MK WYNN
mkwynnart@gmail.com | (203) 745-9217
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
Printmaking, Painting, Multimedia, and Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Psychology & Cognitive Science
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2026- MFA program, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
2023-2026 Co-owner & Co-director, Verdigris Gallery, Essex CT
2019- Professor Emerita of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University
1999-2019 Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science, Yale University
1990-1999 Assistant, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona
1990 PhD, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, McGill University
SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS
2026 Christopher Foundation Entrance Scholarship, Emily Carr University of Art & Design ($4000)
2025 World Academy of Artificial Consciousness, Elected Academician
2009 Visiting Distinguished SAGE Fellow, SAGE Center for the Study of Mind, UCSB
2005- Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
2001 National Academy of Sciences, Troland Research Award
2000 American Psychological Association, Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & JURIED PUBLICATIONS
Juried Publication: The Hand Magazine, Issues 32 (2021) and 47 (2025)
2025 Making Waves: The Boston Printmakers, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
2024 Current Impressions, Borgia Gallery at Elms College, Chicopee, MA.
Curator: Amber Scoon, Assistant Professor of Art and Borgia Gallery Director, Elms College
2021 13th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT.
Juror: Christina Weyl, Art Historian
2018 Fifth National Exhibition, MGNE, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
Juror: Judith Brodsky, Founder, Brodsky Center for Innovative Print & Paper, Rutgers University
2017 Front of the House: Dining Together in Objects & Images, National Exhibition, Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT.
Juror: Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator, Florence Griswold Museum
COMMISSIONS & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Silliman College, Commissioned Painting, Yale University
Dean's Collection, Painting, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yale University
Texture Printmaking Studio, Tainan, Taiwan
Grafein Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
MEMBERSHIPS
Boston Printmakers (Elected Member, 2024)
Southern Graphics Council International
Monotype Guild of New England
Zea Mays Printmaking Studio
PROFESSIONAL & INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Verdigris Gallery & Studio, Essex, CT: Directed sales & operations; organized juried opportunities; designed & installed
exhibitions; taught workshops
2024-25 Adult Printmaking Instructor, Verdigris Gallery & Studio — Exploring Monotype & Drypoint, and Introduction to
Aluminum-Plate Etching; 4-week courses, 3 hours/week
2024 Curator & Exhibition Designer, Nature, Tamed & Wild: Works by Zea Mays Printmakers, Verdigris Gallery
2024 Juror, A Spring Celebration of River Valley Artists, Verdigris Gallery
2024 Exhibition Organizer, Designer & Installer, Small Gems: A Holiday Show, Verdigris Gallery
2023-26 Exhibition Committee member, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio
2022 Children’s Art Instructor, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT — Painting Through History (ages 7–8); Painting,
Drawing & Collage (ages 5–6)
2017-18 Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Executive Committee, Yale University
2015-18 Inaugural Senator & Deputy Chair, FAS Faculty Senate, Yale University
2015-18 Associate Editor, Cognition
2011-12 Member, Nordhaus Committee on Allocation of Faculty Resources, Yale University
2005-07 Chair, Human Subjects Institutional Review Board, Yale University
2001-05 Council Member, Women Faculty Forum, Yale University
2000-14 Social Sciences Advisory, Promotions & Tenure Committee, Yale University (multiple terms)
ADVANCED STUDIO TRAINING & RESIDENCIES
Residencies
Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, five residencies: 2018, 2019 (2), 2023, 2025
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, painting residency/masterclass with Michael David, 2022
Advanced Studio Dialogue & Mentorship
Meredith Broberg, Smith College: Three-year critique seminar & individual mentorship
Tracey Cockrell, MECA&D: Individual studio mentorship
Julia Rogoff, Guilford Art Center: Advanced painting study
Zea Mays Printmaking Studio — Advanced Study & Mentorship
570+ hours of advanced printmaking & studio study, 2018–2025:
Yearlong mentorship program with Lynn Peterfreund
Green Intaglio Printmaking Certificate with Liz Chalfin & Louise Kohrman, three-week intensive, 126+ hours
Specialty workshops with Joyce Silverstone, Catherine Kernan, Julie Lapping Rivera, Annie Bissett, Rich Turnbull, Amaryllis Siniossoglou, and others
International Specialty Workshop at Trefeglwys Studio, Wales — weeklong etching workshop with Andrew Baldwin on Baldwin’s Intaglio Ground (organized through Zea Mays Printmaking Studio)
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH & IMPACT
For three decades as a cognitive scientist, I investigated fundamental structures of the human mind: how we make sense of the world, impose structure and construct meaning from incomplete information. These questions now inform my studio practice, where processes like repetition, variation, and material investigation explore similar themes of emergence, identity, and instability.
Key Research Foci
Individuation & Identity: Object segmentation; tracking identity through change.
Social Cognition: The nature and origins of morality & bigotry, group affiliation, and social safety.
Selected Media
Research findings/interviews featured on: 60 Minutes (CBS), The New York Times (Front Page), Smithsonian Magazine (Cover), Life Magazine (Cover), PBS NOVA, National Geographic, and Anderson Cooper 360.