Marina Pinsky

Born 1986

Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and Berlin, Germany

Born in 1986, Marina Pinsky divides her time between Brussels and Berlin. Pinsky earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 2008, and her MFA at UCLA in 2012. She has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo shows throughout North America, Europe, and has art in the permanent collection of the MoMA in New York. Working across two and three-dimensional, Pinsky creates art that engages with and prompts questioning of the viewer's concept of the observed world as something genuine and constant. She presents her audience with familiar sights seen from unfamiliar vantages, allowing for novel reconsideration of otherwise unremarkable forms. Taken further, such radical reflections prompted by Pinsky's work demand consideration of the artifice of the crafting, manipulation, and intentionality inherent to artmaking.

Exhibitions

Works on Paper on Fridges

Aug 12 - Sept 6, 2022

Made in Space

July 11 - Aug 10, 2013

Made in Space

Mar 16 - Apr 15, 2013

Education

2012
Master of Fine Arts
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Bachelor of Fine Arts
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, in partnership with Tufts University, MA

Solo And Two Person

2022
Reagent
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Emergy
c l e a r i n g, Beverly Hills, CA
Scenarios, with Becket Flannery
The Tail. Brussels, Belgium
2021
Le Rail
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
Undertow
Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
Four Color Theorem
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Marina Pinsky
The Downer, Berlin, Germany
2018
Incidents, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
Base of a Column
Parallel, Oaxaca, Mexico
Flight 714 to Sydney
Sydney, Australia
2017
Strata of the Slow, Buried Trench
De Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Decoy
Beach Office, Berlin, Germany
2016
Polar
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
Dyed Channel
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2014
Offset Water Bend or European Death Knot
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
2013
White Room
White Columns, New York, NY
Konzeptkitsch
Global Colding, Düsseldorf, Germany
Tradewinds, with Cooper Jacoby
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Solitaire
Exercise Projects, Vancouver, Canada
Collineation
LACMA Special Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Young Men, with Mira Dancy
Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Department of Water and Power
Workspace, Los Angeles, CA

Group

2022
Conversation Pit
Winona, Brussels, Belgium
Works on Paper on Fridges
Harkawik, New York, NY
Power Tools
Candice Madey Gallery, New York, NY
One Hundred Eighty-Six Billion Steps to the Sun
c l e a r i n g, New York, NY
I Could Eat You – Part I
Casa da Cultura, Comporto, Portugal
Snooperverse
HISK Project Space, Brussels, Belgium
Galeria Avenida da India
Galeris Municipais, Lisbon, Portugal
2021
Circuit
Europalia Tracks and Trains, Brussels, Belgium
Kunst in Puurs
Puurs, Belgium
Models and Types
Art Room, Brussels, Belgium
BPA//Exhibition
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Grand Ménage
c l e a r i n g, Paris, France
Hearts and Minds
Carriage Trade, New York, NY
Superamas
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
2020
The Secret Life of Lobsters
c l e a r i n g, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Life Still
c l e a r i n g, New York, NY
Outside Within
Philipp Pflug, Frankfurt, Germany
2019
303 Gallery: 35 Years
303 Gallery, New York, NY
26 April 2019
Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Circulation
Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Inspections from Above
Lesage, Brussels, Belgium
Dog Days
c l e a r i n g, Brooklyn, NY
Imprint of void
LOVAAS, Munich, Germany
L’âge de raison
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Signal or Noise: The Photographic II
S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
SAFE
Gladstone 64, New York, NY
Keep Me Warm
c l e a r i n g, Brooklyn, NY
Parcours at Art Basel
Basel, Switzerland
B-Sides
SALOON, Brussels, Belgium
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Riga, Latvia
Flowers
Root Canal, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017
2021
Sydney, Australia
Preservation
Barrick Museum, University of Las Vegas, NV
Upstream
François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA
Onder Ons
CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
Belong Anywhere
AirBnB Flat/ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, Germany
Dedication, Exploitation
Haute Collaboration, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
The Absent Museum
WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
2016
The Squatter
Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France
Cloud Cover
Ramapo College Art Galleries, New Jersey
Umwelt Inversion
Galerie Conradi, Hamburg, Germany
Slow Works
Sydney, Australia
Haus 99
Basel, Switzerland
Micro Celebrities 2
Just Married, Brussels, Belgium
Reality Bytes
Young Foundation, Shenzhen, China
Two-Story
c l e a r i n g, Brussels, Belgium
Fritto Misto
c l e a r i n g, Brooklyn, NY
Your Memories are our Future
Palais de Tokyo, paired with MANIFESTA 11, ACRUSH, Zurich, Switzerland
Das Neue
Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Germany
MO’ TILE
Union Pacific, London, UK
2015
Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
La vie moderne
13th Biennale de Lyon, France
Supply Lines: Photography and Logistics
National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo
Mon Horizontalité
Galerie UntilThen, Paris, France
Un-Scene III
Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
Out There
Cloud cover, CCS Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Speed Space
Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, CA
This a Way
White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
2014
The Material Image
Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
Displayed
Anton Kern, New York, NY
Made in L.A.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, Too
c l e a r i n g, New York, NY
Kinemes
Malraux’s Place, New York, NY
International Women’s Day
Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Made in Space
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Made in Space
Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Inside Order
Kansas Gallery, New York, NY
2012
"New History
Guest Spot, Baltimore, USA
Bulletin Boards
Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Show #4
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Sunkist
Cleopatra’s, Berlin, Germany

Publishing

2021
Yolk Color Fan
Pfeil Magazine
Letter to Camilla Steinum
HART Magazine
2018
Signs of Life
Pfeil Magazine
2016
Dyed Channel
Triangle Books, Kunsthalle Basel
2014
A Rock in the Forest
Petunia, Issue 6
Short Story
Provence Magazine, Issue E
On Modeling Re: The Force of a Frame
Nonsite.org, Issue 12

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brussels, Belgium
Flemish Community Collection, M Museum Leuven, Belgium
Belgian National Bank, Brussels, Belgium