Marina Mangubi was born in Moscow and grew up in California.  A painter, printmaker and installation artist, Mangubi works on thematic projects that probe hidden meanings in familiar historical and philosophical constructs.  Her visual and performance art series, titled Painting Biathlon, posits an artist as an athlete.  Launched at Banff, Painting Biathlon combines cross-country skiing and painting—referencing the endurance sport with military roots and millennia-old history of hunting on skis, in the Altay Mountains of Asia and in Northern Europe.  Currently, she is collaborating with the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, in Wausau, Wisconsin, and the Wausau Nordic Club on staging a Painting Biathlon Race, scheduled for February, 2027.  Mangubi holds an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Art and in Psychology (Neuroscience), and an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, including Albania, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Spain and Uzbekistan, and is in permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Museum of Art in Oregon, Kala Institute in Berkeley, and University Sains School for the Arts in Penang, Malaysia.  Mangubi has participated in numerous residencies, including the Banff Centre Leighton Colony, Canada, Siena Art Institute, Italy, Joshua Tree National Park, and Breckenridge Creative Arts, and was the artist fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.  Her Camargo fellowship project, Eight Board Feet, inspired by the Northern Baroque Landscape tradition and concomitant discoveries in mathematics, was profiled on French national television. Music “on the Bones”, the series of prints about records cut on discarded X-rays in the wake of WWII, received wide recognition in television and print media.  Marina Mangubi is based in Wooster, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She is Eugene and Charlene Derge Sussel Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at The College of Wooster.