MARCIA TEUSINK
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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.
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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  
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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
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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 
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