Based in Brooklyn, Marissa Sher is a multimedia and surrealist artist whose practice stems from materials: she hand-builds sculptures and still lifes from found and recycled objects, which she then animates using animatronics before filming them and compositing them using mechanical techniques, projection, and visual effects. A graduate of Barnard College in New York, where she earned a B.A. in art history, visual arts, and dance, she also spent more than twelve years as a set and production designer in the film industry, including seven seasons as head of the production design team for Saturday Night Live: a dual background in hands-on craftsmanship and moving images that informs all of her work. Her most iconic series, Exquisite Corpse, was created during a residency spanning two consecutive summers at Art Farm in Nebraska : a veritable paradise of lost objects, displaced buildings, salvaged materials, vintage artifacts, and projects abandoned by former residents. She envisions a surreal space that both archives and recomposes, transforming hundreds of swirling still lifes into video building blocks for new visual identities.

Her video work has been exhibited at venues such as Now Here Gallery, CADAF Paris, CADAF NYC, and Top of the Rock, and included in collections such as those of Infinite Objects and Lindblad Expeditions; her work CHANGE is notably on display aboard the National Geographic Endurance. Marissa Sher is also a writer: her essays on digital art and the female body have been published by The Independent and Painters on Paintings, and she is completing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Colorado Boulder.