AMANDA MARCHAND is a Canadian-born, NY-based multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and author. A fascination with the historical and material processes of photography helps guide her investigations of the natural world and our changing climate. Her artworks and books focus on the universal themes of impermanence, grace, presence, and the curious slipstream of time.
Recent honors: Marchand has been awarded numerous residencies, fellowships, and grants including, recently: The Hunt Fellowship for Creative Research 2026 at Carnegie Mellon University; Kala 2025-26 Artist Residency; and a 2025 Canada Council Travel Grant. She is a MacDowell Colony, Hermitage, and Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow. She was awarded PhotoLucida’s Critical Mass TOP 50 (2025 and 2022), Lenscratch Art & Science Awards 2024 - 1st Place Winner; LensCulture Art Awards 2024 Winner (3rd place Series); 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.
Exhibitions and Publications: Marchand’s work has been exhibited extensively in international solo and group venues, including the Brandywine Museum of Art, PA; Datz Museum of Art, Korea; the Cummer Museum, Fla; the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, MO; the Eskenazi Museum of Art, IN; the MUHC Hospital, Canada; the Bolinas Art Museum, CA. Her work has been published in Harpers Magazine, The Washington Post, The Marginalian, Lenscratch, ARTnews, lensculture, Fraction Magazine, and Aint’ Bad Magazine. Her work is in the collections of The Getty Research Institute, the Brandywine Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, Stanford University Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Glen Hospital MUHC Collection, the Bolinas Art Museum, and the New York Public Library. She is represented by Traywick Contemporary, Rick Wester Fine Art, and Galerie XII.
Books: Marchand’s monographs include, This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (2024); Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again (2019); and Night Garden (2015) - Datz Press. Her artist books include, 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). 415/514 was published by Edition One Studios (2008). Her novel, without cease the earth faintly trembles (DC Books, 2003) was awarded "Critic's Pick" by NOW Magazine. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is the mother of two boys.
