Visual artist MARIANNE BARCELLONA was born in Buffalo, New York, and  grew up in Dallas,Texas. After earning her B.A. in Studio Art at Oberlin  College in 1966, she moved to New York City to study at The New York  Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. In the late 60’s she  shifted her focus to photography, and for 30 years managed a successful  career as a freelance editorial photographer, traveling the globe on  assignments for major international magazines, humanitarian  organizations and Fortune 500 corporations. In the late 1990’s she  decided to “get back on the painting horse” and returned to The New York  Studio School to earn a Certificate in Painting. Since then, she has  managed dual careers in both photography and painting, with the emphasis  on painting.

Barcellona’s work has been included in over 100 exhibitions, and she has  been awarded Fellowships at over 10 internationally-renowned Artist  Residencies. She has taught professional, intensive drawing and  landscape collage workshops in Montana, Canada, and Iceland, and been  invited for ten consecutive years to present Visiting Artist Master  Classes to Harvard’s incoming freshmen as part of their Freshman Arts  Program.

Barcellona travels as much as possible to the landscapes that provide  the inspiration for her paintings and collages. She lives in Manhattan,  and maintains a studio in Long Island City