Marcia Teusink is a visual artist whose practice explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth. Her more recent work explores the history of extractionism and the movement of plants around the globe and their unintended consequences. Through painting, mixed media, video and installation, she attempts to process these histories and their implications in terms of biodiversity today. Teusink has exhibited in the UK, the USA and Europe, including recent exhibitions at 195 Mare Street (London), Territory Expo (Barreiro, Portugal), Rome Botanical Gardens (Italy), and a commissioned installation at Dawe's Twineworks for the Od Arts Festival (West Coker, Somerset). She frequently collaborates with other artists, including projects with Go Between Projects ( a collab with Marie-Therese Ross), London-based Ground Collective, Tanya Gill (Chicago, USA) and a project called 'Looted' (led by Dorota Mytych). Teusink has attended artists residencies at Kala Art Institute (CA, USA), The Studios at MASSMoCA (MA, USA), PADA Studios/SLUICE (Barreiro, Portugal), Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop (London) and Brisons Veor (Cornwall, UK). She is a student of Rosenclaire (Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky) who have been her mentors for several decades. Her work is in private collections in Europe and the United States, and her studio is in Stamford Hill, London.
SOLO and 2-3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
En Tibi: Here for You a Smiling Garden of Everlasting Flowers, curated by Guidi Rebecchini, Rome Botanical Gardens, Rome, Italy - solo
The Botanical Cabinet, 195 Mare Street, London, UK (with Milena Michalkski and Tulika Ladsariya)
2022
Trying to Save the World through Alchemical Love, Airspace Gallery InTheWindow, Stoke-on-Trent, UK - solo
2020
Fallibility Cabinet, TODGallery, Sevenoaks, UK - solo
Isolation, curated by Marc Lepson, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NY, USA (online) (with Eithne Jordan and Mason Landfair)
2018
Surface Tension, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London, UK (with Andy D'Cruz and Sam Hodge)
2016
Marcia Teusink, Voxel Gallery online - solo
Intertidal, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme, Whitstable, UK (with Catherine Jacobs & Fiona Fouhy)
2014
Transformations, Saint Barnabas Church & Art Space, Dalston, London, UK (with Catherine Jacobs, Fiona Fouhy and Ali Holloway)
COLLAB/COLLECTIVE WORK
2025
Pangaea Dreaming, collaborative film & installation by Go-Between Projects (Marcia Teusink & Marie-Therese Ross) selected for Sluice Expo Seyðisfjörður: World Building, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2023-5
Utracone (Looted), a video installation led by Dorota Mytych, created my her, Marcia Teusink, Jessica Houston and Tracy Grubbs, exhibited at Galeria Podbrzezie, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland, in 2023; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA, in 2024; and MOCAK (Museum of Contemporary Art), Krakow, Poland, in 2025
50 Years Back & Forth, a video installation, and Object Correspondence, a wall installation, made in collaboration with Tanya Gill, included inTowards a Global Village, curator Nirmal Raja, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, USA
COMMISSIONS
2023
Flo(ra)tilla: A Natural and Not-So-Natural History, large-scale mixed media installation with video at Dawe’s Twineworks for Od arts Festival. Curated and commissioned by Simone Lee Dicker and Cat Bagg, OSR Projects, West Coker, Somerset, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
100/50, curated by Stacie McCormick, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
Alert & Attuned: Attending to Our Climate Emergency, Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, OR, USA
2024
The Lido Open, selected by guest judge Vincent Hawkins, Lido Stores Gallery, Margate, UK
Spectrum, an Artists Support Pledge exhibition curated by White Noise Projects and Matthew Burrows, One Paved Court, Richmond, UK
50/50, curated by Stacie McCormick, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
Seeing Red, The CAS Open, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover, UK
England is a Forest, Small Works Art Gallery, Sluice Vernacular Festival, Colchester, UK
In Search of Some Phantom, curated by International Body of Art, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Translocation/Dislocation, Collect Connect (online exhibition )
Tiny Plants, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2023
London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London, UK
Uncertain Edges, with Groundwork Collective, Electro Studios, St Leonards, UK
Eleven Twenty Three, 900th anniversary exhibition curated by Elena Unger and Heidi Pearce, St Bartholomew the Great, London, UK
This Year’s Model I, Studio1.1 Gallery, London, UK
2022
Territory Expo, organised by Sluice & PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London, UK
Ruins of Time, London Munich Exchange Project, St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London, UK
Painting Open, noformat gallery, Deptford, UK
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London, UK
2021
Groundwork APT, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, London, UK
Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London, UK
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Landscapes, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London, UK
2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Groundwork Incubator Residency/Exhibition, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, UK
Dover Printfest2020, Dover, UK
2019
Past and Present Tense, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
2017
White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Dover PrintFest, Dover Arts Collective, Dover, UK
All Inked Up, University of Canterbury, Kent, UK
2016
