Artist Biography

2022- Still Present MA Photography Contemporary Dialogues
2019- 2022 BA (HONS) 1st Class, Documentary Photography & Visual Activism at the University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids

Ada Marino is an Italian visual artist based in Wales. Working at the intersection between photography and installation, her practice focuses on past events of her subjects, their memories and traumas that re-emerge and manifest as a form of cynical surrealism.  Often, her disturbing imagery attempts to conceptualise the repulsion/attraction effect in an attempt to reappraise notions of ugliness.

As a woman, mother and visual activist, Marino's practice focuses specifically on women, representing and documenting their experiences. Throughout Marino's practice, she embraces the causes, concerns and gender issues women are subjected to, and the daily stereotypes which women have to fight against. 

Marino’s works have been shown in group exhibitions including Copeland Gallery (London, 2022), TATE Modern (London 2022), Ffotogallery, (Cardiff 2022-2023) LCB Depot Film 2023 as part of FORMAT23 (Leicester 2023) and selected for Sola Journal publication “And Still I Rise” (2023). Marino was awarded the Alan Whatley Prize in 2023 and will exhibit a new body of work 'New Moons' at Stiwdio Griffith, Wales in 2023.