About the Artist

Mallory Feltz is a Cincinnati-based visual artist originally from Dayton, Ohio, who has always enjoyed building things and is attracted to a wide variety of materials. She earned her BFA in Sculpture (2006) from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), and MFA in Sculpture (2009) from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA.

Mallory mixes traditional sculptural and craft techniques with multiples-based sculptures, installations, and participatory works to address themes of family dynamics, domestic rituals, childhood memories, and place. She is interested in what people consider to be their homes, how this idea can shift over time, and how we find comfort in our environment. Through sculpture, installation, and mixed media, she uses humor and familiarity to invite viewers into spaces of reflection - where joy and vulnerability coexist. By recontextualizing familiar objects and everyday materials, she seeks to disrupt conventional modes of perception, prompting viewers to reconsider their associations with the ordinary. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally.

In 2017, Mallory was chosen as one of 35 international artists to create a light-based sculptural installation in the inaugural BLINK Cincinnati, and was selected again to create new works for both BLINK 2019 and BLINK 2022. Mallory has two permanent outdoor sculptures - in Hamilton, OH and Brookline, NH.
For the month of February 2022, she was an artist in residence at Olive Stack Gallery in Listowel, Ireland where she developed a new series of landscape fabric collages created from reclaimed stuffed animals.

She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and dog, and is the Director of Exhibitions and Public Art at Kennedy Heights Arts Center, where she manages rotating exhibitions in two gallery spaces, curates shows, and works with local, regional, and national artists and curators.