Mary Lum makes collages, paintings and installations that explore the lyrical undercurrents of urban space.

Her work is currently being exhibited at MASS MoCA and is represented by Joseph Carroll and Sons (Boston) and Fredereicke Taylor (NY). She has been an artist in residence at St. John’s College, Oxford, UK, and has had solo shows in New York, Paris, and Boston. Lum taught at Alfred University for many years before being appointed to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, and subsequently to the visual arts faculty at Bennington College. She resides in North Adams, MA, and is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow.

Public Speaking was a series of artists’ billboards that appeared over the course of three years—2004, 2005, and 2006.  Works were selected for this temporary exhibition to spark curiosity, conversation, and debate. For its second season in 2005, Clockshop invited artists to respond to a series of photographs titled “Destruction of House #1 by Atom Blast”, taken in 1953 in Yucca flats, Nevada.