Marcus DeSieno Curriculum vitae
Education
University of South Florida | Tampa, FL Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art, 2015
Marlboro College | Marlboro, VT Bachelor of Arts, Photography, 2010
SALT Institute of Documentary Studies | Portland, ME Degree in Documentary Studies/Documentary Photography, 2008
Awards and Honors
2018 nd CENTER Director’s Choice Award Winner 2 Place Selection for Review Santa Fe 2017 Selection for Review Santa Fe Winner of the Gomma Grant Leading-Edge Prize Shortlist for Gomma Photography Grant Silvereye Center for Photography Fellowship Juror’s Commendation 2016 Winner of Lensculture’s Emerging Talent Awards Winner of Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass 2016 – Top 50 Winner of Flash Forward Festival 2016 Winner of Foreign Exchange Photo Competition Finalist for Front Gallery’s Open16 Third Place Texas Photographic Society 25 First Place in New York Center for Photographic Arts’ Macro Exhibition
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Awards and Honors (Cont.) 2015 Second place in SohoPhoto Gallery’s Alternative Process Competition Selection for Photoville's Fence Exhibition in Atlanta, Boston, Houston, and New York Selection for Review Santa Fe SPE Student Award for Innovations in Imaging SPE Southeast Caucus Scholarship Prize Texas Woman's University/Arlington Camera Gift Award 2014 Finalist for Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass 2014 – Top 200 Editor's Pick – Lensculture Cultural Council of Cortland County Award Winner Selection for PDN Photo Annual CHOSEN – American Photography 30 Archive Juror's Merit Award - Fort Wayne Museum of Art 2013 Finalist for Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass 2013 – Top 200 Winner American Aperture Awards – Conceptual/Experimental Category Winner American Aperture Awards – Landscape Category 2012 Recipient of the Jane and Harrison Covington Award in Fine Arts Recipient of the Adah Schaich Endowed Scholarship for Photography Solo Exhibitions 2019 -No Man’s Land: Views From a Surveillance State, Auburn City Gallery, Auburn, WA. 2017 -Views From a Surveillance State, A.P.E ltd Gallery, Northampton, MA. -Surveillance Landscapes, Drury Gallery, Marlboro, VT. -Cosmos, In-Sight Project Space, Brattleboro, VT. 2016 -The Age of the World Picture, Portspace Gallery, Gulf Port, FL. 2015 -Parasites, Gallery 501, Tampa, FL. -Invisible Monsters: Parasites, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT. Marcus DeSieno Curriculum vitae
Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 -Full Circle, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC. nd -22 Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA. 2018 -New Directions 2018, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. (Juror: Jennifer Inacio, Curator at Perez Art Museum Miami) -Fountain of Pythons, Satellite Fair, Art Basel, Miami, FL. -Altering Nature: Pictures of a Changing Environment, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC. -Contemporary Photography 2008-2018, Site:Brooklyn, New York, NY. (Juror: Kristen Gaylord, Curator at the Museum of Modern Art) -Take Me Down, Ybor School of Visual and Performing Arts Gallery, Tampa, FL. -Tipping Point, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA. -Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Mueum, Athens, Greece. -Genital Panic, CunstHaus, Tampa, FL. -30 Under 30, Viridian Artists, New York, NY. (Juror: Chrissie Iles, Curator at Whitney Museum) -Context 2018, Filter Space, Chicago, IL. -Stranger Worlds, Het Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands 2017 -Imagining Science, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Der Aa-kerk / De Faun, Groningen, Netherlands. -Theory of Place, Candela Books and Gallery, Richmond, VA. -On Freedom: Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY. -Kill the Messenger, Gallery19, Chicago, IL. -Wanderlust, Dickerman Gallery and Prints, San Francisco, CA. -Art and Oppression, PhotoEye, Santa Fe, NM. (online) -Lensculture Emerging Talents, International Center for Photography, New York, NY. -Critical Mass, Artwork Network Gallery, Denver, CO. (curated by David Rosenberg)
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2017 (Cont.) -Varied Perceptions, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver CO. -Texas Photographic Society: International Competition, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX. -Texas Photographic Society: International Competition, Options Gallery at Odessa College, Odessa, TX. -Take Me Home, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL. 2016 -Paradise City, Birke Art Gallery, Huntington, WV. -Unbound5!, Candela Books and Gallery, Richmond, VA. -Amplified, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. -Texas Photographic Society 25, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX. (Juror: Rixon Reed) -Texas Photographic Society 25, Martin Museum of Art, Waco, TX. (Juror: Rixon Reed) -Exposures, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA. (Jurors: Anita Douthat, John P. Jacob, Leslie K. Brown, George Slade, and Francine Weiss) -Monster PhotoGestalt, Bg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. -Open16, Front Gallery, New York, NY. Online. Catalog -Wunderkabinett, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC. Catalog -Macro, Jadite Gallery, New York, NY. Catalog -Foreign Exchange, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH. (Jurors: Andy Adams, Laura Ruth Bidwell, and Katherine Oktober Matthews) -Creatures: Real and Imagined, uBe Art Gallery, Berkley, CA. -SPE Regional Caucus Exhibition, Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. (Juror: Byron Wolfe) -American Road Trip, SITE: Brooklyn, New York, NY. -Consilience of Art and Science, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA.
