Fabio Marinho is a Brazilian visual artist based in Fargo, North Dakota. After nearly two decades working in education, technology, and innovation, he chose in 2015 to dedicate himself fully to painting, a practice that had accompanied him since childhood and gradually became central to how he investigates perception and experience.

His early work explored musicians, cultural figures, and portraiture, gradually expanding into a broader investigation of perception, identity, time, and the subtle structures through which we understand ourselves and the world. Working fluidly between figuration and abstraction, his paintings do not seek to illustrate ideas, but to remain present within an ongoing process of inquiry.

Fabio's practice is intuitive and deeply attentive to observation. Rather than beginning with predetermined concepts or narratives, each painting develops through perception itself, allowing color, gesture, texture, and form to emerge as part of a continuous investigation into awareness and experience.

His paintings are held in private collections across more than ten countries, including numerous commissioned works created from photographs that preserve family histories, transitions, and personal memories.

Fabio is currently developing Emerging Coherence, an ongoing body of work investigating the dissolution of the structures through which we perceive ourselves and reality. The series explores what remains when identity, duality, certainty, separation, and linear time begin to lose their apparent solidity.

In 2025, he received the Committee Choice Award for his portrait Marie Curie and the Public Appreciation Award for Light on the Past at the Hawley Art Show in Minnesota.

Selected Exhibitions

• ExpoArte SP (28th Edition), São Paulo, Brazil, 2022
• Arte Senza Confini, La Pigna Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2022
• Diversidades, Novotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2023
• Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, United States, 2025
• Hawley Art Show, Minnesota, United States, 2026

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