Marie Bannerot McInerney is a multidisciplinary studio artist and educator. Her site-responsive installations and discrete works in concrete, silk, handmade paper and canvas consider human agency within the framework of ecological systems, mystical thinking, and natural phenomena. She is a 2018 Charlotte Street Artist Award Fellow and participated in residencies at Studios Inc and The Luminary. Marie has exhibited across the United States and abroad including shows at the Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue, WA), Mildred Lane Kemper Museum (Saint Louis, MO) Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany), and Han Tianheng Art Museum Shanghai (Shanghai City, China) as well as solo exhibitions at The Tarble Arts Center (Charleston, IL), PLUG Projects (Kansas City, MO), and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonvill, AR). McInerney co-authored an essay in the book, Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of our Contact Zone and was awarded a Cultural Exchange Grant from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin to present work. Her formative years were spent in Houston, TX before she earned a BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA at Washington University in Saint Louis.
McInerney believes there is great power in collaboration and has served as co-director and co-curator in two curatorial collaboratives: PLUG Projects (Kansas City, MO) and The Independent Art Market (Saint Louis, MO). She worked in the costume and fashion industry for over a decade as a knitwear designer and manufacturer for SKIF International and as the head dyer/painter for the costume shop at the Opera Theatre Saint Louis. She currently sits on the board for Hand Papermaking Magazine and serves as professor in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.
My work engages recorded histories, ancient mythologies and natural phenomena to consider relationships between our bodies and land, between the present and deep time, and between the earth’s revolution around the sun and our own movement within that system. Employing materials such as light, metal leaf, cement, yarn, fabric, and handmade paper combined with elements from the natural world, I create installations, objects, and drawings that consider our position within larger structures to imagine how to contend with an uncertain future.
marie@mbmcinerney.com | @bannerot
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MARIE BANNEROT MCINERNEY (b. 1980, Houston, TX; lives and works in Kansas City)
EDUCATION
2012 Masters of Fine Arts | Visual Art | Washington University in St. Louis
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts | Fiber | Kansas City Art Institute
SELECT SOLO | TWO | THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Trace Me Back, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (solo)
2022
I Am Daughter, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO (solo)
Falling Into Milk, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (solo)
2018
Charlotte Street Artist Award Fellows Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, curated by JE Baker
Reading Room VII, H&R Block Artspace, Cohen Resource Library (an exhibition to compliment the 2018 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award), curated by JE Baker
2017
You Can't Make Love to Concrete, Coop, Nashville, TN, curated by JE Baker
Play As It Lays, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, curated by Jose Garza
Cubiculum Nocturnum: blue shift, The Corner Gallery, Visual Arts Center in the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, SD, curated by Meagon Dion (solo)
2016
X, Insurance, Granite City, IL, curated by JE Baker
Epithelia, a collaboration with JE Baker, Plaque, Ganite City, IL
Play As It Lays, Gallery of Contemporary Art St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, Saint Louis, MO, curated by Jose Garza
2015
...or the stories we tell ourselves, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO (solo)
2014
Enigmatic Materiality, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO, curated by Carrie Becker
2013
Layers, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Forest Park Community College, Saint Louis, MO, two person show curated by Matthew Isaacson
Ventriculus, Collaborative Project with JE Baker, Schiller Haus, Weimar, DE
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Allegories of Inertia, Charlotte Street Foundation Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2023
Reading the World, Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS
2023 Kansas City Flatfile and Digitalfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2022
The Studios Inc Collection: Recent Acquisitions 2022, Studios Inc, Kanas City, MO
Studios Inc | 2022, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
Touch Me, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2021
The Happening, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
Feasts on Paper: Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Guangzhou, China
