Marcie Begleiter is an inter-media artist whose work explores the edges of highly stressed bio-systems. “Chimera: the Future of Nature”, a series of films, photographs and sculptures, is being created in rural sites on the Pacific Rim’s Ring of Fire. An upcoming solo show at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art will feature work from this series.
In 2024, she curated “Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art,” part of the Getty Institute’s PST “Art & Science Collide” program. Screenings of her short animations include festivals in Copenhagen, London, New York, and Mexico City. Group exhibits include CICA Museum, Seoul, Millennium Film Workshop, NY, The Praxis Center for Photography in Minneapolis, and UC Santa Barbara. Residencies at the Banff Center, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and PLAYA Summer Lake. The National Endowment for the Arts, LA Contemporary Exhibitions, the Foundation for Art Resources, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle have provided funding for this work
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, it was featured on PBS’ American Masters. She was the Founding Director of the Integrated Learning Program at Otis College of Art, Associate Professor at Art Center College of Design and a founding faculty member of the International Filmschule in Köln, Germany.
