Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Marion Belanger

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Guilford, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001

Marion Belanger is a photographer and educator based in Connecticut. She is the recipient of a numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, an American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund at Harvard University, an Artist Resource Trust Grant, and artist fellowship grants from the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. The artist is 2016 nominee for both the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography and the Prix Pictet Award. Radius Books will release her new volume Rift/Fault in November 2016.

Portrait by Ann Daly

Studios

Nef

Marion Belanger worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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