Marie Yoho Dorsey is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Artist Relief Fund, NY.
Her work has been reviewed in publications such as ART PAPERS, dART Intl. Magazine, and ART IN PRINT.
Dorsey was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She studied at the Sogetsu school of Ikebana in Tokyo, Japan, with filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara. She received her MFA from the University of South Florida in 2005.
Dorsey's current work explores relationships to the past, a desire to venture into 'unknown' territories and the visual systems it creates.
Dorsey's work in general is an exploration of origin and inheritance. She is interested in the ways in which memory, personal and collective history, and identity are all intertwined, and believes that identities are not fixed, but are constantly evolving in response to the world around us.