Martha Burgess is an interdisciplinary and visual artist working with installation, multimedia, and performance art. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, New York foundation For the Arts Fellow, and Jerome Foundation Media Arts Grantee. She is involved with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program and has worked as a part-time associate professor at Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology since 1998. She has held solo exhibitions at the Tatintsian Gallery (Chelsea) and Rice University Art Gallery (Houston), and had installations commissioned by Fotofest (Houston), the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, and local non-profit spaces including Exit Art, White Columns, Artists Space, Franklin Furnace, and MoMA PS1. She has also worked as a lecturer and panelist. In 2000 and 2001, she exhibited work surrounding the Krazy Kat cartoons as a part of her Ignatz’ Nose Travels in Still Life project.
Martha Burgess
Studios
New Hampshire
Martha Burgess worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…