{{short description|American environmental artist (born 1944)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox artist | name = Mary Miss | image = Mary Miss 2019.jpg | caption = Mary Miss in 2019 | birth_name = Mary M. Miss | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|05|27}}<ref name="FamilySearch-USPR-2009">{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KKWV-V2B|title=Mary M Miss - United States Public Records|website=FamilySearch}}</ref> | birth_place = New York, New York, U.S. | education = University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1966)<br>Maryland Institute College of Art (M.F.A. 1968) | known_for = | notable_works = | style = Environmental art | movement = | spouse = {{Marriage|Bruce Colvin|1967|1986|end=divorced}}<br>George Peck | website = {{URL|http://marymiss.com/}} }}
'''Mary Miss''' (born May 27, 1944) is an American artist and designer. Her work has crossed boundaries between architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and urban design. Her installations are collaborative in nature: she has worked with scientists, historians, designers, and public administrators. She is primarily interested in how to engage the public in decoding their surrounding environment.
== Early life and education == Miss was born May 27, 1944, in New York City, but she spent her youth moving every year while living primarily in the western United States.<ref name="FamilySearch-USPR-2009"/>
Miss studied art and received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1966.<ref name="mas">{{cite web |url=http://www.mas.org/summitnyc/speakers/mary-miss/ |title=Summit NYC 2011: Mary Miss |website=The Municipal Art Society of New York |access-date=September 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914080514/http://mas.org/summitnyc/speakers/mary-miss/ |archive-date=September 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Miss later received an M.F.A. from the Rhinehart School of Sculpture of Maryland Institute College of Art in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tclf.org/pioneer/mary-miss|title=Mary Miss {{!}} The Cultural Landscape Foundation|website=tclf.org|access-date=2016-03-04}}</ref>
== Influence in public art == thumb|13 women 1972 exhibition poster, featuring Miss As a public artist, Miss is considered a pioneer in environmental art and site-specific art, as well a leading sculptor during the feminist movement of the 1970s. She was a founding member of the journal ''Heresies''. From her earliest work, she has been interested in bringing the specific attributes of a site into focus along with and audience engagement within public space. Miss’ work crosses boundaries between landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, and graphic communication. Her work creates situations that emphasize a site's history, ecology, or aspects of the environment that have gone unnoticed. She has been particularly interested in redefining the role of the artist in the public domain.{{cn|date=January 2024}}thumb|Miss in the mid-1970sIn her influential 1979 essay, ''Sculpture in the Expanded Field'', art critic Rosalind Krauss opens with a description of Mary Miss's, ''Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krauss |first1=Rosalind |title=Sculpture in the Expanded Field |journal=October |date=1979 |volume=8 |pages=31–44 |doi=10.2307/778224 |jstor=778224 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/778224 |access-date=26 January 2021 |issn=0162-2870|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Krauss uses Miss's work to support her examination of sculpture's interdisciplinary nature between architecture and landscape. ''South Cove (1988)''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bpcparks.org/whats-here/parks/south-cove/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010173700/http://bpcparks.org/whats-here/parks/south-cove/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=October 10, 2014 |title=South Cove|website=bpcparks.org| access-date=2016-03-03}}</ref>'','' a permanent public project in Battery Park, is a seminal project in Miss' career as it signified new possibilities for artists working in the public realm. The project, located on a three-acre site at the base of the riverfront Esplande, was made in collaboration with architect Stanton Eckstut and landscape designer Susan Child. "South Cove brings the public more intimately in contact with the water than any other component of Battery park City or, indeed, any other Manhattan riverside park."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Princenthal|first=Nancy|date=June 7, 1988|title=In The Waterfront|journal=Village Voice}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Miss Studio and CITY AS LIVING LABORATORY (CaLL) |url=http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/mary-miss-studio-and-city-as-living-laboratory-call |website=City University of New York: The Center for the Humanities |access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref>
== Selected works == ''Battery Park Landfill'' (1973) installation was a temporary piece of five signboard-like structures, placed 50-feet apart across the landfill site.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Miss's South Cove |url=http://www.sculpturenature.com/en/mary-misss-south-cove/ |website=Sculpture Nature |language=en-EN |date=7 July 2015}}</ref> A series of large cut out circles descended into the ground describing a column of air that materialized only when the viewer stood with the boards aligned.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
