BIO

 

*****  <<<  The world is in convulsion, and so are we  >>>  *****

 

I am a queer and fiery Brazilian-Canadian multimedia artist + sound performer, currently living in the land of the Coast Salish peoples – Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam. 

 

Here, I research intersections between new media, performance, and environmental hauntology / speculative environmental composition / performance mediated with/through technology. In colonially-called Vancouver, I organize Durations, an independent sound art + video art festival that offers an open stage for emerging artists exploring in the fields of new media > sound / video art > live performance.

 

Academically, I hold a Master’s degree in Visual Arts - Contemporary Artistic Processes, researching anti-colonial + anti-capitalist poetic practices, and political counterattacks through contemporary art. I also hold two graduate degrees in: Contemporary Literature (2018) + Semiotics (2011).

 

Currently, I research New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University.   

 

*Intro by Brazilian theorist Suely Rolnik (Spheres of Insurrection / 2017).

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*Text last updated in September 2024

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ARTISTIC RESUME

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

• 08 years of experience in Visual Arts, Education and Communications in Brazil + Canada

• 06 years of experience teaching Visual Arts, Poetry, Queer and Critical Theory

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• Master’s degree in Visual Arts - Contemporary Artistic Processes (2016) with dissertation on colonial-capitalistic-narcissistic regimes in South America and poetic-political movements of counterattack; and graduate degrees in Contemporary Literature (2018, research on queer literature), and Semiotics (2012, research on screenwriting)

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• Currently pursuing a bachelors’ degree on New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University (2026)

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• Winner of the following grants/awards: British Columbia Arts Council / Individual Arts Awards – Professional Performing Artists Grant (2022), British Columbia Arts Council / Scholarship Awards (2022 / 2023 / 2024), City of Vancouver's Creative Spark Grant (2022), Vancouver Downtown Eastside Arts Grant (2022), Canada Council for the Arts - Research and Creation Grant (2023), British Columbia Arts Council / Individual Arts Awards – Visual Artists Grant (2023), Y.P. Heung Foundation Post-Secondary Award (2023), and Emily Carr University Achievement Scholarship (2024)

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• Most recent artistic achievements: curator and organizer of Durations Video + Sound Art festival at Emily Carr University (2024-2025); SUM Gallery’s AiR residency (August 2024); What Lab’s July Project residency (July 2024); artist apprenticeship coordinator for a research project on Latinx anti-capitalist theory through the Canada Council for the Arts (2023-2024)

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• Through my work as a curator + arts coordinator at Indigenous-led gallery Massy Arts (Vancouver’s Chinatown), between 2021-2024 I organized over 20 exhibitions and 80 cultural events, such as workshops, poetry reading events, book launches, public lectures, and artist talks

 

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Research Assistant / (New Media + Sound Art department)

2024 - Current  /  Basically Good Media Lab at Emily Carr University

 

Mentor Artist + Artist Apprenticeship Coordinator / Media Arts + Sound Art

2023 - 2024 /  Ideas To Make The World Bearable, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

 

Curator + Community Arts Coordinator

2021 - 2024 /  Massy Arts Society  + Massy Arts Gallery / Vancouver, Canada 

 

Artist in Residence

2019 (March) - Current  /  Lote84 Gallery /  Brazil 

 

Artistic Director + Grant Writer + Project Coordinator

2012  /  2019  -  Hiato Art School and Hiato Book Publisher / Brazil

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EDUCATION

 

Bachelor’s Degree – Media Arts / New Media + Sound Art, at Emily Carr University

Current (Class of 2026)  /  Vancouver, Canada

 

Graduate Certificate – Contemporary Literature, at Gama Filho University

2018  /  São Paulo, Brazil 

 

Master’s Degree – Visual Arts (Contemporary Artistic Processes Program), at UDESC University

2016  /  Santa Catarina, Brazil 

 

