ROSE MARASCO - Career Biography

Rose Marasco is a versatile and compelling photographer and an inspiring insightful teacher.

Marasco has had significant one-person exhibitions at: Houston Center for Photography 2010-11; Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, 2008; Sarah Morthland Gallery in New York in 2003, 2000 and 1998; The Davis Museum at Wellesley College 1995; The Farnsworth Museum of Art in Rockland, Maine 1992; and at The Portland Museum of Art, 1989. Her work has also been featured in numerous group shows of distinction most notably at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Marlborough Gallery, Photokina, the International Polaroid Exhibition, and the Smith College Museum of Art, .

Her photographs are included in public collections including: The Fogg Museum at Harvard University; Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection; The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College; Photography Collection at The New York Public Library;The Portland Museum of Art; and the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Marasco’s work has been highlighted in major publications including, the New Yorker, New York, and, The Chronicle of Higher Education magazines. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, and Art New England among many others.

Marasco has a B.F.A. from Syracuse University and a M.F.A. from the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York. Marasco has lectured at many institutions including Harvard University, Bates College, Colby College, Massachusetts College of Art, and Parsons School of Design. In 2005 she was awarded the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from the Santa Fe Center for Photography. She is a Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.

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