Mary Frank (American, born February 4, 1933) is a sculptor and painter whose work deals with themes of myth and memory. She was born in London as Mary Lockspeiser. Her mother was the painter Eleanore Lockspeiser, and her father was the art critic Edward Lockspeiser. During World War II, she went to the countryside with other children to stay in bunkers. This experience later influenced the solitary mood that some of her works emit. In 1939, her family moved to Brooklyn, NY. From 1945 to 1950, Frank studied dance under Martha Graham and José Limon. In 1950, she started studying wood carving with Alfred van Loen. She also studied drawing with Max Beckmann at the American Art School in New York.

Throughout the 1950s to 1970s, she primarily worked in sculpture, creating works like Iris (Messenger of the Gods), which was made out of wood, and reflected mythology and Primitive Art. Frank says that her influences include African and Inuit Art. She also worked in bronze and clay. Frank then transitioned into painting and mixed media works during the 1980s. The 1987 exhibition Mary Frank: Persephone Studies at the Brooklyn Museum consisted of drawings, monotypes, and sculpture telling the story of Persephone.

Frank’s works are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the Art Insitute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art at Yale, and the Jewish Museum. The artist has received two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, one in 1973, and one in 1983. She was also awarded the Lee Krasner Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1983, and the Joan Mitchell Grant Award in 1995. Frank is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York. The artist lives and works in Lake Hill and New York.