Graduate Certificate – Semiotics, at Braz Cubas University

2012  /  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

 

Bachelor’s degree – Communications, at Univali University

2010  /  Santa Catarina, Brazil

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LATEST COURSES

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Creating + Composing Sound (36h) / 2024  /  Vancouver, Canada

New Media + Sound Practices (72h) / 2024  /  Vancouver, Canada

Perspectives in Critical Humanities (36h) / 2024  /  Vancouver, Canada

Interactive Media Cultures (36h)   /  2024  /  Vancouver, Canada

Creative Electronics (36h)  /  2024  /  Vancouver, Canada
New Media + Sound Art Studio III (72h)  /  2024   /  Vancouver, Canada
Sound Essentials (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
New Media + Sound Art Studio II (72h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Multilingual Approaches to Writing (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
New Media + Sound Art Studio I (72h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Video Essentials (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Digital Photography (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Multimedia + Interdisciplinary Studio (72h)  /  2022  /  Vancouver, Canada
Creative Process (36h)  /  2022  /  Vancouver, Canada

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LATEST ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE  /  EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS + AWARDS

 

Performance / LEAF + LARVA + LOOP

Sound Performance + Multimedia Installation / What Lab Studio / Vancouver, Canada / September 2024

 

Performance / FOREST / FLUX / FREQUENCY

Sound Performance + Multimedia Installation / Durations V4 / Vancouver, Canada / August 2024

 

Event / DURATIONS V4 / Video Art Show + Listening Party + Performance Stage

Organizer + Curator + Media Artist  / New Media Festival at Emily Carr University - Partnership with the Basically Good Media Research Lab / Vancouver, Canada / August 2024

 

Performance / FOREST / FLUX / FREQUENCY

Sound Performance + Multimedia Installation / SUM Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / September 2024

 

Residency / FOREST / FLUX / FREQUENCY : Queering Eco-Utopias

Artistic Residency / SUM Gallery + Queer Arts Festival / Vancouver, Canada / Aug-September 2024

 

Residency / LEAF + LARVA + LOOP

Artistic Residency / July Project at What Lab Studio / Vancouver, Canada / July-September 2024

 

New Media + Sound Art / Hologram Sound System

Electronic Sound Composition + Listening Session / Durations V3 / Vancouver, Canada / June 2024

 

Event / DURATIONS V3 / Video Art Show + Listening Party + Performance Stage

Organizer + Curator + Media Artist  / New Media Festival at Emily Carr University - Partnership with the Basically Good Media Research Lab / Vancouver, Canada / June 2024

 

New Media + Sound Art / Electropical Parasites

Multimedia Installation / Durations V2 / Vancouver, Canada / April 2024

 

Event / DURATIONS V2 / Video Art Show + Listening Party + Performance Stage

Organizer + Curator + Media Artist  / New Media Festival at Emily Carr University - Partnership with the Basically Good Media Research Lab / Vancouver, Canada / April 2024

 

Show / Bodyscapes: Rebellion + Revolution

Curator / Group Show at Massy Arts Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / February 2024

 

Show / Durations - A Sound Art Exhibition

Curator + Media Artist  / Group Show at the RBC Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / January 2024

 

Publication / Bestiary

Visual Artist  / Woo Publication / Vancouver, Canada / December 2023

 

Event / DURATIONS V1 / Video Art Show + Listening Party + Performance Stage

Organizer + Curator + Media Artist  / New Media Festival at Massy Arts Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / November 2023

 

Show / A Body Remembers

Curator + Media Artist  / Group Show at the RBC Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / November 2023

 

New Media + Sound Art / The Anxious Heart

Media Artist  / Xinema - Group Screening at VIFF / Vancouver, Canada / November 2023

 

New Media + Sound Art / Body : Infected

Media Artist + Performer  / Group Show / Neighborhood Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / September 2023

 