Beautiful World(s): KCAI Biennial, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2021 Kansas City Flatfile and Digitalfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Interstices, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
The Studios Inc Collection: Recent Acquisitions 2021, Studios Inc, Kanas City, MO
Studios Inc | 2021, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
2020
Press Play, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Il
Press Play, Powell Gardens, Kingsville, MO
Studios Inc | 2020, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
2019
AMoA Biennial 600 2019 Textile + Fiber, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
The Anthropogenic Sublime, Ellis Hall, Hendrix College, Conway, AR
Geometry, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
SDA Beyond the Surface, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO
Terra not so Firma, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Lineage and Impact: KCAI Faculty Past and Present, Haw Contemporary Stockyards, Kansas City, MO
2018
Bad Editions (Third Edition), Arrowhead Gallery, Sugar Grove, IL, curated by Rafael Vera
Bad Editions (Second Edition), NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Rafael Vera
2018 Kansas City Flatfile / Digitalfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2017
Feast On Paper, Fengxian Library, Shanghai, China
Casting Shadows: 2017 KCAI Biennial, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, curated by JE Baker
Substitution of Paper, Han Tianheng Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai City, China, curated by Chang Feng
2016
Material Connection, Kent State University Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH
Paper Love, John Gaw Meem Room, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM
In, On, of Paper: Cycle 2, Paper Circle, Nelsonville, OH
A Feast on Paper Art, D-Lan Art Center, Guangzhou, China
VisionMakers 2016, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK, curated by Namita Gupta Wiggers
Bad Editions, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Rafael Vera
2016 Kansas City Flatfile / Digitalfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2015
Wanderlust, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, Canada
2014
{This is Ourselves} Under Pressure, Bryant St. Studios, San Francisco, CA, curated by Anne Beck
2014 Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, curated by Erin Dziedzic, Kemper Museum Curator
The Stench of Rotting Flowers, la Esquina, Kansas City, MO, curated by Danny Orendorff
2013
Latitude/Longitude, Joan Hall Studios, St. Louis, MO
Anything but Trivial, Steinberg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Paper Trails, The Meeting Place Gallery at Lambert International Airport, Saint Louis, MO
18th Annual Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Exhibition, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Dressed, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO Invitational, curated by Michael Drummond
2012
18th Annual Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
FORM Contemporary Design Show, The Luminary Center for the Arts, Pop up alternative space, St. Louis, MO
Sound of IT 3: In the Spirit of John Cage, Garage 4141, San Diego, CA, Juried by Larry Caveney
VIP MFA, Online Art Fair, invitational
The No List, MFA Thesis Satellite Exhibition, Pop up alternative space, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, 3rd Annual Inland Symposium: CST, St. Louis, MO, Curated by Lauren Adams, Richard Krueger and Monika Weiss
Honors Awards 2012 Exhibition, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, Juried, Dan Addington. Dan Addington Gallery, Chicago
Catharsis, Lewis Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, Curated by Carrie Debacker
Transitional: Sculptures and Installations in an Inbetween Space, Pop up alternative space, St. Louis, MO, Invitational, Curated by Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
The 5th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial, Corcoran College, Washington D.C. Juried by Jane Milosch, Smithsonian Institution
2011
The 5th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial, Rutgers College, NJ, Juried by Jane Milosch, Smithsonian Institution
CBAA BiblioTech Exhibit 2012, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA,
Parabola: The Work, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis MO, Curated by Robert Long and Emily Squires
Art Saint Louis XXVII, The Exhibition, St. Louis MO, Juried by Andrew Stein Raftery, Professor, Printmaking, RISD
From the Middle, Open House Galleries, St. Louis, MO, Invitational, Curated by Kathleen Perniciaro
One Day Pop-Up Exhibition, CEL with Better Blocks Project, Ferguson, MO
MFA Invitational, Saint Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO, Invitational
Dream Sequences, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis MO, Juried
Ma tu mi ami, Open House Galleries, St. Louis, MO, (invitational) Curated by Kathleen Perniciaro
First Year MFA Show, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis MO
Flow, collaborative project, Granite City Public Art Project, Granite City, Il
2010
