EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Marjorie Welish
Artist /critic Marjorie Welish received her first solo show thanks to Laurie Anderson, then curator of the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center; she has exhibited most recently in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Cambridge, England. ”Paper Architecture: Urbanism” will be shown at La Terrasse, Nanterre, in 2017. She received many grants and fellowships, including: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Fifth Floor Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and 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 art book, Oaths? Questions?, collaborating with James Siena (Granary Books, 2009); in 2010 on a Fulbright, she was at Edinburgh College of Art. Writing on her work may be found in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought) from a conference at University of Pennsylvania. Welish’s art criticism is available in Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press).