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2015 -Miami Photo Salon, Spectrum Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami, FL. Catalog -Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Satellite Fair, Art Basel, Miami, FL. -Space Jamz, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY. Online. (Curator: Jon Feinstein) -Alternative Process Competition, SohoPhoto Gallery, New York, NY. (Juror: Joni Sternbach) -SPE Regional Caucus Exhibition, Clemson Center for Visual Arts, Clemson University, Greenville, SC. (Juror: Byron Wolfe) -Abstract Catalyst, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR. -Re-Picturing Photography, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL. -Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL. st -21 Annual Juried Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. (Juror: Jim Casper) Catalog -Alternative Processes, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. (Juror: Amy Holmes George) Catalog -Photoville's Fence Exhibition (in association with United Photo Industries and Photoville), Rose F. Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA. -Photoville's Fence Exhibition (in association with United Photo Industries and Photoville), Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY. -Photoville's Fence Exhibition (in association with United Photo Industries and Photoville), Atlanta Belt Line, Atlanta, GA. - Photoville's Fence Exhibition (in association with United Photo Industries, Houston Center for Photography, and Photoville), Houston, TX. -Sun Kissed, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. Catalog
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2015 (Cont.) -Oranbeg Net #14: A New Glass, Oranbeg Press, Online. (Curators: Roxana Azar and Ginevra Shay) -Viral: Photography in the Age of Social Media, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. -14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Woman's University Fine Art Galleries, Denton, TX. Catalog (Curator: April Watson) -Alternatives 2015: Artifacts, Ohio University Gallery, Athens, OH. Catalog 2014 -Clarke's Third Law, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA. (Curator: Paul Swenbeck) -Fauna, Smith Anderson North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA. (Juror: William Wegman) -Alternative Process, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. (Juror: Christopher James) Catalog -Through My Lens, Beard Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY. -Explore, Flow Arts Space, St. Paul, MN. -Summation, Arts Center of Sarasota, Sarasota, FL. -Photography NOW 2014, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY. (Juror: Julie Grahame) -Fabrik exhibition, Photo Independent, Los Angeles, CA. -National: Best Contemporary Photography 2014, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN Catalog 2013 -PhotoSpiva, George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Jopin, MO. (Juror: Dornith Doherty) -The Alternative Approach, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA. (Juror: Christopher James) Catalog
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2013 (Cont.) -Transformations, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. (Juror: Ellen Jantzen) Catalog -Emerging Photographers Auction, Dan Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY. -Identity, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. (Juror: Barbara Tannenbaum) Catalog -Me, Myself, and I, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA. (Juror: David Hilliard -Four Documents, William Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL. -Alter Ego, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA. (Juror: Stephen Sheffield) Catalog
Screenings: 2017: -Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland -Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen. Denmark -Fotoleggendo Festival, Rome, Italy -Vienna PhotoBook Festival, Vienna, Austria -StreetFoto San Francisco 2017 Festival, San Francisco, CA -PhotOn Festival: International Festival of Photojournalism, Valencia, Spain -Art Photo Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain -Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia -FestFoto Brazil 2017, Porto Alegre, Brazil -Krakow Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland -Los Angeles Festival of Photography, Los Angeles, CA -Odessa//Batumi Photo Days Festival 2017, Odessa, Ukraine -FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK -Month of Photography Denver, Denver, Colorado 2016: -Tiradentes, Tiradentes, Brazil -Focus Photography Festival, Mumbai, India
