MARLENE McCARTY
B. 1957
Marlene McCarty has worked across various media since the 1980s. She was a member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury and was the co-founder of the trans-disciplinary design studio Bureau along with Donald Moffett. Using everyday materials such as graphite, ballpoint pen, and highlighter, McCarty probes issues ranging from sexual and social formation to parricide and infanticide. A major survey exhibition of her work, Hard-Keepers, was presented at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin in 2013. Her work is in the collections of major institutions including The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. McCarty lives and works in New York, having studied at the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture and Art 1975-77 and Schule für Gestaltung, Basel Switzerland from 1978-83.