Vanessa Marsh is an American contemporary painter born in Seattle in 1978. Her photography based-paintings explore the man-made, cosmological and natural power.
Vanessa Marsh received her BA in Fine Arts from Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA in 2001, and her MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA in 2004. She works as a Personal assistant, sometimes full time, sometimes part time, but she says it’s good for her art carrier because having lot of responsibilities is what is keeping her mind sharp and always ready to create. Memory and landscapes are central themes of Marsh’s work, but not simple memories of a landscape, but rather what the artist finds beautiful in them, what has caused her to remember them in the first place. It’s about reconnecting with familiar landscape that are longed for and missed.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. Marsh got the idea for her most recent work by playing with her models and photograms. Even though she is successful artist, she sometimes struggles in finding the perfect amount of time to spend in creating art and being in the ‘real’ world. The balance is the key, knowing when to enter the universe of exhibitions and other artist’s work, and when it’s ok to end the work and go meet her friends. That is one of the things that Marsh is most proud of, having friends and family who understand and support her. She hopes to evoke emotions in viewers, to make her work relatable, and she is undeniably successful in that intention.
She is represented by Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, USA.
All images courtesy of the artist.
Year | Exhibition Title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group |
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2016 | Vanessa Marsh | SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA | Solo |
2015 | Everywhere All at Once | photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | Solo |
2015 | Everywhere All at Once | Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Solo |
2015 | Celestial Vistas, Robert Kooima and Vanessa Marsh | New Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA | Group |
2015 | group show 47; Space Jamz (online exhibition) | Humble Arts Foundation, hafny.org | Group |
2015 | Lightning Strikes: 18 poets. 18 artists. | Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2015 | Illuminate | Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO | Group |
2015 | Femme Papel | Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2015 | Night Begins the Day | Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2014 | Falling | Artist in Residence Exhibition, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA | Solo |
2014 | Select Cuts and Alterations | Foley Gallery, New York, NY | Group |
2014 | Project 3 with Abe McNally | c2c Project Space, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2014 | Not of this World | ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA | Group |
2013 | Everywhere/Always | Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT | Solo |
2013 | From Polaroids to Photograms | Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT | Group |
2012 | Dreams of the Darkest Night | Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis CA | Solo |
2012 | Dreams of the Darkest Night | Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA | Group |
2012 | The Art of Photography | San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA | Group |
2012 | Annual Juried Exhibition | Camera Club of New York, New York, NY | Group |
2012 | Kala Fellowship Exhibition | Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA | Group |
2012 | Chain Reaction | de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA | Group |
2012 | Lightscape/Darkscape | Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA | Group |
2011 | The Space Between | Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Solo |
2011 | Artist Annual | Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA | Group |
2011 | BLACK AND WHITE | Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2010 | Night/Light | San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2010 | Space Odyssey | Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2010 | 10th Annual Monster Drawing Rally | Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2010 | Chimera | Gensler, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2010 | The Art of Play | Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2009 | Always Close But Never Touching | Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA | Solo |
2009 | Next New : Green | San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA | Group |
2009 | Headlands Benefit Auction | Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2009 | Pop Noir | Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2009 | Monster Drawing Rally | Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2008 | 28th Annual Fall Art Auction | San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA | Group |
2008 | Introductions 2008: A Bakers Dozen of Bay Area Emerging Artists | Gallery 3175, Root Division, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2008 | Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography | San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2008 | Optic Illusion | Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2008 | Monster Drawing Rally | Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2007 | X Marks the Spot | Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2007 | Close Calls | Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA | Group |
2007 | It’s a Small World: Scale in Contemporary Photography | San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA | Group |
2006 | Emerge | GenArt SF, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2006 | A Moveable Feast | Cafe Royale, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2006 | Momentum | Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2005 | Vanessa Marsh | Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Solo |
2005 | Truth and Lies | Mission 17, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2005 | Mayhem | Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2005 | Circa “75 | New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2005 | 30 | Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2004 | Skies | Cafe Royale, San Francisco, CA | Solo |
2004 | Epic | Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2004 | Fluid Exchange | Berkeley Graduate Gallery, Berkeley, CA | Group |
2004 | MFA Exhibition | California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2003 | Selections of Arnold Kemp North | South Galleries, Oakland, CA | Group |
2003 | The Mixer | PlaySpace, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2002 | Slingshot | California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2002 | Pinup | Graduate Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2001 | Beyond Borders | Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA | Group |
2001 | Worlds Within Worlds | Omni Gallery, Bellingham, WA | Group |