Envelop, Lewis Center Installation Space, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (solo)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | PUBLICATIONS
2024
Yashi Davalos, “Marie Bannerot McInerney: Trace Me Back at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville,” Burnaway, February 13, 2024. https://burnaway.org/daily/marie-bannerot-mcinerney-trace-me-back-at-crystal-bridges-museum-of-american-art-bentonville/
2023
Alejo Benedetti, “Trace Me Back,” curatorial essay for Trace Me Back at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2023. https://crystalbridges.org/calendar/marie-bannerot-mcinerney-trace-me-back/
Sara Stepp, “Marie Bannerot McInerney’s Material Poetry, “I Am Daughter” Studios Inc Catalogue
Elizabeth Kanost, “Spencer Museum Exhibition Features Kansas Artists Who Investigate Nature” Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, August 23, 2023. https://news.ku.edu/2023/08/23/spencer-museum-exhibition-features-kansas-artists-who-investigate-nature
2022
Maria Vasquez Boyd, “Artspeak Radio with Anderson, Callahan & Bannerot McInerney,” Artspeak Radio, November 9, 2022. https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/artspeak-radio-with-anderson-callahan-bennerot-mcinerney/
Cam’ron, Hardy, “Table Opens First Art Exhibition of the Year, Celebrates Anniversary,” The Daily Eastern News, September 24, 2022. https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/2022/09/24/tarble-opens-first-art-exhibit-of-the-year-celebrates-anniversary/
Jennifer Seas, “Studio Visit w/ Marie Bannerot McInerney”, Tarble Times, a publication of the Tarble Art Center, 2021/2022
2019
Alice Thorson, “2018 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Awards,” Sculpture Magazine, December 18, 2019. https://sculpturemagazine.art/2018-charlotte-street-foundation-visual-artist-awards/
Winifred Lutz and Marie Bannerot McInerney, with Corey Antis and Michael Schonhoff, “ Nor Boat Nor Fish No River: Using Collaboration and Teaching to Create a Cast-Paper Installation,” Hand Papermaking, Volume 34, Number 1 - Summer 2019
2018
Jennifer Baker, “Precipitating Time,” Charlotte Street Artist Award Exhibition Essay, H&R Block Artspace, October 11, 2018. http://33qle61me52p3frk11u6gh1c-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CSF-VAA-Essay.pdf
Self, Dana, “Art News: Charlotee Street 2018 Visual Artist Awards,” KC Studio Magazine, May 4, 2018 http://kcstudio.org/arts-news-charlotte-street-2018-visual-artist-awards/
Faus, José, “Marie Bannerot McInerney”, The Kansas City Collection, The Collectors Fund, 2018/2019 http://www.thekccollection.com/artists/marie-bannerot-mcinerney/essay
2017
Jobe, Brian, "Burnaway's Best of 2017: Favorite Exhibitions in the South and Beyond," Burnaway, December 20, 2017. https://burnaway.org/feature/burnaways-best-2017-favorite-exhibitions-south-beyond/
Jana Harper, "Connector Interview: Jennifer Baker + Marie Bannerot McInerney," Locate Arts, August 25th, 2017. https://locatearts.org/the-focus/2017/connector-interview-jennifer-baker-marie-bannerot-mcinerney
Nolan, Joe," Crawl Space: Smart Shows Mark August's First Saturday Events," Nashville Scene, August 3, 2017. https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts-culture/features/article/20971050/crawl-space-smart-shows-mark-augusts-first-saturday-events
2016
Rafael E. Vera, ”Bad Editions,” Ralph Arnold Gallery, September 8 - October 8, 2016. https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/ralpharnoldgallery/sitematerials/Bad-Editions-Curatorial-Essay.pdf
Stefene Russell, “X Marks the Spot: New Exhibits—and a New Space—at Granite City Art and Design District,” Saint Louis Magazine, Februrary 5, 2016. http://www.stlmag.com/arts/visual-arts/x-marks-the-spot-granite-city-art-and-design-district/
2015
Blair Schulman, “Marie Bannerot McInerney at PLUG Projects, Temporary Art Review, Ocotber 28, 2015. http://temporaryartreview.com/marie-bannerot-mcinerny-at-plug-projects/
"Ventriculus: Residue of Subjectivity," Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone, co- authored with JE Baker, Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke, eds.(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015): 160 - 175 (link)
2014
Liz Cook, “Charlotte Street’s Stench of Rotting Flowers: brilliantly decadent decay,” The Pitch, April 22, 2014, 17. https://www.thepitchkc.com/charlotte-streets-stench-of-rotting-flowers-brilliantly-decadent-decay/
Danny Orendorff, “ The Stench of Rotting Flowers,” la Esquina, April 19 - June 6, 2014. http://dandannydaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Stench-1.pdf
2013
Sarah Weinman, “Art of Fashion,” STL Jewish Light, May 23, 2013. http://www.stljewishlight.com/blogs/art/art-of-fashion/article_dd70928c-c3ae-11e2-9bab-0019bb2963f4.html
Matt Kile, “Art Couture” Alive Magazine, May 22, 2013. http://alivemag.com/art-couture/
2012
“The Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award,” Sculpture Magazine, October 2012. Vol. 31, No.8. 51
“The Seal Wife,” The No List, PIECRUST Magazine, 2012
Jessica Baran, In the Galleries - 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, River Front Times, June 7, 2012.
