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.