Marina Kuchinski
Marina Kuchinski is a visual artist and educator based in the Chicago area. Her work encompasses sculpture, ceramics, mixed media and installation. She primarily handbuilds and occasionally slip-casts animal and human forms. Through various bodies of work, she explores the intersection of animality, humanity, and objecthood—inviting viewers to contemplate boundaries between species and social constructs. Her figurative forms, deeply rooted in posthumanist and feminist ecological thought, provoke reflection on the process of transformation and the shared vulnerability of living beings.
Kuchinski has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, including Museu Can Tinturé in Spain, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, European Cultural and Technological Centre in Slovenia, and Beit Aharon Kahana in Israel. In the US, she has exhibited at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Randall Museum, The International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Albuquerque Museum, Susquehanna Art Museum, and premiere NCECA exhibitions, including the NCECA Biennial and NCECA Annual.
Her work has been featured in publications including Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Art and Perception, New Ceramics, Ceramics Now, Szkło i Ceramika, The Boston Globe, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Kuchinski has received numerous grants and awards, including Jerome and McKnight grants and was invited as a guest artist at a number of colleges and universities. Kuchinski has been an artist-in-residence at the Kohler Arts Center, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Chester Springs Studio, Northern Clay Center, New Harmony Clay Project, and Punch Projects.
Born in Latvia and raised in Israel, she earned her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and her MFA from Penn State University. She has taught as a full-time art professor at St. Cloud State University and the College of DuPage.
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