Marina Gioti
Artist-in-Residence
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BEng University of Patras; MSc Brunel University; MA National and Capodistrian University of Athens
Research Websites: Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
Research Areas: Artistic Research; Art and Science; Environmental Science; Ocean studies; Ocean Sensing; Blue humanities; Maritime History; Archaeology of the Recent Past
Marina Gioti is a visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in Athens, Greece. With a background in Chemical Engineering and postgraduate studies in Environmental Science (MSc) and Media & Communication (MA), she moves fluidly across disciplines and media. Combining artistic, archival, and scientific research with observation and storytelling, her practice lies at the intersection of art, science, politics, and the environment. Her films and installations frequently revisit history, offering parallel readings to dominant narratives. Her current research features a cross-disciplinary examination of the ocean, addressing its ecological challenges and possibilities of regeneration through narratives of navigation and maritime disaster.
Her works have been presented at major film festivals, including Toronto and Berlinale, as well as in museums, biennials, and art platforms worldwide, and are held in both museum and private collections. In 2017, she participated in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She has received commissions and held residencies at Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2017), IRCAM–Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018–2019), Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2023–24), and Onassis AiR, Beirut and Athens (2019 and 2022). She is the laureate of the 2022 Prix COAL-Océans, an art and ecology award conferred by Fondation François Sommer/ Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris. Her work has been recently featured in The Ocean Manifesto (JBE Books/ Fonds Metis, Paris, 2025), a book published on the occasion of the UN Ocean Decade Conference (UNOC3) held in Nice in June 2025. In September 2025, she joined the NYUAD Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) as Artist-in-Residence.