About Marina

 “The most surprising gift the creative process offers is the joy of the unknown and realization that the unknown is joyous. As we learn about the process and from the actual experience of creativity, we teach ourselves to consciously cultivate creativity within us to then transfer it onto the world outside of ourselves.”

 “Complete creative abandonment lets you tap into the child essence of yourself, when you are still capable of looking at the world with wonder and amazement unmarred by any past experiences and narratives.”

 “My current body of work explores multitudes of states of being and consciousness, transitions through one state to the next, examining the fine line between ordinary and non-ordinary reality of the human mind-soul complex.”

“The very process of creating art is a sacred space/time, where one engages in the most intimate dialogue with oneself, that lays groundwork for the emergence of newness.”

Marina Reiter is a fine artist working in the Greater NYC area. Born in Moscow, Russia, she studied painting and stone carving at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington DC and received her MA in Cultural Studies of Asia, Middle East and Africa from the Moscow State University.

 She exhibited in numerous art venues nationally and internationally, to name a few: Museum of Young Art in Vienna, Austria; Shanghai Art Fair in Shanghai, China; Berliner Liste in Berlin, Germany; Affordable Art Fair in Brussels, Belgium; Women in the Arts Museum of the Americas in Doral, Florida; Satellite Art Fair Miami; Select NYC art fair; Beijing Art Show in Beijing, China; Hong Kong Art Fair in Hong Kong, China, Art Monaco in Monaco, Monte Carlo; Art Hamptons NY.

 Her artwork is in private, public and museum collections in the US and abroad. Her work from the series Persephone’s Garden was acquired by the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities for their permanent art bank collection. She published several research articles on Taoism in Russia, and she is a member of Michael Harner’s Foundation for Shamanic Studies.