About
Marina Esmeraldo is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator and mentor from Fortaleza, Brazil, now based in Barcelona. Her work draws on a tropical upbringing, a Modernist training in Architecture and her innate wanderlust.
She combines her artistic projects and research for exhibitions and installations with commissioned pieces for select brands. Get in touch if you’d like to discuss any projects.
Marina is also passionate about public speaking and teaching creatives how to overcome limiting beliefs and make a living from their art. Find her free tools and courses in the navigation menu above.
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Marina has exhibited around the world, including in the Venice Biennale, and has given talks and been awarded honours in Europe, the U.K., the U.S. and Latin America.
Artist Statement
Marina is interested in the tension between alienation and belonging through travelling: a product of moving between continents and cultures since childhood, she constantly seeks to place-make through memory and signification. Working across disciplines and materials through the abstract re-composition of places visited and imagined, she represents consciousness shaped by inner perception, in order to make sense of her constant otherness: the architecture of emotional places.
Select Shows
Dover Street Market — London 2020 (s)
Hen’s Teeth — Dublin 2020 (s)
Japan House — São Paulo 2020
The White Wall at Espacio88 — Barcelona 2019 (s)
Lost Warhols — Dublin 2018
Electro Studios — Hastings 2018
Protein Studios — London 2017
Tictail — New York City 2017 (s)
Hen’s Teeth — Dublin 2017
KK Outlet — London 2016
Syndicated — Brooklyn 2016
Material — London 2015
Mitte — Barcelona 2014
Mutuo Centro de Arte —Barcelona 2014 (s)
Catalan Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale — Venice 2013
Residencies
La Rectoría
Girona, Spain 2021
Antigua Biblioteca Almirall
Barcelona, Spain 2021
Mas Palou
Penedès, Spain 2021
Villa Lena
Tuscany, Italy 2020