Marischa Slusarski is an interdisciplinary-artist whose individual and collaborative projects have evolved in form and medium over the years, resulting in a body of work that challenges traditional boundaries. She has pursued a successful gallery career exhibiting paintings, sculpture, photography and digital media in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Her work is represented in museums and institutions as well as in many private and public collections. She has been written about in numerous print and online publications and her artworks have been featured in film, television, theater and rock concert set design.
Slusarski has worked as a performer, teacher, body painter, toy designer and curator. She has been a production designer for film, an art director for dance performances, and an art therapy counselor for at-risk youth with mental health issues. Earlier in her career, she founded “Underbelly Gallery” in London’s Shoreditch gallery district, presenting exhibitions, installations, live performances, and video and film festivals. In 2009, she started the painting program for Children Mending Hearts, an art exchange organization between homeless children in the U.S. and the Congo. In 2010, she was nominated as one of 300 artists nationwide for the USA Artists Fellowship Grant. In 2014, she was awarded an artist-in-residence program at the prestigious New Space Arts Foundation in Hue, Vietnam. And in October of 2016, she collaborated with and studied at the Volunteer Artist’s Studio of Thimphu in Bhutan which is affiliated with the New Museum in New York City.
Also recently, Slusarski and collaborator Britt Ehringer, founded “Namaak Collective,” an internationally renowned group of artists who seek to expose the revolutionary new ways we perceive and access art in the digital age. Recent collaborations have included shows at C-Space Gallery in Beijing, China, LAUNCH Gallery in Los Angeles, and New Space Foundation in Hue, Vietnam.
Also recently, Slusarski curated “Electric Koolaid Banana,” a hybrid celebration of the revisitation of the psychotropic and psychedelic, featuring numerous prestigious artists at Merchant Gallery in Santa Monica. Currently, she is remotely teaching the Visual Arts Lab for “The Woolfer Community,” an app and a Facebook annex, which includes remote live model figure drawing and other activities.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Across The Floors of Silent Seas, Rio Hondo College, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Atlas, Launch LA Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2009 Child’s Play, Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, Palm Desert CA
2008 The Bruise of Human Contact, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007 Venice Art Walk, Victoria Studios, Venice CA
2005 On the Fringe, Victoria Studios, Los Angeles CA
2004 New Paintings, Air Space, Los Angeles CA
2003 Innies and Outies, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago IL
2001 Familiarity Breeds Contempt, Transit Space Gallery, London
2001 The Taxidermy Dioramas, Gallery 149, London
1999 The Hunter’s Dilemma, Robert Green Fine Arts, San Francisco CA
1998 Predicament of the Hunt, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1996 Infinite Embrace, Utopia Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1995 New Paintings, Anton Giddings Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands
1995 Company of Benevolent Freaks, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1993 New Paintings, B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1993 Heroes, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Qipo Art Fair 02, Claudia Huiza Presents, Mexico City
2020 2 Day Art Show, LSH Co-Lab, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Black Friday, d2 Art LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Electric Koolaid Banana, Merchant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 STILL, Merchant Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2018 L.A. Femme, A Female Group Show, Merchant Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2017 Looking Back, 10 Years of Photography, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2016 Group Show, Mario Romeno Wave House, Venice, California
2016 New Photographs, Marischa Slusarski, Marmol Radzner Achitecture, Venice, California
2015 Fashionistas Fight Back, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
2015 Bunnymania, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2015 Bunnymania, Chung King Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2014 35 Years, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 The Good Art, Merchant Modern, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Beijing Lollipop Show, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Namaak Collective, Launch LA Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2012 ArtPad SF, Robert Berman Gallery, San Francisco CA
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2011 Social Submidgets, Gagosian Junior Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Venice Re-naissance, 57 Market Street Gallery, Venice CA
2010 Evolution, BauRaum Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2008 The Hangover, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles CA
2008 What’s the Matter With Mommy, Salon Oblique, Los Angeles CA
2007 Supa Store, Elizabeth Paige Smith Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007 Family Garden, Elizabeth Paige Smith Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2004 Species, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago IL
2004 25th Anniversary Show, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2003 The New Plastics, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2002 A Thousand Clowns, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2001 Pause and Play, VTO Gallery, London England
2001 Self-Serve, Five Years, London England
2000 Erotica, Consortium Gallery, Venice CA
1999 California Drawin’, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1999 New Paintings, Half a Dozen Rose, Venice, CA
1998 Group Show, Linda Warren Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1998 Group Show, D-5 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1997 Brain Forest Tent, Lollapalooza Concert Tour, Statewide USA.
