Marilyn Arsem has been creating and performing live events for more than forty years, presenting her work in thirty countries. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, she also teaches performance art workshops internationally.
Many of her works are created in response to specific sites and are often based on historical research. In 1997 she was a awarded a Wallace Research Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. More recently she received the 2015 Maud Morgan Prize from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Arsem is a member of Mobius, Inc., an interdisciplinary collaborative of artists which she founded in 1975. Arsem taught for 27 years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in partnership with Tufts University, establishing one of the most extensive programs internationally in visually-based performance art.
Photos by Bob Raymond and Marilyn Arsem.
Fellowships
- 1997: Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Fellowship