Virtual Visits is a digital series where Frye staff check in on members of our creative community in their home and work spaces during social distancing and beyond.
Join Amanda Donnan, Chief Curator at Frye Art Museum, for a Virtual Visit with current Frye artist Marilyn Montufar and the subjects of Montufar’s double portrait Ronnie and Cleveland, Ronnie Clark and Chanel Lumiere (recorded in October 2020).
Marilyn Montufar (b. 1985, Los Angeles) received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2009. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas Gerónimo Baqueiro Fóster, Mérida, Mexico (2019), Gallery 4Culture, Seattle (2018), Make.Shift Gallery, Bellingham (2017), and Feast Arts Center, Tacoma (2016), among others, and has been included in numerous group exhibitions since 2010. Montufar was a finalist for the 2020 Betty Bowen Award and has been an artist in residence at Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; and Primal Studio, Mexico City, where she created the photography youth project Beyond Borders/ Más allá de las fronteras, a visual collaboration and international exchange program. The project was featured at the FotoMéxico Festival and the Tamayo Art Museum’s Education Center in Mexico City in 2019. Montufar is a Mexican American dual citizen and resides in Seattle.