Mariana Morais is a New York-based visual artist, mother, and researcher exploring memory, materiality, and the ethics of witnessing.

She holds a BFA in Photography & Imaging and a BA in Psychology with a minor in LGBTQ Studies from CUNY Queens College and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Museum Studies.

Her artistic practice spans 19th-century alternative photographic processes: gum bichromate, chemigrams, and darkroom work, where every material choice carries conceptual weight. She moves slowly through landscapes, spending quiet hours in solitude to capture what it feels like to be truly present. Her photographic series Still Here: On Winter and Endurance uses winter landscapes as metaphor for human persistence and survival.