Fredrik Marsh

Biography

Fredrik Marsh was born in Quantico, Virginia; lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. He attended The Ohio State University, earning his BFA in Photography in 1980 and MFA in Printmaking in 1984. He has been teaching photography at various colleges and universities since 1985. As Visiting Professor of Art during the summer of 2009, he taught Photography for the University of Georgia Studies Abroad in Cortona, Italy Program. Currently, he is teaching in the Art Department at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Marsh’s work has been included in over 200 competitive and invitational exhibitions since 1978. He has given photography workshops and lectured on his work nationally and internationally, most recently in China, Germany, Italy, Poland and Slovakia. During his career, awards received include an individual artist fellowship from Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts; individual artist fellowships and artist’s project grants from Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council and Saxony Ministry for Science & Art, Dresden; and a 2002 GCAC/State of Saxony artist residency in Dresden, Germany. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography in 2008. Marsh was nominated for the 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers.

Marsh's work is included in a number of corporate, museum, private and university collections across the United States with recent acquisitions in Germany. Selections from the Dresden Project are included in Permanent Collections of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others.

In 2006, his photographs and the works of nine other artists from six countries were included in the Sixth Discoveries of the Meeting Place exhibition in conjunction with Houston FotoFest 2006 Eleventh International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art. Twelve of Marsh’s Dresden panoramas are also represented in the 2006 International Photography Survey DVD-ROM Photography Now: one hundred portfolios. Notable solo exhibitions in recent years include the 7. International FotoTage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen Festival held in Germany during 2005, the 2nd Lianzhou International Photography Festival 2006 held in Guangdong Province, the People's Republic of China, and in 2007 at the 9th International Photo Gathering in Aleppo, Syria and University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In cooperation with the Cultural Landscape Foundation, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in 2007 commissioned Marsh and eleven other American photographers to create photographs forHeroes of Horticulture, an exhibition traveling the United States through 2010.

Transitions: The Dresden Project. Photographs by Fredrik Marsh, one-person exhibitions opened in 2009 at the Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States and Technische Sammlungen Dresden - Museen der Stadt Dresden, Germany, most recently in Columbus, Ohio. The exhibition will travel to the Galerie der Stadt Salzburg, Museumspavillon, in Salzburg, Austria in 2011 with additional venues scheduled through 2012 in Europe and the United States.

