Mary Pinto is a Queens, New York–based artist working with alternative photographic processes, monotype, collage, and artist books. Her works on paper explore themes of wonder and the interdependence of humans and the natural world.

Pinto holds an M.F.A. from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Delaware. Her work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including the Steinberg Museum of Art, Culture Lab LIC, and The Ohio State University. She has participated in residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Openings Collective.

A two-time recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant, Pinto also received a 2025 Queens Arts Fund grant administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her practice continues to examine our relationship with the natural world through material experimentation, observation, and a sense of wonder.

“Exploring the language and uses of photography, my work considers overlooked or hidden aspects of the natural and built environments. I often work with the photogram, a cameraless process associated with the earliest stages of photographic exploration and invention—a time marked by wonder at photography’s ability to record the world. The resulting images evoke early botanical and medical prints while also recalling contemporary forms of architectural and scientific imaging, including blueprints, X-rays, and scans.”

— Mary Pinto, 2026

This exhibition grows from an artist’s book of cyanotype photograms that explores time across human, botanical, and geologic scales. Recurring forms—a house, phases of the moon, and common garden plants—trace cycles of growth, memory, transformation, and return.

Expanding on the visual and conceptual language first developed in the book, the exhibition brings together cyanotype, monotype, and collage works that consider how individual experience exists within much larger natural rhythms. Moving between the intimate and the expansive, the works invite viewers to reflect on the interconnectedness of humans and the natural world, and on the ways our lives are shaped by cycles of time that extend far beyond our immediate perception.

To learn more about artist Mary Pinto, please visit www.marypinto.com.