''Untitled'' (1973)<ref>{{Cite web|date=1973|title=Allen Memorial Art Museum bulletin|url=https://ohio5.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15963coll41/id/11000/rec/1|access-date=2021-11-16|website=ohio5.contentdm.oclc.org|language=en}}</ref> was created in April and May 1973 at the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio, as part of the exhibition ''Four Young Americans'' (which also featured Ann McCoy, Ree Morton, and Jackie Winsor). This initial version of the work comprised wooden slats protruding directly along the sides of a square hole cut into the ground on the northeast lawn of the museum. The museum subsequently invited Miss to re-create the work using permanent materials—making this her first permanent commissioned work and her earliest extant public work. Constructed in the summer of 1975 under the artist's supervision, the second version was created with powder-coated steel slats protruding from tinted concrete, in its original siting.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
''Greenwood Pond: Double Site'' (1989–96),<ref>{{cite web |title=Greenwood Pond: Double Site |url=http://dsmpublicartfoundation.org/public-artwork/greenwood-pond-double-site/ |website=Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation |access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref> at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, is a 7.5-acre site developed as both an art installation and restoration site. It includes a demonstration wetland, outdoor classroom, overhanging walkways, a pavilion, and a curved trellis. The structures highlight the connection between land and water. Visual elements and images are interwoven throughout the site to reflect the history of the park and its surroundings. The work was deteriorated, and there were plans to dismantle in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web | title=MSN | url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/iowa-museum-to-dismantle-mary-miss-land-art-piece-amid-severe-decay-drawing-scrutiny/ar-AA1n9iO0?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fcd6359f9e894f83bfdcaa22732d26d7&ei=152 | access-date=2025-07-12 | website=www.msn.com}}</ref> However, Miss alleged that the museum had breached its 1994 contract with her that stipulated they would plan to "preserve the work in perpetuity." Restoration costs were estimated to be $2.6 million. In May 2024, an Iowa judge issued a decision to block the demolition of ''Greenwood Pond: Double Site'', ruling that the museum did not have the legal ability to dismantle the artwork without the artist agreeing, but also that the center wasn’t financially liable for restoring it to its original condition. In January 2025, a settlement was reached, resulting in the museum paying Miss a sum of $900,000 to move forward with the demolition.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/des-moines-art-center-reaches-900-k-settlement-with-artist-mary-miss-over-land-art-demolition-1234730228/|author=Angelica Villa|date=January 15, 2025|title=Des Moines Art Center Reaches $900 K. Settlement with Artist Mary Miss Over Land Art Demolition|work=ARTnews}}</ref>
thumb|Framing Union Square, 14th Street Subway, NYC
''Framing Union Square]'' (installed 1998),<ref>{{cite web |title=Artwork: "Framing Union Square" (Mary Miss) |url=http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Artwork:_Framing_Union_Square_(Mary_Miss) |website=www.nycsubway.org |access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref> New York City, Miss collaborated with architect Lee Harris Pomeroy to create 125 red frame elements scattered throughout the 14th Street–Union Square station. The red elements highlight the disappearance of lost infrastructure as well as industrial elements that remain.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
=== CALL projects === ''Roshanara's Net'' (2008)<ref>{{cite web |title=48 Degrees Celsius |url=http://eco-publicart.org/48-degrees-celsius/ |website=Curating Cities: A Database Of Eco Public Art |access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref> created a temporary garden of medicinal plants—ayurvedic herbs, trees and bushes—in New Delhi, India. The installation focused on the health and well being of the individuals and their communities.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
''StreamLines'' (2013)<ref>{{cite web |title=StreamLines |url=https://streamlines.org/ |access-date=26 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref> installed a cluster of mirrors and red beams in five Indianapolis neighborhoods, which radiate out from a central point to nearby streams and waterways. The installation was intended to get visitors to follow the beams to the nearby waterways. This project was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
== Exhibitions == Miss was included in the exhibition ''Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists'' at the Aldrich Museum in 1971. Lucy Lippard was the curator, and other artists included Alice Aycock and Jackie Winsor.<ref name="Chadwick2">{{cite book|last1 = Chadwick|first1 = Whitney|title = Women, Art, and Society|date = 2012|publisher = Thames and Hudson|location = New York|isbn = 9780500204054|page = 349|edition = 5th}}</ref> She was also 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.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
