Marina Font uses photographs of objects and the female body, combined with yarn, embroidery, crochet and found objects, to explore “the mysteries and intricate secrets of the self... opening a dialog between biology and psychology, our social and private persona”.

Marina has become well known in Miami and beyond for her photographs of objects “that evoke a particular place or personal history to explore ideas about identity, gender, territory, language and memory.” Her special emphasis on “the lives of women, as keepers of our culture”, and of the immigrant experience, stemming from her moving from her home in Argentina to Miami, have led to a growing body of work exploring memory, womanhood and the unconscious. Her most recent work, on display last spring in “Dark Continents” at the Dina Mitrani Gallery in Wynwood, has brought increased attention to her work. She explains, “I grew up in a patriarchal society, strongly influenced by psychoanalysis and Freud’s writings, and have always been disturbed by Freud’s reference to women’s sexuality as ‘Dark Continents”. She is “inspired by the Modernist’s further exploration of the unconscious... to unveil metaphorically the truth beneath our surface...the complex relationship between reality and the memory that lives within.”


Born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1970, Marina Font studied design, sculpture, and photography at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martin Malharro, Argentina. She moved to the United States in 1996. In the summer of 1998 she studied photography at Speos Ecole de la Photographie in Paris. She earned a MFA in Photography from Barry University, 2009.

Through her career Marina has exhibited at: Espacio Foto Arte, Uruguay, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, and Dina Mitrani Gallery, who represents her work in Miami; as well as local and international fairs: Buenos Aires Photo (solo project), MIA, Arteamericas, Art Naples, Art Live Fair, Art Wynwood. She had a much praised solo exhibition, "Dark Continents", at the Dina Mitrani Gallery in Wynwood, Miami last spring. She also recently had solo exhibitions at The Consulate of Argentina in New York, The Deering Estate at Cutler, Miami, and The Gato Gallery, Barry University

She has been part of several group shows at museums and cultural institutions such as: The Boca Raton Museum, The Appleton Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Museum of Florida Art, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Girls Club Collection of Contemporary Art, and Centro Cultural Espanol Miami.Her work is included in the Bunnen Collection, Atlanta, The Girl’s Club Collection of Art, Fort Lauderdale, The LOWE Museum at the University of Miami and various important private collections.

She was awarded “Best in Show” at Biennial Six - Museum of Florida Art; 2012 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Grant Finalist and Photoclucida’s Critical Mass Finalist, 2012.

Marina lives and works in Miami Beach.