Marina Shaltout’s work combines video, photography, sculpture and installation to create experiential environments. Using parody, her work critiques representations of women throughout mythology, popular culture, and cinema. Shaltout received her MFA from the University of Arizona and her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has completed residencies at the Creative Centre in Stodvarfjordur, Iceland and at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally in venues such as Alte Munze in Berlin, the Cinematograph in Innsbruck Austria, the Living National Treasure Museum in Tokyo, the Czong Institute in South Korea, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, the Red Room in Baltimore, and on a billboard in Hollywood California (as part of the Billboard Creative). Shaltout is a recipient of the Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Award, a Creative Achievement Award, two Medici Scholar project grants, and a Helen Gross award.