1997 Kunst Rai, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1996 Group Show, Anton Giddings Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands
1996 Holland Art Fair, Amsterdam Netherlands
1995 Art and Image ’95, Grote Kerke, Den Haag, Netherlands
1995 City of Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
1995 Santa Monica Auctions, Broadway Complex, Santa Monica CA
1995 Art and Image ’95, Grote Kerke, Den Haag, Netherlands
1995 City of Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
1995 Santa Monica Auctions, Broadway Complex, Santa Monica CA
Selected Corporate and Public Collections
Joie de Vivre Hotels, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Hawaii, Chicago
City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Flinkman Realty Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Color Ray Technology, Malibu, CA
Artepublishing Company, New York, NY
Hugh Lautner Levin Associates, Inc., New York, NY
LocalResponse, New York, NY
Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Belgium
Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Uncommon Knowledge, The Hoover Institute, Stanford, CA
Patricia Arquette, GiveLove Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Museum Shows and Collections
The Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Stanford University Art Museum, Palo Alto, CA
The National Museum of Animals and Society, Los Angeles, CA
Education and Residencies
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Colorado State University
Additional Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Additional Studies, Transit Space Photography, London
Ceramics, Rio Hondo College, Los Angeles
Residency, New Space Arts Foundation, Hue, Vietnam
Residency, Volunteer Artist’s Studio of Thimphu, Thimphu, Bhutan
Web
Instagram: @mslusarski
Instagram: @namaak collective
Twitter: @SlusarskiStudio
Twitter: @TeamNamaak
Print, Online, and Other Media
Shana Nys Dambrot, “Namaak Collective,” Whitehot Magazine, November 2013.
“Namaak Collective Opens First Exhibition in the US at Launch LA,” artdaily.org, July 2013.
Meagan Koester, “Namaak Collective: Atlas at LAUNCH LA,” fabrik.la, August 2013.
“Robert Berman Showcase, Marischa Slusarski,” Art LTD/West Coast Art + Design Magazine, January 2009.12-18.
“Marischa Slusarski,” Time Warner Cable television interview, Joan Quinn Profiles, November 2008.
“Don’t Miss (Art Picks), Marischa Slusarski – The Bruise of Human Contact,”
Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2007.
Shana Nys Dambrot, “The Bruise of Human Contact, Marischa Slusarski at the Robert Berman Gallery,” Cover Design #241 and review, Flavorpill LA, November 3, 2007.
“The Bruise of Human Contact,” The Argonaut Newspaper, October 18, 2007.
“Family Garden” – Elizabeth Paige Smith Gallery, Cover Design, Flavorpill LA, May 22-28, 2007.
“Venice is Art All the Time – Marischa Slusarski, On the Fringe,” Santa Monica Mirror, May 2005.
“Marischa Slusarski – Species,” Chicago Journal, September 2004. 10.
“Marischa Slusarski and Claire Barron Dead Rabbit”, Chicago Gallery News, September – December 2003. 30.
“Hot Picks, Galleries and Museums”, Marischa Slusarski and Claire Barron, “Gidget Goes to London”, Chicago Reader, September 2003 p. 31-33
“Familiarity Breeds Contempt,” UK Edition A-N Magazine for Artists,
June-July 2001. 16.
“Familiarity Breeds Contempt,” SX Magazine United Kingdom, London Exhibitions – Night Out, July 2001. 29.
Richard Berry, “A Dying Art,” TNT Magazine London, June 11, 2001. 24-25.
Tricia Cambron, “The Hunted,” Marin Independent Journal, September 1999. 3.
Stephen Lemons, “Home Is Where The Art Is,” New Times Los Angeles
September 9-15, 1999. 28.
“The Hunter’s Dilemma,” Gallery Guide-West Coast, March 1998. 22.
“Best of The Year (1996) – Marischa Slusarski at Utopia Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand,” Bangkok Metro Magazine, January 1997. Cover and p. 6.
“Marischa Slusarski at the Utopia Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand,” Asian Art News (Hong Kong) Exhibition Reviews, July-August 1996. 83.
Claire Barron “A Ride in the Vanished Forest,” Bangkok Post, May 11, 1996. 3.
Sompong Muensuttawong, “In Memory of Deer Departed,” Bangkok Metro Magazine, April 1996. 11.
“Holland Art Fair – Marischa Slusarski, Anton Gidding Gallery,” Kunstwerk
Art Media, Amsterdam, April 1996. 44