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  • Flinn Gallery, Group Exhibition with Liz Nielson, Joanne Dugan, Anne Arden McDonald - “Camera-less.” Grennwich, CT, January 16 - March 5, 2025

  • Penland Center for Craft - Plant-based Workshop (with Leah Sobsey), NC, May 25-30

  • Brandywine Museum Exhibition, This Earthen Door, Chadds Ford, PA, Spring-Summer 2025

  • “Dickinson and Ecologies” Lecture, The International Emily Dickinson Society Conference, Taipei, June 2024

2024

  • Lenscratch 1st Place Award Winner - Art & Science Competition, “This Earthen Door”

  • 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona Foto 8th Biennale, Nov 1-Dec 1 2024, opening Nov 21, 7-9pm

  • Paris Photo Book Signing with Datz Press, 3 pm, Sat Nov 9, 2024

  • Paris Photo Artist Talk with The Eyes, “This Earthen Door,” 4 pm, Sat Nov 9, 2024

  • Fusion Flare Heat, Rick Wester Fine Art - group exhibition, Nov 7-Dec 21

  • PhotoEye review, “This Earthen Door,” Cheryl Van Hooven, Oct. 28

  • Lenscratch interview, Leah Sobsey and Amanda Marchand: This Earthen Door, Oct 21

  • LensCulture review, This Earthen Door — Sublime Anthotypes, Preserved Plants & Poetry, Book Review, Janelle Lynch, September 17, 2024.

  • Earthly Delights, Group Exhibition, Koslov Larsen, Sept 6-Oct 18, opening Sept 6

  • The Arithmetics of Distance, Solo Show, Traywick Contemporary, Berkely CA, July 13 - Sept 14, Artist opening July 20, 4-6pm

  • San Francisco Art Book Fair, This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium - Book Launch/Signing, July 20, 1pm

  • Center for Photographic Art, Online Artist Talk and Book Launch - Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey, Wed July 10, 7pm EST

  • Datz Museum of Art - Artist Residency, Spring 2024

  • D’Ark Room Artist Talk - Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium and Plant-based Photographs, May 17 6pm, Seoul.

  • Anthotype Workshop: Recording my garden, flowers. Datz Museum of Art, May 11-12 with Leah Sobsey

  • London Photography Awards, Honorable Mention - Fine Art Photography Series, “Re: Touch the Arithmetics of Distance”

  • The Inspired Art of the Photo Book, Lecture - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch reading room, John Flaxman Library, 5pm, April 5, 2024

  • Ghost Flowers: Leah Sobsey and Amanda Marchand Interviewed by Marta Werner, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, © 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press

  • AIPAD - Lensculture Awards Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, (Opening April 26, 5-7pm), Chelsea, NYC

  • Rick Wester Fine Art, “Invincible Summer” Group exhibition, Jan 6-Feb 10

  • Lensculture Awards Winner 3rd Place - Photographic series, “Re: Touch the Arithmetics of Distance”

  • Codex Papers, “Press On” by Amanda Marchand, published essay, Spring 2023

  • Insight/Insite 20/20 exhibition curated by PhotoAlliance, Bolinas Museum, Feb 3-March 31 2024, CA

  • Penland Center for Arts and Crafts - Winter Residency, Spruce Pine, NC, January

  • Invincible Summer, Group Show, Rick Wester Fine Art, through Feb 2024

2023

  • 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: “Re: Touch the Arithmetics of Distance” was awarded Honorable Mention for ‘Fine Art Series’

  • This Earthen Door - An Interdisciplinary Project, Exhibition the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Nov 1 - May 30, 2024

  • New. Now. Traywick Contemporary 25th Anniversary Show. Berkeley, CA. Sept 30 - Jan 10.

  • Photofairs NYC, “This Earthen Door,” Rick Wester Fine Art, collaboration with Leah Sobsey, Sept 6-10. Artist Talk 4:30 pm Sept 7.

  • “Insight/ Incite 20/20” PhotoAlliance 20th Anniversary Portfolio Launch, Haines Gallery, SF, August 25 - 20th Anniversary Portfolio Box with the work of 20 contemporary photographers - printed image from Re: Touch series

  • Datz Press: Global Voices in Contemporary Photobooks, San Francisco Center for the Book, July 15-Oct 1

  • “Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium,” Artist Presentation, Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, with Leah Sobsey, Marta MacDowell, Peter Grima, Amhurst, July 22

  • “Emily Dickinson and This Earthen Door,” Presentation - Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, with Leah Sobsey, Marta Werner, Jen Bervin, The New School, NYC, June 1-3, 2023

  • F22 Fine Art Prints, Chicago - “Coastal Wood Fern” print release, May 2023

  • Portals to Abstraction, Foto Relevance and Kinzelman Art Consulting, group exhibition with artists Deborah Bay and Brenda Biondo, through July 28, Energy Center Lobby, Houston.

