Masha Sheinina is a ceramic sculpture artist currently living in LA. Her work is assertively feminist, exploring conflicting dualities in relationships, gender roles, and the self. Her work features unconventional representations if femme bodies, such as through vessels and chimeric creatures that blur the lines between the fantastical and the everyday. Masha’s work tends to embody conflicting tensions, such as fear and desire, attraction and monstrous repulsion, and safety and violence.

Masha is originally from Russia, and her work is heavily influenced by Russian folk art and Greek Mythology, scenes of which are depicted in many of the sculptures in St. Petersburg, where she was born. Masha’s academic background is in Neuroscience. She taught middle school Biology for a decade and decided to pursue art full time as her studio practice began to consume her life. Masha is currently working on completing her MFA at CalArts.