Britni Mara

Britni Mara, is a visual artist living and working in Chicago, IL. She graduated in 2013 from Bradley University with a BFA in Studio Art. She did post-graduate work at the Siena Art Institute in Siena, Italy in 2014 and has been passionately creating fine art ever since.

For Britni, manufacturing work that embodies meaning is the purpose of creating. She is truly in love with abstraction and incites thought in her abstract work by altering her mediums. This allows her to dissect thought and provoke conversation, without straying away from her implicit practice of abstraction. Her artwork can be described as a dance between chaos and the controlled movement of paint.

Alongside her personal art business, the artist is fiercely focused on creating an abundant resource network for Womxn creatives in Chicago. In the Spring of 2021, Britni opened The Hallway Gallery; an alternative gallery space dedicated to showing Womxn visual artists. Alongside the gallery, Britni has launched The Female Association of Creative Entrepreneurs (F.A.C.E.). The organization’s mission is to create a safe-space for women and non-binary creatives to gather for networking, professional development, collaboration and exhibition opportunities across cr...

2014 Siena Art Institute-Siena, Italy- Post-Bachelorette Certificate (Candidate)

2013 Bradley University- BFA Studio Art, Concentration: Painting

2021 The Other Art Fair Chicago Edition | Group Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2021 Dope Art Show | Pop-Up Group Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2021 The Other Art Fair Brooklyn Edition | Group Exhibition | Brooklyn, NY

2021 4th Annual Midwest Open | Woman Made Gallery | Group Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2021 Britni Mara at Gallery Café | Solo Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2021 Abstractions | Fulton Street Collective | Group Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2021 Inaugural Show | The Hallway Gallery | Group Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2021 Rostrom 312 All Women’s Group Show | Group Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2020 Roosevelt Collection Exhibition | Group Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2018 The Other Art Fair Inaugural Chicago Edition | Chicago, IL

2018 Tapster Chicago | Solo Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2017 Anderson Center for the Arts Alumni Show | Group Exhibition | Red Wing, MN

2015 Britni Mara at The Black Couch | Solo Exhibition | Chicago, IL

2014 Inside Reflections, Outside Perspectives | Group Exhibition | Siena, Italy

2014-2013 Crossings | Group Exhibition | Peoria, IL

2013 Jointly Exhaustive and Mutually Exclusive | Group Exhibition | Prairie Center of the Arts | Peoria, IL

2013 Self-Employment in the Arts Juried Co...