About the Artist

Marina Orlova is a multidisciplinary artist and former YouTube sensation whose evolution from “the world’s sexiest philologist” to a fierce feminist provocateur maps the very tension her work seeks to expose. With two degrees in philology and nearly 500 million views on her acclaimed YouTube series HotForWords, Marina once captivated audiences by making etymology seductive. Featured by The New Yorker, New York Times, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly, The Early Morning Show on CBS News, Fox News O'Reilly Factor Show, Moscow Times, Cosmopolitan, Complex, Wired, Spiegel and more, she became an icon of paradox: intellect wrapped in allure, language delivered like a weapon in stilettos.

But beneath the viral fame was a deeper war.

Fleeing Putin’s Russia in 2002, Marina now uses art as her battleground. Her work confronts the systems that fetishize women’s pain and call it sacred, that demand obedience in exchange for protection, that bury the divine feminine beneath dogma, blood, and shame. She stitches together religion, trauma, eroticism, and rebellion—resurrecting Barbie as prophet, bleeding scripture into flesh, and crucifying the male gaze.

In 2023, she won 1st Prize at the London Art Biennale for Birthing a Bomb, a painting as visceral and explosive as its name. Her newest works—including Tasty Period, Murder She Wrote, and Yoni in Revelation—have sparked global conversations around censorship, patriarchy, and menstrual power.

Today, Marina is no longer here to please—

She’s here to expose, unsettle, and reclaim.