Mani Vertigo Russian, b. 1992

Mani Vertigo is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with paintings, sculptures, and videos. Russian-born, Stockholm-based, Mani creates visceral, rough paintings featuring forms or silhouettes of faces and bodies and building abstractions around them. She strives to create an honest and evocative dialog with the viewer's most profound and most vulnerable self, focusing on subconscious associations, primal emotions, and human beings' feelings. She takes inspiration in the nature of things and people, juxtaposing inner versus outer experience, life, death, matter, and void, sufferings of flesh and soul. Mani explores the phenomenon of love, femininity, and masculinity on a broad palette and identification of self in relation to one's inner and outer world.

Mani Vertigo holds a BA degree from the University of Hertfordshire in Visual Communication. Her work has been exhibited widely in her native Russia and Europe, the UK, Ecuador, and the United States.