Mary Doi

contemporary visual artist whose work explores identity, feminism, and the emotional architecture of womanhood. Working primarily with oil and acrylic on canvas, as well as mixed media, charcoal, and layered textures, the artist creates expressive figurative paintings where portraiture becomes both a confession and a confrontation.

Incognito paints not to reveal who they are, but to uncover who they might become.

Each work begins with a question: What does it mean to exist?
And each painting attempts an answer through the chaos of color — joy, sorrow, rage, tenderness, and everything in between.

At the center of the artist’s practice is one powerful theme: women’s voices and women’s rights.

Incognito’s work is rooted in a feminist perspective, challenging cultural expectations that reduce women to appearance — the stereotype that a woman must be only beautiful, only soft, only pleasing. In response, the artist redefines beauty as something far more radical: beauty with strength.

In these paintings, women are not decorative figures designed for the gaze — they are symbols of resilience, autonomy, and inner power. Incognito explores the tension between softness and resistance, fragility and survival, grace and rebellion. The art...

2016 - 2019 Master of Fine Arts - MFA New York, New York, United States

2023 The World Tbilisi, Georgia
2026 Flowers Tbilisi, Georgia