  • Cassilhaus Artist Residency, North Carolina, May 2, 2023

  • Lumiere Photo, Artist Talk, Instagram Live, April 25, 2023

  • The Kite Prize, an international contemporary art award, Honorable Mention, PA, USA

  • Performing the Photobook, Format23 International Photography Festival, Derby UK, March 16-April 6

  • Exhibition PhotoBookWorks 2023, Spark Gallery with Abecedarian Artists Books, Denver CO, Feb-March 2023

  • Cameraless Photography Now, Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington, February 16–July 9, 2023

  • What’s Up? Pop Up, Rick Wester Fine Art, Chelsea NY, February 4 - 18, 2023

  • Penland Center for Arts and Crafts - Winter Residency, Spruce Pine, NC, January 2023

2022

  • Paris Photo with Datz Press, Nov 2022 - book signing

  • Mother’s Milk Artist Residency, Kansas, Sept 2022

  • “Upending Photography,” San Diego Design Week - Zoom Conversation with Amanda Marchand and Curator, Kevin Miller, Sept 23, 1pm PST

  • Monira Foundation Residency Finalist, NJ

  • Keep the Chanel Open Podcast Interview with Mike Sakasagawa, August 31

  • PhotoBook Journal, The World is Astonishing Book Review, by Douglas Stockdale, August 22

  • Traywick Contemporary 25h Anniversary Fundraiser, Artist Folio Edition, August

  • Foto Relevance, Lumen Notebook, solo show, Houston May-July 2022

  • The Wise Fool Podcast “Retrospective” - 10-part series on MFA programs

  • Second Sight Award Lecture, San Diego CA, 9:30 a.m. PST, May 7, 2022

  • Medium Photo Festival Book Signing, noon PST, May 7

  • PhotoAlliance Eco Symposium, Featured Eco-Artists Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, “This Earthen Door” video presentation, Saturday, April 23

  • Codex Art Book Fair, Richmond CA, April 10-14, 2022

  • Second printing - “The World is Astonishing with You in it: A 21st Century Field Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers,” Spring 2022

  • The 2022 Silver List: “47 Extraordinary Photographers Complied by Leading Curators, Scholars and Critics” - Silver Eye Center for Photography and Carnegie Mellon University

  • Medium Photo Collector’s Print edition - Second Sight Award, Group f.16. 2022

  • Penland School of Craft Artist Residency, North Carolina, January 2022

  • Analogue Forever Magazine selected “The World is Astonishing…” as one of the Top 10 projects at this year’s Critical Mass Awards

2021

  • New. Recent. 25th Anniversary show, Traywick Contemporary Nov 18, 2021 - Jan 15, 2022

  • Center for Photographic Art, Juried Exhibition 2021, Carmel, CA Nov 20-Dec 30

  • Lishui Art Museum “HUMAN/NATURE,” Exhibition (and online artist talk Nov 21, 9pm EST) Lishui, China, Nov 2021

  • Second Sight Award, winner, Medium Photo, San Diego

  • Critical Mass Top 50, Photo Lucida

  • Love, Devotion, Surrender, Dedication, summer show, Rick Wester Fine Art, Chelsea, NY July 15- Sept 10

  • Lumen Circle IV sitting, Ivry Sur Le Lac, Canada, August 4

  • Reclamation: Artist Books on the Environment, San Francisco Center for the Book and the SF Public Library, June - Sept

  • Artist Book, The Word is Astonishing with You in it: A 21st Century Field Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers (Pocket Version), May

  • Fraction Magazine Issue 144, April

  • Book of the Week: PhotoEye Blog, “Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again,” March 8

  • Parallax/Geography, Institute for Contemporary Art at MECA, Maine, Artist zoom talk led by Julie Poitras Santos, Feb 11, 5:30pm EST.

  • Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair - Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again, Datz Press - Feb 24-28

  • Virtual celebration and walk-through of Bay Area Current(ly) exhibition, Jan 17, 2pm Pacific (register at PhotoAlliance)

  • The Bakery Photo Collective - Zoom Lecture, January

  • Parallax/Geography, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Maine, group exhibition with Amanda Marchand, Tad Beck, Elizabeth Atterbury, and Sage Lewis, January 15 - Feb 28

  • PhotoFairs Shanghai, “Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again,” featured with other Datz Press titles in “Photofairs Presents: The Photo Book,” Jan 13- February 28

  • The World is Astonishing - Solo Show, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA - Nov 12, 2020 - Jan 9, 2021. See the show in person or schedule a person to person virtual walkthrough through the gallery website.

