Marianna Angel

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CURRENTLY ON VIEW: LUCUMA TEARS, NIA GALLERY

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BIO
Marianna Angel (b. 1995) is a miami-based artist. Her range of mediums intersect at multiple points, in collage, performance and video. Angel depicts intimate gazes into herself and glimpses into memories recalling ephemera. By employing devices of self portraiture, she creates a timeline of moments in suspension. Photography is at the core of her practice which is inherently a voyeuristic medium. By presenting herself as the artist an the subject, she is re-articulating th exhibitionist quality of being photographed. Angel is still present in her non figurative work as the products of her practice are cataloged diary entries. 

STATEMENT
My work deals with the idea of lost identity and how it changes as circumstances evolve around us. These circumstances in particular have been intimate relationships, platonic and romantic. The work transforms from nostalgia to multiple intertwining timelines and I intersect myself in many forms. I am gradually diving deeper into the vagueness of identity. Performance has in a sense allowed a passageway for ego death, creating a personal trance like state in which I separate from my ”flesh prison." But it is no longer about me and my history, instead an opening, a clear but ominous path about something that is hollow and yet to be inhabited. At its core, my practice explores the interconnectedness of the human experience.

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EDUCATION

2018
BA, Art History and Studio Art, FIU, Miami, FL


SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2025
Primer, Edge Zones, Miami, FL (solo- forthcoming)
Lucuma Tears, NIA Gallery, Prague, CZ (solo)

2024
Pulso, Tomas Redrado, Miami, FL (2-person)
Video in Flux, MAS, Miami,  FL (screening)
Young Fresh Different, Zilberman, Miami, FL (group)
uNi2gether4ever, Touche Boutique, Miami, FL (installation)
Open Windows Lead to Inside Voices, Funeral Home, Miami, FL (group)
It Feels Right To Me, Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD (group)

2023
Everything I did, I did for Love, Wedding World, Miami, FL (group)


PERFORMANCES

2025
Star Dream Girl, INC 2/8, Miami, FL 
Star Dream Girl, INC 2/3, Miami, FL 

2024
GRWM, Tomas Redrado, Miami, FL
Girl Heaven, iii Points, Miami,FL (group)
Intimate Acts of Violence, Edge Zones, Miami, FL 


COLLECTIONS
The Girls Club, Ft Lauderdale, FL


PRESS
Miami Magazine May 2025, by Claire Breukel
Ocean Drive Magazine Dec 2024, by Claire Breukel
Miami New Times, by Douglas Markowitz, Aug 9, 2024


HOME / EXHIBITIONS / THE LOBBY / ARCHIVE





09. A stain harder to remove than a tattoo The moon rains from the sky
Settled into a puddle
Iridescent bubbles flutter up to the surface 
Stillness overflows

What is left?
A scene without a light
To slumber without knowing if dreams exist
Somber is the night

Then the puddle reflected back
Refracting my image
Bubbles to shards
Iridescent to dull

What was left?
Remnants of disturbance
To slumber with doubt 
Tearing through darkness 
Endless plight 

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08. Star Dream GirlStar Dream Girl is a durational performance and video series that explores the friction between erotic spectacle and formal abstraction. Through repetitive movement, sound, and process-based mark-making, the artist crushes charcoal with a vibrator, applies the pigment to her body, and generates large-scale danced drawings on paper. These acts unfold live and onscreen, where amplified vibrations and looped drum beats turn ritual into rhythm. What results is an embodied study in labor, voyeurism, and transformation—where the line between the intimate and the performative is purposefully blurred.

Operating in a liminal space between fine art and adult content, this work interrogates the transactional gaze, performative control, and the absurdity of visibility itself. Star Dream Girl is not just an avatar of desire, but a sculptor of gesture, sound, and surface—using the erotic not to seduce meaning, but to undo it.





07. Concrete Poemsno more to see, no more to feel, no more all is left is to heal




06. angels are weeping
god is real and i have seen him god is real and we are beneath him god is real and we can breathe him god is real and he will consume us god is real and he is not a friend god is real and for that i suffer god is real i so i choose the other path because where god is going an angel will lose its wings







05. AshesEmploying elements of dance, Ashes explores the movement of the body and interaction among multiple bodies that bleed into one being. The bodies sway in and out of position while still in synchronized movement. One arm following another, followed by a third, and in this choreography a dance of flesh and surroundings is created. The subjects move in tune to their encompassing background and are aware of space and time-keeping. Like music, the subjects move in harmony. Distorted waves of twinkling sounds envelop the scene, causing uncertainty and chaos but the figures so elegantly continue to follow one another in seemingly organized footwork. Although the figure improvises movements, there is a harmony imbedded in the flesh. Ashes is a reflection of our physical beings falling in line with nature, movements that are organic and genuine because they are not predetermined. The exploration of body and movement play a roll in reaching the ephemeral quality of existence. Ashes is a dance, a song, a mirror of our bodies versus soul and nature.





04. Intimate Acts of ViolenceReferencing Butoh and incorporating music "intimate acts of violence" is a performance of grief and ecstasy. Derailing from the tracks of accepted societa norms and crashing into the bleak, dim limbo; the in between; the twilight of night and day...day and night? Where are we now? How do we read the manuscript of sorrows, of violence, of ending, of relief, of grief? Of me and who I am perceived to be? I shall conduct myself to perform behind a mask, as a puppet of self. Myself? I lost my identity time and time over again, swaying between vices, swaying between destinations swaying between souls. My soul? How many souls can I acquire? I am Chichikov, I am me, and I am many me's all at once. AND the page is turned, onto the next cycle of grief and battle with pain. We travel down the cantos til we reach swee icy ecstasy. Down where Virgil leads Dante. We are here and we are free, this is me and ripples of grief lift around me. I see the light and it is bright. Come through th tunnel, be born again and let me cry my fears away.






03. 11:11no more




02. Novelas

de/a/scending

From Above

based on the telenovelas i would watch with my dear grandmother, may she rest in peace





01. THIS SONG IS BAOUT TAKING OUT THE TRASHcome along with me to a place unplanned