Marsha Wilcox is a photographic artist and educator based near Boston, Massachusetts.  Her work ranges from intricate detail in the terrestrial world to the ancient light of unimaginably old, unfathomably distant, and incomprehensibly vast nebulae and galaxies in the night sky.  

She received an MPS from the School of Visual Arts in New York in photography.  Also a musician, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree, as well as master’s degrees in Special Education, Behavioral Research, Statistics, and Epidemiology.  She earned doctorates in Behavioral Research from Columbia University and in Epidemiology from Harvard. Her post-doctoral fellowship was in Psychiatric Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Wilcox has exhibited widely in galleries, museums and other venues in New England and beyond including the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Fitchburg Art Museum, The Art Center, Three Columns Gallery at Harvard, Boston Convention Center, and the Foley Gallery in NYC.  Her work currently appears in the Big Picture Colorado 2025-27.  Her images have been published in magazines and books including Art Scope and a collection published by LensWork, among others.  

Using telescopes as lenses with dedicated astronomy cameras and specialized filters, Wilcox collects the ancient light of celestial objects. Long exposure photography is the only way we can experience these scenes. In these images, there is art in the science, and science in the art.

Wilcox received a first-place award in astrophotography in the Windows on the Universe exhibition at the Art Center.  Her work, “Ancient Light” was a Critical Mass finalist in 2023.