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Marcie Begleiter is a California-based artist whose work engages with stressed bio-systems. “Chimera: the Future of Nature” explores objects that are assembled from nature but not of it. The videos, sculptures and photographs are based on specific biomes, envisioning dramatic and unpredictable futures of flora and fungi.
Her projects have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Foundation for Art Resources and Germany’s Hamburger Kunsthalle. In 2024 she curated “Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art” at Wönzimer Gallery, LA, which was part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time “Art & Science Collide” program. Her work has been featured at the CICA Museum in Seoul, Korea, the Millennium Film Workshop in NY, the Center for Contemporary Art in Orange County, The Praxis Center for Photography in Minneapolis, and UC Santa Barbara. Residencies include the Banff Center for the Arts, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Cascade Head, Oregon and an upcoming residency in Takeo, Japan where she will continue the Chimera series with research at Mount Aso, Japan’s largest active volcano.
In 2015 The Whitney Museum premiered her film, “Eva Hesse”. The feature documentary is a portrait of the 1960s artist’s life and work and after a theatrical run in North America and Europe was broadcast on PBS’ American Masters. In academia she was Founding Director of the Integrated Learning Program at Otis College of Art, Associate Professor at Art Center College of Design in the film department and on the founding faculty of the International Filmschule in Köln, Germany.