Selected Awards, Fellowships & Grants

2009    Honorable Mention, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2010, Stuttgart, DE
2009    Nominee, Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, San Francisco, CA, USA
2008    John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
2007    Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
2007    Individual Excellence Award in Photography, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
2007    Special Projects Grant (2007-08), Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
2005   Nominee, HCB Award 2005, Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson, Paris, FR
2004    Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
2004    Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
2003    Artists Projects Grant (with Inga Paas), Sächsischen Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Dresden, DE
2002    Artists Projects Grant, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
2000    Artist-in-Residence, Dresden/Saxony Residency, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
1991    Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
1988    Professional Development Assistance Award, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, USA
1985    Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Photography, Arts Midwest, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1983    Ford Foundation Professional Training in the Arts Award, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011     Galerie der Stadt Salzburg – Museumspavillon, Salzburg, AT
2010     Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, USA
2009     Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2009     Technische Sammlungen Dresden - Museen der Stadt Dresden, Dresden, DE
2007     9th International Photo Gathering, Aleppo, SY
2006     Lianzhou International Photography Festival 2006, Lianzhou, Guangdong Province, CN
2006     University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2005     7. International FotoTage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, DE
2004     Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
2004     Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
2003     Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, USA
2003     Gallery Sink, Denver, CO, USA
2003     Galerie Kunsthaus Raskolnikow e.V., Dresden, DE
2003     College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA
2000     University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010    Ruptures and Continuities: the Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection,
            Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, Houston, TX, USA
2009    Cataloguing Attitudes: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, CUNY/College of Staten Island,
            Staten Island, NY, USA
2009    Before and After, organized by Tina Schelhorn, (Koln, DE). "Ost" Gallery, Moscow, RU
2009    Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2010 Touring Exhibition, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels,
            Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e. V., Stuttgart, DE and various international venues through 2010
2008    Houston FotoFest 2008 International Fine Print Auction, Houston, TX, USA
2007    Heroes of Horticulture, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA and traveling
2007    Storage Space, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
2007    National Prize Show 2007, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
2007    A River Runs Through Us: Engaged Documentary Practice, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI, USA
2006    Houston FotoFest 2006 Discoveries of the Meeting Place Exhibition, Houston, TX, USA
2006    Fotobild's Choice, Fotobild-Berlin International Photography Fair, Berlin, DE
2006    Recent Work from Germany: Fredrik Marsh & Ardine Nelson, The Carnegie, Covington, KY, USA
2006    Image as Evidence: Regional Documentary Photography, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH, USA
2006    Houston FotoFest 2006 International Fine Print Auction, Houston, TX, USA
2005    Human Landscapes, Gallery Sink, Denver, CO, USA
2005    Photographers: Network Selection 2005, ART-Galerie, Siegen, DE
2005    15 Jahre Kunsthaus Raskolnikow e.V., Galerie: 1990 – 2005, Dresden, DE
2004    Visual Proof, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA
2004    Observations, Part 1, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
2004    Friends Without A Border: Benefit Exhibit & Auction for Angkor Hospital. NYC, NY, USA
2003    Exhibition 280/Parameters, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, USA
2003    Trading Places: Paas/Marsh: Columbus/Dresden, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
2003    Marsh/Paas–ein Ortswechsel: Columbus/Dresden, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, DE
2002    The American River National Juried Competition, Battleboro, VT, USA and traveling
2002    Deus Ex Machina 2002, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA
2001    Emotional Distance, Gallery Sink, Denver, CO, USA
2000    Latest Development: Focus on Regional Photographers, Huntington Museum of Art, WV, USA

Selected Collections

Central Washington University, New Photographics Permanent Collection, Ellensburg, WA, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Cleveland, OH, USA
Columbus Museum of Art, Ross Collection & Permanent Collection, Columbus, OH, USA
Dresdner Stiftung Kunst & Kultur der Ostsächsischen Sparkasse Dresden, Permanent Collection, Dresden, DE
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Permanent Collection, Dresden, DE
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Permanent Collection, Rochester, NY, USA
Greater Columbus Arts Council, Permanent Collection, Columbus, OH, USA
Huntington Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Huntington, WV, USA
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Permanent Collection, New York, NY, USA
Library of Congress, Division of Prints and Photographs, Washington, D.C., USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Permanent Collection, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, MPP Collection, Columbia College Chicago, IL, USA
Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, Permanent Collection, Houston, TX, USA
Ohio Arts Council, Permanent Collection, Columbus, OH, USA
PriceWaterhouse Corporate Permanent Collection, Denver, CO, USA
Ross Museum of Art, Ohio Wesleyan University, Permanent Collection, Delaware, OH, USA
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Kupferstich–Kabinett Museum, Permanent Collection, Dresden, DE
Stiftung Moritzburg Kunstmuseum, Permanent Collection, Halle, DE
Technische Sammlungen Dresden – Museen der Stadt Dresden, Permanent Collection, Dresden, DE
Toledo Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Toledo, OH, USA

Selected Library Collections

Albertina, Fotosammlung, Wien, AT
Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Köln, DE
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sammlung Ann und Jürgen Wilde, München, DE
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sammlung für Fotografie und Neue Medien, München, DE
Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, DE
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Paris, FR
Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, DK
C/O Berlin – International Forum, Berlin, DE
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
Deichtorhallen Hamburg Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, DE
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galerie Lichtblick, Köln, DE
Helmut Newton Stiftung im Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, DE
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY, USA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, FR
Manfred Heiting, Private Collection, Malibu, CA, USA
Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, München, DE
Museum Folkwang, Fotografische Sammlung, Essen, DE
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Sammlung Fotografie, Hamburg, DE
Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE
Museum Ludwig, Fotografische Sammlungen, Köln, DE
Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA