Maria Lino
Maria Lino was born in Havana, Cuba. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts from Florida International University. Maria is a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, a two-time recipient of the Oscar B. Cintas Fellowship, and a 2023 Ellies Creator Award grantee. As a multidisciplinary visual artist, she employs drawing, printmaking, text, video, dance, and textiles, to express her artistic concepts. She is particularly interested in the rhythmic repetition of movement, especially of human hands, often resulting in individual and group portraits of the manual labor of those frequently overlooked: women, people with disabilities, migrants and immigrants.
On February, 2025, Maria has been invited to a solo exhibition at Florida International University’s Miami Beach Visual Arts Gallery. Her work has also been published in “Centerpoint Now: Are We There Yet?” of the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (WCPUN; 2020). Her video “Ritmos Ancestrales” was screened during the Smithsonian Institution’s 2022 Mother Tongue Film Festival, and both “Ritmos Ancestrales” and “Tapo Pan/Tapo Bread” are presented under the Indigenous Lifeways segment of The Streaming Museum (2024).
Maria’s work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions.
