Intersectional classifications: Queer, Disabled, Immigrant, Intersectional Feminist

Focus: Digital + Analog Collage, Mixed Media, Film + Digital photography, Illustration, and Kintsugi

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Gina-Marie Cincinnati is an American mixed-media artist currently based in the UK. She was born in New York in 1981 and grew up in Maryland before settling in Baltimore, Maryland, to attend Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999. She graduated in 2003 with a BFA in Graphic Design and concentrations in Photography and Digital Art. After graduating with a BFA, she quickly fell into work that was neither creative nor artistic. What followed were years of trying to find her artistic voice.

She moved to Germany in 2009 to live and work until 2013. In Germany, she focused primarily on film photography but started having ideas for new projects utilizing Japanese Chiyogami paper. She eventually landed in Tokyo, Japan, in 2014, where she pursued an active art career alongside her work as an educator.

Only after she found herself living in Tokyo could she entirely separate (both physically and emotionally) from all that had been holding her back. The work started with reclaiming derogatory language used against people identifying as female in typographic paintings. Then it progressed to collage and mixed media using her own and found photographs, acrylic paint and gouache, and Japanese papers.

The original Chiyogami Portraits series results from a 20+ year obsession with chiyogami and photography. These collages are the intersection of the permanent and the fragile, the temporary and the immortal. What was, what is, and what will be. Starting with the subject, the image is taken, printed, and protected with gel medium. From there, the paper is arranged meditatively, with and without meaning or assignment, cut quickly, and stuck into place. The process is quick and chaotic, a reflection of the randomness and spontaneity of the now. Once completed, they stand as one possible representation of a person; a life lived and dreamed.

In 2023, she focused on making the artworks she would exhibit at the XIV Florence Biennale, which took place from October 14 to 23 in Florence, Italy. She consciously decided to work larger and create works using more than just the original Chiyogami and Washi papers she’d used with the earlier Chiyogami Portraits series. This was a new period of expansion for her and one she had not yet completed.

Gina relocated to the UK with her cats and husband in September 2023. After a successful showing at the XIV Florence Biennale, she found herself in a new country, on new medications, moving towards more extensive mixed-media pieces that continue to focus on the passage of time, our experience of time, self-actualization, womxn’s issues, modern capitalist and consumerist culture, crisis or disaster fatigue, and the attention span of modern humans. She is moving away from her past’s two-dimensional work to create the three-dimensional works she has had in mind since 2004.

She co-founded the Folding Chair Coven, an international, intersectional womxn’s art group, in October 2023.

Currently seeking representation.

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EDUCATION

Maryland Institute College of Art: BFA, 2003
1200 Mount Royal Ave  Baltimore  MD  21217
Graphic Design and Photography, concentrations in Digital Media and Web

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AWARDS

Visual Art Open 2025
Longlisted: Afterlife

Doncaster Art Fair
On display: Afterlife
Doncaster, UK, July 29 – August 22 2024
Curator’s Choice Award

Visionary Art Collective: Emergence:
Virtual Exhibition, June  2023
Honorable Mention

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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Lifebridge Center For Hope
5400 Preakness Way, Baltimore, MD 21215
Featured works: 21. Mother and Child (Madonna), 43. Yogen no tori.
(December, 2021)

200+ artworks sold to individual collectors

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PUBLICATIONS/FEATURED

Unshared Stories artist feature post, August 2024

Art Supply Posse podcast episode 191 interview, aired July 14, 2024

Art Supply Posse podcast episode 183 interview, aired March 2, 2024

Ending the Stigma of Disability in the Art World, interview with Phil Hewitt for The Sussex Express, published January 19, 2024

Where are the Women Artists? Instagram account takeover, October 1, 2023

Art Supply Posse podcast episode 164 interview, aired June 7, 2023

Where Are the Women Artists? site and directory, March 2021 – present

Made At Home, by Wide Open Sea, March 2020
Featured work: Caution Crow

A Day in the Life of Goober Maroo, Children’s book: Illustrator, pub. July 2018

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CURATION

Coven: Beyond Borders
On display: Anti-Ero series
Participating artists: Claudia Montes, Benazir Ihsan, Velimna, Lula Cornejo, Cecilia Acevedo, Naomi Freedman, Maria Tripoli, Andrea Latorre Orfebre, Carla Pugliano, Claudia Dieguez, Yoni Chepisheva.
Brighton, UK, October 27 – November 3 2025

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SHOWS

Coven: Beyond Borders
On display: Anti-Ero series
Brighton, UK, October 27 – November 3 2025

Art as a Response to Mental Health
On display: Drugged, Romantic, Send Nudes: Initial Response
Doncaster, UK, June 12 – July 22 2025

Doncaster Art Fair
On display: Afterlife
Doncaster, UK, July 29 – … 2024
Awarded Curator’s Choice Award (August 18, 2024)

Olympians
On display: the Jupiter Overtakes Saturn triptych
Citadel Fine Art Gallery, Dover, UK, July 20 – 29, 2024

Beyond the Scars
On display: Just a Phase
Art Fluent, Boston, MA, USA, June – July 2024

Spectrum of Dreams
On display: Rage, The Dreamer
NuuMuse Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA, June 1 – 30, 2024

Dark Materials Tell Stories
On display: Nostalgia
J/M Gallery, London, April 3 – 9, 2024

XIV Florence Biennale
On display: Jupiter Overtakes Saturn (triptych): Approach, Conjunction, and Transcendence (June 15, 2023)
Florence, Italy, October 14 – 22, 2023

Art Fluent: Inner Sense
On display: Just a Phase (May 4, 2023)
Virtual Exhibition, September 2023

Open House
All current works on display
Tokyo, Japan, September 20 – 21, 2023

Visionary Art Collective: Emergence: Honorable Mention
Virtual Exhibition, June 24, 2023

A Room of One’s Own
Open Studio
All current works on display
Tokyo, Japan, September 21 – 25, 2022

Visceral (International online and VR show)
On display: Rage
M.A.D.S Art Gallery, Corso San Gottardo 18, 20136 Milan, Italy + Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain, June 28 –July 4, 2022

“What have we done… What will we still do?” (solo show)
On display: Chiyogami portraits
Namiki Gallery, Kyobashi, Tokyo, March 3 – 8, 2021

“Art Without Boundaries” (group show)
On display: Untitled, Untitled (photos, scars, MT and MS)
Havre de Grace, MD, July 1 – 31, 2017

“Retrospective” (solo show)
All available printed work on display
Baltimore: Charles Village, October 2009

“Recent Works” (solo show)
On display: “Muses” and “Roofscapes”, Color and B+W photography
Baltimore: Bouillabaisse Cafe, September 2007

“Bolton Hill” (2-person show)
On display: “Bolton Hill”: 3 poster-sized prints, B+W photography
Baltimore: b Bistro, March 2003 – April 2004

“Notebook” (group exhibition)
On display: “Untitled”, Pen and Ink drawing
Baltimore: Artscape, July 2003

“Body : Color // Body : Motion” (group show)
On display: “Body : Color”, Color photography
Baltimore: Jack Wilgus Gallery, June 2003