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Teaching Experience
Central Washington University | Ellensburg, WA (July 2017 – Present) Assistant Professor of Photography. Head of the photography department, responsible for budgeting, maintaining, and operating wet darkroom and digital facilities, overseeing workstudy students and and graduate teaching assistants, mentoring BFA and MFA students, budgeting and inviting visiting artists into the schedule, recruiting for the graduate program, and creating syllabi, grading, and teaching the following courses:
-Beginning Photography (analog) -Intermediate Photography (Color) -Intermediate Photography (Visual Narrative) -Intermediate Photography (Alternative Processes) -Advanced Photography
Marlboro College | Marlboro, VT (August 2016-May 2017) Visiting Professor of Photography, Andrew W. Mellow Fellow of the Arts. Temporary head of photography department, responsible for budgeting, maintaining, and operating wet darkroom and digital facilities, overseeing workstudy students and TAs, mentoring senior students, budgeting and inviting visiting artists into the schedule, and creating syllabi, grading, and teaching the following courses:
-Narrative and the Photobook -History of Photography -Beginning Analog Photography -Art Seminar Critique (Professional Practices) -Senior Thesis Writing Tutorial -Experimental Photography Tutorial
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Teaching Experience (Cont.) University of South Florida | Tampa, FL (August 2015-June 2016) Adjunct Professor, creating syllabi, grading, and teaching the following courses:
-Special Topics: Large Format Photography -Intermediate Photography -Foundations: Concepts and Practices I -Foundations: Concepts and Practices II
New College of Florida | Sarasota, FL (August 2015-December 2015) Adjunct Professor, creating syllabi, grading, and teaching the following courses:
-Beginning Digital Photography
University of South Florida | Tampa, FL (August 2013-May 2015) Instructor of Record, creating syllabi, grading, and teaching Photography courses:
-Special Topics: Alternative Process Photography -Beginning Photography
University of South Florida | Tampa, FL (September 2012-May 2015) Teaching Assistant, assisting, grading, and teaching multiple classes and courses in Studio Art and Art History including:
-Advanced Photography with Professor Adam Ekberg -BFA Thesis with Professor Anat Pollack -Introduction to Art History with Professor Marta Slaughter -Crime Does Pay: Intersections Between Crime and Art with Kennedy Scholar Alix Lambert
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Teaching Experience (Cont.) The Insight Photography Project | Brattleboro, VT (2007 – January 2011) Teaching instructor and lab monitor for multiple classes including:
-Art Therapy and Photography at the Brattleboro Retreat -Beginning Photography -Black and White Photography (analog) -Exposures Winter Class
Related Work Experience
The Insight Photography Project | Brattleboro, VT (May 2017 – Present) Member of the board of directors.
Responsible for overseeing the budget, business, activities, and programming of this non-profit organization dedicated to empowering youth to communicate their unique personal visions through photography, guided by respect for individuals, communities, and cultures.
University of South Florida | Tampa, FL. (August 2012-May 2015) Digital and Darkroom Lab Technician
Responsible for maintaining, testing, and monitoring both analog darkroom and digital facilities. These facilities included alternative process and traditional silver darkrooms, multiple Epson digital printers, Imacon scanners, and Adobe Creative Cloud software.
Marlboro College | Marlboro, VT (January 2007 – May 2010) Marketing and Events photographer.
Responsible for photographing all college events, editing images, and assisting in the creation of marketing materials.
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Related Work Experience (continued)
Renaissance Press | Ashuelot, NH (January 2010 – December 2010) Assistant & Digital Media Advisor.
Responsible for assisting in the research and creation of a digital hybrid workflow fornineteenth-century photographic processes. Darkroom technician and assistant for multiple processes including: copper-plate photogravure, gum bichromate, gum over platinum, photopolymer gravure, and platinum/palladium printing. Assisted in workshops for copper-plate photogravure and photopolymer gravure..
