About
Margot Dermody (b. Takoma Park, MD) is an artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work is currently featured in two group exhibitions, Fluid, at Mark Rengers Gallery through January 6, 2024, and Bodies with PxP Contemporary Gallery through January 31, 2024. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Light Through Stone, Women United Art Movement, June 2023 and The Way of Peace, Forward and Back in the Pittsburgh Federal Courthouse lobby as part of the Art in the Courthouse series, November 15, 2022 through April 15, 2023. Her work has been shown in numerous additional exhibitions, Stories to be Told, Art Mum’s (2023); Chromatic, PxP Contemporary Gallery, (2022); Stronger Together, Art Mum’s (2022); Alone, Together, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (2021); Full Circle, Concept Art Gallery (2021); and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 107th Annual Exhibition at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, (2019-2020). She also has presented her art in the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery, William Pitt Union, Gallery One | Collective Works, and the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media.
Margot participated in the Artist Residency Program in 2021 at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, where she continues to work as a studio artist. Bringing together elements of the natural world with human emotion in painting, sculpture, and photography, her work spans a wide range from a neutral monochromatic palette to a more explicitly vivid and affective narrative.
ARTIST CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Margot Dermody: Light Through Stone
Women United Art Movement
June 2023
Margot Dermody: The Way of Peace, Forward and Back
Art in the Courthouse, United States District Court
October 2022 – June 2023
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
FLUID
Mark Rengers Gallery
November 2023 - January 2024
BODIES
PxP Contemporary Gallery
November 2023 - January 2024
STRONGER TOGETHER
Art Mum’s United
July - September 2022
CHROMATIC
PxP Contemporary Gallery
February – April 2022
Living with Art: I, II, III
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Online Feature Series
2019, 2020, 2021
ALONE, TOGETHER
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
January 17 – February 7, 2020
110, 111, 112, 113
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
107th Annual Exhibition, Associate Artists of Pittsburgh
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art
November 9, 2019 – January 26, 2020
WHAMglobal Art Show, Birthing a Movement
William Pitt Union
June 8-9, 2019
Distilled Exhibit
Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media
February 8 - April 28, 2019
Radiant Hall Exhibit
Westmoreland Community College Gallery
January 22 - February 15, 2019
EDUCATION
Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media, 2017-2019
Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, 1993-1995
Cornell University, Master of Professional Studies, 1980
Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts, Economics, 1978