Mary Modeen is an artist/academic whose research links creative practice with interdisciplinary academic studies in the humanities, particularly philosophy, literature, feminist and indigenous studies. Her research has several threads: perception as a cognitive and interpretive process, and place-based research, which tends to connect cultural values, history and embodied experience. As such, this work usually combines creative art practice and writing.
Her PhD supervision is also characterised by these interdisciplinary investigations, linking studio practice with academic enquiry. International research networks, three of which Modeen co-convenes, are central in conducting the critical discourse which address, challenge and strengthen these research insights. She is also the DJCAD Associate Dean (Internationalisation).
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Modeen
Mary Modeen is an artist/academic whose research links creative practice with interdisciplinary academic studies in the humanities, particularly philosophy, literature, cultural geography, feminist and Indigenous studies.
Professor Modeen has lectured and researched for many years in Scotland, and the USA, with brief periods in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia. Her PhD and postgraduate supervision is also characterised by interdisciplinary investigations, linking studio practice with academic enquiry. International research networks, three of which Modeen co-convenes (PLaCE International, Mapping Spectral Traces, and LAND2) are central in conducting the critical discourse which address, challenge and strengthen these research insights.
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Professor Mary Modeen Full CV
Selected Exhibitions & Residencies
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Solo Exhibitions
2014 The Absolutely Other, Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery, Edinburgh.
2012-13 Ways in Which the World Takes Shape. Permanent installation within Min No Aya Win Human Services Center, Fond du Lac
Reservation of Chippewa Indians, Cloquet, Minnesota, USA.
2007 Te Whenua Maori, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, with acquisitions for the permanent collection.
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Two-person Exhibitions
2011 The Enigma of Place, collaborative multi-media installation, with Iain Biggs, for Sensory Worlds: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2010-11 Landscapes of Epiphany and Memory, with Dr Judith Tucker, Armory Gallery, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia USA.
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Group Exhibitions
2019-22 *Confluences, Matthew Gallery at DJCAD, Dundee, George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University, New Jersey, and Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China.
2020 Ossuary, curated by Prof Laurie Beth Clark, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
2017 In Praise of Wetlands exhibition with Biggs and Baeumler, Bank Street Art Centre, Sheffield, England.
2015 In the Open, Collaborations of women artists and poets, New Hall, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University.
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Residencies
2018 Casa na Ilha, Sao Sebastiao, Brazil.