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Solo Exhibitions and Collaborative Performances/Works
Upcoming in 2025 - Solo Exhibition, Boundary, Chicago, Illinois
2022 - Boundarymind, AME (Art Music Experiment), Huddersfield, United Kingdom
2022 - Boundarymind, 6018 North, Chicago, Illinois
2021 - Boundarymind, installation in collaboration with composers Katherine Young and Linda Jankowska and video artist Kera MacKenzie, Roman Susan, Chicago, Illinois
2019 - I Love Myself Fully and Unconditionally, a series of paintings produced for a performance installation by Natacha Diels and Sam Scranton. Installed and performed at the following venues: Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; Poekhali! Festival, Bergen, Norway; Harvestworks, Governor’s Island, New York
2019 Lost Things - The Third Word: Collaborative work with artist Emmett Ramstad, WE Series curated by Deidre Huckabay and Lia Kohl, Elastic Arts, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Escapisms - Collaborative work with Composer Samuel Scranton, WE Series curated by Deidre Huckabay and Lia Kohl, Elastic Arts, Chicago, Illinois
2016 Hololith - Collaborative Work with Composer Samuel Scranton for Mocrep, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
2016 Hololith - Collaborative Work with Composer Samuel Scranton for Mocrep, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois
2014 The Sentimentalist - Free Range, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Forever Plus: New Work By Molly Roth - Lillstreet Art Center, Annex Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Good Night, Children. We’re In The Arms of the Great Lover. -
(collaborative installation with sound artist/composer Samuel Scranton)
Art of This, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2009 A Story About Some People Changing - galleryHOMELAND, Portland, Oregon
2008 Information Sickness and Time Fever - Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Invited Exhibitions and Publication/Print Work
2024 - Where a Knot Begins and Ends, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2022 - I’m so excited for you to come home, Western Pole, Chicago, Illinois
2018 - Trois Hommages, paintings and design for Pianist Mabel Kwan’s production of Composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ composition Trois Hommages for two pianos
2018 - Chicago Print Crawl, Free Range Gallery (co-hosted by Spudnik Press), Chicago, Illinois
2018 - Firsts and Starts: Art Making as a New Mother - Roman Susan, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Print Project Chicago: CPS - a collaborative effort organized by artists Amy and Andrew Falkowski designed to produce Risograph editions in support of organizations in need of funding. All proceeds from this edition will go toward Chicago Public Schools.
2017 DIDACTIC, A selection of Texts and Images on the Occasion of Syntax Season - Curated by Elisabeth Smith and Michael Milano, Published by PRINTtEXT, Indianapolis, Indiana
2015 Expo Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center Booth, Chicago, Illinois
2015 Martin & Brocket, Los Angeles, California
2015 Diligence is to Magic As Progress is to Flight, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL Collaborative Installation and Image Projection with Composers Katherine Young and Austin Wulliman and Parlour Tapes+
2014 Diligence is to Magic As Progress is to Flight, Constellation, Chicago, IL
Collaborative Installation and Image Projection with Composers Katherine Young and Austin Wulliman and Parlour Tapes+
2014 Featured Artist, The Gala Chicago, City Point Lofts, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Craft/Work, Beauty and Brawn Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Front and Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Text, Prøve Gallery, Duluth, Minnesota
2013 Artwork6, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Northern Spark Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2011 Material Matters in conjunction with Confluence, the 2011 International Surface Design Association Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2010 PDX Contemporary Art: Window Project, Portland, Oregon
2010 Golden Auxilary Space, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Anthem, Babelkunst, Trondheim, Norway
2010 Amateur Hour, 285 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, New York
2010 Common Sense: Art and the Quotidian, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2009 My Strawberry Roan: New Art From America,
Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Threaded, Gallery 51, North Hampton, Massachusetts
2009 Good Hustle, Nationale, Portland, Oregon
2009 The Audacity of Art, Version Festival, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Paradigm Shift, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2008 Meander, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 Yours Truly, Main Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2007 Urban Fabric, Traffic Zone, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 Most Curatorial Biennial in the Universe, Apex Art,New York, New York
2007 SAD: Illuminating a Northern View of Darkness, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2007 - 2009 Art Shanty Projects, Medicine Lake, Minnesota
2007 Group Exhibition, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 This Mango is Now an IPod, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 Made@MCAD, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2006 Untitled 5, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005 Dedicated to You: A Show for Ex-Lovers
Pacific Switchboard, Portland, Oregon
2003 The Modern Zoo
Portland Institute for the Advancement of Culture, Portland, Oregon
Collections
Private Collection of Kristina Fancisco, New York, New York Private Collection of Jay Swanson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Bibliography
2020 The Tender Listener: Collaboration and Friendship as Compositional Methodology, Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young,CeReNeM Journal: Human-Entity Interactions in Contemporary Artistic Practice
2017 DIDACTIC, A Selection of Texts and Images on the Occassion of Syntax Season, Curated by Elisabeth Smith & Michael Milano, Published by PRINTtEXT, February, 2017
2010 Jeff Jahn, Roth, Nagy and Fenker Alt-Space Explorations, Portlandart.net, January 25, 2010
2008 Mary Abbe, Bunnies, Bathers and Bows, Star Tribune, June 6, 2008
2008 Andy Sturdevant, ARP! Art Review and Preview, Collecting and Collection, Summer 2008
2008 Michael Fallon, Meander, Art Papers, July/August 2008
2008 Collier White, Multipurpose, The Rake, June 16, 2008
2007 Mary Abbe, Art: Inventive SAD show is anything but, Star Tribune, June 7, 2007
2007 Susannah Schouweiler, Zoom In: Molly Roth The Rake: 10,000 Artists, May 2007
2007 Sara Miller, Fruitalicious, Minnesota Daily, April 26, 2007
2007 Susannah Schouweiler, Zoom In: Installation Artist Molly Roth
Access + Engage: All the World's a Stage, Issue 14.1, February 8, 2007
2006 Alex Starace Local Conficence: "Untitled V" at Soo VAC, July 17, 2006
2003 Jon Raymond The Modern Zoo, Art Forum, PICKS 2003
2003 Jeff Jahn We Can Be Heros: Wagner, Finneran and the Modern Zoo, August 2003
Other Professional Activities
2014 to present - Associate Director of Faculty Affairs, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, Michigan
2022 Artist-In-Residence, Living in the Play, The Poor Farm, Little Wolf, Wisconsin
2024 Panelist in conjunction with exhibition Where a Knot Begins and Ends, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, Michigan
2022 Artist-In-Residence, Living in the Play, The Poor Farm, Little Wolf, Wisconsin
2019 Artist-In-Residence, The Future in conjunction with the Minnesota Weaver’s Guild, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2019 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, Michigan
2018 Panelist with curator Diane Mullen (Weisman Art Museum) and artist Emmett Ramstad for Ramstad’s exhibition Laying In Wait, Hair & Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2018 Visiting Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2016 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, Michigan
2014 Visiting Artist, Advanced Typography, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
2014 Panelist: Continuing Conversations: The Past, Present & Future of the Art vs Craft Debate,
Beauty and Brawn Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, Michigan
2013 Artist-In-Residence, Center Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, Michigan
2013 Instructor, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Visiting Artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2010 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, Michigan
2008 Guest Lecturer, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 Teaching Assistant, Body Eclectic, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 Guest Lecturer, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 Guest Lecturer, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2006 Guest Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2006 Guest Lecturer, The College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota
Education
2007 Minneapolis College of Art & Design - Minneapolis, MN
MFA, Visual Studies
2004 Portland State University - Portland, OR
BA, Drawing/Painting/Printmaking - cum laude