University Of The Arts

Graduate Student, Chelsea

Other Affiliations: European University Cyprus, Department of Arts

PhD Candidate

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Thesis Title: In-between marks and surfaces

About

Marina Kassianidou is an academic and artist whose work focuses on relationships between mark and surface in visual art. Her creative practice combines painting, drawing, collage, installation, site-specific art, and found objects. Her theoretical interests include philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, and art history. She is currently a Fine Art PhD candidate at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK.

She graduated from Stanford University, where she was a CASP/Fulbright scholar, with degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science (both with Distinction). Upon graduation, she was awarded the Arthur Giese Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting by the Stanford University Art Department. She obtained a Master in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

She has exhibited her work in the UK, USA, Cyprus, Israel, Germany and France. Group exhibitions include “XHIBIT05,” an exhibition showcasing selected students of the University of the Arts London, and “Chypre 2010, L’art au présent,” which featured selected Cypriot artists. Her work was also selected by Tenderpixel gallery for the 2012 London Art Fair. She has had solo exhibitions in Nicosia, Cyprus (Gloria Gallery, 2006, 2008) and London, UK (Tenderpixel Gallery, 2009). Her last two exhibitions were accompanied by publications containing essays by herself and other artists. In 2010 she was awarded artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and at the Stonehouse Center for Contemporary Arts, USA. Her work is found in several private and public collections, including the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.

She has participated in conferences in Europe and the USA and her writings have appeared in the journals Arteri (Cyprus, UK) and ArtSEEN (Florence, London, New York).

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