Along with others, Miss's work has been included in the exhibitions ''Decoys, Complexes and Triggers'' at the Sculpture Center in New York, ''Weather Report: Art and Climate Change'' organized by Lucy Lippard at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, ''More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the 1970s'' at the Rose Art Museum, and ''Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis'' at the Tate Modern.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://art.state.gov/artistdetail.aspx?id=102696|title=U.S. Department of State - Art in Embassies|website=art.state.gov|access-date=2015-04-07|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201059/http://art.state.gov/artistdetail.aspx?id=102696|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Miss has also 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.<ref name=":1" />
=== Selected group exhibitions === * Sculpture Annual (1970) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/1970annualwhit|title=Annual exhibition contemporary American sculpture, 1970.|date=January 26, 1970|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> * Whitney Biennial (1973) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/1973biennialexhi|title=1973 Biennial exhibition|date=January 26, 1973|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> *''Rooms'' (1976) P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/finding-aids/MoMAPS1_Ib.html|title=MoMA PS1 Archives, Series I: Curatorial and Exhibition Recordsin The Museum of Modern Art Archives MoMAPS1_I|website=www.moma.org}}</ref> *Nine Artists: Theodoran Awards (1977) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY<ref>{{Cite book|last=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.|title=Nine artists : Theodoron awards|date=1977|publisher=Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation|others=Theodoron (Foundation)|isbn=0-89207-008-0|location=New York|oclc=3310032}}</ref> *Architectural Analogues (1978) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/architecturalana16whit|title=Architectural analogues : September 20-October 25, 1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch.|date=January 26, 1978|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> * The Minimal Tradition (1979) Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mullenbooks.com/pages/books/23317/ct-aldrich-museum-of-contemporary-art-ridgefield-1979-apr-29-to-sept-2/the-minimal-tradition?soldItem=true|title=The Minimal Tradition by CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, 1979 on Mullen Books|website=Mullen Books}}</ref> *Drawing:The Pluralist Decade (1980) Venice Biennale, Italy<ref>{{cite web|url=https://icaphila.org/exhibitions/drawings-the-pluralist-decade/|title=Drawings: The Pluralist Decade - ICA Philadelphia|date=August 30, 2013|website=Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, PA}}</ref> *Whitney Biennial (1981) Whitney Museum of American Art, NY<ref>{{Cite book|last=Whitney Museum of American Art|url=http://archive.org/details/1981biennialexhi|title=1981 Biennial exhibition.|date=1981|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|others=Frances Mulhall Achilles Library Whitney Museum of American Art|language=English}}</ref> *''Habitats'' (1983) P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4311|title=Habitats | MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}</ref> *Metamanhattan (1984) Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, NY<ref>{{Cite book|last=Whitney Museum of American Art|url=http://archive.org/details/metamanhattanexh01whit|title=MetaManhattan : [exhibition] Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, Federal Hall National Memorial, January 12-March 15, 1984.|date=1984|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|others=Frances Mulhall Achilles Library Whitney Museum of American Art|language=English}}</ref> *Sitings (1986) La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Dallas<ref>{{Cite book|last=Davies, Hugh Marlais, 1948-|title=Sitings : Alice Aycock, Richard Fleischner, Mary Miss, George Trakas|date=1986|publisher=La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art|others=Onorato, Ronald J., Yard, Sally., La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art., Dallas Museum of Art., High Museum of Art.|isbn=0-934418-25-X|location=La Jolla, Calif.|oclc=13810750}}</ref> *New Photography 8 (1992) MoMA, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1605|title=New Photography 8: Dieter Appelt, Ellen Brooks, Darrel Ellis, Dennis Farber, Robert Flynt, Mary Miss, Gundula Schulze and Toshio Shibata | MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}</ref> *The Second Dimension: 20th Century Sculptors Drawings (1993) Brooklyn Museum, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/1181|title=Brooklyn Museum|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}</ref> * More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the 70's (1996) Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stoops|first=Susan L.