Marc Handelman - January 2025

Marc Handelman (he/him) is a visual artist and teacher, based in Brooklyn, New York. Often involving long-term research-oriented projects, Handelman’s work examines the aesthetics of state, colonial and imperial power in the afterlives of Landscape in contemporary life. His practice explores the ways the present is haunted, as through a ventriloquism of these images, tropes, and forms of rhetoric, so ingrained, so naturalized and so seemingly emptied out, that they appear nearly invisible. Through painting, in addition to artists’ books, installation and video, his work resurfaces these afterlives, critically exploring their ideological violence, as it reimagines different way of seeing, feeling, and thinking through Landscape and our entanglements within it. Handelman received his BFA in Painting from RISD and an MFA from Columbia University. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States as well as internationally in such venues as PS1 MoMA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Royal Academy of Art in London, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Portland Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rubin Museum, The Matsumoto City Museum of Art, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. Handelman is an Associate Professor at The Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York.

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