Alex Mari

Her Belly Full of Ice, 2017

Performance Photograph

20 x 30 inches; framed, 38 x 36 inches

Courtesy of the artist

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Alex Mari (they/she) is an interdisciplinary performance artist from Atlanta. They have an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta and a current Ph.D student in Art, emphasis in Art Education, at the University of Georgia. They have shown work across Atlanta including MINT Gallery, whitespec, Echo Contemporary, The Goat Farm, and Mason Murer Fine Art. She's performed in the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival and in Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival and made several other appearances in NYC and Seattle. They've also performed or shown work internationally in Berlin, London, Monrovia, Puri, Fez, and notably at the Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing. They have been awarded prizes from Franklin Furnace, Burnaway, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. They are a previous Fellow at Emory University's Arts and Social Justice Fellows Program, Artist-in-Studio Resident with The Creatives Project in Atlanta, and KODA lab in NYC. Their body of work seeks to stimulate rupture through narrative, duration, becoming-other, ritual, objects and tasks, video, installation, and digital ephemera.