|title=More than minimal : feminism and abstraction in the '70s|publisher=Waltham, Mass. : Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University|year=1996|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref> * ''100 Drawings'' (1999) P.S. 1, Contemporary Art Museum, Long Island City, New York<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/244 |title=MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: 100 Drawings |access-date=2015-11-09 |archive-date=2015-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031180548/http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/244 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Primarily Structural: Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Works on Paper'' (1999) P.S. 1, Contemporary Art Museum, Long Island City, New York<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/224 |title=MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Primary Structural: Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Works on Paper |access-date=2015-11-09 |archive-date=2015-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022174948/http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/224 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art (1999) S.U.N.Y. Purchase, NY.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Art|first=Neuberger Museum of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zypKAQAAIAAJ|title=Neuberger Museum of Art 1999 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art: On the Campus of Purchase College, State University of New York, June 27-October 24, 1999|date=1999|publisher=Neuberger Museum of Art|language=en}}</ref> *Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture (2000) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2020/07/earthworks-land-reclamation-revisited/|title=Earthworks: Land Reclamation, Revisited|date=July 29, 2020}}</ref> *Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (2001) Tate Modern, London, England<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/century-city |title=Century City – Exhibition at Tate Modern |publisher=Tate |date=2001-04-29 |accessdate=2021-01-26}}</ref> *The Art of 9/11 (2005) Apex Art, New York<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apexart.org/exhibitions/danto.htm|title=apexart :: Arthur C. Danto :: The Art of 9/11|website=apexart.org}}</ref> *Weather Report: Artists & Climate Change (2007) curated by Lucy Lippard, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO<ref>{{Cite book|title=Weather report : art and climate change|others=Lippard, Lucy R.,, Smith, Stephanie, 1970-, Revkin, Andrew,, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art., EcoArts.|year=2007|isbn=978-0-9799007-0-9|location=Boulder, Colorado|oclc=181344923}}</ref> * Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s (2008) Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/3040/decoys-complexes-and-triggers-feminism-and-land-art-in-the-1970s|title=Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s|website=www.sculpture-center.org}}</ref> *''Modern Women: Single Channel'' (2011) MoMA P.S. 1, Queens, New York<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/330 |title=MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Modern Women: Single Channel |access-date=2015-11-18 |archive-date=2015-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031180825/http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/330 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 (2012) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moca.org/exhibition/ends-of-the-earth-land-art-to-1974|title=Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974|website=www.moca.org}}</ref> * Social Ecologies (2015) curated by Greg Lindquist, The Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects, Brooklyn, NY<ref>{{cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/social-ecologies|title=Social Ecologies | Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org}}</ref> * Minimalism: Space. Light. Object (2018), National Gallery, Singapore.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgallery.sg/exhibitions/minimalism-space-light-object|title=MINIMALISM: SPACE. LIGHT. OBJECT.|website=National Gallery Singapore}}</ref> * Female Minimal (2020) Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ropac.net/exhibitions/17-group-exhibition-dimensions-of-reality-female-minimal/|title=Group Exhibition | Dimensions of Reality: Female Minimal|website=Thaddaeus Ropac}}</ref>
=== Selected solo exhibitions === *''Projects'' (1976) Museum of Modern Art, New York *''Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys'' (1978) Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Miss|first1=Mary|title=Perimeters/pavilions/decoys: [exhibition] : Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts [sic|last2=Nassau County Museum of Fine Art (N.Y.)|date=1978|publisher=The Museum|location=Roslyn, N.Y.|language=English|oclc=4888654}}</ref> *''Screened Court'' (1979) Minneapolis College of Art, MN *''Mirror Way'' (1980) Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, Cambridge, MA *''Mary Miss'', (1981) Brown University and University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI *''Art and Architecture'' (1983) Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England<ref>{{Cite book|last=Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)|title=Art & architecture|publisher=London : Institute of Contemporary Arts|year=1983|isbn=0905263243|location=|pages=}}</ref> *''Pool Complex: Orchard Valley'' (1983–1985) Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laumeiersculpturepark.org/mary-miss|title=Mary Miss|website=Laumeier Sculpture Park}}</ref> *''Interior Works: 1966-1984'', (1984) Protetch-McNeil Gallery, NY * ''Mary Miss : Projects, 1966-1987'' (1987), Architectural Association, London<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Miss|first1=Mary|title=Mary Miss: projects, 1966-1987.