Solo Exhibitions

2023

to take root among the stars, Frye Art Museum, Seattle - WA (upcoming)

Vulneravelmente Humano, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo - BR
2022
Falling from Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Denver - CO
Disorientation Towards Collapse, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles - CA
2021
Circumnavigation Towards Exhaustion, La Kunstalle Mulhouse, France
The 8th Continent, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice Public Art, The Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion, Houston - TX
2019
Future Fossil, Johnson-Kulukundis Gallery – Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
, Harvard University, Cambridge - MA
21st Century Wisdom: Healing Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block houses – 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica - CA
2018
Azul Maia/ Maya Blue, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo - BR
Encontro das Águas/ Meeting of Waters, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin - TX 
2017
The Mayan, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles - CA
Stereoscopic Vision: Clarissa Tossin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown - CT
2016
Meeting of Waters, JOAN, Los Angeles - CA 
2015
Brasília Teimosa, Galeria Baobá, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife - BR
How does it travel?, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles - CA
Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach - CA
2014
Transplantado (VW Brasilia), Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo - BR
2013
Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities, Artpace, San Antonio - TX 
Blind Spot: Window into Houston Clarissa Tossin, Blaffer Art Museum - University of Houston, Houston - TX 
Study for a Landscape, Sicardi Gallery, Houston - TX
2012
On Brasília, Centre 3, Hamilton, Canada 
2011
Gasto/ Spent, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo - BR
2009
Real, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - CA (MFA Thesis)

Solo Screenings / Video Installations

2023

MOCA Artist Film Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - CA (upcoming)

Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver - CO (upcoming)
2022

White Marble Everyday, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston - TX
Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing, Concert Hall, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy - NY
Ch’u Mayaa, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City - UT
2020
Light and Space, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles - CA (online)
2019
Clarissa Tossin: Ch’u Mayaa, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton - MA
New Media Series: Clarissa Tossin, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis - MO
Ch’u Mayaa, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy - NY
Unruly Alliances, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, San Francisco - CA
2018
When the Land Speaks: Clarissa Tossin, MSU Broad Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing - MI

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

The Inheritance: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1971-2022, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - NY (upcoming)

Video Art Program, High Line, New York - NY (upcoming)

