Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
2023
Teeny Tiny Trifecta 6, Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
Pairings: A Collaborative Happening, Sarah B. Smith Gallery at McGuffey Art Center | Charlottesville, VA
New Tales Never Told: A Collage Show for the People, IS SO Gallery at Meriel Salon | Richmond, VA
2022
Teeny Tiny Trifecta 5, Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
Forever in the Present Tense, Ramsey County Library | Shoreview, MN
Cracked: The 2021-2022 Incubator Show, McGuffey Art Center | Charlottesville, VA
2021
Teeny Tiny Trifecta 4, Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
11 Local Artists: 2021-22 New City Arts Artist Exchange, Welcome Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
Let There Be Light, Piedmont Virginia Community College | Charlottesville, VA
2020
Ridged, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative | Charlottesville, VA
2019
make / shift, Welcome Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
events/workshops
2023
Photo Collage Workshop, Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
2023 Gallery Rally Artist, Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
Cut Loose: Collage Zine Making Workshop with Sarah Lawson, Welcome Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
2022
2022 Gallery Rally Artist, Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
2021
Analog Collage Workshop, Second Street Gallery in partnership with Common House | Charlottesville, VA
2019
Mixed Media Embroidery Workshop with Amanda Wagstaff, Welcome Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
select publications
2023
photographs, unretouched published by themselves press
2022
ERRR Magazine, Interview
EDITIONS, #1 published by Nonmachinable
Echoes of Yesterday: An Art Book published by Photo Trouvée Magazine