Mari Eastman (she/her) makes work that emerges from a pictorial study of images from magazines and the internet, which become intertwined with personal narratives, executed in an intentionally loose manner. She has exhibited at Bombon Projects, Barcelona; Broadway Gallery, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Orange County Museum of Art, CA; the Berkeley Museum of Art; Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles; Sprüth Magers, Munich; Gladstone Gallery, New York; and Maureen Paley, London, among other venues. Her work has been included in such publications as Modern Painters and the New York Times and on the websites Artforum.com and Contemporary Art Daily. Eastman holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is on the faculty at the University of Chicago.

Mari Eastman, Mustang Mother and Child, 2024, oil on panel, 8 x 10 inches