BIO

Katrina Avino-Barracato was born in the USSR in 1990. Her earliest years unfolded across Russian orphanages, where memory formed in fragments rather than narratives. Adopted in 1995 by an Italian-American family, she was brought to Brooklyn, New York, where painting and drawing became her first language, an instinctive way of making sense of the world.

Her work moves through themes of identity, repetition, and fractured memory, tracing the quiet persistence of what remains. Katrina's work has been shown at the Albany Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, and in galleries throughout New York City.