Born in 1966, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mari Kretz is educated at The Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University, Sweden 1992-97, and she was a Project student in the department of Fine Arts & New Media at Valand Academy of Fine Arts in 1998-99.

She mainly works with sound- and video installation, electro-acoustic music, but also with drawing, collage and graphic prints. Her works are often installations where the different techniques converge and interrelate to one another, and in many of the projects, she collaborates with researchers and scientists from various fields.