2022
Mountain/Time, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen - CO
2021
ReVisión: Art in the Americas, Denver Art Museum, Denver - CO / on view
Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York - NY
Por um Sopro de Fúria e Esperança, MuBE-Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo - BR
Janelas para Dentro, Casa Milan, São Paulo - BR
MisCommunication, Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook - NY
2020
Kissing Through a Curtain, MASSMoCA, North Adams - MA
Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans - LA
Stayin’ Alive, Another Space, New York - NY
Mecarõ: Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection, MO.CO. Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier, France
Farsa, língua, fratura, ficção: Brasil-Portugal, Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo - BR
InterStates of Mind: Rewriting the Map of the United States in the Age of the Automobile, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing - MI
Seismic Movements: Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh
2019
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge - MA
Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II – Department of Carving and Modeling: Form and Volume, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
garcía, Raina, Shore, Tossin, Luhring Augustine, New York - NY
LAMOA DS#7, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles - CA
Place: Jane Benson, Joseph Havel, Leslie Hewitt, Rick Lowe, Clarissa Tossin, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston - TX
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, Queens - NY
Bagage Claims, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - MN
2018
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - NY 
12th Gwangju Biennial: Imagined Nations / Modern Utopias, Gwangju, South Korea
Other Walks, Other Lines, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose - CA
Mon Nord best ton Sud, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose - CA
Somewhere in Between, California State University, Pomona - CA
Emerald City, K 11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Stream Capture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis - MN
PST/CST, BANK/MAB Society, Shanghai, China
Bagage Claims, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro - NC 
In Any Direction, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge - MA
2017
Condemned To Be Modern, part of Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA – Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles - CA (curated by Clara Kim)
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, part of Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, California Museum of Photography – University of California, Riverside - CA 
Visual Intelligence, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge - MA
Bagage Claims, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando - FL 
99¢ or less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit - MI 
Vernacular Environments, Edward Cella, Los Angeles - CA
Lives Between, Kadist, San Francisco and Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv – curated by Joseph del Pesco and Sergio Edelsztein
Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena - CA
2016
Trans-Americas: A sign, a situation, a concept, Museum London, Canada 
Marler Medienkunst-Prize 2016, Skulpturenmuseum, Glaskasten Marl, Germany
MetaModern, De Vos Art Museum, MI and Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs - CA
Everyday Reflections in Abstraction, Space Collection, Irvine - CA 
PlaceBound, Nan Rae Gallery - Woodburry University, Burbank - CA
Customizing Language, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles - CA 
2015
United States of Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit - MI 
Time/Image, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston - TX 
Five Artists, David Nolan Gallery, New York - NY (curated by Matthew Schum)
In Search of an Exit (or Eight Characters in a Parlor), Heritage Square Museum, Los Angeles - CA
After Lanscape: Copied Cities, Fabra i Coats Centre D'Art Contemporani Barcelona, Spain 
MetaModern, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL | Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona | Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando - FL 
2014
Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe, NM 
Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles - CA 
Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum, New York - NY 
The Cartographer, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles - CA
Apollo TBD, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles - CA
Liberdade em Movimento, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, BR 
Roesler Hotel #25: Dispositivos para um mundo (im)possível, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, BR 
Art@Tell, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2013
Panoramas do Sul - 18º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, BR 
Tempo Suspenso, Brazil Fair, Miami, FL (curated by Luisa Duarte)
Sneakerotics, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Soft off, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles - CA
La Elipsis Arquitectónica, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco - Mexico City - MX 
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit - MI
2012
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco - CA 
Dallas Biennale, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas - TX 
2012 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston - TX
2011
Building Arts, Sicardi Gallery, Houston - TX
Material Traces, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas - TX
YLA 16: Thought Cloud, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin - TX
Nowhere Near Here, Houston Center for Photography, Houston - TX 
2011 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston - TX
2010
The First Thing, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles - CA
I Know What You Did Last Summer, Saint Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn - NY
2009
Feeling Feelings, Compact Space, Los Angeles - CA
Why Theory, Spring Art Towers, Los Angeles - CA
M.F.A. Conversations, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles - CA
CAA Los Angeles M.F.A., Helen Lindhurst Gallery - USC, Los Angeles - CA
2008
M.F.A. Mid-residency Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - CA
Allan Kaprow: Art as Life Happenings Series – Publicity, Vasquez Rocks Park, MoCA, Los Angeles - CA
Truth, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles - CA
2007
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - CA