  • The Bakery Photo Collective Virtual artist talk/ exhibition walkthrough with Amanda Marchand, Jan 7, 7pm Pacific. Sign up at the Bakery Photo Collective website

  • Bay Area Current(ly) online group exhibition with Phototalliance, juried by Binh Danh, Ann Jastrab, and Chris Johnson, Dec 2020- Jan 2021

2020

  • Art Watch Radio Podcast WCHE 1520, with Amie Potsic - Dec. 23, 2020

  • The Best of Lensculture, Vol 4, Schilt Publishing, Dec 2020

  • Ain’t Bad Magazine, “What We’ve Found: Inktober,” October

  • PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2020, ‘Honorable Mention”

  • Print acquisition BKL Law Firm, South Korea

  • PhotoAlliance SF - Featured Photographer, Re:Touch, the Arithmetics of Distance, July 25, 2020

  • Art Off-Screen curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, international exhibition of art in outward-facing locations, August 15 - Sept 26, 2020

  • Walkthrough Wednesday Studio Visit with Traywick Contemporary, public zoom talk, July 22

  • Art Podcast, The Wise Fool, Episode 85, July 2020

  • Bartur Photo Award - Shortlist

2019

2018

  • Because the Sky will be exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery, in the 9th Annual Self-Pubished Photobooks Show, Hudson, NY, Dec 1- Dec 23rd, 2018 (Reception Sat Dec 1 from 1-3pm).

  • Magazine Gitz, Issue 10, "Process and Attitude," features The Book of Hours and True North.

  • The Book of Hours and True North were exhibited at D'Ark Room, Seoul, Korea, 2018.

  • True North and The Book of Hours are featured on Lenscratch by Julia Bennett, July 26, 2018.

  • dART International Magazine: Amanda Marchand's work was selected as TOP 10 at this year's Miami Art Fair. "Picking Cherries in Miami: Top Ten at the Miami Art Fairs," by Gae Savannah, June 2018.

  • A selection of images from "True North" will be on view in the exhibition, "Here, Now" at Datz Museum of Art, July - Sept, 2018, Seoul, Korea.

  • East Bay Monthly, review "Northern Light Caught in Finnish Landscape Photos," by DeWitt Chang, April 2018.

  • Amanda Marchand was awarded a residency at Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Maine, September 2018

  • "Whenever You'll Try, I'll be There," from the series, "True North" won Honorable Mention at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts 12th Annual Exhibition. It will be on view there through the month of May, 2018, Reading, PA.

  • The Book of Hours is a new artist book! Accordion fold, edition of 25, 5x5 inches with one archival collector's print, $150.00; March 2018.

  • True North, solo show at Traywick Contemporary, opens March 3 (opening 2-5pm) through May 19, 2018.

  • Amanda Marchand will be a reviewer at the 2018 PhotoAlliance "Our World Portfolio Review." She will be giving a pop-up lecture on Artist Residencies at noon on March 10. The San Francisco Art Institute, March 9-11

  • Marchand will be an artist fellow again at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Sarasota, Florida, Feb 2018.

  • At the Violet Hour, a group show in conjunction with Turner Contemporary and inspired by T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland." The exhibition re-animates the empty rooms, liminal spaces and grounds of the Grade II, Nayland Rock Hotel in Margate, England, where Eliot wrote the poem. David Buckley, Emma Critchley, Simon Foxall, Wolfgang Tillmans, Amanda Marchand, Darren Goddal, Susi Hamilton, Derek Jarman, Paul Knight, Victoria Lucas, Jay Rechsteiner, Lindsay Segall, Shaun Stamp, Katie Surridge, Sally Waterman, Chiara Willaims. Curated by Chiara Williams and Shaun Stamp, Feb 2 - March 11 2018.

2017

  • Cultivated Nature, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA, 2017

  • PULSE Miami Art Fair Traywick Contemporary, Booth #203 in the North Tent, with artists Amanda Marchand, Diana Guerro Macia, Benicia Gantner, Steuart Pittman, and Dhara Strasser MacColl. Dec 7-10, 2017.

  • MUHC Glen Hospital - A permanent installation of Marchand's Night Garden and Because the Sky series on view on the women's oncology floor, C8, Montreal, QC, starting August 2017.

  • Night Garden will be featured with other Datz Press titles at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, Sat Sept 22-24, MoMA PS1, Queen's.

  • Neverending Summer, Traywick Contemporary, Group Show, Berkeley, CA, June- August.

  • A New Nothing, follow the evolving photography conversation between Amanda Marchand and Paula McCartney here.

  • Lumen II: from "The Lumen Project". This collaborative art piece will take place on the beach at the Hermitage at 2:30pm. Manasota Key, FL, March 16, 2017. (Many thanks to the Hermitage for their help and support.)

  • Marchand will be an artist fellow at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Sarasota, Florida, March 2017.

  • Art On Paper Fair with Traywick Contemporary - Marchand's work will be on view, Thu March 2-5, Pier 36, Manhattan.

