EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Marjorie Welish
Artist/critic Marjorie Welish received her first solo show thanks to Laurie Anderson as then curator of the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center. She has exhibited most recently in Paris, New York, Cambridge (U.K.), and London: specifically with Olivier Gouvil, in ”Paper Architecture: Urbanism,” at La Terrasse, Nanterre, in 2017; and with solo shows at The Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, New York, in 2023; at Jesus College, Cambridge University, in 2024, and at Emanuel von Baeyer, London, in 2026. Her many awards include a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship as well as the following grants: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Fifth Floor Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding (supporting an exchange between the ISCP, New York and the Artists’ Museum, Łódź, Poland). In 2006, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship to teach at the University of Frankfurt, where she also worked on a limited-edition constructed artists' book, Oaths? Questions?, collaborating with James Siena (Granary Books, 2009); and 2019 saw the publication of the constructed artists' book Between Sincerity and Irony, in collaboration with Dan Walsh); and a constructed artists’ book Subject To Change, in collaboration with Michael Corris, Alexandra Pignol, and Stéphane Mroczkowski, published by Mare et Martin (Paris) in 2023, and distributed by Printed Matter. In progress is an album Meander, A Collaboration with the architect Deborah Gans. A ten-page portfolio of her painting appeared in Artforum, February 2024; followed by an interview with Alex Jovanovich for Artforum’s online “Under the Cover,” March 2024. Writings on her work may be also found in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Books) from a conference at University of Pennsylvania. Welish’s art criticism is available in Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press).
