Marie Lorenz

Marie Lorenz is a visual artist living in New York City. In her ongoing project, “The Tide and Current Taxi,”’ Lorenz takes participants through New York waterways in boats that she designs and builds, using tidal current to propel the boat. Recent solo exhibitions include Waterways at the Susanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College in Vermont; Ash Heap / Landfill at the Lupin Foundation Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Georgia; and Ezekia at Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn at The Contemporary in Austin, Texas.

Lorenz was recently awarded Creative Capital and National Endowment for the Arts Grants for an opera set and performed along the Newtown Creek in New York City. Other residencies and honors include the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize for the American Academy in Rome in 2008 and a Harpo Foundation grant for her exhibition at Locust Projects in Miami in 2011. Lorenz received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale. She is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in New York.