Mary Lou Zelazny


Mary Lou Zelazny is an American painter. Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was exposed to and trained with Ray Yoshida, Barbara Rossi, Hollis Sigler and others of that generation. Completed Bachelor of Fine Art degree in 1980.

Art career

Zelazny began her solo exhibition career at the Peter Miller Gallery Chicago in 1984, and through the years has had solo exhibitions with the Roy Boyd Gallery Chicago, Phyllis Kind Gallery, and is currently represented by the Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago. The Hyde Park Art Center Chicago held a major retrospective of her work in 2009. Her painting "Sea Walker" was exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago show, Surrealism: The Conjured Life.
Known for her collage and paint works on canvas. Zelazny is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the SAIC. Her painting, "Made of Iron" was featured on the cover of the literary and art journal "Mission at Tenth" in 2014
In addition to painting and teaching, she performed the role of "Ida Blue" in the 2012 animated film Consuming Spirits by Chris Sullivan.

Public collections