Mary Finlayson
b. 1982, Victoria, BC
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions
2025 Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025 Winston Wächter, Seattle, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Flowers on the Wall Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2023 JoAnne Artman, New York, NY
2023 Inside, Inside Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 From the Inside Zinc Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2022 Guy Hepner Editions, New York, NY
2020 Life as an Inside Cat Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA
2019 Interiors Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024 GREENHOUSE: Houseplants in contemporary Art, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2024 Art FWD, Marin Contemporary Art Museum, San Rafael, CA
2024 DeYoung Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2024 Pure Beauty, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2024 Ten Year Anniversary, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2024 Oddkin, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2024 Winter Blooms, JoAnne Artman, Laguna Beach, CA
2023 Lush II, Hashimoto Contemporary, NY, NY
2023 Along Comes Mary, JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2023 April Showers Brings May Flowers, JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2022 Friends and Family Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2020 Community, Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA
2020 Not too Big, Not too Small, Zinc Gallery, Seattle, WA The Back Room, JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Beginnings, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes CA
2018 Pattern Recognition, Woskob Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
2017 LA ArtCore, Los Angeles CA
2010 Permanent Collection, Bohemia Gallery Ashland, OR
2009 On the Rise, On the Rise Artist Collective, Vancouver, B.C
2009 Group Works, Gropp Gallery, Vancouver, B.C
2009 The Drift, Jem Gallery, Vancouver, B.C
2009 Longing, CityScape, North Vancouver, B.C
Art Fairs
2025 Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wächter
2024 San Francisco Art Market, Eleanor Harwood Gallery
2023 San Francisco Art Market, Eleanor Harwood Gallery
2022 Toronto Art Fair, Bau-xi Gallery Seattle Art Fair, Zinc Contemporary
2022 San Francisco Art Market, Maybaum Gallery
2022 Affordable Art Fair, NY, JoAnne Artman Gallery
2021 Miami Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery
2021 Affordable Art Fair, NY, JoAnne Artman Gallery
2020 CONTEXT, Art Miami, JoAnne Artman Gallery
2020 Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, Seattle, Zinc Gallery
2019 Superfine Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Startup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Commissions
2022 Mural for Google, San Francisco, CA
2021 Mural for Asana Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
2021 Mural for Google, San Francisco, CA
2021 Artwork for Anthropologie, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Artwork for Mohawk, San Francisco, CA
2019 Mural for Facebook, San Mateo, CA
2018 Artwork for CANOPY, San Francisco, CA
2018 Artwork for Of a Kind, Chicago, IL
Residencies
2019 Facebook AIR Program, San Francisco, CA The New Company, San Francisco, CA
2018 CANOPY, San Francisco, CA
2017 OTIS College, Los Angeles, CA Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VA
Publications
2024 Juxtapoz, Always the Thing That Came Before: A Conversation with Painter Mary Finlayson
2024 Create! Magazine Issue 43: Interview with Mary Finlayson by Christina Nafziger
2019 Dwell Magazine: Artist Mary Finlayson’s Vibrant San Francisco Home Celebrates Color in a Big Way
2019 Art & Object: 5 Artists Bringing Diversity to Superfine! Los Angeles, featured artist
2019 Financial Times: The best satellite fairs to visit during Frieze LA, featured artist
2019 Of a Kind: An Artist's Guide to Doing San Francisco's North Beach Right
2019 Bob Cut Magazine: Painter and Printmaker Mary Finlayson Gives Us A Tour Of Her “Interiors”
2018 Honestly WTF: Painted Mary
2018 Rare Device Featured Artist: Interview with Mary Finlayson of Painted Mary
2018 Of a Kind: Meet the Designer, Painted Mary
2018 Mohawk Magazine Inside the Studio
2018 Renegade Featured Artist: Maker Spotlight
2018 The CONTEXT. Mary Finlayson: An Evolved Painter
2018 Wit & Delight: The Best Places to Find Affordable Art These Days, featured artist
2017 RELISH VOL.1 San Francisco Bay Area by GRØSS Magazine
Education
2010 University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Art Education, Vancouver, B.C
2007 Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, Graduate Diploma Art Therapy, Vancouver, B.C.
2004 Queen’s University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kingston ON.