Marina FONT
Bio
Marina Font was born in Argentina in 1970. She studied design at the Martin Malharro School of Visual Arts, Mar del Plata, Argentina. In the summer of 1998 she studied Photography at the Speos Ecole de la Photographie, Paris. She earned a MFA in Photography from Barry University, Miami in 2009. Since then she has exhibited extensively at galleries, museums and cultural institution in the US and abroad.
She is a multidisciplinary artists working in photography, mixed media, collage, fibers, assemblage, installation and video. Her studio practice explores ideas about identity, gender, territory, language, memory and the forces of the unconscious. Her visceral and intuitive works, strongly influenced by psychoanalysis, often focuses on women and the domestic sphere.
Her work is present in various public collections such as the MDC Museum of Art+Design, Miami, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Frost Art Museum at FIU, the LOWE Art Museum at The University of Miami, FoLA, Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Bunnen collection in Atlanta , the Girls' Club collection in Fort Lauderdale and various private collections throughout the world.
Her work has been featured in Harper's Magazine, ArtNexus, Photo+ Magazine, Korea, The Miami Herald, Pagina 12, Argentina, Fraction Magazine, aPhotoEditor, Aint-bad Magazine, F-stop Magazine, Lenscratch, One Twelve Publishing, Fototazo, Elisabeth Avedone PhotoBlog, Hamptons Art Hub, and Nuevaluz among others.
Her first monograph "Anatomy is Destiny" was published on April 2018 in collaboration with Minor Matters Books + Dina Mitrani Gallery, and it was selected for the Photo Book Spotlight at aipad The Photography Show, NY,, by the Aperture Foundation, in 2019.
Marina is also part of the multidisciplinary collaborative RPM Projects.
She currently lives in Miami Beach. and works at her studio at The Collective 62, located in Liberty City, Miami.
Statement
Inspired by the Modernist's further exploration of the unconscious, and with the complexity of the human psyche and emotional map, this body of work explores the instinctive and inherent forces of feminine.
