Marcy Juran is a visual artist with a practice that includes photography, encaustic and handmade paper. Juran combines personal narratives with the natural environs of her native New England, exploring themes of myth, memory and legacy, often in relationship to botanical imagery. Her work in photography began at Cranbrook Academy of Art, as part of her graduate study in graphic design. Throughout her career in design, she collaborated with numerous photographers, creating award-winning work strongly grounded in photographic storytelling.
Her work has been recognized both internationally and in the US, and exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), and the Soho Photo Gallery (NY), as well as juried and invitational shows at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (ME), Sohn Fine Art (MA), the Center for Photographic Art (CA), the Davis Orton Gallery (NY), the SE Center for Photography (SC), PhotoPlace (VT), and the A Smith Gallery (TX), as well as many regional galleries in New England. In 2021, her body of work Family Passage was selected for honors in the exhibition 30 OVER 50 | In Context at the Center for Fine Art Photography (CO) by juror Arnika Dawkins, as well as being awarded First Place in the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Digital Manipulation & Collage (series). Her work has been published in the publications Fraction, Lenscratch and Don’t Take Pictures, and recently featured in OneTwelve and FRAMES. Her book, SALTMARSH SEASONS, was selected for inclusion in the Eighth Annual Self-published Photobook Show at the Davis Orton Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Juran holds an A.B. from Brown University, with a concentration in Studio Art, focused on printmaking, with additional studies in graphic design, printmaking, and photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Cranbrook, and Maine Media. She works from her studio in her century-old farmhouse in the coastal community of Westport, Connecticut, surrounded by towering oaks, maples and cedars, historic stone walls, native wildflowers, and an ever-changing vernal pond.
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Selected Exhibitions
Solo Shows, Invitational and Small Group Exhibitions
Behind the Lens, Select work from Myth Memory and Violets, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art, Providence RI, 2024
Traditional Painting Genres in Photography, select work from Humble Beauty, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland ME, 2023
International Portfolio Competition, solo, Humble Beauty, Soho Photo Gallery, New York NY 2023
RAC Masters, select work from Family Passage, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT, 2023
Re-Imagining, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield CT, 2023
The Flower Show, The Carriage Barn, New Canaan CT 2023
My Favorite Things | Still Life, select work from Humble Beauty,
The Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Passage Gallery, Boston MA, 2023
Humble Beauty, solo, The Cafe at Greisers, Easton CT, 2022
Imagined Gardens, solo, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Wincam Gallery, Winchester MA, 2022
Imagined Gardens, select work, Perspective, Sohn Fine Art, Lenox MA, 2021
Ten Year Retrospective Exhibition, The Gallery at Still River Editions, Danbury CT, 2021
Imagined Gardens, select work, International Mini-print Exhibition, Awagami, Tokushima Japan, 2019
Imagined Gardens, solo, The Gallery at Still River Editions, Danbury CT, 2019
Myth, Memory, and Violets, select work, Atelier 30, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, 2019
Soundtrack, solo, Community Gallery at FUSW, Hastings-on-Hudson, 2019
By a Thread, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT, 2016
Fire, Beechwood Arts, Westport CT, 2014
and then... Conversations in Photography and Fiber, solo, ARTWorks, Norwalk CT, 2014
Happenstance, solo, Framemakers Gallery, Bridgeport CT, 2014
Farm & Field, solo, Tavern on Main, Westport CT, 2013
Sea Sparks & Sky Writing, solo, Tavern on Main, Westport CT, 2012
Art on High, solo, Cafe at Wave Hill Breads, Norwalk CT, 2012
Juried Group Shows
2024
Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA
Juror: Catherine Couturier
Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Brian Wallis and Marina Chao, Center for Photography at Woodstock
From a Seed, NYC4PA, Juror: Lee Ann White
Breadth and Depth, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol RI
Juror: Karen Drysdale Harris
2023
Annual Juried Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
Juror: Carey Mack Weber, Fairfield University Museum
IMAGES, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Juror: Sean Kernan
Photography and Sculpture, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Hans Neleman
Spring Juried Show 2021, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Jill Sarver Rossi
122nd Juried Show, New Haven Paint and Clay, New Haven CT
Juror: Robert Burns, Mattatuck Museum
9th International Open Call, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence RI,
Juror: Paula Tognarelli
Camera Works, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Juror: Paula Tognarelli
Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Christina Zanetti, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
2022
Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA
Juror: Christa Dix
