About Marian Lyndgaard

Artist Bio

Marian Lyndgaard is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates interspecies relationships as a way to challenge and soften the boundaries we place between ourselves, other beings, and the spaces we inhabit. Their practice moves fluidly between visual art, community engagement, and textile repair, driven by a desire to mend not only materials, but also the frayed connections within our social fabric.
They hold an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in Art from College of St. Benedict in MN focused in Studio Art and Art Education with a minor in Education. She was also honored with an CMAB/McKnight Individual Artist Award for a series of mixed media paintings.
Their work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States, including the MacRostie Art Center and the Sierra Arts Gallery. She has recently exhibited her work at The Whit Gallery juried show Trail Mix featuring honorary juror Wanona LuDuke.
Alongside their studio practice, they founded a local mending circle—an ongoing gathering to restore worn fabrics while fostering mutual support, sharing of resources and stories, and collective celebration. In a time marked by division and disconnection, this circle acts as both a literal and symbolic act of repair, rooted in care and sustainability.





Artist Statement
And So On And So On


Through prairie restoration of returning native seeds to the land, my family and I care for the place where we live in layers of group relationships: with family, neighbors, the township, but never alone. Our prairie gardens work alongside restoration actions by the state of Minnesota and my neighborhood, as I teach my sons to collect and disperse seeds. And So On And So On brings together scraps of fabric to create a floor quilt, transforming unusable materials into a space to bring a group interaction together. My quilt collects smaller embroidered pieces representing my personal experience that, in the context of the larger quilt, refer to the altered landscape of industrialized farming that has been so harmful to my family. My family can not fix a broken land. We can fix a broken relationship between humans and the rest of the world that will allow for the land to heal.