Brattleboro Reformer | Brattleboro, VT (January 2008- August 2008) Intern and Photographer
Responsible for photographing daily assignments around the county, finding and creating stand-alone photo essays, and editing all photographs for the newspaper.
Publications (Print) 2018 -No Man’s Land: Views from a Surveillance State, Artist Monograph, Daylight Books, Durham, NC. Contributing writers Ariel Shanberg and Martha Sandweiss. -Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Third Edition, artist feature, Taylor and Francis’s Focal Press, England. -Chronology of Photography, artist feature, Paul Low, White Lion Press, London, England. (upcoming) -Of all the Orgies in All the Towns of the World, You Had to Covertly be Assigned to Mine, Flaunt Magazine - Issue 58, Los Angeles, CA. 2017 -Best of Lensculture, artist feature, Lensculture, Amsterdam, Netherlands. -Photo-Tableau, artist feature, New Journal of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Publications (Print) (Cont.) 2016 -GUP Issue #48 – Mixing It Up, Artist Feature, GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands. -Musee Magazine #14 – Science, Artist Feature, Musee Magazine, New York, NY. 2015 -Alternative Processes, Exhibition Catalog, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. -Alternatives 2015: Artifacts, Exhibition Catalog, Ohio University Gallery, Athens, OH. -Das Standaard Magazine, Artist Feature, Brussels, Belgium. -L’actualité Magazine, Artist Feature, “Les Bacteries Mangeuses D’etoiles”, Montreal, Canada. -Sun Kissed, Exhibition Catalog, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. -14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, , Exhibition Catalog, Texas Woman's University Fine Art Galleries, Denton, TX. st -21 Annual Juried Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, Exhibition Catalog, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. 2014 -The Alternative Approach, Exhibition Catalog, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA. -Alternative Process, Exhibition Catalog, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. -PDN Photo Annual, Featured Photographs, Photo District News, New York, NY. -National: Best Contemporary Photography 2014, Exhibition Catalog, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2013 -Alter Ego, Exhibition Catalog, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA. -Identity, Exhibition Catalog, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. -Fabrik– Issue 24, Featured Photograph, Fabrik Magazine for Contemporary Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. -Transformations, Exhibition Catalog, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT.
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Selected Publications (Online) 2018 Aline Smithson, “CENTER’S Director’s Choice Award 2nd Place Winner: Marcus th DeSieno,” LENSCRATCH, May 24 , 2018. http://lenscratch.com/2018/05/center-awards-11/
Claire Selvin, “Disquieting Landscapes from Surveillance Cameras Around the th World,” Hyperallergic, June 7 , 2018. https://hyperallergic.com/446015/no-mans-land-views-from-a-surveillance-state- marcus-desieno/
Cody Lewis, “New Book Captures Landscapes via Hacked Surveillance Cameras,” th Resources Magzine, May 25 , 2018. http://resourcemagonline.com/2018/05/new-book-captures-landscapes-via- hacked-surveillance-cameras/90184/
Diane Smyth, “Marcus DeSieno records the No Man’s Land of surveillance cameras th worldwide,” British Journal of Photography, May 16 , 2018. http://www.bjp-online.com/2018/05/marcus-desieno-surveillance/
Kenneth Dickerman, “Haunting landscapes taken from thousands of hacked th surveillance cameras,” Washington Post, June 15 , 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/06/15/haunting- landscapes-taken-from-thousands-of-hacked-surveillance-cameras/
Lou Tsatsas, “Our Civilization is Standing in the Middle of a No Man’s Land,” th Fisheye Magazine, June 4 , 2018. https://www.fisheyemagazine.fr/en/images/interview/our-civilisation-is-standing-in- the-middle-of-this-no-mans-land/
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2018 (Cont.)
