VIRGINIA HANUSIK
b. 1992, New York, United States
EDUCATION
2026 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2014 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2026 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist-in-Residence
2026 Rhode Island School of Design, Fine Arts Dean’s Award
2025 Rhode Island School of Design, Henry Wolf Scholar
2025 Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Commons Grant Award
2024 Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award Shortlist
2022 A Studio in the Woods, Artist-in-Residence
2022 Andy Warhol Foundation, Platforms Grant Recipient
2021 Pulitzer Center, Connected Coastlines Grant Recipient
2021 British Journal of Photography, Decade of Change Award
2020 Exhibit Columbus, Photography Fellow
2018 Graham Foundation, Exhibition Grant Recipient
2017 Graham Foundation, Research and Development Grant Recipient
2014 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Grant Recipient
BOOKS
2024 Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Periphery, MAS Context, Chicago, IL
2021 On the Origins of High Water, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
2019 A Receding Coast: The Architecture and Infrastructure of South Louisiana, Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 New Contemporaries, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Graduate MFA Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2025 The Unending Stream: Chapter Two, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2024 Thoughts that Stare, Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Snapshot: Climate, Pitt Community College Library, Winterville, NC
Snapshot: Climate, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA
What Matters Here, Small Center for Collaborative Design, New Orleans, LA
2023 Water, 6018 North, Chicago, IL
Snapshot: Climate, Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill, NC
2021 On the Origins of High Water, Exhibit Columbus, Columbus, IN
2020 Losing Louisiana: Land, People, and Culture, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2019 Design with Nature Now, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Eco-connectivity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018 Constructing the Break, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2017 New Water Music, New Orleans Airlift, New Orleans, LA
2016 Controls and Counter Reactions, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING
2025 “An Unsettling Resistance,” Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Reader
2024 “An Elusive and Indefinable Boundary,” ISSUES, American Academy of Sciences
“Indeterminate Landscapes,” Landscape Architecture Magazine
2023 “Constructing a Flood,” Burnaway
“Louisiana Story,” Oxford American
2022 “Environmental Alterations,” ARQ 111 – Degrowth
“All the Good Earth,” Bitter Southerner
“After the Flood,” The American Scholar
2021 “Ida Showed the Fossil Fuel Industry Has Left Louisiana Defenseless,” Earther
2020 “Architecture’s obstinacy in the face of climate change normalizes the precariousness of coastal living,” The Architect’s Newspaper
“Visualizing Disasters and an Ongoing Crisis,” MAS Context
2019 “A Receding Coast,” MAS Context
SELECTED TALKS AND PANELS
2026 On Instability, University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
2025 The Unending Stream Artist Talk, Photo NOLA Festival, New Orleans, LA
Vanishing Coasts: Place and Preservation, New Orleans Book Festival, New Orleans, LA
Photographing Manresa Island, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2024 Jules L. Cahn John H. Lawrence Photography Lecture, Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA
Canadian Centre for Architecture Pop-up Book Talk, SO-IL, New York, NY
In Conversation with Virginia Hanusik, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Oceans Springs, MS
Indeterminate Landscapes, University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
What Matters Here Artist Talk, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Into the Quiet and the Light Book Launch, Garden District Book Shop, New Orleans, LA
Engaging New Orleans Artists with Water: Brackish Artist Residency, American Society of
Society of Landscape Architecture Annual Conference, St. Paul, MN
Swamplands Open Session, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
Current Work, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL
2023 Current Work, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure, MAS Context, Chicago, IL
Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change, MAS Context, Chicago, IL
Current Work, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 Climate Change: Artistic Responses, Philosophical Analyses, University of Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro, Italy
Designing a Green New Deal, Yale School of Architecture Review Critic, New Haven, CT
Town. Houses., Tulane University School of Architecture Review Critic, New Orleans, LA
2021 Photographing the Climate Crisis, Columbia University, New York, NY
Talking Climate: Displacements: A Conversation with Virginia Hanusik and R. Van Newkirk III, The Climate Museum, New York, NY
2020 Changing the Visual Narrative of Climate Change, City University of New York, New York, NY
Our Changing Shores, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2019 The Case for Managed Retreat, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY
2016 Planning for a Resilient New Orleans, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Green Infrastructure and Workforce Development, Water Environment Federation International Conference, Washington, D.C.
Water Entrepreneurship in New Orleans, State of the Coast 2016, New Orleans, LA
2015 Young Leaders in Water, Great Water Cities Summit: Collaborating for a Resilient Future, New Orleans, LA