Trinidadian multimedia artist Mahrinnart (aka Marinna Shareef) completed her Fine Arts degree at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago) in 2018. She has exhibited at the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago and was a part of the Emerging Artists group exhibition during Carifesta in 2019.
Shareef was a recipient of the Catapult Arts Grant in 2022 and won the best new media award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF) in 2023. In 2021, Shareef further explored her craft at the Momentum virtual recent graduate residency and continued to do so as the sole recipient of the Alice yard x The Caribbean Digital Residency in 2022.
She is in the process of completing her three part exhibition series and will finish it with an installation at The Frame Shop, Woodbrook in Trinidad and Tobago. Mahrinna continues to use both mixed media painting and digital media to explore her experience being an indo-caribbean woman and to navigate her thoughts and emotions on cyclic trauma and bipolar disorder.