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, “On Marie Bannerot McInerney”, MFA 2012, Washington University, 2012 (link)
“Landscape 6,” PIECRUST Magazine Vol 1, issue 2 (2012)
2011
HEC TV, State of the Arts, December, 2011, www.hectv.org/programs/series/state-of-the-arts/1385/december-2011/
PRESENTATIONS | LECTURES | WORKSHOPS
2024
Trace Me Back Gallery Talk and Family Workshop, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, March 9, 2024, https://crystalbridges.org/calendar/artist-led-artmaking-bookmaking-with-marie-bannerot-mcinerney/
2023
Reading the World (panel discussion), Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS, December 7, 2023
2022
I Am Daughter, Kansas City Art Institute Printmaking Dept., Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO, December 5, 2022
Artist Presentation, MFA Lecture Series, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, November 17, 2022
I Am Daughter, Public Lecture, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO, November 12, 2022
I Am Daughter , KEM Architecture, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO, November 12, 2022
I Am Daughter , Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Dept., Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO November 9, 2022
Peer to Peer: Handpapermaking with Marie Bannerot McInerney, Kiki Serna and Kelsey Pike, Charlotte Street Foundation, October 11, 2022 (virtual)
Falling Into Milk, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, September 17, 2022
2020
Dyer/Painter, presentation to Theatrical Dying, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (virtual)
2019
Collaboration at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice, Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Conference: Manifest/o Paper Revolutions, Philadelphia, PA, September 20, 2019
Close Looking/Far Looking, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, January 28, 2019
[Ap] Parent Bodies: inside an installation, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, January 29, 2019
Dyer/Painter at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, January 29, 2019
2018
The Noon Thing Gallery Talks, featuring Marie Bannerot McInerney, Jarrett Mellenbruch, and Jillian Youngbird, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, October 26th, 2018
For Freedoms (On Slowness), featuring Lutz Koepnick, C.J. Janovy, Jay Johnson, Marie Bannerot, Jarrett Mellenbruch, and Jillian Youngbird, H&R Block Artspace, November 2, 2018
Charlotte Street Artist Award Artist Talk (featuring Marie Bannerot McInerney, Jarrett Melenbruch, and Jillian Youngbird), Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, November 8, 2018
Close Looking / Far Looking, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Emporia State University, Emporia KS, March 7, 2018
2017
Cubiculum Nocturnum: blue shift, The Corner Gallery, Visual Arts Center in the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, SD, February 4, 2017
2015
...or the stories we tell ourselves, Fiber Department at KCAI, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO, September 23, 2015
...or the stories we tell ourselves, UMKC class, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO, October 15, 2015
2013
Stench of Rotting Flowers Gallery Talk, la Esquina, Saint Louis, MO, May 17 2014
“The Noon Thing Gallery Talks: Method”, H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO, November 6, 2013
“Ventriculus: Reside of Subjectivity,” Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, April 24, 2013.
2012
Visiting Artist Critiques, Access Alumni, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Visiting Artist Presentation and Critiques, Fiber Department, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
GRANTS | AWARDS | HONORS
2018
Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, Charlotte Street Foundation, granted by Joey Orr (Spencer Museum), Larry Ossei-Mensah (Independent Curator, NY), José Esparza Chong Cuy (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), and Jennifer Baker (H&R Block Artspace)
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
2017
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
2015
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
2013
Cultural Exchange Travel Grant, U.S. Embassy in Berlin
2012
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center
Residency, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
Collaborative Technology Center and Creative Research Institute Grant, Washington University in St. Louis
American Museum of Papermaking Membership Award, 5th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial
2011
Award of Excellence, Art Saint Louis XXVVII, The Exhibition
Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship Nominee
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024
Full Professor, Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2020-24
Associate Professor (tenured), Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2020 (fall)
Associate Professor (tenured) & Acting Chair, Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2013 - 2020
Assistant Professor, Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2013
Lecturer, Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2004 - 2013
Designer and Manufacturer, SKIF International, St. Louis, MO
2012
Adjunct Professor, Maryville University, St. Louis, MO | Fiber
Adjunct Professor, St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, MO | 2-D Design
2010 - 2012
Supervisor, Dye/Paint Shop within the Costume Shop, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO
2003 - 10
Head Dyer/Painter, Costume Shop, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2015 - 2017
Co-Director, Plug Projects, A curatorial artist collaborative, Kansas CIty, MO (21 exhibitions)
2004-2007
Co-curator, Independent Art Market, Saint Louis, MO