Artist BIO, Shari Yantra Marcacci
Born in Switzerland, Shari Yantra Marcacci is a visual artist. Her work explores themes of loss, trauma, intimacy and self-discovery with a focus on personal storytelling centered around self and family. Her background in dance and filmmaking informs her directorial and documentary skills giving her a sensitivity and insight into universal human traits, their characters and psychology.
After a career as a dancer, Marcacci studied at the Los Angeles Film School, where she earned a degree in directing and screenwriting. Her films have been showcased in the official selection at numerous prestigious film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Awards, where she received a nomination.
During her time in the film industry, Marcacci developed a passion for photography, which led her to study at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Soon the camera became her most treasured companion, offering new avenues for creative expression.
Marcacci's work has been exhibited in renowned galleries and venues across the US and Europe, including The Center of Fine Art Photography, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Houston Center for Photography, the SE Center for Photography, ICP International Center of Photography NY, MIA Photo Fair and galleries including Dark Room, PhotoPlace and Alta Vista Arts in Paris. Her images have been featured in numerous publications such as F-STOP magazine, Shots Magazine, Lenscratch, Float Magazine, FRAMES Magazine and in the book Global Images for a Global Crisis by ICP New York. Her work is held in private collections.
After two decades in Los Angeles, Marcacci now resides in Switzerland
GROUP AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
2026 MIA Photo Fair, Alta Vista Arts Gallery Femina, Gallery 169, Santa Monica, California The Inner Lens - Inner Worlds, Artdoc Photography Magazine (online)
2025 MIA Photo Fair, Alta Vista Arts Gallery
2024 She is Present / Elle est Presénte, Alta Vista Arts Gallery, Paris A Testament to Loss, Too Tired Project, online exhibition curated by Maria Barham-Black
2023 Group exhibition, Alta Vista Arts Gallery, Paris Se Center for Photography, Light exhibition, juror Douglas Beasley F-Stop Magazine, Open Theme Issue exhibition Der Greif, Past and Present, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2022 F-Stop Magazine, The Portrait exhibition (online) Los Angeles Center for Photography, Comeback exhibition, Honorable Mention, LA, juror Samantha Johnson PhotoPlace Gallery, Self & Others, Vermont, juror Aline Smithson
2020 Houston Center for Photography, Togethering exhibition, Houston, Texas PhotoPlace Gallery, Portraits of Self-Isolation, Middlebury, Vermont, juror Aline Smithson International Center of Photography, ICP Concerned exhibition, New York, NY Griffin Museum, 26th Juried online Exhibition, juror Paula Tognarelli Float Magazine, Quarantine (online exhibition) Lenscratch, Self-Quarantining (online exhibition)
2019 Tag Gallery, LA Open exhibition, Los Angeles, California StartUP Art Fair, Los Angeles, California
2018 Black & White exhibition, The Center of Fine Art Photography, Forth Collins, Colorado, juror Catherine Couturier It’s Personal: Photography from the Inside, Los Angeles Center of Photography, L.A., CA, curator Aline Smithson Members’ Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, L.A., CA, juror Catherine Couturier Expanding Boundaries, Los Angeles Center of Photography, L.A., CA, juror Scott B Davis Annual Members’ Exhibition, The Center of Fine Art Photography, Forth Collins, Colorado, jurors Brian Paul Clamp and Hamidah Glasgow
2017 “Alone”, Netanya Artists Association exhibition, Israel Your Favorite Photographs, Lenscratch (online exhibition)
2016 Center Forward 2016, The Center of Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, jurors Aline Smithson and Hamidah Glasgow. Seities and Selves exhibition, Dark Room Gallery, Vermont, juror Aline Smithson Moskow International Photo Awards online exhibition, Na Kashirke Gallery, Moskow Your Favorite Photographs, Lenscratch (online exhibition) Your Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2015 Portraiture Show exhibition, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon. f16: New Photographic Visions, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles Group Show, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles Life Framer Photography Award Exhibition, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles Pop Up Digital Show, Juraplatz Gallery, Biel, Switzerland Your Favorite Photographs, Lenscratch (online exhibition) What I looked as a Child, Lenscratch (online exhibition) Who and What I Love, Lenscratch (online exhibition) Cell Phone Photography, Lenscratch (online exhibition)
2014 Snap to Grid, group show, Los Angeles Center of Digital Art, Los Angeles
PHOTO BOOKS:
2021 #ICPConcerned: Global Images for a Global Crisis, ICP New York, G Editions
2020 The Year of Not Knowing In Six Words, LA Center of Photography, Los Angeles
2018 Photographs Inspired by Music, Poetry, A Quote and Transformation, LA Center of Photography, Los Angeles
MAGAZINES:
2024 Lenscratch article about my life and my series All my Heart is in Eclipse
2022 SHOTS Magazine, No.156 Summer Issue, Self-Portraits
AWARDS:
2015, Fine Art Photography Awards, honorable mention (fine art portrait) 2016, Moskow International Foto Awards, honorable mention (fine art portrait)
FILM FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS ("NIGHTSHIFT")
2005
Taormina BNL Film Festival, Italy
Gotham City Short Film Festival, New York, US
Harlem International Film Festival, New York, US
Northampton Independent Film Festival, US
Queens International Film Festival, New York, US
Rebelfest International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival, Romania
FAIF Film Festival, Hollywood
Ohne Kohle International Independent Film Festival, Austria
Openair Film Festiva Mainz, Germany
Screening prior to Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride", Tribeca Cinemas, New York, US
Screening at Theatre Rigiblick, Zurich, Switzerland
Night of Short Films, Lugano and Bellinzona, Switzerland
Exposure - 2005 Industry Screening, Los Angeles, US
2006
41st Solothurn Film Festival, Switzerland
Malibu International Film Festival, Malibu US
2007
Filmguild Movie Nights, Switzerland
Short Films Lounge, Movie Theatre Riff Raff, Zurich, Switzerland
