Virginia Hanusik is an artist working across photography, moving image, sculpture, and installation. Based in New York and New Orleans, her practice explores themes related to ecological collapse and reconstruction, labor, and extraction. Using the built environment as both subject and index of change, her work approaches the landscape as a site of slow transformation, often unfolding beyond immediate perception and challenging assumptions about class, value, and visibility.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, Cultured, Oxford American, The Atlantic, National Geographic, British Journal of Photography, and Bloomberg Businessweek among others, and supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Graham Foundation, Landmark Columbus Foundation, and Mellon Foundation.
Her debut book, Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana (Columbia University Press, 2024), was shortlisted for the 2024 Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award.
She received her BA from Bard College and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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