SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Atmospheric Conditions Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021-22 On The Point Gallery and exhibition, New Orleans, LA concurrent w/ P. 5
2020 gather Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Polymorphs Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
samples + patches Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA concurrent w/ P. 4
2015 Transpositions Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Marianne Desmarais: Tiling Studies Tulane School of Architecture New Orleans, LA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
16th Annual LA Fine Arts Showcase, SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA
2022 Tongue & Groove, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Decoration for the End of the World, Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA con. w/ P. 5
2021 Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2019 Identity Measures, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2018 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Piecework, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Birds of A Feather, Miniart Center, New Orleans, LA
2016 “A Building With A View” Experiments in Anarchitecture, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, LA
Precision: Marianne Desmarais and Richard Johnson Cole Pratt Gallery New Orleans, LA
2015 Megalomania III, Boyd Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Louisiana Contemporary, awarded Third Place, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Reparation: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans New Orleans Museum of Art Prospect 3, New Orleans, LA
Sputnik 2, Boyd Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Megalomania II, Boyd Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 LA Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Shape of Place, Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
My Mom says my work has really improved too, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Space and Time, with Michelle Gay and Liz Sargent, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
2009 A Poem about Water & Dreaming, Roadside Attractions, Toronto, ON
2008 Abstracted Landscapes, with Liz Sargent, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
2007 Together at Last, with Liz Sargent, Red Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA
TRACE, Kirkland Art Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Back to the Floor, A Juried Exhibition of Rugs, w/Liz Sargent, Elaine L. Stevens Gallery at Wayne State University,Detroit, MI /Juried by Rebecca Stevens, Consulting Curator Contemporary Textiles, The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.
2005 Living Light on the Land: Prototypes for Sustainable Architecture & Design with Liz Sargent, Network Gallery at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2004 By A Thread: a contemplation of design, with Liz Sargent, Aronson’s, New York, NY
2002 Makers' Marks, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
An Inch of Art, J.M. Kohler Arts Center, Special Exhibition, Sheboygan, WI
2001 Birmingham Project with Tyree Guyton and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Birmingham, MI
Bridge with Liz Sargent at the Cranbrook Forum Gallery Bloomfield Hills, MI
PUBLIC ART
2021 Double Loop, interior installation with Sarah Kabot, The Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
2013-14 Terrella, Permanent facade installation with Sarah Kabot, The Westin Cleveland Downtown. Cleveland, OH
2008 American Beauty, South, Mural Project, Airline Highway 61, New Orleans, LA
DesCours, with the Mutable Line Collaborative, American Institute of Architects, New Orleans, LA
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2019 Joan Mitchell Center, The Artist-in-Residence program, New Orleans, LA.
2004 The Banff Centre, New Works Residency, Banff, Alberta Canada
GALLERIES
2023-current Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA.
2016-2020 Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
COLLECTIONS
Hilton Canopy / Grand Rapids, MI
Four Seasons Hotel / Austin, TX
Luciano Benetton Collection / imago mundi hosted by Fondazione Benetton / Italy
Savannah College of Art & Design / North Kowloon Magistracy Building / Hong Kong
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Water Portfolio, an unbound print portfolio of work by ten artists from the Gulf South
Antenna Works and The Southern Letterpress
2021 “Double Loop at the Cleveland Clinic Raises Important Points About Medical Waste”
by Marc Lefkowitz CAN Journal Winter 2021 | 2022
“Other hues of Blue: A Pandemic-Era Biennial in Atlanta” by Tenley Bick NEW ART examiner April
2018 "Shifting Perspectives: Marianne Desmarais at the Contemporary Arts Center” by Marjorie Rawle Pelican Bomb April
2007 “upfront review: Marianne Desmarais” by Matthew Kangas Ceramics Monthly June
2006 “Design File: Floor Polish” by Elizabeth Pagliacolo Azure March/April
2005 “Once Wearable, Now Art” by Liz Good FiberArts Jan/Feb
2002 “Art Gardening: Heidelberg’s lone ranger works with Cranbrook’s architects and school kids
for change” by George Tish Metrotimes June