Patricia Cronin, Memorial To A Marriage

In 2002, Patricia Cronin created Memorial To A Marriage, the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world. Cronin’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including solo exhibitions Shrine For Girls at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; FLAG Art Foundation, New York; LAB Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Capitoline Museum’s Centrale Montemartini Museum, Rome, Italy; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. Cronin is the recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. Works are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, both in Washington, DC; Kelvingrove Art Galleries and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland; Perez Art Museum Miami, FL; and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. She is Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, CUNY.