Marina Núñez facts for kids

Marina Núñez (born 1966) is a Spanish artist, a professor, and a writer. Her artworks are shown in many important museums around the world. These include the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Artium in Vitoria, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.

Learning and Education

Marina Núñez studied art at two universities in Spain. She earned her first degree in fine arts from the University of Salamanca. Later, she completed her PhD in fine arts at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

Artistic Career and Work

"Untitled (madness)", 1996, oil on canvas, Marina Núñez

Marina Núñez first showed her art in the early 1990s. Her early paintings often showed images of women, sometimes called madwomen or monsters. She used these images to explore ideas about women's identities and how society sees them. This was a big topic in art and feminism during the 1960s and 70s.

Over time, Marina Núñez started to mix her oil painting with new digital art techniques. From the early 2000s, she began using 2D and 3D digital tools for both still pictures and videos. Her art also started to include themes from science fiction and horror. She still used ideas from medical images and was inspired by art styles like Baroque and Surrealism.

Marina Núñez's art often shows what she calls "posthuman identities." These are images of bodies that are changing, mixing, or multiplying. They explore ideas like: "I am myself and my other." This means looking at how we can be many things at once: body and image, male and female, normal and strange, human and machine, or even from Earth and alien.

See also

In Spanish: Marina Núñez para niños