Marina Kassianidou is a visual artist whose work focuses on relationships between mark and surface. Her current practice combines painting, drawing, collage, artist’s books, installation, and site-responsive work. She lives and works between Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Limassol, Cyprus.
She graduated from Stanford University, where she was a CASP/Fulbright scholar, with degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science (both with Distinction). She obtained an M.A. in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK. In 2015, she completed a Ph.D. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK.
She has exhibited her work internationally. Group exhibitions include Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial: Errors Allowed (Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy), Tradition Today: Exploring Conditions to Recreate It (House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece), Limassol: The Aftermath of Development (First Municipal Housing Buildings, Limassol, Cyprus), Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of Photography and Archaeology (NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus), WADS (Ars Electronica 2020), and The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020 (New York, USA). She has had solo exhibitions at Gloria Gallery and Thkio Ppalies in Nicosia, Cyprus, The Center for Drawing and Tenderpixel Gallery in London, UK, North Branch Projects in Chicago, Illinois, Yes Ma’am Projects in Denver, Colorado, DXIX Projects in Fort Collins, Colorado, and the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, New York, among others. Her work is found in several private and public collections, including the Cyprus National Gallery.
Selected awards include grants from the A. G. Leventis Foundation and fellowships at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Ragdale Foundation, Residencia Internacional de Arte Can Serrat, Ox-Bow, and The Studios at MASS MoCA. She is a recipient of the 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
Her writings have appeared in the journals RevistArquis, The International Journal of the Image, and Journal of Contemporary Painting, among others. She has published the books How to Know: A Space (Nicosia: Thkio Ppalies, 2016), Μπαίνοντας στην εικόνα οι λέξεις (Nicosia: EI.KA, 2017), and Exercise Book (Nicosia: P. S. Artist Led Projects, 2018).