Mar Grogan’s work revolves around memory and nostalgia, focusing on the fragmented and shifting nature of recollection. Rather than focusing on the retrieval of specific experiences, she considers memory as something reconstructed over time. This process unfolds through overlapping thoughts, emotions, and visual interruptions. Drawing from photographs of her childhood, Grogan disrupts them through collage and recurring visual motifs that suggest emotional context while resisting a clear, linear narrative. Working primarily in acrylic, she builds layered surfaces that move between clarity and obscurity, often leaving underpaintings visible to emphasize the instability and artificiality of recollection. In recent work, she incorporates silkscreen directly onto the painted surface, reworking compositions with oil pastel and acrylic, allowing them to be continually revised and recontextualized. Through these material choices, she explores memory as something evolving rather than fixed.

EDUCATION

2021-2026 B.F.A Painting, University of Houston, Texas

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Mnemonic, Third Space Gallery, Houston, Texas

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Annual School of Art Student Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas

2026 Katwerk, Project Space, Houston, Texas

2026 Through the Moving Press, POST Houston, Texas

2025 Still Under Pressure, Third Space Gallery, Houston, Texas

2025 Annual School of Art Student Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas

2024 pursuit: fleeting identities, Project Space, Houston, Texas

2023 It’s a Horror, Third Space Gallery, Houston, Texas