Virginia Hanusik

Bio

Virginia Hanusik is an artist and writer born in New York and based in Louisiana. 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. She has been a recipient of the Decade of Change Award (2020), a Photography Fellow with Exhibit Columbus (2020-2021), a Rising: Climate in Crisis Resident at Tulane University’s A Studio in the Woods (2022), and a Creative Capital Award finalist (2022). Her first book, Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana, was published in spring 2024.