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ROSE MARASCO
info@rosemarasco.com
207-780-1965

selected: SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010-11 Projections, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2010 New England Diary, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, New York
2008 The Invented Photograph, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
2004-05 Domestic Objects: Past and Presence, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine;
Southwest Harbor Public Library; University of Maine Museum of Art; University of Maine at Farmington
2003 Circles, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York
2002 Open House: Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
2000 Leafing, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, New York
1998 New England Diary, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, New York
1995 Tender Buttons: Women’s Domestic Objects, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
1992-93 Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine; University of Maine
Presque Isle; University of Maine Farmington; University of Maine Machias: University of Southern Maine,
Gorham, Maine; University of Maine, Orono, Maine
1989 Perspectives: Religious Imagery, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

selected: GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Seeing Portland: 1972-1984, Zero Station, Portland, Maine
2009 Photography In Maine, University of New England, Portland, Maine
2008 The New Recyclists, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
2006 The Way Life Is, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
2005 The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art
2003 Photographing Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
2002 Past- Present-Future, 50 Year Anniversary Exhibit, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
2001 Domestic Culture: Home in Visual Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art at MeCA, Portland, Maine
2000 Marasco & Underhill, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York
1999 Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
1998 Still Lifes / Prints & Photographs, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Memorable Histories And Historic Memories, Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, Maine
1993 Process and Product, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1992 Polaroid Exhibition, Level 3 Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 Exhibition of Photography, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1989 Selections 4: Photokina ‘88, Polaroid International Exhibition, Cologne, Germany; Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, England: Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Kunstalle-Hamburg, Germany;
the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

selected: FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS

2005 Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award, Santa Fe Center for Photography
2001-02 Open House Grant, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
1992 Exhibition of the Year, New England Historical Association, Worcester, Massachusetts
1990-92 Major Grant, Maine Humanities Council, Portland, Maine, for Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange
1990 Individual Artists Fellowship, Maine Arts Commission, Maine
1985 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire

selected: CRITICAL RESPONSE

Maine Home + Design magazine, Portland, Maine, featured photographer, August, 2008
Photo District News magazine, New York, NY, “ The Portfolio Review Diaries: The Reviewer’s
Reflections” by Debra Klomp Ching, highlighted photographer, July, 2008
Quest France, “An American Photographer at The University- Brest ” May 3, 2008
Art New England, featured artist/interview by Lauren Fensterstock, Dec./Jan., 2005-06
Maine Sunday Telegram, “Marasco’s Photos Speak to Intimacy”, review by Philip Isaacson,
February 22, 2004
The Portland Phoenix, “ A Colored Place,” cover story, exhibition review, by Chris Thompson, February 6, 2004
Maine Sunday Telegram, “Photographer Evokes Complexity from Everyday,” by Bob Keyes, February 1, 2004
Undomesticated Interiors, essays by Aprile Gallant and Mimi Hellman, Smith College Museum of Art, 2003
Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, essay by Deborah Martin Kao, Not Unordered: Rose
Marasco’s Tender Buttons, Harvard University Art Museums, 2001
New York Resident, “West Side Story”, exhibition review by Chris MacLeod, November 6, 2000
Antique and The Arts Weekly, “Leafing”, exhibition review, Nov. 3, 2000
New York magazine, March 2, 1998, text and photograph
The New Yorker, “Goings On About Town,” Feb. 23, 1998, extended text
The New York Times, exhibition review by Margarett Loke, February 20, 1998
The Village Voice, exhibition review by Vince Aletti, February 4 -10, 1998
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, by Lucy R. Lippard, 1997
The New Press, New York, New York
The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Endpaper,” May 26,1995, text and image
The Boston Sunday Globe, Exhibition review by Christine Temin, May 14,1995
Views: The Journal of Photography in New England, “Ritual and Community”, Vol. 13-4/14-1, Winter 1993
Art New England, “Ritual and Community” review by Shirley Jacks, June/July 1992
Maine Sunday Telegram, “Ritual and Community,” by Greg Gadberry, March 1, 1992
Maine Times, “Ritual and Community,” review by Edgar Allen Beem, Vol. 24, No. 23, March 13, 1992
Maine Sunday Telegram, “Featured Artists: Maine’s Year in the Arts,” December 31, 1989
Maine Times, “Exhibitions of the Year,” by Edgar Allen Beem, Vol. 22, No. 11, Dec. 15, 1989
Art New England, “Perspectives,” review by William David Barry, June 1989

selected: PUBLIC LECTURES

2009 University of New England “Photography in Maine” exhibition Gallery talk, Portland, Maine
2008 The Invented Photograph, Gallery talk, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
2008 École Supérieure d’Arts de Brest – ESAB Brest, France “The Photographs of Rose Marasco”
2005 Women in Photography: A Symposium, Portland Museum of Art
2004 Domestic Objects Symposium, in conjunction with exhibition, University of Southern Maine
Organized symposium with historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, poet Charles Simic, and art historian Kim Grant
2001 Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, “Multiplicity and Simplicity”
2000 Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine, Artists’ Gathering: Rose Marasco
1999 Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Light Conversations: Seminars with Contemporary Photographers
1999 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, “Rose Marasco, Personal Work”
1998 Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, New York, “Rose Marasco, Personal Work”
1997 Mytilene Photographic Society, Lesvos, Greece, “Rose Marasco, Personal Work”
1997 Parsons School of Design, New York, New York, “Rose Marasco, Personal Work”
1996 Westbrook College, Portland, Maine, Todd Webb, Photographer in Context: A Symposium
1995 SALT Conference on Documentary Photography, Portland Museum of Art, “Rose Marasco,
Personal Work”
1995 Davis Museum and Cultural Center, “Tender Buttons: Women’s Domestic Objects”
1992 New England Museum Association and Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums, Albany, New York
Annual conference: Artists and the Community
1992 Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, Gallery talk, Ritual and Community
1989 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Gallery talk, Religious Imagery

selected: PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine
Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Boston, Massachusetts
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Polaroid International Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The New York Public Library Photography Collection, New York, New York
The Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta, Maine
Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
University of New England, Portland, Maine
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine

current position: Distinguished Professor of Art, University of Southern Maine