Biography
Marina Borodina is a Russian printmaker and educator based in Moscow whose contemporary mokuhanga practice is built around the small organising group Mokuhanga Moscow, through which she teaches workshops in water-based Japanese woodblock printmaking and runs a small publishing practice. Her print The imaginary summer day was included in the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference juried international exhibition at the Imadate Art Center in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, in a small 10 by 15 centimetre format on Ozu Washi Pansion K-155 paper, printed in gouache and Holbein watercolour as a water-based mokuhanga. The print's small scale, light palette and gouache-and-watercolour pigment system place it inside the intimate, plein-air-adjacent register of contemporary mokuhanga rather than inside the more decorative shin-hanga descendant tradition. Her own public practice — documented principally through the Instagram handle @marinavborodina and the affiliated @mokuhangamoscow account — frames her as a graphic-arts trainer and printmaker who teaches woodblock printing, illustration and colour composition out of Moscow. Beyond the IMC2024 selection and the Mokuhanga Moscow programming, the publicly available documentary record is at present thin: a confirmed birth year, a verified formal art-school affiliation, an extended exhibition history and a museum-collection record have not been published in publicly available sources, and the standard biographical scaffolding that would be present for a print artist of an older Russian generation — Moscow Polygraphic Institute or Surikov Institute training, Moscow Union of Artists membership, a list of state-museum holdings — is not yet attached to her name in available sources. She belongs to a small Russian mokuhanga cohort that has emerged over the last decade in dialogue with the IMA's broader European and Asian network, and whose participation in the international juried circuit has continued through periods of intermittent travel difficulty. Her IMC2024 selection is the most secure single documented point of contact with her practice in the available scholarship.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇷🇺Russia
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Marina Borodina is a Russian printmaker and educator based in Moscow whose contemporary mokuhanga practice is built around the small organising group Mokuhanga Moscow, through which she teaches workshops in water-based Japanese woodblock printmaking and runs a small publishing practice. Her print The imaginary summer day was included in the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference juried international exhibition at the Imadate Art Center in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, in a small 10 by 15 centimetre format on Ozu Washi Pansion K-155 paper, printed in gouache and Holbein watercolour as a water-based mokuhanga. The print's small scale, light palette and gouache-and-watercolour pigment system place it inside the intimate, plein-air-adjacent register of contemporary mokuhanga rather than inside the more decorative shin-hanga descendant tradition. Her own public practice — documented principally through the Instagram handle @marinavborodina and the affiliated @mokuhangamoscow account — frames her as a graphic-arts trainer and printmaker who teaches woodblock printing, illustration and colour composition out of Moscow. Beyond the IMC2024 selection and the Mokuhanga Moscow programming, the publicly available documentary record is at present thin: a confirmed birth year, a verified formal art-school affiliation, an extended exhibition history and a museum-collection record have not been published in publicly available sources, and the standard biographical scaffolding that would be present for a print artist of an older Russian generation — Moscow Polygraphic Institute or Surikov Institute training, Moscow Union of Artists membership, a list of state-museum holdings — is not yet attached to her name in available sources. She belongs to a small Russian mokuhanga cohort that has emerged over the last decade in dialogue with the IMA's broader European and Asian network, and whose participation in the international juried circuit has continued through periods of intermittent travel difficulty. Her IMC2024 selection is the most secure single documented point of contact with her practice in the available scholarship.
Marina Borodina's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Marina Borodina is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.