Niall Flynn, “The photographer who hacked the world’s CCTV cameras,” th Huck Magazine, May 30 , 2018. http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/marcus-desieno- no-mans-land-hack/
th “Weekend Portfolio: Marcus DeSieno,” Musee Magazine, February 8 , 2018. http://museemagazine.com/culture/2018/2/8/weekend-portfolio-marcus-desieno
2017
Adele Peters, “This Eerie Landscape Art Is Actually Hacked Surveillance Footage,” th Fast Company Magazine – Co-Exist, January 24 , 2017. https://www.fastcoexist.com/3067403/this-eerie-landscape-art-is-actually-hacked- surveillance- footage
Angela Schader, “Surveyed Landscapes,” th New Journal of Zurich, February 27 , 2017. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/foto-tableau-marcus-desieno-ld.147512
DL Cade, “Photographer Hacks Security Cameras to Capture Beautiful Landscapes,” th PetaPixel, March 8 , 2017. https://petapixel.com/2017/03/08/photographer-uses-security-cameras-capture- beautiful-landscapes/
Dunja Djudjic, “This Photographer Creates Artistic Landscapes Using Only Surveillance Cameras,” nd DIY Photography, February 22 , 2017. http://www.diyphotography.net/this-photographer-creates-artistic-landscapes- using-only-surveillance-cameras/
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2017 (Cont.)
Laura Mallonee, “Ah, the Beauty of Nature…Seen Through Creepy Webcams,” th Wired Magazine, February 16 , 2017. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/surveillance-cams-everywhere-even-wilderness/
Michael DeStefano, “Beautiful Landscaoes Taken From the Comfort of a Computer,” th fStoppers Magazine, February 25 , 2017. https://fstoppers.com/spotlight/beautiful-landscapes-taken-comfort-computer- 167042
2016
Brandon Juhasz, “Marcus DeSieno: Foregin Exchange Winner,” nd LENSCRATCH, March 22 , 2016. http://lenscratch.com/2016/03/marcus-desieno-foreign-exchange-winner/
Carson Sanders, “Marcus DeSieno,” th Aint-Bad Magazine, September 8 , 2016. https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2016/09/08/marcus-desieno/
Cathy Salustri, “Pre-Kodachrome, post-Blackberry: Marcus DeSieno at PORTSPACE Gallery,” th Creative Loafing, June 30 , 2016 http://www.cltampa.com/arts-entertainment/visual- art/article/20826528/prekodachrome- postblackberry-marcus-desieno-at- portspace-gallery
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2016 (Cont.) st Katherine Oktober Matthews, “Cosmos,”GUP Magazine, March 21 , 2016. http://www.gupmagazine.com/portfolios/marcus-desieno/cosmos
th Mark Feeney, “Identity and Memory on Display at the PRC,” Boston Globe, May 9 , 2016. http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/05/08/identity-and-memory- display-prce/01TPHGaK7aXXLVMiPu19XO/story.html?event=event25 2015
Carolyn Cox, "Beautiful Photos of Bacteria Found on Toilet Seats, iPhones, and Inside a Butthole," The Mary Sue, February 2nd, 2015. http://www.themarysue.com/cosmos-marcus-desieno/
Dan Sheppard, "Marcus DeSieno: Cosmos and The American West," LENSCRATCH, July 9th, 2015. http://lenscratch.com/2015/07/marcus-desieno-cosmos-and-american-west/
David Rosenberg, "Making Beautiful Images Out of the Most Disgusting Things on Earth," Slate, January 16th, 2015. http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/01/16/marcus_desieno_cosmos_uses_b acteria_grown_on_photographic_film_to_create.html/
Dina Rickman, “This Photo Series Finds the Beauty in Dirt,” The Independent, January 18th, 2015. http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/this-photo-series-finds-the-beauty-in-dirt-- e1E7ZBneoe
Ellyn Kail, "Photographer Uses Bacteria Found in Jacuzzis, Adult Video Stores, and Human Orifices to Construct Celestial Images," FeatureShoot, February 10th, 2015. http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/02/photographer-uses-bacteria-found-in- jacuzzis-adult-video-stores-and-human-orifices-to-construct-celestial-images/
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2015 (Cont.)
