Artist Biography

2022- 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 investigating socio-cultural phenomena which implicate deviant behaviours and identities structures, celebrating complexity, power and beauty in the truth and imperfections of life fragments.

Marino’s works have been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions including internationally in group and solo exhibitions including, Yves Saint Laurent, Rive Droite (Los Angeles, 2024) Rak Art festival (Dubai, 2025) Wales International Festival (2024-2025) Casa Azul (Gordola, 2023-2024) Photo London x Hahnemühle Students Awards (London 2024) Liquida Festival (Turin, 2024) Copeland Gallery (London, 2022), TATE Modern (London 2022), Ffotogallery, (Cardiff 2022-2023) SERCHIA Gallery (Bristol 2023)

Collaborative Curations: New Moons, Griffith Gallery (2023) Blessing of Ruins, Casa Azul (2023) Soft Cover, Stiwdio Griffith (May 2025) Paterfamilias, Copeland Gallery (2022) Virgins on the Cross, Alex Building (2023)Copeland Gallery (London, 2022)