Marcia Teusink is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth through painting, sculpture, video, printmaking and mixed media. Recently her work has largely been exploring the history of the movement of plants around the globe, in an attempt to try to understand and visually process the past and its implications in terms of ecological issues today. Teusink has exhibited in the UK, the USA and Europe, including recent exhibitions at St Augustine's Tower (London), Territory Expo (Barreiro, Portugal), Rome Botanical Gardens (Italy) and Dawe's Twineworks with a commissioned installation for the Od Arts Festival (Somerset, UK). She frequently collaborates with other artists, including an ongoing collaboration with London-based Ground Collective, with artist Tanya Gill (Chicago, USA) and the international group The Prezent, which recently debuted it's project Looted Galeria Prodbrzezie at The Pedogogical University in Krakow (Poland). She has attended artists residencies at Kala Art Institute (CA, USA), The Studios at MASSMoCA (MA, USA), PADA Studios/SLUICE (Barreiro, Portugal) and Radical Residency VII at Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop (London). The artist’s work is in private collections in Europe and the United States, and her studio is currently in Stamford Hill, London.
SOLO and 2-3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
En Tibi: A Garden of Ever-smiling flowers, Orto Botanico di Roma, Rome, Italy - solo
2022
Trying to Save the World through Alchemical Love, Airspace Gallery InTheWindow, Stoke-on-Trent - solo
2020
Fallibility Cabinet, TODGallery, Sevenoaks, Kent (online) - solo
Isolation, curated by Marc Lepson, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York (online)
2018
Surface Tension, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London
2016
Marcia Teusink, Voxel Gallery (online) - solo
Intertidal, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme, Whitstable Methodist Church, Whitstable
2014
Transformations, Saint Barnabas Church & Art Space, Dalston, London
2006
Dust in Sunlight, University Art Gallery, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, CA - solo
2005
Particle Clouds, 50 Fremont Street Lobby, San Francisco, CA - solo
2003
Talcum Powder Drawings, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, NY - solo
Water & Air, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2001
Spill, Galerie des Kulturbüros, Zürich, Switzerland - solo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Uncertain Edges, with Groundwork Collective, Electro Studios, St Leonards, UK (upcoming - Sept)
Eleven Twenty Three, 900th anniversary exhibition curated by Elena Unger and Heidi Pearce, St Bartholomew the Great, London
This Year’s Model I, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
2022
Territory Expo, organised by Sluice & PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London
Ruins of Time, London Munich Exchange Project, St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
Painting Open , noformat gallery, Deptford
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London
2021
Groundwork APT, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
Contemporary Landscapes, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London
2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Groundwork Incubator Residency/Exhibition, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford
Dover Printfest2020, Dover, Kent
2019
Past and Present Tense, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2017
White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London
Dover PrintFest, Dover Arts Collective, Dover
All Inked Up, University of Canterbury, Kent
2016
GRIT, curated by Jane Boyer, Arthouse1 Gallery, London
On Color, Pushdot Studios, Portland, OR
2015
Memory as a Creative Act, curated by Elise Schonhowd, Oppland Kunstenter, Lillehammer, Norway
Zeitgeist Art Project Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London
2013
Going Underground, East London Printmakers, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Get Culture, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Queens Wood, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2012
A Right Royal Tea Party, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Alexandra Palace, London
2011
On the Contemplative, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
Birds and Bees, Linksoul Gallery, San Diego, CA
2009
Begin Anywhere, 23HAMquarters, Berkeley, CA
2008
Water 2008, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
Mapping Reason, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, CA
2007
Domestic Departures Collab Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
The Edge of Abstraction, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
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, East Coker, Somerset, UK (upcoming - May)
EXHIBITIONS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK
2023
Utracone (Looted), a multi-media painting installation created by The Prezent (Jessica Houston, Dorota Mythych, Marcia Teusink & Tracy Grubbs), Galeria Podbrzezie, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland
2021
Correspondence, a video and all installation made in collaboration with Tanya Gill, was featured in Reimagining the Global Village, curated by Nirmal Raja, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI, USA
RESIDENCIES
2022 PADA Studios/Sluice Lisboa, residency with theme of territory/território
2022 Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London
2021 The Studios at MASSMoCA residency (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams, MA
2016/18 Artists’ Residency, led by artist-team Rosenclaire, Poppiano, Italy
2015 Kala Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2013 Morris Graves Foundation Solo Residency, Loleta, CA
2010 Just Painting Residency, Rosenclaire, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2009 Artists Residency, Lesheba Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Limpopo, South Africa
2007 Contemporary Issues in Art Residency, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2007 Domestic Departures Collab Residency, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
2004 Kala Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2000 Masía Can Serrat Centre d’Activitat Artistiques, Artists Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Lower East Side Printshop, Visiting Artist, New York, NY
1998 Henry Street Settlement Artists-in-Residence Program, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
‘Conquering Nature’, by Johnny Roberts, Sluice Magazine, Autumn 2023 edition
BURSARIES
2022 a-n Time Space Money Bursary
COLLECTIONS
Work in private collections in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A.
