Mary Anna Pomonis
Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Teaching (Art Education); Graduate Program Advisor
Contact
Location: VA-D-281
Phone: 657-278-2774
Email: mpomonis@fullerton.edu
Please contact the Art Department Office
(657-278 -3471) for current office hours
Websites: maryannapomonis.com, hystericcurators.com
Instagram: @maryannapomonis, associationofhystericcurators
Courses
ART 381 Teaching Creativity and Studio Art
ART 382 Art and Social Justice
ART 383 Museum Programs for Art Education
ART 499 Independent Research
ART 599 Independent Grad Research
Mary Anna Pomonis is a Los Angeles–based artist, curator, and Associate Professor of Art at California State University, Fullerton. Her work has been exhibited at the Western Carolina University Museum of Fine Arts, the Torrance Art Museum, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, the Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam, and the Wignall Museum, and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Art Newspaper, Cultured, Artforum, Whitehot Magazine, and Artweek.
She is the founder of CSUF Just Arts, an initiative connecting students with community-engaged, social justice–oriented art practices through partnerships such as Project Rebound. Pomonis also founded the Association of Hysteric Curators, whose national exhibition Goddesses and Monsters will travel through 2027. Her forthcoming solo show, She Who Holds the Sun, opens at Charlie James Gallery in 2025.
Pomonis has received numerous honors, including the BlueRoof Firefly Residency (2025), the CSUF Junior and Senior Faculty Research Grants (2022, 2024), and the Distinguished Legacy Award from the University of Illinois (2022). She was nominated again for the Joan Mitchell Award in 2025.
