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Nadja Verena Marcin
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</ref> Early life and education Marcin was born on October 28, 1982, in Würzburg, Germany to a family of German and Slovakian descent. In 2010, she graduated with a Master of Visual Arts from the School of the Arts at Columbia University in New York in 2010, and received a Diploma of Fine Arts with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster. Art career Marcin is the recipient of the New York State Council for the Arts Grant in Film, Media and Technology for her first feature film, Pocahontas Returns. Her work was highlighted in an exhibition at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, featuring all entrees for the Climate Change Action Award. for which she received the Art Fair Goers Award for Best Booth. The same year she also participated in the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. In 2016/17 Marcin was granted with a Franklin Furnace grant for her performance and video-sculpture OPHELIA that lead to a world-wide and ongoing tour of the ecofeminist artwork, comparing the history of hysteria with the destruction of the biosphere. A video sculpture of her architectural, interdisciplinary performance was presented by the New York-based 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel at CONTEXT Art Miami in 2017. In 2018, during a live performance at Fridman Gallery in New York, she immersed herself in a salt-water solution in a life-size stainless steel sarcophagus. Notable work *2009, Singing in the rain *2013, Zero Gravity *2014, La Mujer *2015, Jedi *2015, Bride *2016, How to Undress in Front of Your Husband a remake of a Hollywood 1937 exploitative short film by Dwain Esper showing the alleged “dos” and “don’ts” of a woman undressing in front of her husband. *2017-present, Ophelia a live performance and digital sculpture module on a world tour which first premiered at Context Art Miami in December 2017. 
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