Selected Bibliography
2022
Mariana Fernandéz, "Permission to Return Home: Clarissa Tossin Interviewed by Mariana Fernández," BOMB Magazine (Sep 6, 2022)
Yxta Maya Murray, Review: “Clarissa Tossin at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles” ARTFORUM (April 2022)
Betsy Huete, “In Houston, Artist Clarissa Tossin Ponders the Colonial Implications of the 21st-Century
Space Race,” ArtNews (March 18, 2022)
2021
Erica N. Cardwell, “ ‘Born in Flames’ Trailblazes a Collective Feminist Future,” Frieze Magazine (July 15, 2021)
Holland Cotter, “Born in Flames: Feminist Futures,” The New York Times, (September 1, 2021)
2020
Olivia Burt, “Dhaka Art Summit 2020,” Clove Magazine (February 19, 2020)
2019
Tia Glista, "Latinx Artists Use Sci-Fi to Imagine Postcolonial Futures (May 17, 2019)
Nicole Saraniero, "Other-Worldy Highlights from The Queens Museum’s New Sci-Fi Inspired Art Exhibit (April 10, 2019)
Meg Rotzel, “Make Your Own Worlds: A Conversation between Clarissa Tossin and Meg Rotzel,” Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (Exhibition Booklet)
Rachel Voguel, "Across Space and Time: Clarissa Tossin’s
Janelle Zara, "How Clarissa Tossin uses Amazonian tribal lore and retro sci-fi to address looming ecological disasters," Art Basel Magazine (April 2019)
Camila Belchior on “Clarissa Tossin,” ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL, Review São Paulo (February 2019)
Jennifer Remenchik, "Clarissa Tossin at 18th Street Arts Center," Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA, March 13, 2019)
2018
Maximilíano Durón and Alex Greenberger, “15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch,” ARTNews (Winter 2019)
Ming Lin, "The Phantom of Gwangju: Historical and Political Specters at the 2018 Biennale," ARTNews (Nov. 09, 2018)
Virginia Black, “Place,” “Town,” “To Make a House”: Metonyms of Identity at the Whitney, The Avery Review
Jillian Steinhauer, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” The New York Times, (September 13, 2018)
Ananda Cohen-Aponte, “Latinx Artists Are Highlighted for the First Time in a Group Show at the Whitney,” Hyperallergic, (August 28, 2018)
Nadja Sayej, “We’re building a bridge’ – the exhibition shining a light on Latinx artists,” The Guardian, (July 16, 2018)
Robin Pogrebin, “Museums Turn Their Focus to U.S. Artists of Latin Descent,” The New York Times, (April 24, 2018)
2017
Sharon Mizota, “Review: Nearly a century later, a video artist follows Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mayan footsteps,” Los Angeles Times, (October 15, 2017)
Evan Moffit, “Review: Condemned To Be Modern” Frieze, (November 29, 2017)
Christopher Hawthorne, “With Pacific Standard Time, Getty finally climbs down from hilltop oasis it built 20 years ago,” Los Angeles Times, (October 19, 2017)
Susan Dunne, "Wesleyan Exhibit Looks At Brazil, U.S. Cultural Overlap," Hartford Courant (February 13, 2017)
Ana Abril, "Exposição de Clarissa Tossin, nos EUA, apresenta a complexidade do mundo através do avizinhamento de opostos," Select (January 30, 2017)
2015
“Artist Portfolio: Clarissa Tossin,” Los Angeles Review of Books, Quarterly Journal (Summer 2015)
Edward Goldman, “Art that a) Amuses, b) Challenges, c) Leaves us in Disbelief,” KCRW Art Talk (June 30, 2015)
2014
Alexandra Grant, “Biennial at a Crossroads: SITE Santa Fe’s Reinvention,” X-tra Magazine, Vol. 17, Number 4 (Summer 2015)
Neha Choksi, "Staging a Biennial," X-tra Magazine, Vol. 17, Number 2 (Winter 2015)
George Melrod, "Made in L.A.," Art Ltd Magazine (July/August 2014)
Abe Ahn, "Broadcasting Los Angeles," Hyperallergic, (July 28, 2014)
Paula Bittar, "A Casa que Niemeyer Criou," Correio Braziliense, (July 24, 2014)
Adele Oliveira,"SITE Santa Fe — Clarissa Tossin: Place holders," Santa Fe-New Mexican Magazine (July 18, 2014)
Anuradha Vikram, "The Politics of Rehearsal," Daily Serving, (July 14, 2014)
Roberta Smith, "If Seeing Is Believing, a Panorama of Truth," The New York Times, (June 19, 2014)
Su Wu, "Art Matters | A Biennial in, and About, Los Angeles," The New York Times Style Magazine (June 13, 2014)
Mariola V. Alvarez, “Maintaining Cars, Pools & Other Modernities: Clarissa Tossin’s Brasília,” Gulf Coast, Vol. 26, Issue 2 (Spring 2014)
Sally Frater, “Traversing Geographies, Collapsing Architectures,” X-tra Magazine, Vol. 16, Number 3 (Spring 2014)
Jori Finkel, "Artists Named for Hammer Museum’s Los Angeles Biennial," The New York Times (February 18, 2014)
2013
Anjali Gupta, “This is Not An Institutional Critique: Artpace’s IAIR 13.2,” Current (July 24, 2013)
Kelly Montana, “Clarissa Tossin at Window into Houston & Sicardi Gallery,” Arts+Culture (May 24, 2013)
Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Relentless Sun: The Images of Clarissa Tossin,” Houston Press (May 29, 2013)
Pedro Hernández, “La Elipsis Arquitectónica,” Arquine (February 28, 2013)
Fabiola Palapa Quijas, “Quince artistas se apropian de elementos arquitectónicos y crean desde la cotidianidad,” La Jornada (February 27, 2013)
“Arquitectura y arte contemporáneo en Tlatelolco,” arteenlared.com (February 27, 2013)
“Arquitectura más allá de la función, en el CCUT,” El Universal (February 26, 2013)
“El CCUT presenta la exposicón “La elipsis arquitectónica,” Proyecto 40, (February 26, 2013)
2012
Tyler Rudick, "The art of technology: Core show touches on Google Maps, sexy dancing & Ferris Bueller," Culturemap (April 17, 2012)
Kathleen Massara, "Florence Ostende Discusses The First And Last Dallas Biennale," The Huffington Post (April 13, 2012)
Ellen Gamerman, "An Art Fair With a Texas Twist," The Wall Street Journal (April 6, 2012)
Katia Zavistovski, "2012 Core Exhibition," Arts & Culture Magazine (April 1, 2012)
Junior Compton, "The Dallas Contemporary Biennale," Dallas Arts Revue (April)
Peter Simek, "Why Dallas’ First Biennale Art Exhibition Will Also Be Its Last," Front Row: D Magazine (March 26, 2012)
Altamese Osborne, "Daggering: Dance Simulating Hardcore Sex at the Glassell School of Art Core 2012 Exhibit," Houston Press (March 21, 2012)
Bill Davenport, "Dallas’ Un-Biennial Biennale," Glasstire (March 2, 2012)
2011
Kelly Klaasmeyer, "Building Arts: Alexander Apostol, Dias & Riedweg, Thomas Glassford, Marco Maggi and Clarissa Tossin," Houston Press (November 9, 2011)
Margherita Dessanay, "Viewing: Clarissa Tossin," Elephant, issue 7 (Summer 2011): 24
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “When Art is Simply Art,” Austin American-Statesman (July 10): F1-F3
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, "Two new exhibits highlight emerging Latino artists," austin360.com (July 9, 2011)
Rachel Hooper, “Nowhere Near Here,” ...might be good # 167 (April 15, 2011)
Steven Thomson, “Getting to the Core of young artists at the Glassell School: Oil spills, plastic villains & dollar troubles,” CultureMap Houston (April 12, 2011)
Katia Zavistovski, “2011 Core Exhibition,” ART LIES (March 20, 2011)
Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Fine Fellows,” Houston Press (March 9, 2011)
2010
Irene Sainz, “La atalaya creativa de Pérez Galdós,” El Mundo (July 10, 2010): 16-17
Meghann McCrory, “Feeling Feelings: On (re)Framing Affect” (exhibition essay)

