Mollye Bendell is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in electronic media. She has received grants and residencies from Wave Farm WGXC, the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art. Awards include the GBCA Baker Artist Award, the MSAC Independent Artist Award and the RW Deutsch Foundation Rubys Artist Grant. She is also a founding member of media arts collective strikeWare, which creates experiences grounded in our collective history, often using new technologies to emphasize the nowness of that history. Mollye’s work has been exhibited in venues such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the New York Electronic Arts Festival, CURRENTS New Media Festival, and National Sawdust. Public art commissions include Ladew Topiary Gardens and the City of Redmond, Washington. She has recently exhibited at the BlackRock Center for the Arts, the Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Mollye holds a BA in Sculpture from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is an Assistant Professor of Art with a focus in Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland, College Park. She lives and works in Baltimore, MD.