EDW Lynch, "Cosmos, Distorted Photos of Space Printed From Film Eaten by Bacteria From Body Parts and Public Places,” Laughing Squid, February 11th, 2015. http://laughingsquid.com/cosmos-distorted-photos-of-space-printed-from-film- eaten-by-bacteria-from-body-parts-and-public-places/
Gordon Jackson, "Photographer Captures Mesmeric Images of Parasitic Worm Sex," io9, March 21st, 2015. http://io9.com/photographer-captures-mesmeric-images-of-parasitic-worm- 1692871325/
Hanssie, ""Photographic Art Created With Bacteria Found in Public Place and Body Parts," SLR Lounge, February 12th, 2015. http://www.slrlounge.com/photographic-art-created-with-bacteria-found-in-public- places-marcus-desieno/
Janey Tracey, "Amazing Photos of Bacteria Eating Galaxies, Nebulas, and Star Clusters," Outer Places, February 2nd, 2015.
th Julie Graham, "Marcus DeSieno: Cosmos." aCurator, June 29 , 2015. http://acurator.com/blog/2015/06/marcus-desieno-cosmos.html/
Julien Matabuena, "Marcus DeSieno's Cosmos," Lomography Magazine, February 18th, 2015. http://www.lomography.com/magazine/309177-marcus-desienos-cosmos/
Julien Matabuena, "Marcus DeSieno on Merging the Old and New, Manifesting the Unseen, and Exploring the Vastness of the Universe with Photography,"Lomography Magazine, March 3rd, 2015. http://www.lomography.com/magazine/309544-marcus-desieno-on-merging-the- old-and-new-manifesting-the-unseen-and-exploring-the-vastness-of-the- universe-through-photography
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2015 (Cont.) Katherine Brooks, "Microscopic Bacteria Eat Away At Cosmic Photographs, Unearthing An Entirely New Universe," The Huffington Post, February 4th, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/04/marcus-desieno-cosmos- _n_6600162.html
Liz Stinson, "Gorgeous Photos Made From the Bacteria on Toilet Seats and iPhones," Wired, February 2nd, 2015. “Cosmos: Abstract Images Created by Destroying Star Photo Film Slides with Bacteria” http://www.wired.com/2015/02/gorgeous-photos-made-bacteria-toilet-seats- iphones/
Martin Van Boxsom, "Marcus DeSieno's Cosmos," Érectile Magazine, March 12th, 2015. http://www.érectile.fr/portfolio/marcus-desieno-cosmos/
Michael Zhang, “Cosmos: Abstract Images Created by Destroying Star Photo Film Slides with Bacteria” PetaPixel, March 8th, 2015. http://petapixel.com/2015/03/08/cosmos-abstract-images-created-by- destroying-star-photo-film-strips-with-bacteria/
Molly Brown, “These Beautiful Photos are Made From Bacteria From iPhones, Light Switches and Belly Buttons,” GeekWire, February 2nd, 2015. http://www.geekwire.com/2015/beautiful-photos-made-bacteria-iphones-light- switches-belly-buttons/
“Cosmos: Abstract Images of Space Created from the Most Disgusting Things on Earth” Junk Culture, January 19th, 2015. http://www.junk-culture.com/2015/01/cosmos-abstract-images-of-space- created.html
"Microbes Vs. The Universe," Das Standaard, March 10th, 2015. http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20150310_01572016
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2014
Allison Meier, "Portraying the monstrous Elegance of Parasites with Tintypes," HyperAllergic, August 1st, 2014. http://hyperallergic.com/141005/portraying-the-monstrous-elegance-of-parasites- with-tintypes/
Becky Harlan, "Musings: Marcus Desieno Faces Tiny Monsters," Proof: National Geographic, July 28th, 2014. http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/28/musings-marcus-desieno-faces- tiny-monsters/
Connor Sephton, "Parasite Selfies: You're Never too Tiny or Disgusting to Pose for your Own Portrait," Metro UK, August 18th, 2014. http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/18/parasite-selfies-youre-never-too-tiny-or- disgusting-to-pose-for-your-own-portrait-4836581/
Davide Castelvecchi, “Images of the Month August 2014,” Nature, September 2nd, 2014. http://www.nature.com/news/images-of-the-month-august-2014-1.15797
EDW Lynch, "Wonderfully Creepy Microscope Photos of Parasites Printed Using the Antique Tintupe Process," Laughing Squid, August 12, 2014. http://laughingsquid.com/wonderfully-creepy-microscope-photos-of-parasites- printed-using-the-antique-tintype-process/
Felix Esser, "The Horrors that live within us: Marcus Desieno's Giant Ferrotype Critters," Imaging-Resource, August 15, 2014. http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2014/08/15/the-horrors-that-live-within- us-marcus-desienos-giant-ferrotype-critters
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2014 (Cont.)