Selected Publications
"Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing,"
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2022
"Circumnavigation Towards Exhaustion," La Kunstalle Mulhouse, France, 2021
“ReVisión: Art in the Americas,” Denver Art Museum, 2020
“Future Fossil,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (Exhibition Booklet)
“Condemned To Be Modern,” Clara M. Kim, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs / LAMAG / Getty Foundation, 2017
“Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas,” Robb Hernández, Tyler Stallings, Joanna Szupinska-Myers, University of California, Riverside / Getty Foundation, 2017
“Customizing Language,” Idurre Alonso, Selene Preciado, 2016
"Marler Medienkunst-Prize 2016," Skulpturenmuseum, Glaskasten Marl, Germany, 2016
“Unmapping the World | Desmapenado o Mundo,” Guilherme Wisnik, Michael Ned Holte & Moacir dos Anjos, 2015
“After Landscape: Ciutats Copiades,” Fabra i Coats Centre d’Art Contemporani, 2015
“MetaModern,” Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox, University of Washington Press, 2015
“Made in L.A. 2014,” Butler & Holte, Hammer Museum, Delmonico/Prestel, 2014
“Unsettled Landscapes,” SITE Santa Fe, 2014
“Liberdade em Movimento,” Fundação Iberê Camargo, 2014
“Panoramas do Sul - 18º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil,” Edições SESC. 2013
"La Elipsis Arquitectónica," Estévez & Toscano, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Arquine, 2013
"When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2012
“2011-2012 Core Program,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012
“2010-2011 Core Program,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2011
“Brasília by Foot,” Shifter 16: Pluripotential (April): 44-51
“Why Theory,” California Institute of the Arts, 2009