|last2=Architectural Association (Great Britain)|date=1987|publisher=Architectural Association|isbn=978-0-904503-95-1|location=London|language=English|oclc=18806703}}</ref> *''Mary Miss, Photo/Drawings'' (1991), Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA<ref>{{Cite book|last=Miss, Mary, 1944-|title=Mary Miss, photo/drawings : April 2-28, 1991, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania.|date=1991|publisher=The Gallery|others=Freedman Gallery (Reading, Pa.)|isbn=0-941972-12-7|location=Reading, Pa.|oclc=24374904}}</ref> *''Mary Miss Photo/Drawings'' (1996), Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA<ref>{{Cite book|last=Miss, Mary, 1944-|title=Mary Miss photo/drawings : September 21, 1996-January 5, 1997|date=1996|publisher=Des Moines Art Center|others=Des Moines Art Center.|isbn=1-879003-15-5|location=Des Moines, Iowa|oclc=37536823}}</ref> *''Mary Miss: An Artist Working in the Public Domain'' (2000), Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI * ''Mary Miss: City as Living Laboratory, Hartford'' (2010-2011) Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/cityaslivinglaboratory-hartford|title=City as Living Laboratory, Hartford (2011)|website=City as Living Laboratory (CALL)|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043658/https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/cityaslivinglaboratory-hartford/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Awards and honors == Miss received the New York City American Society of Landscape Architects President's Award in 2010,<ref>{{cite web|title=Previous President's Dinner Honorees {{!}} ASLA-NY|url=https://www.aslany.org/previous-presidents-dinner-honorees/|access-date=2021-01-26|language=en-US}}</ref> the American Academy in Rome's Centennial Medal in 2001, and a Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architects in 1990. She received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986. She was awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984, 1975, and 1974.<ref>{{cite web|last=Miss|first=Mary|title=Artist Home Page|url=http://www.marymiss.com|access-date=21 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=National Council on the Arts|url=https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1974.pdf|title=National Endowment of the Arts Annual Report 1974|publisher=National Endowment of the Arts|year=1974|isbn=|location=Washington, D.C.|page=110}}</ref>
* Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) grants (1973,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Creative Artists Public Service Program|title=Photographers, Sculptors, Painters, Printmakers 1972-1973|publisher=Gallery Association of New York State Inc.|year=1973|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref> 1977<ref>{{Cite book|last=Creative Artists Public Service Program|title=Visual Art: Graphic Artists, Painters, Photographers, Sculptors 1976-1977|publisher=Gallery Association of New York State Inc.|year=1977|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref>) *Project Grant, Mott Community College, Flint, MI, 1974 * New York State Council on the Arts (1973,<ref>{{Cite book|last=New York State Council on the Arts|url=https://arts.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Annual%20Report%201972%20-%2073.pdf|title=New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1972-73|publisher=New York Stale Council on the Arts|year=1973|isbn=|location=|page=140}}</ref> 1976<ref>{{Cite book|last=New York State Council on the Arts|url=https://arts.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Annual%20Report%201975%20-%2076%2C%201976%20-%2077.pdf|title=New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1975-76/1976-77|publisher=New York State Council on the Arts|year=1977|isbn=|location=|page=87}}</ref>) * Brandeis University Creative Arts award (1982)<ref>{{Cite news |date=1982-04-29 |title=Brandeis Awards to Go To Nine Today |pages=C21 |work=New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1982/04/29/097795.html?pageNumber=77 |access-date=2023-01-25}}</ref> * Philip N. Winslow Landscape Design Award, Parks Council, NYC (1992) * Urban Design award (in collaboration with Studio Works), ''Progressive Architecture Magazine'' (1992) *The 2000 New York City Masterworks Award, The Municipal Arts Society and GVA Williams (2000)<ref>{{cite web|title=14th Street Union Square Station|url=https://www.lhparch.com/14th-street-union-square-subway|access-date=2021-01-26|website=LHPArchitects|language=en-US}}</ref> *Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal, Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society for Architecture and Allied Arts (2004)<ref>{{cite web|title=Gold Medal Recipients {{!}} Tau Sigma Delta|url=https://tausigmadelta.org/gold-medal-recipients/|access-date=2021-01-26|language=en-US}}</ref> *China Sculpture Institute, Honorable Member (2008) *NOAA Environmental Literacy Grant for FLOW: An Innovative Educational Toolkit for Rivers Awareness (2010) *Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant, for BROADWAY: 1000 Steps (2010)<ref>{{cite web|title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Mary Miss|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/3739-broadway-1000-steps|access-date=2021-01-26|website=www.grahamfoundation.org}}</ref> *Anonymous Was A Woman, Visual Art New York, NY (2011)<ref>{{cite web|title=Recipients to Date|url=https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/previous-recipients|access-date=2021-01-26|website=Anonymous Was A Woman|language=en-US}}</ref> *National Science Foundation Award For Informal Science Education (ISE) for BROADWAY: 1000 STEPS (2011)<ref>{{cite