Marie Alarcon

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2006 McNair Fellowship, The University of Chicago
2009 Art and Social Change Grant, The Leeway Foundation
2010 Flaherty Film Seminar Philadelphia Fellow
2011 Artist in Residence, 40th Street AIR

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2014 An Ocean Between the Waves, Franz Josephs KAi 3, Vienna Austria
2014 ICA 50, Pleasing Arts and Publics Since 1963, (collaboration with SWARM), The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Sonic Measures, Second Site performance, The Print Center, Philadelphia PA
2014 Bringing Down The Stars, Maas Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Falling Queens, (collaboration with Anna Martine Whitehead and Bare Teeth), AUNTS at Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Charles Adams Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Residency Reimagined, City Hall Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Banished (solo), AIR Space Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Other Worlds, Gallery 13w, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Mythological Archaeology, Monolithic Memory, (collaboration with OBJECTOBJECT), The Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2012 BYO Beamers, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Our Hearts Beat, Who’s Got Short Shorts, Sisters, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Antropofago, The Love Shack, Olympia, WA

SCREENINGS, PANELS & TALKS
2014 Myopia, The AfroFuturist Affair, “Black Holographic Memory; Workshops and Readings,” The A-Space, Philadelphia, PA
2014 “The Unintentional Object,” Lightning Lectures, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2013 “Rebirth of the Undead: African Diaspora, Fear, and Art,” Lightning Lectures, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA
2011 Brothers and Sisters, (co-producer), Precious Places, The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA
2010 El Centro De Oro, (co-producer), Precious Places, International House, Philadelphia, PA
2009 “Art as Cultural Anti-Missile: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Culture Bomb,” Globalism in Literature and Globalization: Post Colonial and Emergent Languages Panel, Activism and the Avant-Garde PRESS Literary Conference, Olympia, WA
2008 Freedom Country, Panel: Arab and Latino Connections. Border Dialogue Conference, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA