Amy Kaczur

Messages from the Marsh - parts 1-3, with A Rumble Inside, installation view, 2021-22. (Photograph by Will Howcroft)

Artist Bio

A Boston-based artist, producing video art for projection, installation and online, Amy Kaczur has lived and worked extensively in Boston, Cambridge, Long Beach and Los Angeles. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and she has participated in residency programs in California, Colorado, and New York.

Kaczur's work is grounded in environmental concerns, community, and language. The latest projects are fueled by a sense of urgency related to water issues, specifically coastal flood zones and rising sea levels. She grew up outside Cleveland, with family ties working in farming, food industry, mills, and coal mines in rural Southern Ohio to the edges of Appalachia. Those roots impacted her experience of landscape and environmental issues, and the multilayered struggles between land use and conservation. Along with examining these issues in her art practice, Kaczur works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as group administrator for two research labs focused on air and water pollution, climate change, and clean energy development and storage. She continuously develops her art practice, supported by relentless research, discovery by experiment, and the pleasure of inquisitive searching.

Kaczur holds an MFA from University of California, Irvine, and a BFA from Tufts University.

Work available on Artsy

 

Messages from the Marsh - parts 1-3 mixed with audio, A Rumble Inside, 3 mins, 2021-22.

Messages from the Marsh - part 1, 3 min, 2021.

Press + Media

Ogden, Claire. "Visualizing the Anthropocene: Kingston Artists Look Back and Forward" Kingston Blog, February 21, 2022.

Messages from the Marsh, Press Release, November 29, 2021

Newbery, Emma. "Exhibition Review: Repeat As Needed." Kingston Blog, August 9, 2020.

Costello, Jess. "Repeat as Needed: 5 Questions with 7 Kingston Gallery Artists from the Latest Exhibit." Boston Hassle, September 3, 2020.

Blog feature “Amy Kaczur, a video artist fueled by a sense of urgency in her work…” Studio C Gallery Blog, Albuquerque, NM. 2021.

“Perfect for a Year of Groundhog Days.” New England Diary, August 2, 2020.

"Re: Figuring the Body — Another Juror's Perspective: Mary Lang." Kingston Blog, July 24, 2019.

"Re:Figuring The Body (one curator's notes): Chantal Zakari." Kingston Blog, July 17, 2019.

Ruhiu, Kevin. "Went There: Re: Figuring the Body @ Kingston Gallery." Boston Hassle, July 12. 2019.

Krainak, Michael. “Universal Solvent.” The Reader, April 5, 2016.

Kingston Conversations

Ponnapa Prakkamakul and Amy Kaczur in conversation,  July 21, 2021.

AIDS and Covid-19:Art in the Time of Epidemics, April 15, 2020.

Exhibitions

Messages from the Marsh, January 26-February 27, 2022

Kingston Associates: Space Between, June 30-July 25, 2021

Kingston Associates: Repeat As Needed, July 29 -August 23, 2020

Re: Figuring the Body, July 3-August 11, 2019


Artsy

Confluence, group show on Artsy, May 1-May 31, 2022

Moving Images, group show on Artsy, March 1- 31, 2022

Heritage, group show on Artsy, September 29-October 31, 2021

Anthropocene Vegetations, group show on Artsy, September 1-28, 2021

Space Between, group show on Artsy, June 30-July 25, 2021

Troubled Landscapes, group show on Artsy, June 1-30, 2021

Repeat as Needed, group show in Artsy, July 29-August 23, 2020

Contact + Links

@amykaczur

http://www.amykaczur.com

https://vimeo.com/amykaczur