Marija Knezić was born in 1988 in Zabok. In 2008 she enrolled in the Department
of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She is the co-founder of Eagles
Chapter, a branch of People to People International (PTPI), a non-profit organisation that deals with humanitarian, cultural and educational activities. The winner of the international competition Global Youth Mural Project 2006 with the work Listen and You Shall Hear in 2007, which was exhibited at the Chameleon Youth Arts Gallery in Kansas City, USA, published in People organisation’s magazine, and reproduced as a Christmas card for charity. In 2011 she participated in the curatorial workshop More MM held by Joanna van der Zanden in order to promote the Multimedia Center in Zagreb. In the same year, with the team xPro she entered the top 6 inthe competition Henkel Innovation Challenge 4, The Vision of 2050, an international student competition for innovative product ideas.