Marleigh Belsley’s practice traces the impact of digital technology on our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our environment.
Her work explores what - on a microscopic level - happens through the process of sound and image capture, and how this can begin to reveal the complexly intertwined systems of the climate crisis and digital technology.
Working across experimental methods in analogue and digital video, photography, and sound, she investigates each medium's distinct temporal and material presence. Her work offers the opportunity to slow down, look closely, and tune in to one’s environment while critically reflecting on everyday consumption of digital media.
Marleigh Belsley (b. Chicago, IL 2001) is an artist based between New York and London. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art (2025). She earned her BA in Studio Art and Music at Harvard (Summa Cum Laude, 2024). With a background in both sonic and visual arts, she studied Music Technology at Berklee College of Music (dual enrollment 2020-2024) and earned a certificate in Contemporary Music Production and Critique from IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique). Belsley has photographed for organizations such as the New York Times and the Harvard Film Archive. She has exhibited at Fridman Gallery, Sewu Satu for Art Jakarta, Asylum Chapel for London Design Festival, Cubitt Gallery, Filet Space, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Maven Art House. She has been awarded The John Knowles Paine fellowship from the Harvard Music Department and the Sydney M Williams Jr. Traveling Fellowship from the Harvard Visual Arts Department.
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