“I am mostly a self taught artist, with Painting being the medium that most excites and intrigues me. My fortieth birthday was the galvanizing moment that led me to start painting, and as time goes on that desire (to paint) is replacing the desire to produce functional art. The work of other artists that most inspires me is the development of the German Expressionists and the Bay Area Figurative Artists.”

Mo was born in New Haven, Connecticut. When she was a teenager, her Irish parents moved the family back to Ireland. Mo became an apprentice silkscreen printer in Dublin. She moved back to the States and lived in many different places: San Francisco, Maine, Miami, Austin. Then she moved to New York City and Seattle, and finally back to Austin.

Over the years she has worked in screen printing, graphic design, textile design, designing and producing hand- painted fashion, functional ceramics, lighting design, and painting.  In 2002 Mo Scollan started 2040 Gallery in Austin Texas, where she showed mostly local artists. She now paints in her South Austin studio and shares her life with her architect husband, Peter, and daughter, Lillian.

Invitational and Juried Exhibitions

2008

Arthouse 5x7


2007

Arthouse 5x7
Women and Their Work “Red Dot” Annual Show
Austin City Hall Juried Invitational

2006

Life Still 2040 Gallery
ArtHouse 5x7

2005

Small Deeds 2040 Gallery
Endless Summer 2040 Gallery
Women & Their Work “Red Dot” Annual Show
Arthouse 5x7
Gallery in the Garden
Austin Public Library / ‘Texas Tales’


2004

Mo Scollan: Paintings 2040 Gallery
Holiday Punch Studio 107
Cicada: Group Collaborations/2040 Gallery
Women & Their Work “RED DOT”
Mac Members Show (Mackinney Contemporary/Dallas)
Summer Swim 2040 Gallery Austin TX
Art House 5x7

2003

Lightness of Being 2040 Gallery
Black and White and Red All Over 2040 Gallery
Red Dot Show, Women and Their Work
One Person Summer exhibition Shag Salon
Art House (Jones Center for Contemporary Art) 5x7
Love Connection: 2040 Gallery
Secret furniture: Gallery Lombardi
The Art Ball Austin Museum of Art
Hello Birdie Big Red Sun
Gallery Lombardi Christmas Collection

2002

Art Works : 2040 Gallery
Radiant Space : 2040 Gallery
Vintage: Studio 2 Gallery

2001

Biennial Juried Exhibition Mackinney Ave. Contemporary Art Center , Dallas
Artistic Encounters Austin Children’s Museum
Sunny Days , Starry Nights Dell Jewish Community Center, Austin, Texas.
Mac members show “W” McKinney Ave. Contemporary, Dallas Texas
Women and Their Work Gallery “Red Hot Dot Show”
Gallery Lombardi “New Works” Four Woman Gallery Lombardi

2000

AVAA annual membership show
She Took To Her Bed Opening Closed Doors Gallery Lombardi
The Art Of Decor-um 111 Congress Ave. , Austin, TX.

1999

Mo Scollan, Connie Arismendi, Margie Lawler recent work Thornton Road Arts complex
Red October AVAA Gallery fall show

1995

For-Rays Cafe Austin, TX. Solo show of paintings
Hello Goodbye Women and Their Work , Austin, TX.

1994

Lubbock Fine Arts Center Ninth Annual Lubbock, TX

1993

The Happy Art Show The Wonderful World of Art, Seattle, WA
Heart to Art Gallery Seattle WA.

Reviews and Publication

2006

Austin Chronicle /AC Pick
“ Life Still” 2040 gallery
Benne Rockett April 21st

Austin American Statesman
"Best Bets” 3/30 “Life Still” 2040 Gallery

Tribeza Magazine

Featured Gallery of the month: May
2040 Gallery: Life still


2004

Austin American Statesman ”Mo Scollan’s Artful Trip to Taos”
XLENT Dec 9 2004 Erin Keever
Austin American Statesman “Summer Swim” at 2040 Gallery
Jeanne Claire Van Rizen 6/20/04

2003


VOA (voices of art magazine) “Black and White and Red All Over at 2040 Gallery “ Gay Fay Volume 11 issue 3

VOA (voices of art magazine) “3 Views at 2040 Gallery”
Raymond Uhlir Volume 11 issue 2

2002

“Austin Arts” Leslie Cox Feb. 02
Austin Chronicle Love Connection at 2040 Gallery
Erina Duganne Austin Chronicle Feb.14

2001

The Mac’s 2001 Biennial Juried Show
Dallas Arts Review

1996

Austin American Statesman “ Local Luminaries”
Jason A. White Life & Arts September 3