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EDUCATION
2023 BFA School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2021 Ox-Bow School of Art Summer Program
WORK EXPERIENCE
2025 Head Designer for the 7th Sertão Biennial of Visual Arts
2022 - 2023 Painting and Drawing StudioLab Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2022 Teaching Assistant Contemporary Practices Core II, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021 Teaching Assistant Contemporary Practices Core I, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Isso (aqui), Casa Fluida, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 17th Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago , Hiperrealities, Concurso Juan Downey, Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2025 7th Sertão Biennial of Visual Arts, Poetry in Confluence, Teatro Santa Isabel, Diamantina, MG, Brazil
2025 2º PERFORMA, Latinofuturismos, Casa Hoffmann, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
2025 Incorpografia - Mostra de Performance Arte , Galeria de Arte Álvaro Santos, Aracaju, SE, Brazil
2025 Everything We Can Possibly Hold, Friends Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2024 FEITURAS, Video performace exhibition, Paulo Nazareth Artistic Ocupation at Faculty of Education at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
2023 5º Festival Imaginários Urbanos Alianças na Diferença, Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
2023 5º Festival Imaginários Urbanos Alianças na Diferença, Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2023 5º Festival Imaginários Urbanos Alianças na Diferença, Chão SLZ, São Luís, MA, Brazil
2023 Green Noise, G-Cadd (Insurance Gallery), Granite City, IL, USA
2023 IMPACT Performance Festival, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, USA
2023 Picture Thingy, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, USA
2023 Perennial Hug, Circle Contemporary, Glenview, IL, USA
2022 Goa Moving Images Festival, Goa, India
2022 Muestra Dislocada (Video-performance International Festival), Bogotá, Colombia
2022 Springboard, Mayfield, Chicago, USA
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2025 Pavo (Bichos), Fundación Veta, Santiago, Chile
2025 Olímpico Garden, Estádio Olímpico Monumental, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
2025 Animals (Bichos), Parque Municipal Américo Renné Giannetti, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
2024 To the fullest extent, Ocupação Artística Paulo Nazareth, Faculdade de Educação - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
2023 Everything I can possibly hold, I have never left the sea, Mayfield, Forest Park, IL, USA
2023 Spotlight, El Track Lapse, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago,IL, USA
2022 hang 0n the 1ine, Compound Yellow, Chicago, USA
2022 An Evening of Arte Acción, No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, IL, USA
2022 I just really want to tell you this one thing, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL, USA
GUEST ARTIST
2023 Panel Discussion 5º Festival Imaginários Urbanos, Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
2021 Alberto Aguilar’s 50 Ingredient Mole, The Franklin Outdoor, Chicago, USA
RESIDENCIES
2023 Prática Relacional, Centro Cultural UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
HONORS
2023 SAIC Distinguished Alumni