BIOGRAPHY


Marjorie Van Cura was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in central Massachusetts. She earned her BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She has had additional studies at the Worcester Art Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Van Cura has been based in New York City since 2002.


Van Cura is currently represented by Garvey | Simon New York, who recently presented her solo exhibition, Out of Line, at DFN Projects in New York (November 6 – December 6, 2024). Previous solo exhibitions for Van Cura were presented at Mohawk Valley College in Utica, NY (2007), Yes! Gallery in Brooklyn (2010), and Gibson Contemporary (2022).


Works by Van Cura have been included in group exhibitions at museums and institutions such as The Children’s Museum of Manhattan (2009), Contemporary Art Center in Peoria (2008, 2020), New York Center for Art & Media, Bethel University (2012), NYPOP Gallery, University of Massachusetts (2018), and University of Pennsylvania (2001, 2002, 2009).


In addition, her works have been presented in gallery group exhibitions, including Atlantic Gallery, Blue Mountain Gallery, Calico Brooklyn, Dutch Kills Gallery, Factory Fresh, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Outlet Brooklyn, The Painting Center, Patchogue Art Gallery, Plaxall Gallery, Scope New York and Storefront Bushwick. In 2022, artist and curator Michael Lee invited Van Cura to join his exhibition, Invisible Attraction, featuring 25 artists who were past participants in the Artist Lecture Series, a decades-long project Lee created with artists Christopher Schade and Zoe Pettijohn Schade.


In 2018, after ten years in her Greenpoint Brooklyn studio on Calyer Street, and five years at Reis Studios in Long Island City Queens, Van Cura joined Cornerstone Studios in Washington Heights, Manhattan. View her portfolio online: www.marjorievancura.com.


[Photo by Jeff Hoppa]