V A N E S S A M A R S H

Vanessa Marsh (b.1978, Seattle, Washington) is a Portland, OR-based visual artist. Marsh creates imaginary landscapes and atmospheres through a mixed-media process based in photography. Working in various photographic processes she creates the illusion of a layered and dimensional landscape using opaque stencils and cut paper to make multiple exposures on light-sensitive materials. She has translated this process into different forms of photographic printmaking, from traditional black and white darkroom prints to analog color printing, wet plate collodion, lumen, and cyanotype. Reflecting upon the landscapes of her life in the Western United States, the images she creates are meditations on memory, climate change, and geologic time.

She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2004 and her BA from Western Washington University in 2001. Marsh’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at venues including Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, The San Jose Museum of Art, The SFO Museum, The Penumbra Foundation in New York, photoEye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Marsh has been the recipient of a Penland School of Craft Winter Residency (2023), a Jentel Foundation Fellowship (2018), a Rayko Photo Center residency (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2007), and a Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Fellowship (2004). Marsh’s images are held in institutional collections including the San Jose Museum of Art, the San Francisco Art Commission, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. 

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