  • Codex Art Book Fair, book launch, "Because the Sky," with thanks to Datz Press for their table, Feb 5, 2017.

  • Lumen I: Amanda created a large-scale "sun-print" with several dozen participants for Traywick Contemporary's year of 20th anniversary artist events, in conjunction with PhotoAlliance at the San Francisco Art Institute. "Lumen I," is a communal project which brings people together through stillness and meditation as a response to our turbulent times, Feb 4, 2017.

2016

  • Amanda's work, "Because the Sky" was juried into the SFAI Alumni Exhibition at the Diego Rivera Gallery by Yerba Buena curator, Katya Min, 800 Chestnut St. SF. Nov. 2016

  • Bakery IG takeover June 28- July 2 - follow @BakeryPhotoCollective.

  • Marchand will be giving an artist talk at The Bakery Photo Collective, "Life, Love, Lemons and Landscape," 7pm, June 30

  • Plus One, group show at Traywick Contemporary. The gallery's artists were asked to invite a "plus one", someone whose work inspired them or who had been important to their practice. Marchand chose artist, Jeanne Quinn, with whom she has collaborated twice. Opening June 11 from 3-5pm, runs through August 20, 2016

  • Marchand will be at the Studios at MASS MoCA artist residency program in North Adams, in conjunction with Assets For Artists, April 2016

  • Art On Paper Fair, Pier 36, NY - Traywick Contemporary will be showing "Night Garden" and more, March 3-6, 2016. Book Signing March 5 at 1pm

  • Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography's Artist Takeovers - follow Amanda Marchand's January, 2016 Instagram takeover here

  • Night Garden is now being featured at the Detroit Center for Photography. To see the book online go to, Pages.

2015

  • Read the Night Garden review in The San Francisco Chronicle/ SF Gate, by Jessica Zack, Dec 12, 2015

  • Amanda Marchand will be giving a talk at PhotoAlliance as part of their 14th annual Lecture Series, on November 6 at 7:00 pm, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut St.

  • Night Garden will be exhibited in a solo show at Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley CA, November 15, 2015 - January 16, 2016. Opening - Sunday, Nov 15, 3-5pm.

  • Night Garden book-signing at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, Sat Sept 19, 2pm, MoMA PS1, Datz Press, Booth N03.

  • A selection from Night Garden will be exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, in "Front Yard/ Back Street," September 18 thru December 13, 2015

  • Amanda Marchand was a resident at Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Maine, July-August, 2015

  • Night Garden was awarded Honorable Mention for The Center for Fine Art Photography's Center Forward 2015 Exhibition, June 2015

  • Save the Date! Night Garden Book Launch Party, Brooklyn, NY: Thursday June 11, from 7-9pm at Local 61 (61 Bergen Street @ Smith)

  • Night Garden was added to DODOOBA, an online exhibition platform of International work - Korea, May 2015

  • Night Garden is now a monograph - published in a hardcover edition of 300, by Datz Press, $70 each, May 2015. A Collector’s edition of 25 is available with a signed museum print.

  • Night Garden was awarded "Curator's Choice" in CENTRE's Choice Awards - awarded “Second Place” by Phillip Prodger, Curator of Photography, National Portrait Gallery, London, April 2015

  • Book launch party for Night Garden monograph: May 14, 2015 at Datz Museum, Seoul, Korea.

  • A selection from Night Garden will be exhibited at Datz Museum, Seoul, Korea, for the group exhibition, "Mind-scape", May 14-June 12, 2015.

  • A selection from Night Garden will be exhibited at Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the "Curve" exhibition, June 7- Sept 11, 2015.

  • Night Garden was featured in LENSCRATCH on April 21, 2015

  • Finland, January 2015: Amanda Marchand completed her residency in Haukijarvi, at the Arteles Creative Center. At this themed residency, Silence Awareness Existence, she was joined by the following artists from across the globe - Jacobo Alonso Leon, Caroline Anderson, Anastazia Louise Aranaga, Michael Terren, Shaun Stamp, Beth Sometimes, Tahlee Rouillon, Janet Long, and SSMIDD.

2014

  • Night Garden received a generous publishing grant from DogGone Foundation, Canada, Fall 2014.

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More

Follow the Night Garden back-story: The summer Night Garden e-postcards were active until Sept 15, 2012. To view, go to the Night Garden Blog

Marchand's 415/514 series were on view as part of the Cavallo Point Lodge Collection in Marin, CA. Cavallo's photography program provides a catalyst for thinking about the environment, specifically contemporary notions of landscape and ecology.

A hardcover publication of 415/514 was published by Edition One Books exclusively for Cavallo Point. A catalog illustrating Marchand's work alongside the work of twenty-one other participating artists, from Imogen Cunningham to Linda Connor, is also available.