Artist Bio
Annika Marthinuss is a Maryland-based artist with a BA in art education and an MFA in studio art from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has taught many workshops for adults and children focusing on process art and expressive art practices. In fall 2023, she was an Openshaw artist in residence at Maryland Hall in Annapolis, where she exhibited a solo show entitled “Interoception” at the end of her residency. She has participated in various group shows throughout Maryland, including the National Juried Exhibition at the Delaplaine in Frederick, Maryland, as well as shows throughout the country, with recent participation in a show in New York City called 99.99 at the Blanc. She creates artwork and spaces that consider inclusivity, community, and care, building awareness, acceptance, and advocacy of chronic pain and disability.
Artist Statement
I am an autistic and disabled artist who works with acrylic paint, textiles, collage, trash, plaster, and other media. I explore mental health, neurodivergence, disability, and chronic pain within my art and process. My work is a part of me, a self-portrait of sorts, though not always directly. I explore interiority and exteriority in emotions and persona. How a person looks on the outside is not always how they appear on the inside. I am also interested in masking and camouflage, and how parts of myself remain hidden. I like layering these hidden and exposed parts on top of each other through moments of collage and glazed layers of paint. I am interested in perception – how my view of myself differs from how others view me. Pain and limitations of my body and my disabilities affect how I am viewed within society. People in pain are often ignored, dismissed invisible, expected to justify their pain, especially if it is not physically visible. I’m not interested in giving information in spoken words, I want my language to be visual and written and quiet. I didn’t identify with the label “disabled” for a while, but then it became an explanation, an answer, an identity, a community. Finally knowing why I had the symptoms, the diagnoses and answers I keep getting, and finally understanding that my pain was never normal. And then allowing rest and healing.
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Education
MFA in Studio Art, 2025
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
BA in Art Education, Summa Cum Laude, 2020
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
Classes & Workshops Taught
Spring 2024. Surface Application/Texture Mini Workshop. Graduate Teaching Internship at MICA for Collage & Assemblage Class
Spring 2024. Image Transfer Mini Workshop. Graduate Teaching Internship at MICA for Collage & Assemblage Class
Fall 2023. Saturday Art Studio. Howard County Center for the Arts
August 14-18. Process and Action Art & Cardboard Creations. Howard County Center for the Arts
August 7-11, 2023. Yarn It & Process and Action Art. Howard County Center for the Arts
July 31-August 4, 2023. Creative Crafts & Fashions and Cardboard Creations. Howard County Center for the Arts
April 2023. Mother’s Day Printmaking Party. Howard County Center for the Arts
February 2023. Valentine’s Printmaking Party. Howard County Center for the Arts
Winter 2023. Saturday Art Studio. Howard County Center for the Arts
September 2022. Process Art for Adults. Howard County Center for the Arts
Fall 2022. Saturday Art Studio. Howard County Center for the Arts
August 1-5, 2022. Cardboard Creations Camp & Patchwork Paradise Camp. Howard County Center for the Arts
July 25-29, 2022. Printmaking Party Camp & Process and Action Art Camp. Howard County Center for the Arts
April 28, 2022. Mother’s Day Printmaking Party. Howard County Center for the Arts
Spring 2022. Saturday Art Studio. Howard County Center for the Arts
February 3, 2022. Valentine’s Day Printmaking Party. Howard County Center for the Arts
Fall 2021. Saturday Art Studio. Howard County Center for the Arts
July 6-9, 2021. Substitute Teacher – Printmaking Party Camp. Howard County Center for the Arts
Shows and Events
Solo Exhibitions:
November 2 – December 23, 2023. Interoception. Maryland Hall. Annapolis, MD.
March 4 – March 15, 2020. Layers. The College of New Jersey. Ewing, NJ. https://tcnjartgallery.tcnj.edu/2020/02/18/bfa-senior-solo-show-session-v/
Group Exhibitions:
November 7, 2024 -January 19, 2025. Off the Web at the Peale. Baltimore, Maryland.
October 31-November 20, 2024. A Place To Take Up Space. Rosenberg Gallery, Fox Building. Baltimore, Maryland
September 28-October 20, 2024. What you Hope is Beneath your Skin. Persons Unknown Gallery. Los Angeles, California.
July 12-July 17, 2024. I am home to many. MICA. Baltimore, Maryland https://www.mica.edu/events-exhibitions/current-upcoming-exhibitions/details/2nd-3rd-year-mfast-exhibition-2024/
June 29-30, 2024. 99.99. theBlanc. New York, New York
May 4-July 7, 2024. National Juried Exhibition. Delaplaine. Frederick, Md
April 12-May 4, 2024. Blossoms of Hope Theme Invitational Show: Courage unfolding through darkness and light. Columbia Art Center. Columbia, MD
November 3-25, 2023. Greenspace. Fischman Gallery. Johnson City, TN
November 2-13, 2023. Forgotten Places. MILLEPIANI. Rome, Italy
July 14-19, 2023. Outside In. Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
November 1 – December 13, 2019. Art Howard County 2019. Howard County Center for the Arts. Ellicott City, MD
July 2019. Paint it Ellicott City Open Paint. Howard County Center for the Arts. Ellicott City, MD
July 2017. Paint it Ellicott City Open Paint. Howard County Center for the Arts. Ellicott City, MD. Emerging Artist Award
hocoarts.org/paint-ellicott-city-2017-awards-announced/
Curatorial Projects:
January 24-March 2025. Mind + Care. Maryland Hall. Annapolis, MD.
Artist Talks:
January 24, 2025. Mind + Care Artist Panel. Maryland Hall. Annapolis, MD.
Residencies:
September-December 2023. Openshaw Artist in Residence. Maryland Hall. Annapolis, MD. https://www.marylandhall.org/galleries/artist-studios/
Art Markets:
September 7, 2023. WTMD’s First Thursdays x Baker Artist
Publications:
2024. HNDL Joy Issue – Simplicity https://www.flipsnack.com/89F7E966AED/hndl-mag-issue-3-joy-quartet-simplicity/full-view.html
2024. HNDL BAR (Bold and Reflective) Volume 1
https://www.flipsnack.com/89F7E966AED/18-hndl-bar-bold-and-reflective-vol-1/full-view.html
2022. Made in Isolation. Online.
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