Mary Lou Zelazny (born 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American painter.
Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she was exposed to and trained with Ray Yoshida, Barbara Rossi, Hollis Sigler and others of that generation.
The Hyde Park Art Center Chicago held a major retrospective of her work in 2009.
[2] Her painting "Sea Walker" was exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago show, Surrealism: The Conjured Life (Nov 2015-June 2016).
Her painting, "Made of Iron" was featured on the cover of the literary and art journal "Mission at Tenth" in 2014 [4][5] In addition to painting and teaching, she performed the role of "Ida Blue" in the 2012 animated film Consuming Spirits by Chris Sullivan.