Mariah Dekkenga is an artist and educator living and working in Vermont and Colorado. Dekkenga has held solo exhibitions at Situations, New York and Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York. Selected Group exhibitions include Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha Qatar; The Hole, New York; Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf; Clifton Benevento, New York; Kraftwerk, Berlin; and Suzanne Geiss, New York. Dekkenga has participated in residencies at Rondo in Mexico City, Kamen in Bosnia Herzegovina; Halka Sanat in Istanbul, Takt Kunstraum in Berlin, and Doha Fire Station in Qatar. She is collected by QMA Qatar Museums, Aïshti Foundation in Beruit, the US Embassy in Nogales Mexico and JP Morgan Chase. Her work has been featured in ArtNews, Elephant Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtReview, Cura Magazine, and New York Observer.
16/08/2022 - 25/02/2023
14/04/2022 - 15/05/2022
01/05/2022 - 19/06/2022
19/10/2019 - 01/12/2019
13/01/2018 - 25/02/2018
07/04/2017 - 14/05/2017
11/05/2017 - 11/06/2017
15/02/2015 - 15/03/2015
26/06/2015 - 07/08/2015
12/04/2015 - 24/05/2015
30/10/2015 - 06/12/2015
31/01/2015 - 28/02/2015
13/12/2014 - 20/01/2015
28/02/2013 - 31/03/2013
15/03/2013 - 21/04/2013
24/10/2013 - 08/12/2013
01/05/2013 - 01/06/2013
08/08/2013 - 30/08/2013
Your Move: Artist Mariah Dekkenga uses a Board Game to Rethink Abstract Painting, Robin Cameron, ArtNews, 2019
6 Emerging Artists Worth Discovering at NADA New York 2018, Artnet News, 2018
Ioanna Pantazopoulou and Mariah Dekkenga at Situations, Ravelin Magazine, 2018
Mariah Dekkenga and Ioanna Pantazopoulou: Femmage on Fire at Situations, David Sanderson, ArteFuse, 2018
In and Out of the Screen: The Canvas as Computer Monitor, Frederico Florian, Elephant Magazine, Fall 2015
Mariah Dekkenga, Tyler Akers, The Brooklyn Rail, 2015
Figure 8, Cura Magazine, 2015
Figure 8, ArtReview, Iona Whittaker, 2015
Reevaluating Modernism’s Reevaluation, Arts and Culture Tx, Seth Orion Schwaiger, 2014
suzannegeiss.net at Suzanne Geiss Company, The Observer, Andrew Russeth, 2013
Selected Exhibitions
2026 – Cyberia Redux (Solo), The People’s Gallery, Randolph VT.
Rondo Open Studios, Rondo Residency, Mexico City Mexico
2025 – Cyberia (Solo), The People’s Gallery, Randolph VT
2024 – Different Things in Different Amounts, Eastern CT State U
Games People Play, The People’s Gallery, VT
2023 – Family Style, Situations Gallery NYC
I Am The Passenger, Mother Gallery, Beacon NY
2022 – Behind Doors, (Solo), Situations Gallery NYC
Majaz: Contemporary Art Qatar, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Alkali Syllabi, Sheppard Contemporary, Reno NV
2020 – Furore, Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf Germany
Situations Spring Sleepover, Air Mattress Gallery, NYC
2019 – Non Zero Sum (Solo), Situations Gallery NYC
2018 – Contemporary Art Qatar, Qatar Museums, Kraftwerk Berlin
Mariah Dekkenga and Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Situations Gallery NYC
2017 – Post Analog Painting II, The Hole NYC
Contemporary On-Site, Atlanta Contemporary GA
Mariah Dekkenga and Frank Haines, Aetopolous, Athens Greece
Firestation Artists in Residence, The Firestation Doha Qatar
2016 – Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, Long Island City NY
2015 – Mariah Dekkenga (Solo), Eli Ping Frances Perkins, NYC
Post Analog Painting, The Hole NYC
Figure 8, Clifton Benevento NYC
American Pharaohs, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn NY
The Song Cave: Boston, Kijidome Boston MA
2014 – We Have Never Been Modern, Mass Gallery Austin TX
An Inventory of Lucifer’s Grotto, Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn
We Have Never Been Modern, Haeler Echo, NYC
Made and Found, Takt Kunstprojectraum, Berlin
2013 – Soft Geometries (Solo), Eli Ping, NYC
Windows, Elizabeth Denny Gallery NYC
suzannegeiss.net, The Suzanne Geiss Company NYC
Mural, New Museum: Movement Research in Residence
Game Show, MBUS Gallery, University of Miami FL
Palindromes, Perspectives Gallery, Virginia Tech VA
Half-Life, Andrew Prayzner, 241 Suydam Brooklyn
2011 – Mariah Dekkenga, (solo) Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn
True Singing is a Different Breathing, Vaudeville Park Brooklyn
2012 – Two Coffees, Two Brandies, Denniston Hill, Woodridge NY
2011 – Mariah Dekkenga, (solo) Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn
True Singing is a Different Breathing, Vaudeville Park Brooklyn
2010 – Temporary View of Berlin, 531 Harris Street, Sydney AU
Five Hundred and Thirty One, Marshall Arts, Memphis TN
Oblique Patience, (Scene) Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing MI
2009 – Green On Grey, PS1 Gallery, Iowa City IA
Call it Anything, Balkan Tripps, Berlin Germany
Collections
QM Qatar Museums, Doha Qatar
Aïshti Foundation, Beruit Lebanon
US Department of State, Nogales, Mexico
JP Morgan Chase, New York, USA
New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
EDUCATION
2007 – Master of Fine Arts
Painting and Drawing; University of Iowa – Iowa City
2007 – Master of Arts
Painting and Drawing; University of Iowa – Iowa City
2001 – Bachelor of Fine Art
Studio Art: University of Minnesota – Minneapolis
2001 – Bachelor of Arts
Art History: University of Minnesota – Minneapolis
RESIDENCIES
2024 – Greywood Arts
Killeagh, Cork Ireland
2026 – Rondo
Mexico City, Mexico
2022 – Kamen
Bosnia Herzegovina
2016/17 – Fire Station
Residency/Stipend: Doha Qatar
2016 – Officina Stamperia Del Notaio
Tusa, Sicily Italy
2016 – Babayan Culture House
Ibrahimpasa, Cappadocia Turkey
2014 – Takt Kunstprojectraum
Berlin, Germany
2014 – Halka Sanat
Istanbul, Turkey
2014 – Linea De Costa
Cadiz Spain
TEACHING
2025-Current – Assistant Professor
Visual and Performing Arts
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
2020-23 – Adjunct Professor
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
University of Nevada Reno, Incline Village
2013 – Graduate Thesis Advisor
MFA in Studio Art
NYU Steinhardt Culture Arts and Humanities
2008-10 – Adjunct Professor
BFA in Art & Art History
Coe College, Cedar Rapids IA
2008-9 – Adjunct Professor
BFA in Art & Art History
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Related work experience
2010-12 – Archivist/Designer
Andrew Kreps Gallery
New York, NY
2008-10 – Gallery Director
Marvin Cone & Eaton Buchan Gallery
Coe College, Cedar Rapids IA
2008-10 – Collection Manager
Coe College Permanent Art Collection
Coe College, Cedar Rapids IA