Education
2009 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - CA
2000 B.F.A., Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil

Residencies / Grants / Fellowships
2020 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago - IL
2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award, New York - NY
2019 LAB VERDE: Art Immersion Program in the Amazônia, Manaus - BR
2019 Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship, Los Angeles - CA
2019 Artist Lab Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica - CA
2018 Artadia Los Angeles Award, Los Angeles - CA
2018 Juméx Foundation Research Grant (for Artist Lab Residency at 18th Street Arts Center)
2017-18 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge - MA
2015 Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Projeto Residências Artísticas, Recife - BR (fellowship)
2014 Emerging Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation
2013 Artpace, International Artist-in-Residence, San Antonio - TX (guest curator: Hou Hanru)
2013 ARC Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2012 VI Concurso de Videoarte, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (grant)
2012 Artistic Innovation Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2010-2012 Core Program Fellowship, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - TX
2011 SOMA summer, Mexico City
2010 Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain (mentor: Mona Hatoum)
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Donald and Doris Fisher Fellowship / CalArts Matching Fellowship
2009 CAA Los Angeles MFA Award, College Art Association
2009 Deanʼs Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - CA
2008 Interdisciplinary Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - CA
2007-2009 Graduate Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - CA

Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Casa Niemeyer, Universidade de Brasília
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (MSU Broad)
Fundação Inhotim, Brazil
The Art Institute of Chicago

Lectures / Panels
2022
Artist Talk, USC Roski School of Art
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Riverside
Artist Talk, California State University, Fullerton
2021
Visiting Artist Lecture, California State University, Fullerton
2020
Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York
Visiting Artist Lecture, California State University, Long Beach
2019
Visiting Artist Lecture, Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
AIR Talks: Clarissa Tossin and Atossa Soltani, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator AIR
2018
Thinking Through Space: A Conversation About Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay – Whitney Museum of American Art
Radcliffe Fellow Lecture, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
, Harvard University
Visiting Artist Lecture, Smith College
Visiting Artist Lecture, Northeastern University
2017
Symposium on Latin American & Latino Art featured in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, panel with Jonathas de Andrade; Clara M. Kim; Clarissa Tossin and Dan Fox – Frieze, Getty and Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
A Conversation on Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, panel with Idurre Alonso, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, David Evans Frantz, Irene Tsatsos and Clarissa Tossin – LA Art Show
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, Speakers include Paula Flores, Mark Hirsch, Gretchen Hoffman, and Clarissa Tossin – UC Santa Barbara
2016
Visiting Artist Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design
2015
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Davis
Desmapeando o Mundo: Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Guilherme Wisnik e Teté Martinho, Galeria Luisa Strina
Visiting Artist Lecture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
Unmapping the World: Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Michael Ned Holte, Samuel Freeman Gallery
2014
Ligatures: Authors and Artists in Conversation, University of Houston
Visiting Artist Lecture, UCLA, Brazilian Art History class – Prof. Aleca le Blanc
2013
Study for a Landscape: Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Prof. Chris Taylor, Sicardi Gallery
2012
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of York
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Waterloo
2011
See-through Utopia: Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Prof. Peter T. Lang, Sicardi Gallery
Visiting Artist Lecture, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Visiting Artist Lecture, Houston Center for Photography

Teaching
2015 Visiting Artist Workshop - Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
2014 Visiting Artist Workshop - The Queens Museum
2011-12 Adjunct Lecturer - Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts, Rice University
2011 MArch. Final Review Juror - School of Architecture, Rice University
2011 MArch. Final Review Juror - School of Architecture, Texas A&M University