MARC HANDELMAN
B. 1975
Through paintings, installations, artists' books and other media, Marc Handelman’s work engages the afterlives of the genre of landscape. From the sustained imperial rhetoric of American landscape painting in corporate advertising, political branding, and white nationalist mythology, to the essentialization of the domain we call nature, Handelman's work explores the intimacy of aesthetics in the conditioning of knowledge and the legitimization of colonial and environmental violence.
Handelman received his MFA from Columbia University in New York. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States as well as internationally in venues such as The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Artists Space, New York; Grafikens Hus, Farsta, Sweden; The Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; The Royal Academy of Art, London; The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; The Rubin Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York.
Handelman has taught in the MFA Programs at Bard, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and Yale University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Painting at The Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University. In 2025, Handelman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as part of the Guggenheim Foundation’s 100th class of Fellows. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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