New Media + Sound Art / Body : Infected

Media Artist + Performer  / Foundation Show at Emily Carr University / Vancouver, Canada / August 2023

 

New Media + Sound Art / Body : Infected

Media Artist + Performer  / Cosmic Queerites, Community Screening / Xinema + Vancouver International Film Festival + EPFC North / Vancouver, Canada / July 2023

 

Event / Open Studio / Blackout Poetry

Artist + Educator  /  Workshop for the Contemporary Art Gallery - CAG / Vancouver, Canada / Aug 2023

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Show / Queer Manufacture

Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  Solo Exhibition at Massy Arts Gallery / Video installation / Vancouver, Canada /
July 2023

 

New Media + Sound Art / Anthropophagy

Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  XINEMA Series / Program 9 / Vancouver International Film Festival / Short-film / Video collage / Vancouver, Canada /
July 2023

 

New Media + Sound Art / Body : Infected

Media Artist + Performer  / Queers in Space, Collective Exhibition / Vancouver Queer Arts Festival + James Black Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / July 2023

 

Event / Chasing The Poem - All Queer Mentorship with David Ly + Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch + Isabella Wang

Creator + Organizer / Massy Arts Gallery / 

Creative Writing Marathon  /  Vancouver, Canada / April 2023

 

Project / Ferocious Teeth: Investigating the Queer Body through Latinx Politics

Media Artist + Screenwriter + Performer  / British Columbia Arts Council Grant / Research in Screenwriting, Spoken Poetry, Sound + Video Art, and Latinx Theory / Vancouver, Canada / 2023

 

Project / Letters from the South Sun: Connections on Latinx Theory + Mail Art

Media Artist  / Grant Project / Mail Art guerrilla action supported by the DTES Arts Grant / Vancouver, Canada / May 2023

 

Show / A Genocide Laid Bare by jaz whitford

Organizer + Community Arts Coordinator  / 

Massy Arts Gallery / Exhibition /

Vancouver, Canada / March - May, 2023

 

Event / Chasing The Poem - All Indigenous Mentorship with Jónína Kirton + annie ross + Justene Dion-Glowa

Creator + Organizer / Massy Arts Gallery / 

Creative Writing Marathon  /  Vancouver, Canada / April 2023

 

Show / What The Anxious Heart Desires

Visual Artist + Filmmaker  /  ECUAD RBC Media Gallery / Duo Exhibition / Vancouver, Canada / March 2023

 

Project / Latinx Perceptions: the poetic/political life

Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  British Columbia Arts Council / Visual Arts Grant Project / Vancouver, Canada / Oct 2022 - Apr 2023

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New Media + Sound Art / Little King

Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  XINEMA Series / Program 5 / Vancouver International Film Festival / Short-film / Video collage / Vancouver, Canada / Feb 2023

 

New Media + Sound Art / Little King

Media Artist + Filmmaker/  V i d e o S o u n d A r c h i v e / Season 6 / Short-film / Video collage / Vancouver, Canada / Feb 2023

 

Show / A Wish To Voice

Curator /  Massy Arts Gallery / Group Exhibition / Vancouver, Canada / Nov 2022 - Jan 2023

 

Show / Ideas to Make The World Bearable

Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  ECUAD RBC Media Gallery / Duo Exhibition / Vancouver, Canada / Oct 2022 - Nov 2022

 

Show / The Hybrid Machine

Curator /  Massy Arts Gallery / Collective Exhibition

Vancouver, Canada / May 2022 - June 2022

 

Project / Community is Collage

Visual Artist + Art Educator  /  Massy Arts Gallery / Collage Workshop supported by the Creative Spark + City of Vancouver Grant / Vancouver, Canada / November 2022

 

New Media + Sound Art / A Placebo for our Fears

Media Artist  / Grant Project / Short-Film Production + Artist Talk supported by the DTES Arts Grant / Vancouver, Canada / September 2022

 

