About
I am a visual artist and printmaker. I am currently a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Arts at UERJ, and I hold a master's degree in Visual Arts (UFRJ, 2013) and a bachelor's degree in Printmaking (UFRJ, 2010). I have been working in the visual arts since 2008, with a focus on printmaking, printed art and independent publishing, combining analog and digital processes. Since 2024, I have been incorporating digital fabrication and 3D modelling into my printmaking.
I was selected for the International Printmaking Residency at the Ottawa School of Art (Canada, 2026). I have taken part in group exhibitions in Paris with the Association Lézarts de la Bièvre (2026) and in the international tour of the Lambe-Lambe Faísca Latina project, which included an exhibition in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2024).
In Brazil, I received second prize at the EDP Energias na Arte Award (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2009), which included a scholarship for the 36th edition of Dynamic Encounters with Charles Watson, Agnaldo Farias, Jailton Moreira and Fred Carvalho in New York and Philadelphia. I also received an honourable mention at the 49th Spring Salon (MAM Resende, 2022) and was selected through the ArteSesc 2026 open call (Sesc Paraná) for a solo exhibition in Curitiba.
I run the solo project Impressos Prosaicos and regularly take part in fairs such as the Tijuana Printed Art Fair (Rio de Janeiro), MOTIM Collaborative Printed Art Fair (Brasília), FLIPEI Pirate Literary Fair of Independent Publishers (Paraty), SUB Fair of Printed Art and Independent Publications (Campinas), Urucum Fair (Belo Horizonte) and AFAGO Oswald Graphic Arts Fair (São Paulo).
I am the author of the artist's book Amarelo Saturno (2025) and co-editor of the anthology Escritos de Artistas, Escritos em Arte, volumes IV and V (Devires, 2024 and 2026).
I taught Lithography at EBA/UFRJ from 2021 to 2023 and Visual Arts courses at UERJ, as well as drawing and the representation of form in the Architecture program at the Fundação Educacional Rosemar Pimentel in Volta Redonda. In 2025, I taught the workshop Woodcut and Screen Printing: Fundamentals at the Sesc Tijuca printmaking studio.
Artist Statement
My practice investigates printmaking as a field for the circulation of images, the making of value and the recovery of local memories through fable. I was born in Volta Redonda, a Brazilian city that grew up around the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional steelworks. In my work, I explore the material reality of artistic labour, the industrial repetition I absorbed living alongside the mill, and the ways economic processes shape Brazilian culture. My interest in tarot comes from the cards' use for play and divination in working-class leisure time. For me, printmaking operates like a small industry: the cylinder press resembles a steel rolling mill.
I am currently developing my doctoral research, "Como cunhar as próprias moedas?" [How to Mint Your Own Coins?], at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). The project brings together printmaking, Brazilian economic history and the dialectic between forging and minting: the tension between continuous, costly material labour and the poetic gesture that turns raw metal into symbolic value. I study the iconography of coins, divination decks, printed matter from Brazil's colonial period and vanitas allegories, exploring how gold extracted from the Latin American colonies was minted into coin in Europe, becoming a commodity as well as material for works of art.
Moving between woodcut, screen printing, lithography and digital processes, I am drawn to the juxtaposition of techniques and temporalities. Since 2024, I have been incorporating digital fabrication (3D modelling and printing, CNC milling and laser cutting) into traditional printing methods, expanding printmaking's technical and expressive range.
I run Impressos Prosaicos, an independent publishing imprint, and regularly take part in print and zine fairs. I see underground publishing as a way of circulating art outside traditional institutional circuits.
As an educator, I believe that teaching printmaking is inseparable from practising it, since print studios and workshops are inherently collective spaces where everyone learns together.
I want to make prints that go beyond formal concerns and raise questions about work, the economy and the ways people make a living.