User:MaryanneChisholm/sandbox



Maryanne Chisholm is an acclaimed Surreal Painter & Illustrator, and a top NFT artist. Her NFT's have sold out on Foundation, Known Origin, and Opensea. To date she has sold over 350 pieces.

Chisholm's most recognized work was completed in prison during a 14 year long wrongful conviction. Her advocacy for the criminalization of mental health symptoms extended to work as a plaintiff for improved medical care with the ACLU in Parsons V. Ryan in 2012. The ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the inhumane and unconstitutional failures of the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to provide minimally adequate medical, mental health and dental care to people in state custody, and to end the abusive conditions in the solitary confinement units. The ACLU of Arizona serviced as co-counsel in the case with the ACLU National Prison Project, Prison Law Office, Arizona Center for Disability Law, Perkins Coie and Jones Day. Previous arguments in this case were presented, and granted, before the US Supreme Court.

Chisholm painted over 5,600 pieces while in custody, simultaneously showing in galleries. Her work is represented as a testament to human emotions, and her ongoing struggles with mental health. Each piece created was accompanied by prose and poetry, a diary entry of the struggle for survival of each day passed.

She has shown in Galleries Internationally and across the USA including at the Herberger Theater & Art Gallery in Scottsdale and Tempe, AZ, Milan Fashion Week with the #DressME MADS Milano Exhibition, and the Freedom of Arts exhibition in Denver, CO. Chisholm remains a featured resident artist in the Block Museum in Ireland and on Somnium space.

In 2021 Maryanne was awarded the Collectors Vision Award, by Contemporary Curator Magazine, for completing a body of socially significant work.

Interviews include the Associated Press, PBS, NPR, The RayRoq Podcast, Artists on Twitter Podcast, Women To Follow Podcast, NFT Rebels Podcast, Featured Spotlight artist on the Known Origin Platform, New Times Magazine, and more.