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Welcome to the official website of Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly, a contemporary multidisciplinary artist.

Explore her diverse body of work, including original paintings, detailed drawings, immersive sculptures, and innovative installations. Dive into a world of imagination and creativity, and feel free to get in touch with comments, questions, or commission requests.

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OCTOBER 2025

Marianna recently wrapped up a vibrant Art Residency at Roser de Foc, where she exhibited large-scale textile hides in a historic space full of arches and alcoves. With last-minute improvisation and a hot glue breakthrough, the work came together just in time. A playful installation featuring her sewing machine - suggested by Raquel, one of the residency’s visionary hosts - highlighted the spirit of Roser de Foc: a place where process is celebrated over polish, and art unfolds through dialogue, ritual, and shared living. The residency was a whirlwind of making, connecting, and showing work in progress.

During the Roser de Foc residency, Marianna led a mask-making workshop using recycled fabric remnants from my studio practice. Participants, mostly local residents of Vinyols, created imaginative masks after a short introduction to her Fabric Skins series. The session became a lively, collaborative space where people of all ages explored play, transformation, and the joy of making with simple materials.

To mark the experience and celebrate one year of broadcasting, Marianna dedicated her 12th bilingual radio episode of Arts and Culture Hour with Marianna to the residency. The show features interviews with fellow artists and the founders, Raquel and Jordi, whose labyrinthine home and lush garden have become a haven for creative exchange. The episode captures the residency’s essence - generous, irregular, and alive with history. Tune in for reflections on making, place, and the joy of creating together. Marianna also has written about her experiences at the residency in her Substack blog

Radio Program Residency Blog

SEPTEMBER 2025

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SUMMER 2025

I Built a Website With My Bare Hands and a Bit of AI Magic!

This summer, I built this website - not as a portfolio, but as a digital studio: a ritual space, a constellation of fragments, and a site for work that resists tidy categorization. It resides on The Unstitute, under my full name, Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly. Long enough to resist quick consumption. Long enough to stumble over - like a speed bump on the road.

The studio is mostly hand-built, pieced together through experiment, repetition, and the occasional stroke of serendipity. Some pages were hand-coded in my Catalan home, accompanied by the quiet whirring of a fan as the heat outside climbed past forty degrees celsius. Others were shaped in collaboration with AI - at times uncanny, at times delightfully absurd - adding another layer of unpredictability to the process. The crooked edges remain, deliberately - a reminder that the work, like the studio itself, is alive, shifting, and always in motion. sometimes uncanny, sometimes absurd.

Work unfolds across fourteen pages: performance collaborations celebtating 100 years of Surrealism set at Maison André Breton, video shoots in France and Catalonia, sculptural installations, and exhibitions in Spain. Each page is a corner of the studio: provisional, evolving, alive. Contradictions live here: eco-rituals alongside body horror, gothic craft alongside activist jewelry, ancestral geometry alongside digital ghosts. AI entered as provocateur, not author, challenging and unsettling the process.

The digital studio is ongoing. It will glitch, shift, and evolve. Visitors are invited to wander, to explore without expectation. The unfinished is its own form of work. MM-O

AUGUST 2025

Cami d'Art Exhibition / De Souza Gallery
Ermita Sant Sebastià, Cervera del Maestre, Spain

This month, Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly participated in the Camí d’Art group exhibition at De Souza Gallery, held in the historic Ermita Sant Sebastià, perched in the hilltop village of Cervera del Maestre. She exhibited a selection of recent paintings, developed from deep observations of the local landscape of Baix-Ebre, Catalonia. Her work explores dreamlike landscapes that layer memories of the North Caucasus where she grew up with the wild, untamed beauty of Catalonia.

The evening was electric, bringing together an inspiring group of artists and art lovers in a truly magical setting. Special recognition goes to curator Fred de Souza for orchestrating such an extraordinary event.

A highlight of the evening was the video created by Emma Plunkett, AKA VJ Miss Plunkett. A multidisciplinary artist with a background in live video performance, painting, and sculpture, she has performed extensively across Europe, creating immersive visual experiences that combine vibrant, surreal imagery with intuitive, expressive video mixing. Experience the exhibition through Emma Plunkett’s lens in the video below.

📽️ Video and photos by Emma Plunkett
📍 De Souza Gallery, Cervera del Maestre

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