Mariana S. Morais is a Brazilian-born visual artist, mother, and photographer based in New York, working in landscape, still life, and 19th century photographic processes. Her work is concerned with memory, materiality, and attention: what it means to look at something carefully and to say that it was here.
She holds a BFA in Photography and Imaging and a BA in Psychology with a minor in LGBTQ Studies, Magna Cum Laude, from Queens College, CUNY, and is currently pursuing an MA in Museum Studies at New York University.
Her practice includes gum bichromate, chemigram, cyanotype, platinum, and silver gelatin printing alongside digital work, and every material choice carries conceptual weight. Recent series include Still Here: On Winter and Endurance, which uses winter landscape as a figure for persistence; Filament, on the small structures that hold things together; and Remains, a still life series on objects at the end of their use.
She also works with cultural institutions on collection photography and archival digitization, and lives on Long Island with her family.