Gigoriadis earned a bachelor's degree from
Barnard College in 1963. In 1965 she received a
Master of Fine Art degree from
Columbia College, New York. She was a member of the
Pattern and Decoration art movement and one of the four original founders of the first women's cooperative gallery in America,
A.I.R (Artists In Residence) in 1972. Her daughter is the journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis. Her personal website is found under her name, MaryGrigoriadis.com. Her work is included in the collections of the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the
National Museum of Women in the Arts. ==References==