Mary Bucci McCoy is a painter, trained as a ceramic sculptor, whose intimately scaled, non-objective paintings are materially resonant, poetic meditations on the relationships between the human, animal, vegetal and mineral. Based in Essex County on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts, she has had solo exhibitions at venues inlcuding Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX; CG2 Gallery, Nashville, TN; Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA; the Artists Foundation, Boston, MA; Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; and Salem State University, Salem, MA. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Museum St. Wendel, St. Wendel, Germany; Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany; The Curator Gallery, New York, NY; Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY; Key Projects, Long Island City, NY; Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX; The Neon Heater, Findlay, OH; Aqua Art Miami art fair; Divisible, Dayton, OH; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA; Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH; Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; Merrimack College, Andover, MA; and Emmanuel College, Boston, MA.
She has been an artist in residence at the Studios at Mass MoCA, and her work has also been supported by a merit-based residency grant from the Vermont Studio Center, a Painting Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Faculty Development Awards from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. Her work is held in numerous private collections.
Mary was born in northern New Jersey and spent her formative years in the greater Philadelphia area. Her family originated in the Molise region of Italy. She holds degrees from Tufts University, Medford, MA and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA. In addition, she has studied ceramic sculpture and glaze technology at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Geneva, Switzerland (now Haute École d’Art et de Design Genève).