web|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1240641 - City as Living Laboratory for Sustainability in Urban Design|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240641|access-date=2021-01-26|website=www.nsf.gov}}</ref> *New York City Award for Excellence in Design for ''The Passage: A Moving Memorial'' (2012)<ref>{{cite web|title=Design Commission - Thirtieth Annual Design Awards|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/awards/past-awards/design-awards-30.page|access-date=2021-01-26|website=www1.nyc.gov}}</ref> *Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2013)<ref>{{cite web|title=The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. announces 116 grants totaling $2,163,000 to visual artists internationally in fiscal year 2013-2014. – Pollock-Krasner Foundation|url=https://pkf.org/press_releases/pollock-krasner-foundation-inc-announces-116-grants-totaling-2163000-visual-artists-internationally-fiscal-year-2013-2014/|access-date=2021-01-26|language=en-US|archive-date=January 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102181152/https://pkf.org/press_releases/pollock-krasner-foundation-inc-announces-116-grants-totaling-2163000-visual-artists-internationally-fiscal-year-2013-2014/|url-status=dead}}</ref> *National Science Foundation Award for Indianapolis: City As Living Laboratory (2013)<ref>{{cite web|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1323117 - Indianapolis as a Living Laboratory: Science Learning for Resilient Cities|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1323117&HistoricalAwards=false|access-date=2021-01-26|website=www.nsf.gov}}</ref> *Award of Merit, The American Institute for Architecture (2015)<ref>{{cite web|title=AIA New York Announces 2015 Design Award Winners|url=https://www.aiany.org/about/press-releases/aia-new-york-announces-2015-design-award-winners/|access-date=2021-01-26|website=AIA New York|language=en-US}}</ref> *Bedrock of New York Award (2017){{citation needed|date=January 2021}} *Global Excellence Award, Urban Land Institute (2018)<ref>{{cite web|date=2017-11-14|title=ULI Announces Winners of 2017-2018 Global Awards for Excellence|url=https://europe.uli.org/uli-announces-winners-of-2017-global-awards-excellence/|access-date=2021-01-26|website=ULI Europe|language=en}}</ref>
She was named as a distinguished alumni of UC Santa Barbara in 1985.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 7, 1985 |title=UC Santa Barbara Will Honor 2 Alumni |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-07-vw-3324-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles |access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>
== Personal life == Miss married sculptor Bruce Colvin in 1967,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Degenhart |first=Karen |date=September 1, 1981 |title=Activities |url=http://opus.govst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1195&context=innovator |newspaper=The Governors State University Innovator |location=University Park, Illinois |publisher=Governors State University |volume=8 |issue=1 |page=6 |access-date=March 9, 2016}}</ref> but later divorced in 1986.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Berman |first=Avis |date=November 1989 |title=Space Exploration |url=http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e29b74e4b0d1dab65f7762/t/5592e9d0e4b0a8b55461de5b/1435691472238/20150616154409.pdf |magazine=ARTnews |location=New York City |volume=88 |number=9 |pages=130–135 |access-date=March 9, 2016}}</ref> She is currently married to George Peck, a New York-based artist.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Baldwin |first=Deborah |date=September 20, 2001 |title=It's Going to Take More Than Elbow Grease |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/garden/it-s-going-to-take-more-than-elbow-grease.html |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York City |access-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> They live together in Tribeca where Miss also has her studio.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Sonia |date=September 7, 2006 |title=Mary Miss, artist |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/miss-131284-park-project.html |newspaper=Orange County Register |location=Santa Ana, California |access-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref>
== Further reading == * Kingsley, April. "Six Women at Work in a Landscape." ''Arts Magazine'' 52 (April 1978): 108–12. * Lippard, Lucy. "Mary Miss: An Extremely Clear Situation." ''Art in America'' 62 (March–April 1974): 76–7. * Marter, Joan M. "Collaborations: Artists and Architects on Public Sites." ''Art Journal'' 48 (1989): 315–20. * Miss, Mary. "On a Redefinition of Public Sculpture." ''Perspecta'', no. 21 (1984): 52–69. *Hamill, Sarah. "‘The Skin of the Earth’: Mary Miss's ''Untitled'' 1973/75 and the Politics of Precarity." ''Oxford Art Journal'' 41: 2 (August 2018): 271–291.
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.marymiss.com/}} * [http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/110/977 MoMA Multimedia - Modern Women: Mary Miss] * [http://www.as-ap.org/oralhistories/interviews/interview-mary-miss-artist Art Spaces Archive Project: Interview with Mary Miss] * [http://newyork.thecityatlas.org/people/mary-miss/ City Atlas New York: Interview with Mary Miss] * [http://heresiesfilmproject.org/women/mary-miss/ The Heretics: Mary Miss] * [http://tclf.org/pioneer/mary-miss The Cultural Landscape Foundation: Pioneer Mary Miss]
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