Mary Lou Grace Robison

Instagram: @marylougrace_

Website: https://marylougrace.portfoliobox.net

Bio: Robison earned her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of San Francisco where she awarded the Departmental and Leadership Award as well as the Mary and Carter Award. Grace was honored at Carnegie Hall for her gold key portfolio by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2019. Robison has been featured by various publications such as The Dementia Springs Foundation for her work exploring Alzheimer’s disease, as well as The Furrow Magazine, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, AJCU Newsletter, and Being Patient. Her work has been exhibited in galleries such as The Bedford Gallery, Bass and Reiner, Gllry Garage, MRKT Gallery, SOMArts and 120710 Gallery in Berkeley California. She recently was one of the recipients of the 2025 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards. Grace is currently a student in the Master of Fine Arts program at San Francisco State University where she also teaches.

Statement: My practice intertwines elements of memory, femineity and trauma, drawing heavily from my experiences with domestic abuse and familial history. My creative process has been fueled by the act of rediscovering personal and family archives, including objects, images and spoken stories from family members. Each object holds a specific narrative, memory or traumatic experience that has shaped my upbringing and relationship to my gender. By replicating these archives through painting, photography and mixed media, I am able to reclaim and redefine these traumas in my own way.