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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Fredrik Marsh
Bio
Fredrik Marsh was born in Quantico, Virginia; lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. He attended The Ohio State University, earning a BFA in Photography in 1980 and MFA in Printmaking in 1984. Recipient of a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, Marsh has also received fellowships from Arts Midwest/National Endowment of the Arts, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio Arts Council, and awarded Artist’s Project Grants from Ohio Arts Council, the Saxony Ministry for Science & Art, Dresden, Germany, and a 2002 GCAC/State of Saxony Artist Residency in Dresden, Germany. He was invited to participate in acePIRAR Artist-in-Residence International Program at Fundación´ace para el Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2024 and in 2025.
Marsh was included in the 2006 Houston FotoFest Discoveries of FotoFest exhibition; nominated anonymously for the 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers (administered by San Francisco Camerawork); and nominated by Rod Slemmons former Executive Director of Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago for the 2005 HCB Award (Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson). In 2007 he was commissioned by Curator of Photographs Alison Nördstrom and Director of Exhibitions Rick Hock of George Eastman House to produce work for the national traveling exhibition Landslide: Heroes of Horticulture. His work was included most notably in Two Views: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art in 2011, and the 2010 survey Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, at the Museum of Fine Art-Houston.
Marsh has exhibited his work nationally and internationally since 1978, most recently in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Woodstock, Cleveland, Houston, Zhengzhou (China), Odense (Denmark), Salzburg (Austria), and San Francisco. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museet for Fotokunst Brandts-Odense, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts–Houston, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Stiftung Moritzburg Kunstmuseum, Halle, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, and Toledo Museum of Art, among others.
Retired, Marsh taught photography at various colleges and universities since 1985, most recently for Columbus College of Art & Design, The Ohio State University, University of Georgia Studies Abroad in Cortona, Italy Program, and Otterbein University.