Education

• MA, Studio Art, New York University
  • Concentration: Installation and performance arts
• BA, Art, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Concentration: Sculpture and drawing

Biography

Enzina Marrari is a conceptual multidisciplinary artist and university arts professor working across the disciplines of mixed media, performance art, wearables and costume design, and poetry. 

Her work is rooted in storytelling. Marrari focuses her work on revealing the unspoken, the shameful, the unseen, the vulnerable, the fear, the anxiety, the shared. Marrari will reference her own experiences of loss, struggle, trauma and disability as well as the varied experiences of those around her. Her work often contains narrative audio landscapes that capture the stories and experiences of the individuals she interviews. Pairing these audio landscapes with live performance fully realizes the scope of the individual and collective experiences - often presented through elaborate multimedia installations merging sculpture, wearable art, dance, performance, and sound. In this way, Marrari is democratizing vulnerabilities. Her hope is that viewers of her work experience deeper understanding and empathy of themselves and those around them.

Marrari’s portfolio of university courses include 2D Design, 3D Design, Beginning Drawing, Life Drawing, Color Design, Art Appreciation, Women, Gender & Art, Women and Gender Studies.

She received a B.A. in Art, concentrating in sculpture and figure drawing from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a M.A. in Studio Art, concentrating in installation and performance arts from New York University.

She is a 2018 recipient of the Alaska Journal of Commerce’s Top 40 under 40, a 2017 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellow, and a 2015 Connie Boochever Fellow. She has received an Awesome Foundation grant, a Career Opportunity Grant through the Alaska State Council on the Arts, a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, a Radical Arts for Women grant, and was nominated for an emerging artist award through the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has been an artist in residence at the Cill Rialaig Artist Center in Kerry, Ireland and at the Proyecto ‘ace Artist Residency Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Teaching Responsibilities

• 2D Design
• 3D Design

Professional & Department Service

• Board Member; Momentum Dance Collective 
• Program Officer 2019-2023; Rasmuson Foundation 
• Commissioner and Chair 2019-2021; Anchorage Municipal Advisory Commission 
• Studio Founder and Partner, 2019-2022; at Studio C

Exhibitions

Solo, select

2021       of hope, The Nave, Anchorage, Alaska - Anchorage Concert Association, Community Artist Project
2019       of relation, The Shop, Homer, Alaska – Alaska World Arts Festival 
2018       of relation, 4th Avenue Marketplace, Anchorage, Alaska 
2018       textual, The Arc Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska 
2016       Point in Motion, Sevigny Studio, Anchorage, Alaska 
2015       Center, Anchorage Community Works, Anchorage, Alaska 

Group, select

2023       Making it Home, When the fog rolls in… Union House Arts, Port   Union, Newfoundland 
2023       Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2022       UAA Art Faculty Biennial, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska
2020       Extra Tough, Women of the North: Affirmations, Anchorage Museum of  History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska 
2020       PRESENCE, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska 
2020       Members Exhibit, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska 
2019       100 x 100, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska 
2019       Drawn North, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska 
2019       Group Exhibit, Studio 223, Anchorage, Alaska 
2019       SPACE, Tomkins County Library, Ithaca, New York 
2018       Up North, Suite 100, Anchorage, Alaska 
2017       Mime Spenard, co-creation of durational public performance, Anchorage, Alaska 
2017       Re:memory,  Becky Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska 
2017       Transitions, Hugh McPeck Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska 

Residencies

Awards

• 40 under 40 Award, 2018 Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage, Alaska  
• Awesome Foundation Grant, 2018 Alaska Chapter 
• Rasmuson Foundation Fellowship, 2017 Anchorage, Alaska 
• Connie Boocheever Fellowship Award, 2015 Anchorage, Alaska
• Nomination, Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist, 2015 
• Career Opportunity Grant, 2013 Alaska State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, Alaska
• Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, 2012 Anchorage, Alaska