Biography
Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer and visual artist. Her work has been presented on five continents, including solo intermedia works for the the Park Avenue Armory, the Kitchen and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Portikus Frankfurt, the Gwangju, Montreal, Whitney and Performa Biennials, the Holland Festival, the Dia and Serralves foundations and contemporary music festivals including Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wien Modern, Musica, Ultima, Tectonics, Vancouver New Music, Festival de Nueva Opera Buenos Aires and others throughout Europe, North and South America, and Australia. She has created works for Ensemble Contrechamps, Yarn/Wire, Ensemble MusikFabrik, Ensemble Vide, and choreographers including Ralph Lemon and Maria Hassabi. She is also noted for her work in experimental turntablism, performing solo and with other improvisers with an ever-growing palette of original sounds she regularly inscribes to dub plates. Core collaborators over the years include Marino Formenti, Okkyung Lee, George Lewis, Eli Keszler, Greg Fox and Ben Vida.
Rosenfeld is a 2026 Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation in Fine Art, a 2025 Fellow in Arts and Media of the DAAD in Berlin and recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Art in 2024. Other honors include Artist in Residence with Experiments in Art and Technology at Bell Labs Nokia 2019-2020, the Inga Otto Maren Fellowship of the Watermill Foundation in 2018, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts ‘Grants to Artists’ award in Music/Sound in 2011 and residency at Dia: Beacon in 2008 with the Merce Cunningham Company. She has published essays on her practice in Spectres V (The atmosphere of pleasure was more precarious. . . , 2026) and the anthology Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (A few notes on production and playback, 2017), and recordings on Room 40 and Shelter Press, among many others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.