Mary Patricia Kirk is an alumna of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The university was established in 1982.

BIOGRAPHY

Kirk is an American art curator who runs her own art consulting business called Kirk Art Services. Here are 13 more things about her:

  1. Her father Robert Willard Kirk is an architect and her mother Kathryn Smitk Kirk is a mental health counselor.
  2. She grew up in Prospect Heights, Illinois.
  3. From Prospect Heights, she moved to Chicago.
  4. She was three years younger than her brother Charlie Kirk.
  5. She was born in 1996.
  6. From 2006 to 2019, her father held an architect license with the contractors license board of Florida, USA.
  7. In 2011, she was a member of the Wheeling Young Republicans in Wheeling, Illinois.
  8. In 2012, her brother Charlie co-founded Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college and university campuses.
  9. In 2015, she started taking to social media to support Bernie Sanders.
  10. In 2016, she met Sanders in person for the first time.
  11. In 2019, she graduated from the UIC with a bachelor’s degree in art history, criticism and conservation.
  12. In 2023, she founded Kirk Art Services in Chicago.
  13. When her brother Charlie was killed in 2025, she was employed as a gallery assistant.
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TIMELINE

As a fine arts professional, Mary has in-depth experience in arts administration in museum, non-profit and gallery settings. She and her parents did not immediately release statements after the assassination of her brother Charlie in 2025.

2010s

  • On June 5, 2012, her brother Charlie and William Thomas “Bill” Montgomery founded Turning Point USA.
  • In May 2019, she graduated from the UIC.

2020s

  • On September 10, 2025, her brother Charlie was speaking at a rally at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, USA when he was fatally shot by Tyler Robinson.
  • On September 21, 2025, around 200,000 people attended her brother Charlie’s funeral at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, USA.
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