lives and works in brooklyn, new york
Education
2016 - 2018
MFA Fine Arts (candidate), Parsons The New School for Design
New York City, NY, USA
2011 - 2013
MBA Strategic Design, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM-Rio)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010 - 2011
Planning for Branding, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM-Rio)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006 - 2011
BFA Communications, major Filmmaking, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Awards
2019 - 2020
Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship
Creative Capital Taller Profesional para Artistas
ICPP Wesleyan Intensive Performance Residency
2016 - 2018
2011
The New School Dean Merit's Award, New York City
Escola de Artes Visuais (EAV) Fundamentação artist fellowship, Rio de Janeiro
Exhibitions
Solo
2020
"An Apology to Elephants", Das Schaufenster Gallery, Seattle, WA
Group
2020
“33rd Festival Les Instants Vidéo” - [.BOX] Videoart project space, Milan, IT (upcoming)
"The Immigrant Artist Biennial", The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA Project Space Gallery), New York, NY
"Against Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil", Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York, NY
2019
“Bienal Black Brazil Art” - Centro Cultural CEE Erico Verissimo, RS, Brazil
"The Extraordinary", (Juried Exhibition) Hunter East Harlem Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Every Woman Biennial (former Whitney Houston Biennial)", La Mamma La Galleria, New York, NY
"Fresh Masters: The UrbanGlass MFA Exhibition", Agnes Varis Art Center at Urban Glass, New York, NY
2018
"Cast of Characters", The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY
"Carry Over: New Voices from the Global African Diaspora", Smack Mellon, New York, NY
“Art 52nd Street”, Gallery MC, New York, NY
"The Hybrid of Being", Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
"Mirabilia", 25E 13th Gallery, New York, NY
2017
"Now, An Unbecoming" , the Skybridge Art Space, New York, NY
“God or the Equivalent", 25E 13th Gallery, New York, NY
"The Great Acceleration", 25E 13th Gallery, New York, NY
"Between", the Skybridge Art Space, New York, NY
2016
“Two By Two: art in conversation" collaboration with Daniel Llaria, 25E 13Th Gallery, New York, NY
2015
"Brasas English Skateboard Expo Shapes", Oi Bowl Jam Parque Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
"OCUPAÇÃO III", Espaço Cultural Olho da Rua, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2014
“Artigo Rio Contemporary Art Fair” represented by the HUM Colletivo Gallery, Armazém 6, Cais do Porto,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2007
“We are all photographers now”, Musée de L’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Curatorial Projects
2019
"The Other is You: Brooklyn Queer Portraiture", BRIC Art House, New York, USA
2014
“Vidi Arte: Art in Vidigal” , Mirante do Arvrão, Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
lectures, conferences & publications
2020
Article written for the LatinX Spaces Magazine: “Black Lives Matter: So picture this”, June 22, 2020,
2016
Panelist at the conference “Anywhere & Elsewhere: Art at The Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity” ,
Parsons The New School for Design (New York, NY)
2015
Lecturer at the 2015 Content Summit , Theme: “Techniques for creative content production focusing on innovative thinking in order to help brands engage effectively and interactively with their target audience”, Faculdade Cásper Líbero, (São Paulo, Brasil).
Interview for the Art Habens Contemporary Art Review, selected work “Forget me Not Postcard Project”
featured in the 2015 winter edition
2018
Sculpture ‘Raízes’ cited in the 43rd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference Panel on “The decolonization of the mind in art and education”, presented by art historian and Professor Genevieve Hyacinthe (Havana, Cuba).