curriculum vitae
Born in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
Lives and Works at The Sea Ranch/Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1996 M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1993 M.A. Communication and Semiotics, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
1983 B.A. Biology, Santo Amaro College of Arts and Science, São Paulo, Brazil
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION
2024 Uprooted, The Sea Ranch Lodge, CA
2023 Sleepers, Los Angeles international Airport (LAX)
2022 Memoirs, The LyndonDesign Gallery, The Sea Ranch, CA
Forest Whisper, Global Harmony Sculpture Garden, Gualala Arts Center, CA
Memoirs, The Lodge, The Sea Ranch Lodge, CA
2021 Hügel Project, City of Pasadena Water and Power, Pasadena Department of Transportation
2018 Xing LA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Xing LA, Los Angeles international Airport (LAX)
2017 Arquivo Vivo: Pasadena, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
Prequel to 2018, Huntley Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona
2016 Story Map, Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, CA
2015 Bia Gayotto: Projetos 2002-2014, SENAC, São Paulo, Brazil
2014 Somewhere in Between: Taipei, Treasure Hill Artist Village [THAV], Taipei, Taiwan
Somewhere in Between: Silicon Valley, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles, Los Angeles international Airport (LAX)
2013 Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2012 In and Out of Place, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2011 TBA, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Sea is Not Blue/O Mar Não é Azul, Art Center College of Design S. Campus Gallery, Pasadena
2007 The Brazilian Consulate Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2006 Northwest Portraits, Newtown Billboard Project, Pasadena, CA
2005 Sleepers, Haus, Pasadena, CA
Danço-Te, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2004 The Towers Apartments I-VIII, Pasadena, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2000 Sitting Pretty, Laguna Art Museum - Rental and Sales Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
New Visions in Photography, curated by Alma Ruiz, Spazio Italia/Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles
1991 Pisosurbanos, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil
1988 Projeto SP 434, SESC Pompeia Art Center, São Paulo, Brazil
1987 Concretart, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil
Imagens Semelhantes/Tempos Distantes, SESC Campestre Art Center, São Paulo, Brazil
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 As Above, So Below [Curator Toby Jurovics], FOMA, Santa Fé, NM
Some Kind of Nature [Curator Dominique Mazeaud], FOMA, Santa Fé, NM
Brand 51: Annual National Exhibition of Works on Paper, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
2022 Abstraction/Non-Abstraction [Curator David DiMichele], Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Extinction: Safe the planet, Gallerium Art
2021 Abstraction/Non-Abstraction, I-Beam Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Artists and Poems, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Metamorphic Image, Roma Gallery, Athens, Greece
2019 100 Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York
Bigger than Us, Scranch, [Curator Audrey Mandelbaum], Wonder Valley, CA
2018 Festival de Itaparica (FITA) , Bahia, Brazil
Where There’s Smoke [Curator David P. Moore], Scranch, Wonder Valley, CA
EMERGE Benefit Auction, Fulcrum Arts, Pasadena, CA
2017 Sharpener [curator Mahara T. Sinclaire], The Boone Art Gallery, Pasadena City College
Off the Wall Biennial Art Auction and Benefit, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2016 APT Collection at the NeueHouse in Hollywood
LA in the Aughts: Benefit Auction and Party for X-tra, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Idea Machine: The sketchbook [curator Karin Lanzoni], CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Fronteiras Incertas: Arte e Fotografia no acervo do MAC USP, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de São Paulo, SP
2013 Narrative Space, [curator OIMO] Venice Art Center, Venice, CA
Getting Off The Ground: Contemporary Stories from an American Community, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
The Armory Show and Tell [curator Irene Tsatsos] Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2012 Big, Big Backyard [Curator Betsy Kenyon], Art Gallery College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
2011 In a Strange Land [Curator A.R.E.A], Calles y Sueños, Chicago
Chain Letter [curator Doug Harvey and Christian Cummings], Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
