Mariana Sissia was born in Ramallo in 1980. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Painting at the University of Rosario (1998-2003).

She has carried out a work clinic with Ernesto Ballesteros and the Artists Program of the Torcuato Di Tella University (2011-2012). In 2013 she was part of the residency at the Banff Center in Canada. She had individual exhibitions in Buenos Aires, San Pablo, Chicago and participated in group exhibitions and international fairs in Mexico City, Miami, Barcelona, Lima, Basel, Bogotá, among others. In 2016 she published Mental Landscape, a book that brings together much of her work. Her work explores the possibilities of drawing as a meeting zone between physical practice and psychic experiences, approaching her technique not as a means of representation but as a graphic action capable of enabling certain states of consciousness, close to meditation.