About
Ivy Manska is a printmaker and illustrator from southeast Michigan. She is a graduate student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, in the printmaking department. She received a BFA in illustration with a minor in fine arts at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Her work explores how cultural, environmental, and ancestral influences—both vast and subtle—shape notions of escapism, longing, and a deep reverence for the unfamiliar.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2026 “Hunger’s Sharper than the Thorn,” An Exhibition of Prints by Ivy Manska, The Birdhouse, Knoxville, TN
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
2026 79th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2025 Sixty Square Inches XXI, Purdue Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
2025 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesbury, AK
2025 78th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 “Pressure Points,” Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2025 “Coming Up for Air,” Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2025 “Tam, gdzie miękko,” CONCRETE Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2025 “Following the Pattern,” Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2024 “imPrinted,” 2nd Annual UTK Print Club Showcase, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2024 “Germination,” A First-Year Graduate Show, UTK Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2023 "Harrowing Hall," Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, Ml
2023 "An Exhibit of Black and White," Plymouth Community Arts Council, Plymouth, Ml
2021 "Welcome to the Show," by Mark Arminski, Lily's, Royal Oak, Ml
2021 "How to Kill Your Houseplants," K.0. Studio Gallery, Detroit, Ml
2019 College for Creative Studies Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2019 "The Funktion," Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
2018 College for Creative Studies Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2017 College for Creative Studies Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
EXHIBITIONS CURATED:
2025 “Lithomania,” co-curated with Mable Ni, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
EXCHANGE PORTFOLIO:
2025 “Personal Space,” Curated by Shannon Ferguson and Łucja Bańkowska