2025

• Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY

2023

• Fulbright Scholar Award, New York, NY
• William and Grayce Mitchell Fund Award, Chicago, IL
• Villa Albertine Foundation: Chicagoland Seen Award, New York, NY
• Diversity Infusion Grant, Chicago, IL

2022

• Kosciuszko Research Grant, New York, NY
• IAS Artist Project Grant, Chicago, IL
• Faculty Enrichment Grant, Chicago, IL

2021

• Faculty Enrichment Grant, Chicago, IL

2020

• IAS Artist Project Grant, Chicago, IL

2013

• John Ferguson Weir Award, New Haven, CT

Bibliography

2023 - Goetz, Ralph, Szymanowicz, Maciej. Śląsk 1978–1983, City Museum in Tychy, Tychy Photography Club KRON

2023 - The Family, Exhibition Catalogue

2022 - Simmons, Laurie. Silent Face Projects, Sacrosanct 2022 Gavin, Francesca. Fundação de Serralves, The Art of Mushrooms

2022 - CPS Lives, Resilience: Chicago Public Schools in a Time of Quarantine, Exhibition Catalogue 2016 Weinberg/Newton, Your Body is a Battleground, Exhibition Catalogue

Image Publications

Print

• 2024 - Minder, Raphael. Financial Times, The wild catamarans of Gdańsk, October 20. Szalavitz, Maia. New York Times Opinion, Legal Weed Is Coming. May 20.
• 2020 - Ralph, Kaylen. Chicago Reader, “Gown Girl,” February 13.
• 2018 - Parks, Brit. Ether Mag, “Befit a Bee Sting,” June 13.
• 2018 - Alter, Charlotte. Time Magazine. “A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office,” January 18.
• 2017 - Alter, Charlotte. “‘It’s Like Having an Incurable Disease’: Inside the Fight Against Revenge Porn,” Time Magazine. June 10.
• 2017 - Eckardt, Steph. W Magazine, “Whitney Houston Biennial is not Messing Around,” March 2.

Press Coverage

Television

• 2022 - “High school artists' work on display at Navy Pier's first in-person international expo since 2019,” CBS News, April 11, 2022
• 2020 - “Prints for Hunger' raises money for Greater Chicago Food Depository,” Fox 32, Chicago, IL, July 9.
• 2020 - “Local photographers selling some of their best to help feed Chicagoans in need,” WGN9, July 8.

Online Publications

• 2024 - Minder, Raphael. Financial Times, The wild catamarans of Gdańsk, October 20. Goetz, Ralph , Szymanowicz, Maciej. Śląsk 1978–1983, City Museum in Tychy, Tychy Photography Club KRON
• 2021 - Der Greif, Guest room, BDP, Artist Feature of Marzena Abrahamik, Sep 08. https://dergreif.org/artist-feature/marzena-abrahamik/
• 2020 - Parker Yamasaki, “EXPO 2022: Special Exhibitions Inhabit the Periphery of the Art World” April 10. https://art.newcity.com/author/parker-yamasaki/
• 2020 - (RE)Visions of Chicago Public Schools | 062 Gallery X CPS LIVES, Exhibition Catalog: https://www.062official.com/pastexhibitions/revisionsnofchicagopublicschools
• 2020 - Alexandra Chaidez, “Buy Art, Feed Your Neighbor: Prints For Hunger Campaign Raises $20K For Greater Chicago Food Depository,” July 20. https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/07/07/buy-art-feed-your-neighbor-prints-for-hunger-campaign-raises-20k-and-counting-for-greater-chicago-food-depository/
• 2020 - Christina Nafziger, “Marzena Abrahamik on psychedelics, the feminine, and their power,” Sixty Inches from Center, September 21. https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/works-cited-marzena-abrahamik-on-psychedelics-the-feminine-and-their-power/
• 2020 - Lori Waxman, 60wrd/min COVID Edition: Judith Mullen, Deborah Hirshfield, Marzena Abrahamik and Jordan Martins, Barbara Cooper, Sami Ismat, New City, September 25, 2020 https://art.newcity.com/2020/09/25/60wrd-min-covid-edition-judith-mullen-deborah-hirshfield-marzena-abrahamik-and-jordan-martins-barbara-cooper-sami-ismat/
• 2019 - Catherine G. Wagley, “The Every Woman Biennial Defies Critical Evaluation,” HYPERALLERGIC, June 11, 2019. https://hyperallergic.com/504590/the-every-woman-biennial-defies-critical-evaluation/
• 2018 - S. Nicole Lane “Intimate Justice: Marzena Abrahamik”, Sixty Inches from Center, October 23, 2018. https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/intimate-justice-marzena-abrahamik/
• 2017 - Rigou, Vasia. Rainbowed., Marzena Abrahamik: Girl Play: Exploring Photography, Marijuana and Womanhood, June 2. https://www.rainbowed.us/art-design/marzena-abrahamik-girl-play/

Commissions

Private

• 2022 - BDP, Sana Healing Collective, Chicago, IL
• 2021 - Soho House, Chicago, IL

Public

• 2023 - Return, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
• 2020 - If I Could Change the World, BMO, Chicago, IL

Collections

• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
• Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
• Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL
• Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, New Haven, CT