MK WYNN
mkwynnart@gmail.com | (203) 745-9217
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
Printmaking, Painting, Drawing, Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Psychology & Cognitive Science
EDUCATION & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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
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
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 and Images, National Exhibition, Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT.
Juror: Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator, Florence Griswold Museum
MEMBERSHIPS
Boston Printmakers (Elected Member, 2024)
Southern Graphics Council International
Monotype Guild of New England
Zea Mays Printmaking Studio
PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
2024 Curator & Exhibition Designer, Nature, Tamed & Wild: Works by Zea Mays Printmakers
2024 Juror, A Spring Celebration of River Valley Artists
2023– Exhibition Committee member, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio
ADVANCED STUDIO TRAINING & RESIDENCIES
Residencies
Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, 2022
Advanced Studio Dialogue & Mentorship
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Meredith Broberg (Drawing and Studio Art Foundations Faculty, Smith College): Three-year intensive critique seminar and individual mentorship focused on conceptual development and interdisciplinary practice.
Tracey Cockrell (Former Chair, MFA in Studio Art and Current Chair, Foundations Department, MECA&D): Individual mentorship and professional development for the studio practitioner.
Michael David (David & Schweitzer Contemporary): Master class and painting residency.
Julia Rogoff (Fine Arts Faculty, Guilford Art Center): Advanced studio study in painting.
Advanced Studio Study, Printmaking (selected)
Liz Chalfin (Founding Director, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio)
Catherine Kernan (Co-founder, Mixit Print Studio)
Julie Lapping Rivera (Printmaking Faculty, Smith College)
Joyce Silverstone (Master Printmaker, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio)
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Technical Certification
Green Printmaking Certificate, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio (2019).
PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC IMPACT & RESEARCH
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 Honors & Awards
Troland Research Award, National Academy of Sciences (2001)
Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, APA (2000)
Academician (Elected), World Academy of Artificial Consciousness (2025)
Continuous research funding by NSF, NIH, & The Templeton Foundation (1990–2018)
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.
INSTITUTIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Inaugural Senator & Deputy Chair, FAS Faculty Senate, Yale University (2015–2018)
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Executive Committee, Yale University (2017–2018)
Social Sciences Advisory, Promotions & Tenure Committee, Yale University (multiple terms)
Associate Editor, Cognition (2015–2018)
Member, Nordhaus Committee on Allocation of Faculty Resources, Yale University (2011–2012)
Chair, Human Subjects Institutional Review Board Committee, Yale University (2005–2007)
Council Member, Women Faculty Forum, Yale University (2001–2005)