1. Mary Miss was born on May 27,1944 and is an American artist and designer.
17 Facts About Mary Miss
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Mary Miss's work has crossed boundaries between architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and urban design.
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Mary Miss's installations are collaborative in nature: she has worked with scientists, historians, designers, and public administrators.
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Mary Miss is primarily interested in how to engage the public in decoding their surrounding environment.
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Mary Miss was a founding member of the journal Heresies.
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Mary Miss's work creates situations that emphasize a site's history, ecology, or aspects of the environment that have gone unnoticed.
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Mary Miss has been particularly interested in redefining the role of the artist in the public domain.
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Mary Miss has worked on the development of the project City as Living Laboratory, which, according to the project's description, collaborates with artists, environmental designers and scientists to focus on and explore sustainability in cities.
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Mary Miss was included in the exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists at the Aldrich Museum in 1971.
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Mary Miss was included in the exhibition Four Young Americans alongside the artists Ann McCoy, Ree Morton, and Jackie Winsor, curated by Ellen H Johnson and Athena Tacha at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.
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Mary Miss has been the subject of exhibitions at the Harvard University Art Museum, Brown University Gallery, The Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Architectural Association in London, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and the Des Moines Art Center.
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Mary Miss received the New York City American Society of Landscape Architects President's Award in 2010, the American Academy in Rome's Centennial Medal in 2001, and a Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architects in 1990.
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Mary Miss received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.
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Mary Miss was awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984,1975, and 1974.
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Mary Miss was named as a distinguished alumni of UC Santa Barbara in 1985.
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Mary Miss married sculptor Bruce Colvin in 1967, but later divorced in 1986.
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Mary Miss is currently married to George Peck, a New York-based artist.