8th International Open Call, RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
Juror: Jessica Roscio
17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Center for Fine Art Photography, Barcelona
Jurors: Laura Ann Noble, Jennie Rickets
Color Theory, Lafayette Passage Gallery of the Griffin Museum, Boston MA
Juror: Crista Dix
2021
Once Upon a Time, Lafayette Passage Gallery of the Griffin Museum, Boston MA
Juror: Paula Tognarelli
2021 Alternative Processes Competition, SOHO Photo Gallery, New York NY
Juror: Paula Tognarelli
IMAGES Fall 2021, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Jurors: Stella Kramer, Archy LaSalle, Joseph Jurson
Autumn Juried Show 2021, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Ellen Hackl Fagan
27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA
Juror: Arnika Dawkins
34th Annual Members Only Show, Texas Photographic Society, Houston TX
Juror: Dan Burkeholder and Jill Skupin Burkeholder
Photography and Sculpture Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Deborah Hesse, Ely Center
Blue Skies, Don’t Take Pictures, online
Juror: Kat Kiernan
16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Center for Fine Art Photography, Barcelona
Jurors: Elizabeth Biondi, Barbara Davidson
2021 Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA
Juror: Susan Burnstine
Spring 2021, The Curated Fridge, Somerville MA
Juror: Jon Feinstein, Roula Seikaly, Humble Arts Foundation
Spectrum - Ode to Color, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Laurie Weitzner
Spring Juried Show 2021, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Cybele Malone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
IMAGES, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Jurors: J Sybylla Smith, Kristi Odom, Johnnie Chatman
30 OVER 50 | In Context, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO
Juror: Arnika Dawkins
Digits | A Parallel Universe, Lafayette Passage Gallery of the Griffin Museum, Boston MA
Juror: Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
Memory, SE Center for Photography, Greenville SC
Juror: Fran Foreman
Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Kathryn McCarver Root - KMR Arts
Perspective, Sohn Fine Art, Lenox MA
Juror: Cassandra Sohn
Botanical, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT
Juror: Lee Anne White
2020
Autumn Juried Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Kristin Peterson Edwards
View From Here, Don’t Take Pictures, online
Juror: Kat Kiernan
Wish You Were Here, Still River Editions, Danbury CT
Juror: Lys Guillorn
From A Seed, NY, New York Center for Photographic Art, New York NY
Juror: Aline Smithson
Sixth Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY
Juror: Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
IMAGES, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Jurors: Sean Kernan, Jessica Roscio, Danforth Museum, Framingham MA, and Ron Rosenberg
Spectrum, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Jurors: Kristin Peterson Edwards, Independent Curator, and Danielle Ogden, Fairfield University, Fairfield CT
Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Stephen Wilkes
Small Works, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City TX
Juror: Kevin Tully
2019
Fifth Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY
Juror: Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
IMAGES, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Jurors: James Welling - UCLA, David DeMelim - RI Center for Photographic Arts,
Mary Frey - Hartford Art School
Primary Source, Lafayette Passage Gallery of the Griffin Museum, Boston MA
Juror: Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
Juried Members Show - Online, Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
Juror: Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
Mother Tongue, Lafayette Passage Gallery of the Griffin Museum, Boston MA
Juror: Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
The Krappy Camera Show, SOHO Photo Gallery, New York NY
Juror: Michelle Bates
2018
41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Juror: Denise Bibro, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York NY
Summer 2018, The Curated Fridge, Somerville MA
Juror: Ann Jastrab - Independent Curator
Fourth Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY
Juror: Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
IMAGES, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Jurors: Paula Tognarelli, The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
Spectrum, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Hilary Lewis - the Glass House, New Canaan CT
8th Annual Self-published Photo Book Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA
Jurors: Karen Davis - Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY and Paula Tognarelli -The Griffin Museum
2017
8th Annual Self-published Photo Book Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY
Jurors: Karen Davis - Davis Orton Gallery and Paula Tognarelli - The Griffin Museum, Winchester MA
Expressions, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
40th Annual Juried Exhibition, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT,
Juror - Lisa Hayes Williams - New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain CT
Inspiration, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Spectrum|Black and White, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Adrienne Ruger Contzelman - Independent curator