GRIT, 4-person exhibition curated by Jane Boyer, Arthouse 1 Gallery, London, UK
On Color, Pushdot Studios, Portland, OR, USA
2015
Memory as a Creative Act, curated by Elise Schonhowd, Oppland Kunstenter, Lillehammer, Norway
Zeitgeist Art Project Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London, UK
2013
Going Underground, East London Printmakers, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
Get Culture, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Queens Wood, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
2012
A Right Royal Tea Party, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Alexandra Palace, London, UK
2011
On the Contemplative, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
Birds and Bees, Linksoul Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
2009
Begin Anywhere, 23HAMquarters, Berkeley, CA, USA
2008
Water 2008, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA, USA
Mapping Reason, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, CA, USA
2007
Domestic Departures Collab Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, USA
Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
The Edge of Abstraction, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA, USA
RESIDENCIES
2024 Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall, UK
2024 Artists’ Residency with Rosenclaire, Poppiano, Italy
2022 PADA Studios/Sluice Lisboa, residency with theme of territory/território, Barreiro, Portugal
2022 Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London, UK
2021 The Studios at MASSMoCA residency (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams, MA, USA
2018 Artists’ Residency with Rosenclaire, Poppiano, Italy
2015 Kala Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2013 Morris Graves Foundation Solo Residency, Loleta, CA, USA
2010 Just Painting Residency with Rosenclaire, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2009 Artists Residency with Rosenclaire, Lesheba Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Limpopo, South Africa
2007 Contemporary Issues in Art Residency with Rosenclaire, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2007 Domestic Departures Collab Residency with Rosenclaire, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, USA
SCREENINGS
2025 Pangaea Dreaming, collaborative film & installation by Go-Between Projects (Marcia Teusink & Marie-Therese Ross) selected for Sluice Seyðisfjörður: World Building exhibition & Sluice Film Festival, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2024 Uncertain Edges, included in Artists Films: Human Outlooks on Precarious Coastal Lands, curated by Claudia Kappenberg for the Emma Stibbons exhibition, Towner Eastbourne, Sussex
PUBLICATIONS
‘Conquering Nature’, by Johnny Roberts, Sluice Magazine, Autumn 2023 edition
‘Step inside this house’, by Sappho Lauder, Love Hackney, 17 September 2023
PRIZES
2025
John Moores Prize shortlist
Arts Council England - Develop Your Creative Practice Grant
Jacksons Painting Prize longlist
a-n Artists’ Bursary
2022
a-n Time Space Money Bursary
Jacksons Art Prize longlist
COLLECTIONS
Work in private collections in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A.
AFFILIATIONS
Groundwork Collective @groundwork_apt
The Prezent www.theprezent.org @theprezentproject
East London Printmakers www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk @eastlondonprintmakers
EDUCATION
2011 Institute of Education, University of London, MA Museum & Gallery Education
1997 City University of New York, Queens College, MFA Visual Arts, Honours
1993 University of California at Berkeley, BA English Literature, Summa Cum Laude
1992 Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy, Studio Art & Art History
2023
En Tibi: Here for You a Smiling Garden of Everlasting Flowers, curated by Guidi Rebecchini, Rome Botanical Gardens, Rome, Italy - solo
The Botanical Cabinet, 195 Mare Street, London, UK (with Milena Michalkski and Tulika Ladsariya)
2022
Trying to Save the World through Alchemical Love, Airspace Gallery InTheWindow, Stoke-on-Trent, UK - solo
2020
Fallibility Cabinet, TODGallery, Sevenoaks, UK - solo
Isolation, curated by Marc Lepson, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NY, USA (online) (with Eithne Jordan and Mason Landfair)
2018
Surface Tension, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London, UK (with Andy D'Cruz and Sam Hodge)
2016
Marcia Teusink, Voxel Gallery online - solo
Intertidal, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme, Whitstable, UK (with Catherine Jacobs & Fiona Fouhy)
2014
Transformations, Saint Barnabas Church & Art Space, Dalston, London, UK (with Catherine Jacobs, Fiona Fouhy and Ali Holloway)
COLLAB/COLLECTIVE WORK
2025
Pangaea Dreaming, collaborative film & installation by Go-Between Projects (Marcia Teusink & Marie-Therese Ross) selected for Sluice Expo Seyðisfjörður: World Building, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2023-5
Utracone (Looted), a video installation led by Dorota Mytych, created my her, Marcia Teusink, Jessica Houston and Tracy Grubbs, exhibited at Galeria Podbrzezie, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland, in 2023; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA, in 2024; and MOCAK (Museum of Contemporary Art), Krakow, Poland, in 2025
50 Years Back & Forth, a video installation, and Object Correspondence, a wall installation, made in collaboration with Tanya Gill, included inTowards a Global Village, curator Nirmal Raja, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, USA
COMMISSIONS
2023
Flo(ra)tilla: A Natural and Not-So-Natural History, large-scale mixed media installation with video at Dawe’s Twineworks for Od arts Festival. Curated and commissioned by Simone Lee Dicker and Cat Bagg, OSR Projects, West Coker, Somerset, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
100/50, curated by Stacie McCormick, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
