Marisa Mu is an interdisciplinary artist currently based between Melbourne and New York. Her work explores themes of Queer Expression, Intersectional Feminism, The Asian Diaspora and Body Liberation. In 2019, she was awarded the Emerging Artist of The Year Award and was featured on the Cover of Broadsheet Magazine for her latest culturally significant body of work ‘With Pleasure’. She has completed her studies at National Art School and the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.

Her livelihood as an artist explores the multiplicity of her identity, allowing intuition and curiosity about being a third culture kid navigating their queerness and sense of place come to the forefront. She is Australian born with East Timorese and Hakka Chinese lineage with her arts practice negotiating complex narratives, weaving the personal and political through painting, sculpture, installation, poetry and performance.

With her focus on the amalgamation of her personal narratives and cultural histories, her visual story-telling and literary works are about overcoming loss, instilling hope, remembering the past and understanding universal love languages ascend generations. Her works share a unique perspective on diasporic experiences, cultural preservation, and the intersectionality of queer identities.

Through harnessing her Hakka and East Timorese heritage, language and QBIPOC storytelling, she advocates and brings these largely under-represented narratives vividly to the surface. The rigorous research and experimentation within her practice enables her to generate thought-provoking and socio-politically engaging activations, creating culturally relevant resources for our collective future.