Portuguese American Artists Gallery



Marina Carreira

Newark, NJ


Marina Carreira (she/her/hers) is a queer Luso-American writer and multimedia artist from Newark, NJ. She is the author of “Save the Bathwater” (Get Fresh Books, 2018) and “I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Marina is a recipient of the Sundres Academy for the Arts Summer 2021 Residency fellowship and a finalist in the Platypus Pres Broken River Prize 2020. As a visual artist, she has exhibited her work at Morris Museum, ArtFront Galleries, West Orange Arts Council, Monmouth University Center for the Arts, and Living Incubator Performance Space {LIPS} in the Gateway Project Spaces in Newark, NJ.

email: mcarreira282@hotmail.com
Follow her on Instagram at @savethebathwater.







As a creative, Marina Carreira’s work investigates gender/sexual, cultural/social identity as it relates to urban, immigrant and first-generation spaces and centers on various subjects and themes, mostly comprising of family dynamics, motherhood, spirituality as a form of dissent, intersectional feminism and activism, the bicultural and queer self, the “female” body and sex positivity, the dangers of capitalism, white privilege, and the struggles of mental health and addiction.



Our Lady of Newark/ Madonna as BLM, 2020
mixed media, 9 x 12’


Luso-American Dream, 2017
digital photo collage



Luso-American Dream II, 2017
digital photo collage





Heroinas, 2020
mixed media, 16 x 20’


Nazarena Desfeita, 2020
mixed media, 16 x 20’



Waiting on the Sun, 2019
mixed media, 9 x 12’

Our Lady of The Revolution, 2018
mixed media, 11 x 16’



I have a fire in my chest, 2019
mixed media, 9 x 12’

But it doesn’t burn me, 2019
mixed media, 9 x 12’


Alfama I, 2020 
mixed media, 9 x 12’