about
Molly Springfield makes drawings based on texts. Developed over many years of research and painstaking labor, her projects include an interactive archive of marginalia; drawings of photocopies of books about conceptual art; and her own "translation" of the first chapter of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. One current project is inspired by two sources: a holograph draft of Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse and Woolf's family photo albums. Springfield's work often focuses on how transformative moments in the history of information and representation shape our experience, addressing oppositions between reproduction and originality, seeing and reading, and technology and labor.
Springfield is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and an alumna of Skowhegan. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and has been reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and Modern Painters, and in several books and anthologies. Springfield has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe, including sixteen solo exhibitions, most recently at Zander Galerie in Paris (2026). She lives and works in Washington, DC, and received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley.