Marion Belanger

Marion Belanger is a photographer who is interested in the concepts of persistence and change, and in the way that boundaries demarcate difference, particularly in regards to the land. She has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a John Anson Kittredge Award, an American Scandinavian Fellowship, and three Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships. She has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, at the Virginia Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and at Everglades National Park. She was the 2007 Photographer Laureate of Tampa, Florida. The artist earned a MFA from the Yale University School of Art where she was the recipient of the John Ferguson Weir Award as well as the Schickle-Collingwood Prize, and a BFA from the College of Art & Design at Alfred University. Her photographs are included in many permanent collections including the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Yale University of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography. A Guggenheim subvention grant supported her first book, Everglades: Outside and Within, released by the Center for American Places at Columbia College and the University of Georgia Press in 2009. She resides in Guilford, CT.