Marina Smith

Marina Smith is a visual artist working across painting, drawing, textile, and video. In her practice, she uses oil, acrylic, and watercolor on canvas, paper, and textile. Alongside her artistic practice, Marina develops art-therapeutic approaches that shape and expand her research-based work. Her work explores vulnerability, nostalgia, and love through observation, self-reflection, and engagement with the unconscious, constructing a personal mythology and alternative emotional realities.

2015-2016 - Institute of Business and Design, course in Graphic Design
2017 - 2019 - Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art, degree in Contemporary Art Practice.
2021 - National Research Institute of Continuing and Professional Education, training in Art Therapy Techniques for Group and Individual Work
2020 - 2024 - Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, qualification as a Counseling Psychologist

2016 - “Free Space”, Ilya Kabakov’s Studio, Moscow, Russia
2019 - “Noumen Travel Agency. Globalization and the Unknown. Part 1’’, Fabrika Creative Industries Center, Moscow, Russia
2019 - “Communities and Spaces”, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2026 - “Soft Structures”, group exhibition, Sisters Room artist-run space, Tbilisi, Georgia
2026 - “Walpurgisnacht”, Aer Placeoflight, Tbilisi, Georgia
2026 - “Beneath the Gentle Surface”, Arar Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2026 - “Embracing hidden fragility”, Okro, personal exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia
2026 - “Beyond the Maze”, Art space Zevit, group exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia