MARCIA TEUSINK
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Marcia Teusink's practice investigates collapse and the reconfiguration of the built environment through painting, found objects, photography and mixed media. The work takes as a starting point the impact of neglect on our cities and structures, the effects of climate change and extreme weather, and also the normal consequences of time and weathering on objects. Teusink is interested in the political implications of collapse and restructuring, as well as the art historical, psychological, and spiritual ones. Coming from a background in painting in particular, the physical structures of paintings are a primary focus and metaphor for the investigation of these themes.The artist frequently collaborates with other artists to make work and to organise community projects. Teusink has been ​on ​several residencies with South African artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky in Poppiano, Italy, as well as being an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute and The Morris Graves Foundation. Her studio is currently in Haggerston, London and her work is shown in galleries in Europe and the USA.


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SELECT EXHIBITIONS 
​2021 Towards a Global Village, MIAD (
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design), Collaborative work with Tanya Gill, Curated by Nirmal Raja (upcoming), Milwaukee, WI, USA
2021 Ruins of Time, LME Project, St Augustine's Tower, Hackney, London (upcoming)
2021 Groundwork, APT Gallery, Deptford, London curated by Matthew Swift (upcoming)
2020 Cabinet of Fallibilities, The Open Dresser Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent, UK (solo)
2020 ING Discerning Eye 
(online due to Covid-19), London
2020 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (online due to Covid-19), Woolich, London
2020 
Groundwork Incubator Residency/Exhibition, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
2020 
Dover Printfest2020 (online due to Covid-19)
2020 
Isolation, curated by Marc Lepson, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York (online exhibition)
2019 Past & Present Tense, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London
2019 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2018 Surface Tension, with Andy D'Cruz & Sam Hodge, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London
2017 White Noise, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London
2017 Dover PrintFest, Dover Arts Collective, Dover
2017 All Inked Up, University of Canterbury, Kent
2016 GRIT, curated by Jane Boyer, Arthouse1 Gallery, London
2016 Marcia Teusink, Voxel Gallery Online (solo)
2016 On Color, Pushdot Studios, Portland, Oregon
2016 Intertidal, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme Exhibition, Whitstable Methodist Church, Whitstable
2015 Memory as a Creative Act, Oppland Kunstenter, Lillehammer Norway (organised by Elise Schonhowd)
2015 Zeitgeist Art Project Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London
2014 Transformations, Saint Barnabas Church and Art Space, Dalston, London
2013 Going Underground, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2013 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2013 The Sketchbook Project Print Exchange 2013, Williamsburg, New York      
2011 On the Contemplative, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2011 Birds and Bees, Linksoul Gallery, San Diego, California
2009 Begin Anywhere, 23HAMquarters, Berkeley, California
2008  Water 2008, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, California
2008 Mapping Reason, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, California
2007  Domestic Departures Collab Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, California
2007 Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2007 Women’s Group Show, Hotel des Artes, San Francisco, California
2007 The Edge of Abstraction, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, California
2006 Dust in Sunlight: Paintings and Photographs of a Particle Universe, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, California (solo)
2006 Gift, 301 Bocana Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Particle Clouds, 50 Fremont Street Lobby, San Francisco, California (solo)
2005 Selections 2005, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Thirty Something: Celebrating Innovative Work from Kala Art Institute, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 Fresh, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2004 Small Works, SF LGBT Community Center, San Francisco, California
2004 Roads & Pastimes, curated by Amy Bay, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, New York
2003 Talcum Powder Drawings, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, New York (solo)
2003 Water & Air, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah (solo)
2003 Time & Transcendence, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomand, California

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2018 Residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy
2017 Residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy
2015 Kala Artist Residency Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA      
2015 Residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy
2013 Artists residency at Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA
2013 Workshop and residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy
2010 Just Painting Workshop, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2009 Artists residency at Lesheba Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Lampopo, South Africa
2007 Contemporary Issues in Art workshop, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2007 Domestic Departures Collab Residency, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
2004 
Kala Artist Residency Award, Berkeley, CA
2000 Residency, Masía Can Serrat Centre d’Activitat Artistiques, Barcelona, Spain
1998 Henry Street Settlement Artists-in-Residence Program, New York, NY


EDUCATION
1993 BA in English Literature, University of California at Berkeley
1992 Coursework in Fine Arts, Scuola Lorenzo de'Medici, Florence, Italy 
1997 MFA in Visual Art, City University of New York, Queens College
​2011 MA in Museum & Gallery Education, Institute of Education, UCL, London
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