I'm excited to be tasked with creating a book from sections of a Rainbow Flag retired from the Castro in San Francisco, donated to the Hand Bookbinders of California, and distributed to artists. See all of the artist's books created from it at
American Bookbinding Museum
355 Clementina, SF
May 17-August 23, 2025

Center for Photographic Art 2025 Members' Juried Exhibition
Juror: Allie Haeusslein, Director, Pier 24 Photography
Exhibition Dates: March 29 – May 4, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, March 29, 4:00 – 6:00pm
Reception, walk-through, and awards with Juror Allie Haeusslein

Please join us as we celebrate the winning photographs from the 2025 Members' Juried Exhibition! Our juror selected 45 images for the gallery exhibition from over 2,400 entries submitted by photographers throughout the United States and abroad.
A catalog of the gallery exhibition and online images will be available for purchase.
Center for Photographic Art

ART KALA 2025 Exhibition and Auction
51st Anniversary Party & Live Auction Auction April 26, 6-9
2990 San Pablo
Berkeley, CA

Mary V. Marsh: Reading the Landscape
My cautionary response to a reading of the current landscape of news and media systems through prints and artist’s books. Newspaper-like artist's books letterpress printed with linoleum and handset type are a critical contrast to continually updated screens. Photopolymer intaglio prints and books of cell towers disguised as trees show a view of our environment with a future nostalgia.

Feb 1 - March 14, 2025
Visit by appt. Mon, Wed, Fri, 1-5
cheryl.coon@missioncollege.edu

Vargas Gallery
Mission College
Gillmor Center Art Annex
3000 Mission Campus Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Campus Map

Letter from the Network
Berkeley Art Center
Saturday May 25, opening 2-5 - Saturday July 6th
jurors: PJ Gubatina Policarpio and Juan Omar Rodriguez

CODEX IX International Book Arts Fair

Quite Contrary Press Table W26
Tony Bellaver & Mary V. Marsh

Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
10 10th Street, Oakland near Lake Merritt BART
Feb 4-7, 2024
Sun Feb 4, 12:30-5:30
Mon Feb 5, 1:00-6:00
Tue Feb 6, 1:00-6:00
Wed Feb 7, 10:00-3:00
$15

MonoVariations

January 13 - Feb 17, 2024
Opening Saturday January 13, 7-9

Arc Gallery
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

A California Society of Printmakers exhibition juried by Michelle Edelman of TINT Gallery

Brand 51: Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper
I'm pleased to have my book Here/Hear included in this show of works on paper juried by Ara Oshagan.
Opening event Saturday July 8, 2023

The Brand Art Library & Art Center
1601 West Mountain Street
Glendale, CA 91201

New Impressions
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
April 21-July 29, 2023
I am thrilled to have won the Director's Cut Award! This is a wonderful selection of innovative letterpress prints from around the world. View the works online, order the catalog.
Two Rivers, WI

Artists in Conversation
Tony Bellaver & Mary V. Marsh

Tony and I gave a presentation on our artist's books at Chung 24 Gallery in Noe Valley. Tony's book "In the Absence" is included in the current show, Touchstone, curated by Irene Imfeld, featuring landscape photography, and gallery director Diane Chung invited us to be Artists in Conversation.
We had a great time talking about ways that we collaborate in making our art, and some of the photographic processes that we use.
Big thanks to Jeff Heyman for this great photo!
May 6, 2023
Chung 24 Gallery
4071 24th Street
San Francisco 94114

Positively Charged : Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s
curated by Maymanah Farhat and Jennie Hinchcliff
This exhibition at two venues explores the history of some of the creative hubs and artists through the lens of the copier art they produced. I look forward to this look back at what was going on when I first moved to San Francisco and discovered Postcard Palace, a nexus of copier art and artists.

San Francisco Public Library
6th floor Skylight Gallery
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Books Against The Wall
Peninsula Museum of Art
Work by Zach Clark, Sarah Klein, Mary V. Marsh, Andy Rottner and Lorna Stevens.

Five Bay Area artists have translated their book works to mixed media objects and multimedia projects. The results challenge the viewer to consider the book as print, sculpture, animation, or electronic game. Some pieces share the process used in creating it, while others expand a concept by presenting it in a new format, broadening and enhancing our notions of what a book can be and do.

The Daily Journal

Peninsula Museum of Art
Space 204, Tanforan Shopping Center
1188 El Camino Real
San Bruno, CA 94066

Ideal Engagements: A Risograph Portfolio
Zach Clark at Chute Studio produced Risograph prints with 15 artists from the California Society of Printmakers during the summer and fall of 2021. I was excited to work with Zach to make "are you going somewhere". Portfolios are available for acquisition.

Ideal Engagements

The Art of the Book
This annual show will include Here/Hear: Meta Data Mining, a new artist's book by Mary V. Marsh, and Resource Extraction and What's Left Behind, a portfolio of Platinum/Palladium prints, and artist's book Anthropocene, by Tony Bellaver.
April 23-May 29

Seager Gray Gallery
108 Throckmorton Avenue
Mill Valley, CA

I am so pleased to have
HAND BOOK : A Post-Pandemic Manual
available with all of the Small Plates books, in the online
store and at
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island, San Francisco

I'm pleased to have two books in the Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Art Library. Even though it closed, The Digital Library contains 25,019 complete scanned contributions to The Sketchbook Project.

Manual: A HAND BOOK: No Touching

This is Not What it Seems: This is What I See

Between Here & Now
An installation about reading with rubbings from the surrounding streets as evidence of here, and linoleum cuts on book pages and hands holding books to suggest journeys in the mind experienced now. Viewable at any time, it is on Milvia, a Bicycle Boulevard.
March 20-October 17, 2021

Read Here Now event August 26, 5-7
Collecting stories about a book that you read, and when you remember it you think about where you were when you read it. Meet at the window to write your memory on a letterpress printed postcard for you to keep. Send a photo of the card, or just the story to mary@mvmarsh.com

Milvia/Addison Windows, Kala Art Institute
2100 Addison
Berkeley, CA

Read Here Now
Do you have a memory of reading a book, a story that you always associate with where you were, and what you were doing while reading it? While making my window installation Between Here & Now, I was thinking about this idea of experiencing both my physical location and the world in my mind at the same time.
contribute a memory about reading
Print out and write down a memory you have of reading a book that always reminds you of where you were when you were reading it.
You can also color in the blank book to evoke the story or the place you remember. Please take a photo of each and email it to mary@mvmarsh.com. I will be sharing the stories on my instagram and compiling them into an artist's book.

I am so pleased to have one of my new Here/Hear prints included in the 2021 Berkeley Art Center juried show.

UPLIFT/HEAVY LIFT
curated by Thea Quiray Tagle
June 12- July 18
Saturday June 12 extended hours 10am-9pm

Berkeley Art Center
1275 Walnut Street,Berkeley, CA 94709
Wed-Sun 11am-5pm

Residency Projects: New Work by 2018-2019 Kala Fellows

I am so excited to share my new projects I've been working on at Kala!
Join me at the opening or let me know when I can meet you there.

Opening reception Thursday July 25, 6:00-8:30
through September 21, 2019
Kala Art Institute
2990 San Pablo
Berkeley

Kala Art Institute

Between here & there : each day a gift

City College Art Gallery
City College of San Francisco
Visual Arts Building v119

City College Art Gallery

reception Thursday, March 7, 5:00-7:00
gallery hours Mon 10-1, 4-4
Tues & Thurs 3-6
Wed 12:30-5
Fri 10-1

for a special treat, visit the amazing Diego Rivera mural, map and schedule here:
https://riveramural.org/visit