Virginia Hanusik is an artist whose projects explore the relationship between landscape, culture, and the built environment. Her work has been exhibited internationally, featured in The New Yorker, National Geographic, British Journal of Photography, Places Journal, The Atlantic, MAS Context, and Oxford American among others, and supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Graham Foundation, Landmark Columbus Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. She regularly writes and speaks on landscape representation and the visual narrative of climate change, and is on the board of directors of The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans where she coordinates multi-disciplinary projects on the climate crisis.
Hanusik has been a recipient of the Decade of Change Award (2020), a Photography Fellow with Exhibit Columbus (2020-2021) where her multi-year project on the Mississippi River watershed explored the history of flooding and politics of disasters in the region, a Rising: Climate in Crisis Resident at Tulane University’s A Studio in the Woods (2022), and a Creative Capital Award finalist (2022).
Her book, Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City), will be published in spring 2024 and is available for pre-order here.
She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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