AMANDA MARCHAND is an award-winning, Canadian, NY-based photographer and educator. Her work uses an experimental approach to photography to explore the natural world and our changing climate.
Honors include: The 2024 Lensculture Art Awards Winner, 3rd place Series; The London Photography Awards 2024; the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards, 2023; The 2022 Silver List (Silver Eye Center for Photography and Carnegie Mellon); Medium Photo’s Second Sight Award 2021; Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass Top 50, 2021; the 2019 International LensCulture Art Awards, Winner - 3rd Place Series; Klompching Gallery’s FRESH 2019, Honorable Mention; “Curator's Choice - 2nd Place Winner,” CENTER’s Choice Awards 2015; and the San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Fellowship Award.
Marchand’s monographs include, This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (2024); Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again (2019); and Night Garden (2015), all published by Datz Press. She has also published the artist books: The World is Astonishing with You in it: A 21st Century Field Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers (2022); The Book of Hours (2018); Because the Sky (2017). Her series 415/514 was published by Edition One Studios (2009). Her early novel, without cease the earth faintly trembles (DC Books, 2003) was awarded "Critic's Pick" by NOW Magazine.
Marchand is a MacDowell Colony, Hermitage Artist Retreat, and Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow. Her photographs and books are among the collections of, The Getty Research Institute, San Jose Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, Stanford University Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Bolinas Art Museum. Her work has been published/reviewed in “The Marginalian,” “Lenscratch,” “ARTnews,” “lensculture,” “Fraction Magazine,” and “Aint’ Bad Magazine,” among others. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows, with a large upcoming exhibition at the Brandywine Museum of Art. A permanent installation of her work is at the MUHC Glen Hospital in Montreal. She is represented by Traywick Contemporary, Koslov Larsen, Rick Wester Fine Art, and through photo-eye Gallery’s Photographer’s Showcase. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her proudest creative achievement is being the mother of two boys.
