Images left to right:
Top row: Alexander Sandor Breier PEBBLE BOND BREIER, FELICE, FREUD and The Terrorist
Middle row: FUCK YOU FRANCIS GALTON, HAMAS and the grandmas and HAMAS 02, NANA ROCKS
Bottom row: THE BREIERS, YITLER
Marina Heintze works in sculpture and large-scale mixed-media assemblages with socio-political messaging. She focuses on the world’s spectrum of violence, specifically terrorism, sexual violence, Antisemitism, warfare and weapons, cultural propaganda, and disease.
Heintze uses unconventional materials such as ‘Spirit’ stencil paper embedded with ‘Gentian Violet’ (Crystal Violet), known for its intense purple staining and antibacterial properties. Each series dictates her material choices, such as military vests, custom patches, and Bullseye Targets/‘I-voted’ stickers. Heintze’s mixed mediums align directly with her eclectic professional background and diverse interests, such as pathology, forensics, graphic design, production, and tattooing. Politically rooted, she transforms symbols of targets, chemical compounds, hashtags, swimsuits, and state silhouettes into powerful warning signs. Her work is conceptually layered and intricately collaged, emphasizing the pervasive presence of violence in society.
In 2024, she participated in the group exhibition Artists on Antisemitism, presented by the Jewish Art Salon at the 81 Leonard Gallery in TriBeCa, NY. She was selected for a group exhibition, EXH 12, by FLOORR in South London, UK. Her work was featured online on National Public Radio (NPR) Keeping in Touch with Our Ancestors. She showed new works from her “Poli-Ticks” series in a group exhibition ‘Holding Up Half the Sky,’ curated by Alice Teng at Maddox Gallery. In 2022-21, she was selected for NADA’s Online Exhibition, ‘Reset’ by curator María Elena Ortiz of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and received grants from The Puffin Foundation and Mozaik’s ‘Re-imagining Democracy,’ Culver City Arts Foundation ‘Projecting Possibilities’, and Still-Point, a non-profit exhibiting online magazine. A solo exhibition, ‘Kama Shooter’ was shown at The Row DTLA/SPRINGBREAK (2020).
Articles that included her work have been published in ArtNet, HyperAllergic, The New York Magazine, The NY POST, JTA/The NY Jewish Week, HEADS, and Inked Magazine, to name a few.
Marina Heintze was born and raised in New York City. She is Jewish, a dual citizen of Austria and the United States, and the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. She is a CalArts and Parsons The New School for Design graduate and works out of her studio in downtown Los Angeles.