AFFILIATIONS
White Noise Projects www.whitenoiseprojects.co.uk @whitenoise_projects
Dover Arts Development www.dadonline.uk @dover-arts
East London Printmakers www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk @eastlondonprintmakers
Groundwork Collective @groundwork_apt
The Prezent www.theprezent.org @theprezentproject
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: A Garden of Ever-smiling flowers, Orto Botanico di Roma, Rome, Italy - solo
2022
Trying to Save the World through Alchemical Love, Airspace Gallery InTheWindow, Stoke-on-Trent - solo
2020
Fallibility Cabinet, TODGallery, Sevenoaks, Kent (online) - solo
Isolation, curated by Marc Lepson, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York (online)
2018
Surface Tension, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London
2016
Marcia Teusink, Voxel Gallery (online) - solo
Intertidal, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme, Whitstable Methodist Church, Whitstable
2014
Transformations, Saint Barnabas Church & Art Space, Dalston, London
2006
Dust in Sunlight, University Art Gallery, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, CA - solo
2005
Particle Clouds, 50 Fremont Street Lobby, San Francisco, CA - solo
2003
Talcum Powder Drawings, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, NY - solo
Water & Air, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2001
Spill, Galerie des Kulturbüros, Zürich, Switzerland - solo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Uncertain Edges, with Groundwork Collective, Electro Studios, St Leonards, UK (upcoming - Sept)
Eleven Twenty Three, 900th anniversary exhibition curated by Elena Unger and Heidi Pearce, St Bartholomew the Great, London
This Year’s Model I, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
2022
Territory Expo, organised by Sluice & PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London
Ruins of Time, London Munich Exchange Project, St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
Painting Open , noformat gallery, Deptford
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London
2021
Groundwork APT, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London
This Year’s Model III, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
Contemporary Landscapes, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, London
2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Groundwork Incubator Residency/Exhibition, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford
Dover Printfest2020, Dover, Kent
2019
Past and Present Tense, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2017
White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London
Dover PrintFest, Dover Arts Collective, Dover
All Inked Up, University of Canterbury, Kent
2016
GRIT, curated by Jane Boyer, Arthouse1 Gallery, London
On Color, Pushdot Studios, Portland, OR
2015
Memory as a Creative Act, curated by Elise Schonhowd, Oppland Kunstenter, Lillehammer, Norway
Zeitgeist Art Project Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London
2013
Going Underground, East London Printmakers, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Get Culture, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Queens Wood, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2012
A Right Royal Tea Party, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Alexandra Palace, London
2011
On the Contemplative, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
Birds and Bees, Linksoul Gallery, San Diego, CA
2009
Begin Anywhere, 23HAMquarters, Berkeley, CA
2008
Water 2008, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
Mapping Reason, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, CA
2007
Domestic Departures Collab Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
The Edge of Abstraction, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
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, East Coker, Somerset, UK (upcoming - May)
EXHIBITIONS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK
2023
Utracone (Looted), a multi-media painting installation created by The Prezent (Jessica Houston, Dorota Mythych, Marcia Teusink & Tracy Grubbs), Galeria Podbrzezie, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland
2021
Correspondence, a video and all installation made in collaboration with Tanya Gill, was featured in Reimagining the Global Village, curated by Nirmal Raja, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI, USA
RESIDENCIES
2022 PADA Studios/Sluice Lisboa, residency with theme of territory/território
2022 Radical Residency VII Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop, London
2021 The Studios at MASSMoCA residency (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams, MA
2016/18 Artists’ Residency, led by artist-team Rosenclaire, Poppiano, Italy
2015 Kala Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2013 Morris Graves Foundation Solo Residency, Loleta, CA
2010 Just Painting Residency, Rosenclaire, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2009 Artists Residency, Lesheba Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Limpopo, South Africa
2007 Contemporary Issues in Art Residency, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2007 Domestic Departures Collab Residency, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
2004 Kala Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2000 Masía Can Serrat Centre d’Activitat Artistiques, Artists Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Lower East Side Printshop, Visiting Artist, New York, NY
1998 Henry Street Settlement Artists-in-Residence Program, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
‘Conquering Nature’, by Johnny Roberts, Sluice Magazine, Autumn 2023 edition
BURSARIES
2022 a-n Time Space Money Bursary
COLLECTIONS
Work in private collections in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A.
AFFILIATIONS
White Noise Projects www.whitenoiseprojects.co.uk @whitenoise_projects
Dover Arts Development www.dadonline.uk @dover-arts
East London Printmakers www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk @eastlondonprintmakers
Groundwork Collective @groundwork_apt
The Prezent www.theprezent.org @theprezentproject
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