Gannon Burgett, "fascinating and Creepy Tintypes of Microscopic Parasites," PetaPixel, August 5th, 2014. http://petapixel.com/2014/08/05/parasites-get-their-close-ups-in-these- microscopic-tintypes/
Helen Thompson, "Old Time Portraits of Parasites," Smithsonian Magazine, July 25th, 2014. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/old-time-portraits-parasites- 180952147/
Jordan G. Teicher, “Haunting Photos of Parasites Up Close,” th Wired, October 8 , 2014. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/haunting-photos-parasites-close
Lisa Marcus, "Parasites: Enlarged and Up Close to Several Degrees Above Creepy," Neatorama, May 25th, 2014. http://www.neatorama.com/neatopicto/2014/05/25/Parasites-Enlarged-and-Up- Close-to-One-Degree-Above-Creepy/#!bEzwBC
Nathaniel Smith, "Marcus Desieno's Beautiful and Terrifying Photos of Microscopic Parasites," Beautiful/Decay Magazine, May 23rd, 2014. http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/05/23/marcus-desienos-beautiful-terrifying- photos-microscopic-parasites/
Udi Tirosh, "Parasites Shot with Tintypes make your Nightmares Come alive," DIY Photography, August 6th, 2014. http://www.diyphotography.net/parasites-shot-tintypes-makes-nightmares-come- alive/
"Close Up Look at Horrifying Creatures," Weather:Crazimals, August 15th, 2014. http://www.weather.com/special/crazimals/video/close-up-look-at-horrifying- creatures-52517 Marcus DeSieno Curriculum vitae
2014 (Cont.)
"Creepy Tintype Parasites: Your Childhood Nightmares realized, SLR Lounge, August 8th, 2014. http://www.slrlounge.com/tintype-parasites-childhood-nightmares-realized/
"Face Of The Day," The Dish, June 28, 2014. http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/06/28/face-of-the-day-512/
"Look at the Camera and say 'fleas': creepy crawly parasites pose for microscopic 'selfies,'" The Daily Mail, August 18th, 2014. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727715/Look-camera-say-fleas-Creepy- crawly-parasites-pose-microscopic-selfies.html
Marcus DeSieno Curriculum vitae
Lectures 2018 -Artist Lecture | Review Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. 2017 -Artist Lecture | Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. -Artist Lecture | Boston University, Boston, MA -Artist Lecture | Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA. -Artist Lecture | University of North Carolina – Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. -Artist Lecture | Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT. 2016 -Artist Lecture | Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX. -Artist Lecture | Light Factory, Charlotte, NC. -Artist Lecture | Gallery 501 at Blake, Tampa, FL. -Artist Lecture with Experimental Photography Class | Boston University, Boston, MA 2015 -SPE Regional Conference Lecture | The Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC. -Artist Roundtable with BFA Advanced Photography Class | Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA -Curator's Round Table with Danny Olda and Becky Flanders | Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL. 2014 -SPE Regional Conference Lecture | East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. -Artist Lecture | Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida 2013 -University of South Florida Graduate Symposium | Tampa, FL.
Marcus DeSieno Curriculum vitae
Workshops Taught
2017 Wetplate Collodion Workshop (tintype and glass-plate negatives), Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. 2016 Tintype Workshop, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. 2013 Tintype Workshop, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Exhibitions Curator 2014 Photography Forever, William Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL.
Exhibitions Juror 2014 Citrus County Festival of the Arts, Inverness, FL.
Portfolio Reviewer 2016 UNC Charlotte and Light Factory Portfolio Review, Charlotte, NC.
Professional Organizations: Center for Photography at Woodstock - Member College Arts Association (CAA) - Member Houston Center for Photography - Member Society of Photographic Education (SPE) – Member Fountain of Pythons Artist Collective – Member Gallery 145 – Co-Founder Mall Pretzel – Co-Founder In-Sight Photography Project – Member of the Board of Directors