Show / Ideas to Make The World Bearable

Visual Artist  /  Massy Arts Gallery / Duo Exhibition / Vancouver, Canada / July-September 2022

 

Publication / Zeitgeist

Visual Artist + Poet  /  Queer Act Magazine / Illustration + Poem for Magazine / Vienna, Austria / 2022

Project / Ideas to Make The World Bearable

Media Artist, Art Educator, Video Editor  /  Lote84 Artistic Space + Art School / Video-Series, Video-Collage (12 episodes) / Brazil + Canada / 2021-2022

 

New Media + Sound Art / Little King

Video Editor, Visual Artist  /  In collaboration with Lote84 Artistic Space + Art School / Short-Film, Video-Collage / Brazil + Canada / 2021-2022

 

Project / Ideas to Make The World Bearable - Culture as Virus 

Concept, Research and Mediation  /  Lote84 Gallery + Art School / Arts + Political Theory Course (08 classes) / Art History, Sociology, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Decolonization and Anti-Capitalism / Brazil + Canada / 2021

 

Project / Ideas to Make The World Bearable - Fables of Race, Gender and Class  (Course, 08 classes)

Concept, Research and Mediation  /  Lote84 Gallery + Art School / Arts + Political Theory Course (08 classes) / Art History, Sociology, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Decolonization and Anti-Capitalism 

Brazil + Canada / 2020

 

Show / To The Grandchildren of the Millennium

Curator / SESC Gallery / Collective Exhibition / 

Brazil / 2019

 

Project / Culture and Confrontation 

Concept, Research and Mediation  /  Lote84 Gallery + Art School / Arts + Political Theory Course (08 classes) / Art History, Sociology, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Decolonization and Anti-Capitalism / 

Brazil + Canada / 2019

 

Event / Laboratory of Words and Sounds

Project Writer, Curator  / Hiatus Studio / Sound Art Residency /  Brazil / 2018

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MOST RECENT AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES

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2024

Visual Arts Scholarship

Scholarship Awards - Visual Arts Category
British Columbia Arts Council

Vancouver / Canada

 

2024

Residency / Forest + Flux + Frequency - Queering Eco-Utopias

Artistic Residency

SUM Gallery + Queer Arts Festival

Vancouver / Canada

 

2024

Residency / LEAF + LARVA + LOOP

Artistic Residency

July Project at What Lab Studio

Vancouver / Canada

 

2024

Emily Carr University Achievement Scholarship

Post-Secondary Award

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Vancouver / Canada

 

2023

Visual Arts Scholarship

Scholarship Awards - Visual Arts Category
British Columbia Arts Council

Vancouver / Canada

 

2023

Visual Arts Scholarship

Y.P. Heung Foundation Post-Secondary Award

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Vancouver / Canada

 

2023

Ideas To Make The World Bearable: Latinx Texts

Research Project in Sound/Video Art + Latinx Theory

Canada Council for the Arts - Research and Creation Grant

Vancouver / Canada

 

2023

Ferocious Teeth: Investigating the Queer Body through Latinx Politics

Research in Screenwriting, Sound + Video Art, and Latinx Theory

BC Arts Council / Visual Arts Awards

Vancouver / Canada

 

2023

Letters from the South Sun: Connections on Latinx Theory + Mail Art

Research in Mail Art + Guerrilla Art

Vancouver DTES Arts Grant

Vancouver / Canada

 

2022

Latinx Perceptions: The Poetic/Political Life

Research in Screenwriting, Spoken Poetry, Sound + Video Art, and Latinx Theory

BC Arts Council / Performing Arts Awards

Vancouver / Canada

 

2022

Visual Arts Scholarship

Scholarship Awards - Visual Arts Category
British Columbia Arts Council

Vancouver / Canada

 

2022

A Placebo For Our Fears

Research in Screenwriting, Spoken Poetry, Video + Sound Art

DTES Arts Grant

Vancouver / Canada