Mariana Oushiro

b. 1992, São Gotardo, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lives and works in New York, USA

Mariana Oushiro’s pictorial language is rooted in the choreography of movement and shaped by the artist’s ability to remain exquisitely in tune with her own subconscious. Her gestural marks are powerful but intimate, with the flow of each stroke revealing a simultaneously cerebral and intuitive approach to line, colour, and composition. Oushiro draws inspiration from elements of the natural world and her belief in a higher natural order. In conjuring her paintings, she draws upon her impressions of the topographies of agricultural landscapes in Brazil, the sensation of buoyancy in water, sacred geometries, architecture, and science. Her family’s heritage, originating in Japan and Brazil, informs her philosophical and aesthetic frameworks, and has shaped the development of her artistic language as an idiom of abstraction.

Mariana Oushiro received her Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from the Faculdade Santa Marcelina-FASM, São Paulo, in 2014. She then studied in New York at the Minerva Studio in 2016, and at The Art Students League of New York in 2019, where she was granted the Merit Scholarship. She had her first institutional solo exhibition at the Museum de Arte Brasileira in 2023, and two solo shows at Vito Schnabel Gallery in 2022 and 2023. Her works have been included in numerous exhibitions, including the Every Women Biennial at LaMaMa Galleria in New York, USA (2019), Private Exhibition, curated by Annie Wang, in Tribeca, New York, USA (2018), and Moveis Brasil, at the Pinheiros in São Paulo, Brazil (2017).