Rosana Paulino
São Paulo, Brazil, 1967. The artist lives and works in São Paulo.
PhD in Visual Arts from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São
Paulo – ECA/USP, is a specialist in engraving at the London Print Studio, in London and
Bachelor in Engraving from ECA/USP. She received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation Scholarship Program in
years from 2006 to 2008 and CAPES from 2008 to 2011. In 2014 she was awarded the scholarship to
residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, in Bellagio, Italy.
As an artist, she has stood out for his production linked to social, ethnic and cultural issues.
gender. Her work focuses mainly on the position of black women in society.
Brazilian population and the different types of violence suffered by this population resulting from racism
and the marks left by slavery.
Winner of the MUNCH Award (2024) and the Konex Mercosur Award (2022).
She has works in important museums such as MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São
Paul; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; MASP – São Paulo Assis Art Museum
Chateaubriand; Malba – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; UNM –
University of New Mexico Art Museum, New Mexico, USA and Afro-Brazil Museum, São Paulo.
She has actively participated in several exhibitions, both in Brazil and abroad, from
which stand out as individual Diálogos do Dia e da Noite, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2025); Novas Raízes, Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro (2024); Amefricana, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (2024); Nascituras, Mendes Wood DM, Brazil (2023); The Liability of Threads, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany (2022); The Time of Things, Mendes Wood DM Brussels,
Belgium (2022); Tropical Paradise, The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Ohio,
United States (2019); Rosana Paulino: The Sewing of Memory, Pinacoteca do Estado de
São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
Also noteworthy are the participations in the group exhibition Utopia. The Right to Hope, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2025); Histórias da Ecologia, MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Artists Who Wear Jewelry, d’Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement, the Netherlands (2025); Tromba D'água, Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (2025); MAM São Paulo na Pinacoteca do Ceará: figura e paisagem, palavra e imagem, Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil (2025); Negra Arte Sacra, Axé Ile Obá, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Afro Brasilidade, FGV Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2025); Ancestral, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and Brasília, Brazil (2025); Dignidade e luta: Laudelina de Campos Mello, Instituto Moreira Salles, Poços de Caldas, Brazil (2025); Mulheres no Acervo, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Cartographies for after the end, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (2025); Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2024); Artistas do vestir, uma costura dos afetos, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); One Becomes Many, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA (2024); 35th São Paulo Bienal – coreografias do impossível, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte; Museu da Inconfidencia, Ouro Preto; Palácio Anchieta, Vitória, Brazil (2025); Ancestral, Museu de Arte Brasileira / FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2024); Hackeando o Poder, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024); The Lives of Animals, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium (2024); Rio: a medida da terra, Galeria Flexa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024); Um defeito de cor, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); DOS BRASIS, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and SESC Quitandinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Atlântico Vermelho, UN, Geneva, Switzerland (2024); Antes e Agora, Longe e Aqui Dentro, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil (2024); O Legado Burle Marx, MAM-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024); 35th São Paulo Biennial – Choreography of the impossible, São Paulo (2023); Dos Brasis: Art and black thought, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo (2023); Expression(s) décoloniale(s), Châteaus des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes (2023); An Ocean to wash your hands, Sesc Quitandinha Cultural Center, Petrópolis (2023); “Quilombo: life, problems and aspirations of black people”, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil (2022); Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil, Visual Arts Center Austin, United States (2022); CCSP 2022 Exhibition, CCSP – Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); A Color Defect, Rio Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro (2022); A Natural Turn, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2022); Empowerment, Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (2022); Brazilian Stories, São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Art Museum, São Paulo (2022); Desvairar, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo (2022); 59th International Bienalle di Venezia – The Milk of Dreams, Venice (2022);