Marion Belanger
Heuser Gallery
August 29-October 7, 2022
Lecture: September 22, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm
Reception: September 22, 2022 – 6:00-8:00pm
Marion Belanger photographs the cultural landscape where geology and the built environment intersect, particularly where shifting identities of place and boundaries are in flux. She is the author of Rift/ Fault, (Radius Books, 2016) Everglades: Outside and Within, (Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2009). The artist was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her Everglades series in 2002. Belanger earned a M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art where she was the recipient of both the John Ferguson Weir Award and the Schickle-Collingwood Prize, and a B.F.A. from the College of Art & Design at Alfred University. She was the 2006 Photographer Laureate of Tampa Florida, and is a current artist in residence, with collaborator Martha Lewis at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station in New Haven. Past residencies include the MacDowell Colony, Everglades National Park, MASS MoCA, and Virginia Center for the Arts, among others. Her work is held in numerous collections including the National Gallery for Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her exhibitions include Photography and America’s National Parks, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Eye on the West: Photography and the Contemporary West, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Internationale Fototage: Contemporary American Photography, Mannheim, Germany; Northern (L) Attitudes: Norwegian and American Contemporary Art, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, NY. She was a honoree for the 2016 Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography from the Israeli Museum of Art, and has had fellowships from the State of Connecticut, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the John Anson Kittredge, Award from Harvard University, the Artists Resource Trust, and the Puffin Foundation. She is a board member at Artspace New Haven. Belanger is a member of The Birthday Club, a feminist collective and the Women’s Environmental Workshare Collective. The artist resides in Guilford, Connecticut and she teaches at the Hartford Art School and Wesleyan University.