Cameraworks, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Juror: Rebecca Robertson - PDN
Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Laurie Kratchovil - Independent Curator
Juried Members Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Juror: Helen Kauder - Art Space, New Haven
2016
Expressions, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Sue Brown Gordon - Independent Curator
Inspiration, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
IMAGES, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Jurors: Paul Stetzer - SOHO Photo Gallery, Frances Jakubek - The Griffin Museum of Photography,
Robert Califiore - Hartford Art School
Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Jan Nagle - Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock NY
2015
Inspiration, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Robert Gurbo, Curator of the Andre Kertesz Foundation
Cameraworks, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Juror: Cynthia Young - International Center for Photography, New York NY
IMAGES, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT
Jurors: Kat Kiernan - Don’t take Pictures, Jason Landry - Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA
Photography and Sculpture Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juried Members Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Juror: Robin Zella - Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport CT
2014
Members Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Juror: Laura Einstein - Independent Curator
113th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, New Haven CT
Juror: Douglas Hyland, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain CT
Spectrum, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
Juror: Anne von Stuelpnagel - Bruce Museum, Greenwich CT
2013
Members Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Expressions, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Juror: Alex McFarlane - Silvermine Arts Center, Norwalk CT
Inside Out, Kershner Gallery, Fairfield CT
Art About Town, Westport CT
2006 to 2012
Foodies, Westport Arts Center, Westport CT, 2012
Art About Town, Westport CT, 2012
Expressions, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT, 2012
Expressions, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT, 2011
Annual Juried Show, Art Society of Old Greenwich, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich CT, 2007
Flower Power, Women’s Caucus for Art, Bridgeport CT, 2006
Air Earth Fire Water, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT, 2006
Selected Awards
2022
Honorable Mention, Still Life (series), 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards,
“Humble Beauty”
Honorable Mention, Landscapes & Seascapes (single), 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2021
Honorable Mention, IMAGES Fall 2021, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford CT, “ Husk Cherries”
1st Place, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards,
“Family Passage”
3rd Place, Nature (series), 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, “Imagined Gardens”
Honorable Mention, 30 OVER 50 | In Context, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO,
“Family Passaage”
2020:
Best in Show - Autumn Juried Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Third Place - From A Seed, New York Center for Photographic Art, New York NY
Juror’s Award - Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
2019:
Third Place - Mixed Media - Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
2018:
Honorable Mention - 41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Honorable Mention - Photography; Photography and Sculpture Show, Rowayton Arts Center,
Rowayton CT
2017:
Second Place - Mixed Media; Expressions, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
2015:
Third Place - Photography; Marine and Coastal Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
Third Place - Camera Works, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Third Place - Photography; Photography & Sculpture Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
2014:
Honorable Mention - Photography; Members Juried Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield CT
Second Place - Photography; Community Sponsored All Media, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
2013:
Second Place - Photography; All Island Art Show, The Tabernacle, Oak Bluffs, MA
2012:
Third Place - Mixed Media; Beyond Brushwork, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT
Second Place - Photography; Photography and Sculpture Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
2011:
Second Place - Photography; Photography and Sculpture Show, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
2007:
Third Place - Photography; Annual Juried Show, Art Society of Old Greenwich,
Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2006
Second Place, Photography; Air Earth Fire Water, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton CT
First Place, Mixed Media; Prints, Pastels, Mixed Media, Computer Art, Rowayton Arts Center
Education
Brown University AB, Concentration in Studio Art
Rhode Island School of Design Studies in Graphic Design
Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Study in Graphic Design and Photography
Sacred Heart University MAT, specialization in elementary technology