Of Peoples and Places, Siakos Hanappe, Athens
2010 Perspectives about the Sea and Sea Life, EDUMAR, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal.
International Mail Art Exhibition [Curator Jay Belloli] Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2009 COLA 2009, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Photo-cartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map [curator Adam Katz and Brian Rosa] g727 Gallery, Los Angeles
Empty Orchestra Remix [Curator Maiko Tanaka, Heather Keung, and Serena Lee] Gendai Gallery at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
2008 Hollywould, LA Freewaves’ 11th Festival of New Media Arts
Signals: A Video Showcase [curator Carol Cheh] Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
From A to B [curator by Donna Conwell] Fellows of Contemporary Art, LosAngeles,CA
PIX, Some Recent Photos from the Post-filmic Era [curated by Kristina Newhouse] Torrance Art Museum, Torrance,CA
2007 Miniature Project, Geborgen Kamers, The Hague, Holland
Silence and Echo, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Touched: The Art of Social Engagement [curated by Noel Korten] Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
Pillow Talk [curator Mery Lynn McCorkle] Ruth Bachnover Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
Situ/ação:Video de Viagem [curator Paula Alzugaray] Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Mobile Media Night, Garage Bienalle, San Francisco, CA
Haus Guests, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Off the wall, Silent Auction, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2006 Exquisite Crisis & Encounters [Curator Yong Soon Min] Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU
A Power of Expansion, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Catarse, SESC Pompéia Art Center, São Paulo, Brazil
2005 Positive Contact [curator Haruko Tanaka] Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
Laughing in the Jungle: 7 Artists Envision the Los Angeles Urban Community Environment, [curator Audrey Mandelbaum] Antioch University Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
600 Images / 60 Artists / 6 Curators / 6 Cities [curator Maryrose Mendoza] The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Faculty Biennial, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
2004 Lord Palace Hotel [curator Paula Alzugaray] São Paulo, Brazil
Contraband, Stowaway Lounge: Artist-Made Karaoke Videos [Curator Soo Kim] Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2004, Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallin,Sweeden
F.U.S.I.O.N. (Festival Universal de Sonido, Imagen y Ondas Nuevas), Costa Rica and El Salvador
One Hundred Artists See Satan [curated by Mike McGee] Cal State Grand Central Art Center, CA
Catarse, SESC Pompéia Art Center, São Paulo, Brazil
2003 The Breeder Project [curator Vangelis Vlahos] Project Space, Athens, Greece
Open Haus, Haus, Pasadena, CA
Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
2002 TV or not TV, LA Freewaves [curator Soo Kim] Los Angeles, CA
Armory 2002 Installational, Armory Northwest Gallery, Pasadena. CA
Shirt Off Your Back Auction, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
20 Eyes/10 Cameras, Gallery Figueroa, Highland Park, CA
2001 The Corridor Show, The Helms Bakery, Culver City, CA
2000 Miracle on Main Street 2000, Fundraiser, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles,CA
Snapshot, Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
1999 Moving Towards the Millennium [curator by Adriano Pedrosa] Barnsdall Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1998 Playmode [curator Anne Walsh] The Art Gallery, U.C. Irvine, CA, traveling to Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Table of Contents: Chapter Two, Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, IL
Neighborhood Views [curator Allan deSouza]LA Culture Net, Getty Information Institute, Los Angeles
1997 Next, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Eagle Rock Show [curator Laura Owens]Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center,CA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 Bahia Reverb: Artists & Place, Art+Practice co-organized by California African American Museum
2019 Latitude 33° 56’, Los Angeles international Airport (LAX)
2018 Somewhere In Between, Kellog Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, CA
2016 PlaceBound, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
2015 Between Two Worlds, CSULA Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Connectivity, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Investing in Artists Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, CA
2021 Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2018 Artist-in-Residency Program at Sacatar, Bahia, Brazil
2017 Emerge Projects, Pasadena Arts Council
2016 Artist in Residence Grant, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)
Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2014 Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation
Artist-in-Residency Program at Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
LAX Arts Exhibition Program, City of Los Angeles Public Art Division
2013 ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation
Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2012 Lucas Artist Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2011 Artist-in-Research Program at ThreeWalls, Chicago
2009 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowship
Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2008 Thematic Residency at The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2006 Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2004 Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2003 The Baum: An Emerging American Photographer Award (nomination), The Baum Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2002 Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2000-01 Resident Artist, LA Theater Works and Performing Tree
1998-99 Fellowship Artist, Armory Center for the Arts.
1996 Grant, UCLA Art Council, Los Angeles, CA
1993-96 Scholarship,CAPES, Brasília, Brazil
1992 Fellowship, CNPq, Brasília, Brazil
1988 Grant, Ministry of Education, Brasília, Brazil
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
AIR Taipei, Taiwan
Artist Pension Trust, APT Mexico
Anonymous Collector, New York, NY
Bank of America, Dallas, Texas
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Hammer Museum, Grunwald Center for the Graffic Arts, UCLA, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Santa Clara Library, Santa Clara, CA
The Sophie Miller Foundation, Pasadena, CA
Kay Andrews, Dallas, TX
Elisa Crystal Callow, La Canada, CA
Ellen Crowe, Houston, TX
Linda Burrow, Pasadena, CA
Zephyr Frank, Stanford, CA
Daniel Harlow, Los Angeles, CA
E.Marinopoulou, Athens, Greece
Dominic Molon, Chicago, IL
Peter Miller, Brooklyn, NY
Wendy Munger, Pasadena, CA
Richard Norton, Pasadena, CA
Rudi Otter, Pasadena, CA
Konstantinos Papageorgiou, Athens, Greece
Grigoris Papageorgiou, Athens, Greece
Robert Sain, Minneapolis, MN
Menka Sethi, The Sea Ranch, CA
Shamaa Von Spindler, The Sea Ranch, CA
Susan Song, Los Angeles, CA
Noah Wood, Los Angeles, CA
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2023 Art+ Practice, Leimert Park, CA
2018 Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, CA
Escola de Belas Artes, Salvador, BA, Brasil
Chaffey College Center for the Arts, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2017 The Huntley Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona
2013 Loyola Marymount University
Pasadena Museum of California Art
2012 California State University, Northridge, CA
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2009 X-tra Contemporary Art Quaterly, Redcat at Disney Hall
2007 Chapman University, Orange County, CA
2005 California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2004 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
University of California, Irvine, CA
Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil
2002 University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
2000 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
University of California, Irvine, CA.
1998 University of California Irvine, CA.
1997 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
