Annie Marini- Genzon * Multidisciplinary Artist Painting, Sculpture, Drawing & Installation.
Personal Statement
As a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, and installation, I create visual narratives that explore memory, migration, identity, resilience, and our connection to the natural world. My practice is rooted in storytelling, weaving together personal experience, cultural heritage, and the collective histories that shape communities and generations.
Through human and animal sculptures, vessels, seascapes, and organic forms, I explore themes of memory, migration, belonging, transformation, and renewal. I am drawn to the spaces between the visible and the invisible, where personal histories, collective narratives, and the natural world converge. By combining clay, paper, found objects, and organic materials, I create layered works that embody traces of time, place, and lived experience. These sculptural narratives preserve memories, emotions, and cultural connections, honoring the resilience, adaptability, and regenerative power found in both people and nature.
My work is inspired by journeys—both physical and emotional—and by the resilience of people and landscapes that endure change. Whether reflecting on migration, ancestral memory, environmental transformation, or the cycles of growth and regeneration found in nature, I seek to create contemplative spaces where viewers can connect their own stories to broader human experiences.
Ultimately, my work invites reflection on what we carry with us: our histories, dreams, losses, hopes, and enduring capacity for renewal. Through form, texture, color, and symbolism, I aim to create artworks that encourage curiosity, empathy, and a deeper awareness of the connections that bind us to one another and to the world around us.
Bio
Annie Marini-Genzon is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and installation. Grounded in narrative, her work explores memory, identity, migration, and emotional experience through symbolic and process-driven forms. Drawing from personal history and collective human narratives, she investigates the visible and invisible dimensions of lived experience.
The body, particularly the female figure, serves as a recurring site of emotional inscription and memory. Rather than functioning solely as representation, the figure becomes a vessel through which histories, sensations, and states of transformation are conveyed. Through layered surfaces, tactile textures, and labor-intensive processes, Marini-Genzon’s works embody time, presence, and material transformation. Moving fluidly between figuration and abstraction, her paintings and sculptures invite sustained engagement and contemplative viewing.
Marini-Genzon has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions at museums and cultural institutions including the Oceanside Museum of Art, Ontario Museum of Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Zimmer Children’s Museum, where she was commissioned to create a series of sculptures exploring The Art of Music, The Art of Vision, The Art of Communication, and The Art of Harmony. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Novosibirsk State Art Museum in Russia, the Asociación Cultural Ruiz Aznar in Granada, Spain, and the Premio Concurso Internacional de Artes Plásticas “Compositor Antonio Guada” in Granada, Spain. Her work is also held in private and public collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Education
Marini-Genzon began her formal art education in Argentina at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano (National Institute of the Arts), where she earned a BFA, and at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), Prilidiano Pueyrredón (National University of the Arts), where she earned an MFA. During her graduate studies, she was mentored by renowned sculptor Antonio Pujía.
After relocating to the United States, she continued her studies in visual arts in Pasadena, California, under the guidance of Philip Cornelius, Carlos Ramirez, and Emily Sudd.
She subsequently pursued further studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she earned a master’s degree in Gifted and Talented Education.
Awards, Grants, Residencies
2026-laws artist tresidency LAWS (Los Angeles Wildfire Survivors) Artist Residency
Pilchuck Glass School- Washington State- September / October 2026.
2026- July - Eutopia Residency, Kavala, Greece- July/ August 2026.
2024- Mid Valley League Scholarship, Pasadena, California.
2023- Pasadena Arts Alliance Scholarship, Pasadena, California.
2023- William C. Miller Scholarship. Pasadena, California.
2004-2008- Premi Internacionazionali Delle Arti "Memoria Lucia Martinez" Asociación cultural Ruiz Aznar - Granada, Spain.
2005- Diploma de Accésit – Premio Concurso Internacional de Artes Plásticas
"Compositor Antonio Guada" Granada, Spain.
2006-Celentano Art Center- Naples, Italy.
2008-Centro de Arte Rodriguez- Amat- Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain.
Honors
2008 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Vision, website, and promotional materials.
2007 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Harmony, website, and promotional materials.
2006 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Time, website, and promotional materials.
2005 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Communication, website, and promotional materials.
