Fabio Marinho is a Brazilian visual artist based in Fargo, North Dakota. After nearly two decades working in education, technology, and innovation, he transitioned to a full-time artistic practice in 2015, building on a lifelong engagement with drawing and painting.

His practice moves between figuration and abstraction, exploring perception, identity, transformation, and the structures through which we experience ourselves and the world. His paintings are developed through an intuitive process in which color, gesture, texture, and form evolve through sustained observation and experimentation. Rather than illustrating predetermined narratives, Marinho's work invites an open-ended encounter with perception and experience.

His early work focused on musicians, cultural figures, and portraiture before expanding into broader explorations of consciousness, identity, time, and human experience. Portraiture remains an important part of his practice, including commissioned works created from photographs that preserve family histories, relationships, transitions, and personal memories.

Marinho's paintings are held in private collections in more than ten countries. His work has been exhibited in Brazil, Italy, and the United States, including exhibitions at La Pigna Gallery in Rome, ExpoArte SP in São Paulo, and the Hawley Art Show in Minnesota, where he received the Committee Choice Award for Marie Curie and the Public Appreciation Award for Light on the Past in 2025.

In 2026, Marinho participated in the Art Advocates' Exhibition at West Acres in Fargo, North Dakota, where he was also featured in an artist demonstration. His work is currently exhibited at Underbrush Gallery in Fargo.

Marinho is currently developing Emerging Coherence, an ongoing body of work examining the dissolution of the structures through which we perceive identity and reality. The series explores what may emerge as concepts such as duality, certainty, separation, and linear time begin to lose their apparent solidity.

Selected Exhibitions

• Art Advocates' Exhibition, West Acres, Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 2026 - Artist Demonstration
• Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, United States, 2026
• M State Invitational Art Show, Minnesota, United States, 2026
• Essentia Health Atrium Little Art Exhibition, Minnesota, United States, 2026
• Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, United States, 2025
• Diversidades, Novotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2023
• Arte Senza Confini, La Pigna Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2022
• ExpoArte SP, 28th Edition, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022

Awards

• Committee Choice Award — Marie Curie, Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, 2025
• Public Appreciation Award — Light on the Past, Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, 2025

His work is currently exhibited at Underbrush Gallery, Fargo, North Dakota.