Fabio Marinho

Fabio Marinho is a Brazilian contemporary painter based in Fargo, North Dakota. His current practice moves between figuration and abstraction, exploring perception, identity, transformation, time, and the structures through which reality is experienced.

His recent body of work, Emerging Coherence, investigates what remains when familiar structures of perception and identity begin to dissolve. Across the series, figures, fields, fragments, and material surfaces shift between presence and disappearance, creating a visual language that is physical and psychological.

Marinho works primarily with acrylic, oil, earth, sand, charcoal, cold wax, marble powder, and gold leaf, often building layered surfaces that emphasize materiality, tension, and transformation. His practice increasingly includes large-format works and projects conceived in relation to specific spaces.

Earlier in his career, Marinho developed a strong practice in portraiture and commissioned painting. Those works remain part of his broader experience, but his current focus is on developing a cohesive contemporary body of work centered on his own conceptual and material language.

His work has been exhibited in Brazil, Italy, and the United States and is held in private ...

Degree in Advertising and Propaganda
Degree in Computer Science, Anhembi Morumbi University
MBA in Knowledge, Technology and Innovation, FIA Business School

Selected Exhibitions
2026 — Art Advocates’ Exhibition, West Acres, Fargo, North Dakota, United States
2026 — M State Invitational Art Show, Minnesota State Community and Technical College, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States
2026 — FMVA Little Art Exhibition, Essentia Health Atrium, Fargo, North Dakota, United States
2026 — Hawley Art Show, Hawley, Minnesota, United States
2025 — Hawley Art Show, Hawley, Minnesota, United States
2023 — Diversidades, Novotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2022 — Arte Senza Confini, La Pigna Gallery, Rome, Italy
2022 — ExpoArte SP, 28th Edition, São Paulo, Brazil

Awards
Committee Choice Award — Marie Curie, Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, 2025
Public Appreciation Award — Light on the Past, Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, 2025
His work is currently exhibited at Underbrush Gallery, Fargo, North Dakota.