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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 Biennial of Sertão “Poetry in Confluence”
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, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 7th Biennial of Sertão “Poetry in Confluence”, Teatro Santa Isabel, Diamantina, MG, 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
2020 ArtBash, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024 To the fullest extent, Paulo Nazareth Artistic Ocupation at Faculty of Education at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
2023 I have never left the sea, Mayfield, Chicago, USA
2023 El Track Lapse, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, USA
2023 We are sitting in a deleuzian ballroom, experiencing ego death through a freudian slip (//sense experimental theather production), Maclean
Ballroom, Chicago, USA
2022 hang 0n the 1ine, Compound Yellow, Chicago, USA
2022 MDW Fair, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, USA
2022 Yo Soy Museo, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, USA
2022 An Evening of Arte Acción, No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, USA
2022 AN ATLAS, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, USA
CURATORIAL
2022 hang 0n the 1ine, Compound Yellow, Chicago, USA
GUEST ARTIST
2023 Mesa de Conversa 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
SCHOLARSHIPS AND HONORS
2023 SAIC Distinguished Alumni
2019-2023 SAIC Presidential Scholarship
2021 Ox-Bow School of Art Merit Scholarship