Zina Mussmann received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2002 and an MFA from Northern Illinois University in 2008. She has exhibited her work regionally and nationally. Her work has been featured in the Manifest International Painting Annual, The Alchemy Magazine of Literature and Art and Lunch Ticket Magazine. She is also the co-founder of Greymatter, an artist-run space she established with Rachel Quirk in 2011, the curator of an online project called 365 Artists 365 Days, and a faculty member at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.