Marie Lorenz

Associate Professor

Marie Lorenz is a visual artist whose work combines sculpture, printmaking, and environmental fieldwork. Since 2005, she has operated The Tide and Current Taxi, an ongoing project navigating New York Harbor in handmade boats propelled by the tide. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2024), the Centre for Contemporary Art, Montbéliard, France (2024), and forthcoming at Watershed Art and Ecology in Chicago (2025). Group exhibitions include Shifting Shorelines: Art, Politics, and the Environment (Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2024), and Women Reframe the American Landscape (Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2023). Lorenz is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Creative Capital Award (2021), the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2008), and multiple residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program (2017, 2024). Her collaborative floating opera Newtown Odyssey was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and premiered on Newtown Creek in Queens in 2023. Lorenz earned a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art. 

The Tide and Current Taxi off Governors Island, Photo Nicholas Weist (2106)

 

New Monoprints: Marie Lorenz, Undertow — Tandem Press New Editions, 2025

Wallach Art Gallery explores the history of the Hudson River in ‘Shifting Shorelines’ — Columbia Spectator, 2024

Confluence — Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Montbéliard, France, 2024

Ben McGrath, “Dystopian Sublime” — The New Yorker, October 2, 2023

Marie Lorenz, “Frottage, Takuhon, and the Gyotaku Methods” — Brooklyn Rail, 2022

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