CV
Solo Exhibitions and Collaborative Performances/Works
2022 - Boundarymind, AME (Art Music Experiment), Huddersfield, UK
2022 - Boundarymind, 6018 North, Chicago, IL
2021 - Boundarymind, installation in collaboration with composers Katherine Young and Linda Jankowska and video artist Kera MacKenzie, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
2019 - I Love Myself Fully and Unconditionally, a series of paintings produced for a performance installation by Natacha Diels and Sam Scranton. Installed and performed at the following venues: Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; Poekhali! Festival, Bergen, Norway; Harvestworks, Governor’s Island, NY
2019 Lost Things - The Third Word: Collaborative work with artist Emmett Ramstad, WE Series curated by Deidre Huckabay and Lia Kohl, Elastic Arts, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Escapisms - Collaborative work with Composer Samuel Scranton, WE Series curated by Deidre Huckabay and Lia Kohl, Elastic Arts, Chicago, Illinois
2016 Hololith - Collaborative Work with Composer Samuel Scranton for Mocrep, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
2016 Hololith - Collaborative Work with Composer Samuel Scranton for Mocrep, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois
2014 The Sentimentalist - Free Range, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Forever Plus: New Work By Molly Roth - Lillstreet Art Center, Annex Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Good Night, Children. We’re In The Arms of the Great Lover. -
(collaborative installation with sound artist/composer Samuel Scranton)
Art of This, Minneapolis, MN
2009 A Story About Some People Changing - galleryHOMELAND, Portland, OR
2008 Information Sickness and Time Fever - Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
Invited Exhibitions and Publication/Print Work
2022 - I’m so excited for you to come home, Western Pole, Chicago, IL
2018 - Trois Hommages, paintings and design for Pianist Mabel Kwan’s production of Composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ composition Trois Hommages for two pianos
2018 - Chicago Print Crawl, Free Range Gallery (co-hosted by Spudnik Press), Chicago, IL
2018 - Firsts and Starts: Art Making as a New Mother - Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
2017 Print Project Chicago: CPS - a collaborative effort organized by artists Amy and Andrew Falkowski designed to produce Risograph editions in support of organizations in need of funding. All proceeds from this edition will go toward Chicago Public Schools.
2017 DIDACTIC, A selection of Texts and Images on the Occasion of Syntax Season - Curated by Elisabeth Smith and Michael Milano, Published by PRINTtEXT, Indianapolis, Indiana
2015 Expo Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center Booth, Chicago, IL
2015 Martin & Brocket, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Diligence is to Magic As Progress is to Flight, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL Collaborative Installation and Image Projection with Composers Katherine Young and Austin Wulliman and Parlour Tapes+
2014 Diligence is to Magic As Progress is to Flight, Constellation, Chicago, IL
Collaborative Installation and Image Projection with Composers Katherine Young and Austin Wulliman and Parlour Tapes+
2014 Featured Artist, The Gala Chicago, City Point Lofts, Chicago, IL
2013 Craft/Work, Beauty and Brawn Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Front and Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Text, Prøve Gallery, Duluth, Minnesota
2013 Artwork6, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Northern Spark Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Material Matters in conjunction with Confluence, the 2011 International Surface Design Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN
2010 PDX Contemporary Art: Window Project, Portland, OR
2010 Golden Auxilary Space, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Anthem, Babelkunst, Trondheim, Norway
2010 Amateur Hour, 285 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Common Sense: Art and the Quotidian, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2009 My Strawberry Roan: New Art From America,
Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Threaded, Gallery 51, North Hampton, MA
2009 Good Hustle, Nationale, Portland, OR
2009 The Audacity of Art, Version Festival, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2009 Paradigm Shift, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Meander, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Yours Truly, Main Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2007 Urban Fabric, Traffic Zone, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Most Curatorial Biennial in the Universe, Apex Art,New York, NY
2007 SAD: Illuminating a Northern View of Darkness
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2007 - 2009 Art Shanty Projects, Medicine Lake, MN
2007 Group Exhibition, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2007 This Mango is Now an IPod, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Made@MCAD, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Untitled 5, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Dedicated to You: A Show for Ex-Lovers
Pacific Switchboard, Portland, OR
2003 The Modern Zoo
Portland Institute for the Advancement of Culture, Portland, OR
Collections
Private Collection of Kristina Fancisco, New York, NY Private Collection of Jay Swanson, Minneapolis, MN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Bibliography
2020 The Tender Listener: Collaboration and Friendship as Compositional Methodology, Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young,CeReNeM Journal: Human-Entity Interactions in Contemporary Artistic Practice
2017 DIDACTIC, A Selection of Texts and Images on the Occassion of Syntax Season, Curated by Elisabeth Smith & Michael Milano, Published by PRINTtEXT, February, 2017
2010 Jeff Jahn, Roth, Nagy and Fenker Alt-Space Explorations, Portlandart.net, January 25, 2010
2008 Mary Abbe, Bunnies, Bathers and Bows, Star Tribune, June 6, 2008
2008 Andy Sturdevant, ARP! Art Review and Preview, Collecting and Collection, Summer 2008
2008 Michael Fallon, Meander, Art Papers, July/August 2008
2008 Collier White, Multipurpose, The Rake, June 16, 2008
2007 Mary Abbe, Art: Inventive SAD show is anything but, Star Tribune, June 7, 2007
2007 Susannah Schouweiler, Zoom In: Molly Roth The Rake: 10,000 Artists, May 2007
2007 Sara Miller, Fruitalicious, Minnesota Daily, April 26, 2007
2007 Susannah Schouweiler, Zoom In: Installation Artist Molly Roth
Access + Engage: All the World's a Stage, Issue 14.1, February 8, 2007
2006 Alex Starace Local Conficence: "Untitled V" at Soo VAC, July 17, 2006
2003 Jon Raymond The Modern Zoo, Art Forum, PICKS 2003
2003 Jeff Jahn We Can Be Heros: Wagner, Finneran and the Modern Zoo, August 2003
Other Professional Activities
2014 to present - Associate Director of Faculty Affairs, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, MI
2022 Artist-In-Residence, The Poor Farm, Little Wolf, WI
2019 Artist-In-Residence, The Future in conjunction with the Minnesota Weaver’s Guild, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, MI
2018 Panelist with curator Diane Mullen (Weisman Art Museum) and artist Emmett Ramstad for Ramstad’s exhibition Laying In Wait, Hair & Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Visiting Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, MI
2014 Visiting Artist, Advanced Typography, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2014 Panelist: Continuing Conversations: The Past, Present & Future of the Art vs Craft Debate,
Beauty and Brawn Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, MI
2013 Artist-In-Residence, Center Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2013 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, MI
2013 Instructor, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012 Visiting Artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2010 Artist-In-Residence, Roger Brown House, New Buffalo, MI
2008 Guest Lecturer, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Teaching Assistant, Body Eclectic, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Guest Lecturer, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Guest Lecturer, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Guest Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Guest Lecturer, The College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN
Education
2007 Minneapolis College of Art & Design - Minneapolis, MN
MFA, Visual Studies
2004 Portland State University - Portland, OR
BA, Drawing/Painting/Printmaking - cum laude