Marianna Magurudumian-O'Reilly

Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly is a multidisciplinary artist whose current practice encompasses a variety of artistic expressions from textile art, mask making and costume design, video and sound experiments, painting and drawing. Each of these practices informs the others, cross pollinating, offering new areas for exploration. Interested in intuitive practices in art making, she is using surrealist techniques of liberation of the subconscious through random mark making, and developing collages with hybrid characters set in imaginary architectural and psychological spaces.
In June, 2024 she had her first solo show in Spain ‘Studio Grotesque’ at the Museu de l’Ebre in Totrosa.

Marianna studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, Russia. Having moved to the UK, she received a First Class Honors Bachelor degree from Brighton University, UK, after which she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from The Royal Academy of Arts in London. She has won numerous awards and scholarships for painting, notably Winsor and Newton Young artist Award (3 consecutive years), Wingate Scholarship (Wingate Foundation, UK), Red Mansion Art Prize (The London Institute, UK) and has exhibited internationally. Her painting...

Education

1999-2002
Royal Academy Schools
Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art

1996-1999
University of Brighton
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting

1991-1994
St. Petersburg Academy of Fine and Applied Arts
BA Architecture and Interior Design
Exhibitions

August 2006
Making Love to my Ego / Castlefield Gallery / Manchester

January-April 2006
Another product, Cornerhouse, Manchester

October 2005
Space, Aristao Gallery/London

September 2005
Sefton Open, Atkinson Art Gallery/Southport

June 2005
Area 10 Summer ShowArea10 / Peckham Square / London

June 2004
Peep Show / Open Art Studios / Manchester

April 2003
XTCGAGA / Century Gallery / London

January 2003
The Islington Art Fair / London
Brightside - Open Studios / Southwark Arts
Festival / London

December 2002
Christmas / Mark Jason Fine Art / London

March 2002
Red Mansion Art Prize / The London Institute
Gallery / London

June 2001
Premiums / Royal Academy of Arts / London,

Marianna studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, Russia. Having moved to the UK, she received a First Class Honors Bachelor degree from Brighton University, UK, after which she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from The Royal Academy of Arts in London. She has won numerous awards and scholarships for painting, notably Winsor and Newton Young artist Award (3 consecutive years), Wingate Scholarship (Wingate Foundation, UK), Red Mansion Art Prize (The London Institute, UK) and has exhibited internationally. Her paintings are in the collections of Unilever HQ, London (UK) and Eurostar Art Collection, London HQ (UK).
Working across media, she has made sound compositions and experimental web design, collaborating with her husband Daniel on independent films as actress, script writer, editor, and sound designer, and earned various film and video festival participations notably at Whitechapel Gallery, Frieze Art Fair Projects (UK), Leeds University (UK),. Her collaborative project The Unstitute www.theunstitute.org, is an art laboratory, independent online art gallery, and experimental digital architecture.