Montana Torrey

Master of Fine Arts, Doctoral Researcher

Montana Torrey is an American artist, researcher, and educator. Her current doctoral research explores how expanded painting and printmaking can be used as a tool to investigate the geological and the archeological imaginary via overlapping temporal and spatial scales. Through this practice-based approach, she examines the intersections of palimpsests, material traces, weather, and time.

Montana received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Headlands Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Catwalk Institute, and the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, among others. In addition, Montana has taught at Chiang Mai University, Lane College, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Wesleyan University.