Marcy Chevali (b.1982, Columbus, Ohio) works primarily in glass and mixed media sculpture. Instead of renouncing the feminine connotations traditionally assigned to craft techniques, Marcy Chevali embraces the textile practices once dismissed by patriarchal society. Applying processes from knitting and weaving to lampworking and wire-tying, Chevali creates enthralling, biomorphic-shaped glass and wire nets. These illusory grids reinterpret delicacy and fragility as strength. Interested in permeability, the artist creates boundaries that visually expand and contract.
Chevali has a BFA from Ohio State University, in addition to an MFA from Maine College of Art. The artist has shown her work extensively, including at the Queens Museum of Art, Noyes Museum, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Aicon Gallery, AIR Gallery, and Gallery Aferro, and with organizations such as South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, ABC No Rio, Project for an Empty Space, 4heads and Peculiar Works Projects. Notable residencies of Chevali's include Playa, Edward Albee Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Kimmel Harding Nelson, and Urban Glass. She was awarded a Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination With Glass from Pittsburgh Glass Center, received grants from Queens Council of the Arts and FST Studio Projects. Chevali is featured in Aicon Contemporary's 2025 Armory Show presentation, After Nature.
The artist lives and works in New York City.