Background
Mary Evans was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1963.
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Mary Evans
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In Fine Art at Goldsmiths" College (1987-1989). She subsequently did a postgraduate residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (1991-1993). She typically uses paper as her medium, producing large-scale, site-specific work - sometimes with reference to highly-charged subjects, such as lynching in the Deep South.
Her work has been exhibited extensively across the United Kingdom, as well as internationally - in the United States, the Netherlands, Mexico and China, including Farewell to Post-Colonialism at the 3rd Guangzhou Triennale in 2008, Portuguese City (2007) at the Arnolfini, Bristol, and A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad (2003), Contemporary Art Museum Saint Reviewing her solo exhibition Cut and Paste (2012, Tiwani Contemporary, London), critic Stephanie Baptist wrote: "Her mixed media artworks reveal not just her story, but African ancestral stories that are not often told.
I will liken Evans to a griot.
This role is an important one, as she is both historian and storyteller. She carries the collective narratives of the village, the tragic and the triumphant. She who remembers can reinterpret the unwritten histories and share the untold stories of the un-namable that may have otherwise been forgotten." Evans is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
1993: Mary Evans - Art & Project, Rotterdam.
Achievements
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1993: Mary Evans - Art & Project, Rotterdam 1997: Filter, Leighton House, London 2000: Because a Fire Was in my Head, South London Gallery, London 2000: Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany 2001: Scope, Café Gallery Projects 2003: A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis 2005: 5 Continents and 1 City, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico 2007: Freedom & Culture, South Bank Centre, London 2007: Portuguese City, Arnolfini, Bristol 2008: Meditations, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore 2012: Cut and Paste, Tiwani Contemporary, London.
