Rosana Paulino

Rosana Paulino’s work centers around social, ethnic, and gender issues, focusing in particular on Black women in Brazilian society and the various types of violence suffered by this population due to racism and the lasting legacy of slavery. Paulino explores the impact of memory on psychosocial constructions, introducing different references that intersect the artist’s personal history with the phenomenological history of Brazil, as it was constructed in the past and still persists today. Her research includes the construction of myths – not only as aesthetical pillars but also as psychic influence-makers. Paulino – whose artistic output is unquestionably fundamental to Brazilian art – has produced a practice of reconstructing images and, beyond that, reconstructing memory and its mythologies. Rosana Paulino (b. 1967, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo Her most recent exhibitions include 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 , São Paulo (2023), Paraíso Tropical , Frank Museum of Art , Otterbein University, Westerville (2019); Rosana Paulino: A Costura da Memória , Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo , São Paulo (2018); Atlântico Vermelho , Padrão dos Descobrim entos , EGEAC, Lisbon (2017); Mulheres Negras – Obscure Beuaté Du Brésil , Espace Culturel Fort Griffon À Besançon , Besançon (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Cartographies for after the end , Centre Pompidou-Metz , Metz (2025); Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica , Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago (2024); Ancestral , Museu de Arte Brasileira / FAAP , São Paulo (2024); 35th Bienal de São Paulo , São Paulo (2023); The Milk of Dreams , 59th International Biennale di Venezia , Venice (2022); Afro-Atlantic Histories , National Gallery of Art , Washington DC, (2022); Global Positioning , Public Art Foundation , New York, Boston (2022); Brasilidade : Pós Modernismo , CCBB , Brazil (2022); 22nd Biennial of Sydney , Sydney (2020); Carolina Maria de Jesus: um Brasil para os brasileiros , Instituto Moreira Salles , São Paulo (2021); 21st Bienal SESC VideoBrazil , SESC 24 de Maio , São Paulo (2019); Slavery in the Hands of Harvard , Harvard University , Cambridge (2019); Histórias Afro- Atlânticas , Instituto Tomie Ohtake , São Paulo (2018).