Rose Marasco has enjoyed drawing and photographing from a very young age. At age 6 she grabbed her parents Brownie camera & made 3 photos of kittens sitting atop a fence in her backyard.

She attended the Aperion Photo Workshop in Millerton, NY in the early 1970’s. In 1974 she had her first solo exhibit at the School of Art Gallery at Munson Williams Proctor Institute, in her hometown, Utica, NY. The reception to her work was so positive that she was asked to initiate the photography program at the School of Art. She attended the Visual Studies Workshop and studied with Nathan & Joan Lyons, receiving an MFA degree from this innovative program.

She moved to Portland, Maine in 1979 to initiate the photography curriculum at the University of Southern Maine. After a 40 year teaching career, she retired as Distinguished Professor Emerita.

Marasco has had 30 solo exhibits, including at: the Jewish Museum in Portland, Maine, the University of New England Art Gallery, the Houston Center for Photography, the Davis Museum of Art at Wellesley College, the Farnsworth Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, and the Latvian Museum of Photography, in Riga. Her retrospective, index, originated at the Portland Museum of Art in 2015 and travelled in 2018 to Munson, her hometown museum in Utica, N.Y. index was nationally featured and/or reviewed in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, American Photo Magazine, OSMOS Magazine, Downeast Magazine, The Maine Sunday Telegram, The Portland Phoenix, and numerous other publications in Maine and New England.

Marasco’s solo gallery exhibits include: OSMOS Gallery, NYC, 2025-26, Meredith Ward Fine Art, NYC, 2014, and the Sarah Morthland Gallery, NYC, in 1998, 2000, and 2002. These exhibits were reviewed or highlighted in the New Yorker, The New York Times, and New York Magazine.

She exhibited in 2023 with OSMOS Gallery at PHOTOFAIR, at the Javits Center , NYC. She has also exhibited with OSMOS Gallery at the Chicago Art Fair and the Dallas Art Fair, both in 2025.

In 2026 she will exhibit her NYC Pinhole Photographs at the OSMOS booth at Paris Photo.

She has had 32 solo exhibitions and has participated in over 80 group shows.