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Molly Burt-Westvig is a visual artist working in moving image, installation, and painting to challenge dominant paradigms of perception, time, and the sublime. Engaging with industrial materials and urban infrastructure, her work subverts systems of power embedded in industry and the history of painting. Through the use of salvaged automotive debris—like glass and steel—she constructs new media sculptures that explore the poetics of refusal, dismantling symbols of American progress, masculinity, and acceleration. Her work reintroduces industrial remnants into the natural world through illusion, light, movement, and atmosphere—breezes, sunlight, water, and shadows—which form immersive environments that stretch time into infinite loops. In repurposing materials tied to speed and destruction, Burt-Westvig proposes an alternative potential—one that unravels imposed structures and reconfigures fragments into a vision beyond the known.

Burt-Westvig received her MFA in 2024 from the Tyler School of Art and was featured in New American Paintings #165 that same year. In 2025 she received the American Austrian Foundation Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and attended the Salzburg International Summer Academy. She has participated in international and national residencies, including at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and PILOTENKUECHE in Leipzig, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and project spaces across the U.S. and abroad.

Education: 
2025 Summer Academy, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria 
2022-2024 Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Masters of Fine Art in Painting 
2019 Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA 
2011- 2014 University of Iowa, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting 

Solo Exhibitions: 
2025 GOOD LUCK TOMORROW, Flow Space Gallery, NYC, NY
2024 To Trace a Sunbeam, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY 
2024 To Trace a Sunbeam, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA 
2019 WYWH, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2017 Perspectives, John Colloton Pavilion Gallery, University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City, IA 
2017 Glass Giants, Legion Arts Center, Cedar Rapids, IA 

Group Exhibitions: 

2026 The Trickster, WestWerk, Hamburg, Germany (forthcoming)
2025 Second Glance, Curated by Jayne Struble, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA
2025 Media Translations: From Analogue Film to Immersive Narratives, Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria 
2025 Beyond the Veil, Curated by Kate McNamara, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2025 States of Change, Curated by Libby Rosa, Spruce Street Harbor Park, Philadelphia, PA
2025 Placing the Unplaceable, Curated by Rah Gerg, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
2025 Echoes in Matter, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA 
2024 Spectral Feel, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2024 XIX Juried Exhibition, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA 
2024 Color(less), Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 
2024 PENT UP, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 
2024 The Cosmic Spiders Messy Entanglement, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA (duo w/ John Dillard) 
2023 215|610 CONTEMPORARY, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA 
2023 Message Received, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA 
2023 Gone Fishing!, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 
2022 Camera Obscura: Bent, Gallery 114, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 
2022 Fairy Fountain, Co-Re Haus Der Statistik, Berlin, Germany 
2022 Cozy Concrete Cable Store, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany 
2022 Ciepła Biała Krowa, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany 
2021 What the (Hell), H E I M A, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 
2021 On Edge, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO 
2019 Another Way Around, FAB, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 
2019 Muir is Tir, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburg, Scotland 
2019 The Art of Water, James May Gallery, Algoma, WI 
2018 Vernissage, Marnay-sur-Seine Botanical Gardens, Marnay-sur-Seine, France 
2018 Dear Future, Public Space One Gallery, Iowa City, IA 

Public Works and Collections: 
2025 Schloss Arenberg, Salzburg, Austria 
2025 Delaware River Waterfront Company, Philadelphia, PA 
2022 Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority’s Art Shelter Program, Des Moines, Iowa 
2021 Longmont Public Library, Longmont, Colorado 
2018 La Jardin Botanique de Marnay-Sur-Seine, Marnay-Sur-Seine, France 
2017 The Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City, Iowa 
2017 The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 

Fellowships and Residencies: 
2025 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria 
2025 University Fellowship at The Studios at MassMOCA, North Adams, MA 
2024 Skidmore College Work+Space Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY 
2022 Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany 
2021 H E I M A, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 
2020 Anderson Ranch Advanced Studio Practice and Critique, Snowmass, CO, USA 
2019 Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA 
2018 Muir Is Tir, An Lanntair Art Centre and Sail Britain, Outer Hebrides, Scotland 
2018 La Maison Verte, La Jardin Botanique, Marnay-sur-Seine, France 
2016 Gullkistan, Laugarvatn, Iceland 

Grants, and Awards: 
2025 The American Austrian Foundation Seerbach Prize in Visual Arts, Salzburg, Vienna
2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant, Philadelphia, PA 
2024 Thesis Completion Grant, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 
2024 Dean’s Grant, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 

Teaching and Guest Lecturing:
2024 Guest Lecturer, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 
2024 Artist Lecture, Tyler Painting Skillshare series, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 
2023-2024 Guest Lecturer and Critic, Professional Practice for Art Majors, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
2022-2023 Teaching Assistant, Painting, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Artist Talk, Berneray Community Center, Berneray, UK
2016 Artist Talk, Bláskógaskóli Laugarvatni, Laugarvatn, IS 

Press:
2024 Peer Review Volume II, edited by Kat Chamberlin, Priscilla Fusco, 2024
2023 New American Paintings #165 MFA, 2023
2023 Philly Art Blog 3/24/23, Whearty, Lauren “Molly Burt-Westvig on ‘the reveal’ in her multi-media paintings” (https://www.theartblog.org/2023/03/molly-burt-westvig-on-the-reveal-in-her-multi-media-paintings/) 
2022 New American Paintings issue 165 MFA 
2018 Channel 3 France Champagne-Ardenne, Le souffle de la création à Marnay sur Seine, 5/19/18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVRcRzzMMGA&feature=share)