Rate My Professor Mary Tsiongas

Mary Tsiongas serves as Professor of Experimental Art & Technology in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico, contributing to the Arts and Culture faculty. She earned her MFA in Film, Video, and Performance from California College of the Arts in 1993, her BFA in Ceramic Sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1987, and studied Biology and Psychology at Boston College, receiving a BS in Research Biology in 1981. Having initially pursued scientific studies, Tsiongas founded the Experimental Art + Technology area in the department. Her career trajectory at UNM encompasses Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2007, Associate Professor from 2007 to 2015, and Professor from 2015 to present. She has held key administrative positions including Chair of the Department of Art and Art History from 2013 to 2016, Associate Dean of Faculty and Research in the College of Fine Arts from 2017 to 2019, Associate Dean of Research from 2019 to present, and Interim Director of ARTSLab since 2022. Earlier, she served as Visiting Artist Faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1995 to 2001.

Born in Greece and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tsiongas is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice addresses human relationships to technology and nature through video and digital imagery. Her work is informed by early film history, folklore, and scientific interests including dendrochronology and the physics of time. She has received significant recognition through awards and grants such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts Women to Watch 2015 for her video artwork The Mercurial Dog Anticipates Her, NEA Our Town Grant in 2019, WESTAF NEA Regional Fellowship in 1995, UCROSS Foundation Artist Residency in 2017, and UNM PERC Grant in 2023 for the TC² Digital Loom project. Tsiongas has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows nationally and internationally, including Repurpose/Revision/Reconstruction at Richard Levy Gallery in 2017, Likenesses of Light at the same gallery in 2013, ISEA 2014 in Dubai, Late Harvest at Nevada Museum of Art in 2014, and Women to Watch 2015 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her works are held in public collections at the New Mexico Museum of Art and San Jose Museum of Art. Additionally, she has curated projects like Textile Technology: Thread Bare in 2022 and lectured at venues including the Lincoln Center and McColl Center.