Alert & Attuned: Attending to Our Climate Emergency, Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, OR, USA
2024
The Lido Open, selected by guest judge Vincent Hawkins, Lido Stores Gallery, Margate, UK
Spectrum, an Artists Support Pledge exhibition curated by White Noise Projects and Matthew Burrows, One Paved Court, Richmond, UK
50/50, curated by Stacie McCormick, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
Seeing Red, The CAS Open, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover, UK
England is a Forest, Small Works Art Gallery, Sluice Vernacular Festival, Colchester, UK
In Search of Some Phantom, curated by International Body of Art, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Translocation/Dislocation, Collect Connect (online exhibition )
Tiny Plants, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2023
London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London, UK
Uncertain Edges, with Groundwork Collective, Electro Studios, St Leonards, UK
Eleven Twenty Three, 900th anniversary exhibition curated by Elena Unger and Heidi Pearce, St Bartholomew the Great, London, UK
This Year’s Model I, Studio1.1 Gallery, London, UK
2022
Territory Expo, organised by Sluice & PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London, UK
Ruins of Time, London Munich Exchange Project, St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London, UK
Painting Open, noformat gallery, Deptford, UK
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London, UK
2021
Groundwork APT, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, London, UK
Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London, UK
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Landscapes, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London, UK
2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Groundwork Incubator Residency/Exhibition, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, UK
Dover Printfest2020, Dover, UK
2019
Past and Present Tense, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
2017
White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Dover PrintFest, Dover Arts Collective, Dover, UK
All Inked Up, University of Canterbury, Kent, UK
2016
GRIT, 4-person exhibition curated by Jane Boyer, Arthouse 1 Gallery, London, UK
On Color, Pushdot Studios, Portland, OR, USA
2015
Memory as a Creative Act, curated by Elise Schonhowd, Oppland Kunstenter, Lillehammer, Norway
Zeitgeist Art Project Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London, UK
2013
Going Underground, East London Printmakers, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
Get Culture, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Queens Wood, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
2012
A Right Royal Tea Party, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Alexandra Palace, London, UK
2011
On the Contemplative, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
Birds and Bees, Linksoul Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
2009
Begin Anywhere, 23HAMquarters, Berkeley, CA, USA
2008
Water 2008, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA, USA
Mapping Reason, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, CA, USA
2007
Domestic Departures Collab Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, USA
Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
The Edge of Abstraction, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA, USA
RESIDENCIES
2024 Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall, UK
2024 Artists’ Residency with Rosenclaire, Poppiano, Italy
2022 PADA Studios/Sluice Lisboa, residency with theme of territory/território, Barreiro, Portugal
2022 Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London, UK
2021 The Studios at MASSMoCA residency (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams, MA, USA
2018 Artists’ Residency with Rosenclaire, Poppiano, Italy
2015 Kala Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2013 Morris Graves Foundation Solo Residency, Loleta, CA, USA
2010 Just Painting Residency with Rosenclaire, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2009 Artists Residency with Rosenclaire, Lesheba Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Limpopo, South Africa
2007 Contemporary Issues in Art Residency with Rosenclaire, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2007 Domestic Departures Collab Residency with Rosenclaire, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, USA
SCREENINGS
2025 Pangaea Dreaming, collaborative film & installation by Go-Between Projects (Marcia Teusink & Marie-Therese Ross) selected for Sluice Seyðisfjörður: World Building exhibition & Sluice Film Festival, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2024 Uncertain Edges, included in Artists Films: Human Outlooks on Precarious Coastal Lands, curated by Claudia Kappenberg for the Emma Stibbons exhibition, Towner Eastbourne, Sussex
PUBLICATIONS
‘Conquering Nature’, by Johnny Roberts, Sluice Magazine, Autumn 2023 edition
‘Step inside this house’, by Sappho Lauder, Love Hackney, 17 September 2023
PRIZES
2025
John Moores Prize shortlist
Arts Council England - Develop Your Creative Practice Grant
Jacksons Painting Prize longlist
a-n Artists’ Bursary
2022
a-n Time Space Money Bursary
Jacksons Art Prize longlist
COLLECTIONS
Work in private collections in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A.
AFFILIATIONS
Groundwork Collective @groundwork_apt
The Prezent www.theprezent.org @theprezentproject
East London Printmakers www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk @eastlondonprintmakers
EDUCATION
2011 Institute of Education, University of London, MA Museum & Gallery Education
1997 City University of New York, Queens College, MFA Visual Arts, Honours
1993 University of California at Berkeley, BA English Literature, Summa Cum Laude
1992 Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy, Studio Art & Art History