2005- City of Los Angeles -Office of the City Attorney- Certificate of Appreciation Honoring Ana Marini- Genzon,
Artist-Educator.
2024-United States Senate - State of California. Certificate of Commendation.
Annie is represented by:
Matter Studio Gallery
Los Angeles, California
https://matterstudiogallery.com/
Los Angeles Art Association- Gallery 825
Los Angeles, California www.laaa.org
Jorge Mendez Gallery
Palm Springs, Scottsdale, Arizona.
www.jorgemendezgallery.com
Grand Street Arts
former Gallery, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
www.grandstreetarts.com
New Mexico Women in the Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
https://newmexicowomeninthearts.org/
Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art (SCWCA)
https://www.scwca.org/
Annie Marini-Genzon is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and installation. Grounded in narrative, her work explores memory, identity, migration, and emotional experience through symbolic and process-driven forms. Drawing from personal history and collective human narratives, she investigates the visible and invisible dimensions of lived experience.
The body, particularly the female figure, serves as a recurring site of emotional inscription and memory. Rather than functioning solely as representation, the figure becomes a vessel through which histories, sensations, and states of transformation are conveyed. Through layered surfaces, tactile textures, and labor-intensive processes, Marini-Genzon’s works embody time, presence, and material transformation. Moving fluidly between figuration and abstraction, her paintings and sculptures invite sustained engagement and contemplative viewing.
Marini-Genzon has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions at museums and cultural institutions including the Oceanside Museum of Art, Ontario Museum of Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Zimmer Children’s Museum, where she was commissioned to create a series of sculptures exploring The Art of Music, The Art of Vision, The Art of Communication, and The Art of Harmony. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Novosibirsk State Art Museum in Russia, the Asociación Cultural Ruiz Aznar in Granada, Spain, and the Premio Concurso Internacional de Artes Plásticas “Compositor Antonio Guada” in Granada, Spain. Her work is also held in private and public collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Education
Marini-Genzon began her formal art education in Argentina at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano (National Institute of the Arts), where she earned a BFA, and at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), Prilidiano Pueyrredón (National University of the Arts), where she earned an MFA. During her graduate studies, she was mentored by renowned sculptor Antonio Pujía.
After relocating to the United States, she continued her studies in visual arts in Pasadena, California, under the guidance of Philip Cornelius, Carlos Ramirez, and Emily Sudd.
She subsequently pursued further studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she earned a master’s degree in Gifted and Talented Education.
Awards, Grants, Residencies
2026-laws artist tresidency LAWS (Los Angeles Wildfire Survivors) Artist Residency
Pilchuck Glass School- Washington State- September / October 2026.
2026- July - Eutopia Residency, Kavala, Greece- July/ August 2026.
2024- Mid Valley League Scholarship, Pasadena, California.
2023- Pasadena Arts Alliance Scholarship, Pasadena, California.
2023- William C. Miller Scholarship. Pasadena, California.
2004-2008- Premi Internacionazionali Delle Arti "Memoria Lucia Martinez" Asociación cultural Ruiz Aznar - Granada, Spain.
2005- Diploma de Accésit – Premio Concurso Internacional de Artes Plásticas
"Compositor Antonio Guada" Granada, Spain.
2006-Celentano Art Center- Naples, Italy.
2008-Centro de Arte Rodriguez- Amat- Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain.
Honors
2008 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Vision, website, and promotional materials.
2007 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Harmony, website, and promotional materials.
2006 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Time, website, and promotional materials.
2005 - Zimmer Museum: The Art of Communication, website, and promotional materials.
2005- City of Los Angeles -Office of the City Attorney- Certificate of Appreciation Honoring Ana Marini- Genzon,
Artist-Educator.
2024-United States Senate - State of California. Certificate of Commendation.
Annie is represented by:
Matter Studio Gallery
Los Angeles, California
https://matterstudiogallery.com/
Los Angeles Art Association- Gallery 825
Los Angeles, California www.laaa.org
Jorge Mendez Gallery
Palm Springs, Scottsdale, Arizona.
www.jorgemendezgallery.com
Grand Street Arts
former Gallery, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
www.grandstreetarts.com
New Mexico Women in the Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
https://newmexicowomeninthearts.org/
Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art (SCWCA)
https://www.scwca.org/
