Aline Mare began her career in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, coming out of a background of theatre, experimental film, and installation art. She was an early member of Collaborative Projects, a collective formed in downtown New York City and performed in a multi-media partnership, Erotic Psyche, a film and music extravaganza exploring the body and the senses, which toured extensively in Manhattan and Europe throughout the 80s.

She completed undergraduate work at SUNY Buffalo’s Center for Media Studies and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, where she produced the film Saline’s Solution, a series of installations and performances that dealt with abortion from a feminist point of view, which garnered support and awards internationally, exhibiting at The Cinematheque in SF, The Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. She has received several grants and residencies including Fourwinds in Aureille, France, a 2015 Sino-American art tour in Shanghai, Starry Nights in New Mexico, Headlands Center for the Arts, Kala, Film Arts Foundation, New Langton Arts in SF and a New York State Residency for the Arts.

In 2000 she received a Headlands Center for the Arts residency where she created an installation project examining the life of friend and writer Kathy Acker dealing with her courageous fight against the breast cancer that claimed her life in 1997. In 2018 she exhibited a solo show: Requiem: Aching for Acker at the Mike Kelly Gallery in Los Angeles where she revisited Kathy Acker twenty years after her death- a mixed media interpretation of Acker’s final poem in a show that gathered much media attention. In 2020 she exhibited a joint solo show with her partner of 25 years: Gary Brewer, entitled Entwined Roots, at the Diana Berger Gallery at Mt Sac College in Walnut California. Her work is included in several private collections in the Bay Area, New York City, China, and Los Angeles.