born in
Porto Alegre, Brazil;
lives and works in
Los Angeles
solo exhibitions
2026
When Two Places Look Alike, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY, USA
After the Plan, University of Kentucky, College of Design Gallery, Lexington, KY, USA
Piante Vagabonde, Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, Milan, Italy
2025
Ponto sem retorno / Point of No Return, Museu de Arte São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, BR
All That You Touch, You Change, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
2024
Focus: Clarissa Tossin, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
2023
to take root among the stars, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Vulneravalmente Humano, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR
2022
Falling From Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA
Disorientation Towards Collapse, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Circumnavigation Towards Exhaustion, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France
The 8th Continent, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice