MARIA LINO’s BIO 2024
Maria Lino was born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States with her parents. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts from Florida International University. Maria is a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, a two-time recipient of the Oscar B. Cintas Fellowship, and a 2023 Ellies Creator Award grantee. As a multidisciplinary visual artist, she employs drawing, printmaking, text, video, dance, and textiles, to express her artistic concepts. She is particularly interested in the rhythmic repetition of movement, especially of human hands, often resulting in individual and group portraits of the manual labor of those frequently overlooked: women, people with disabilities, migrants and immigrants.
Maria’s work has been published in “Centerpoint Now: Are We There Yet?” of the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (WCPUN; 2020). Her video “Ritmos Ancestrales” was screened during the Smithsonian Institution’s 2022 Mother Tongue Film Festival. Both “Ritmos Ancestrales” and “Tapo Pan/Tapo Bread” are presented under the Indigenous Lifeways segment of The Streaming Museum (2024).
Maria has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions.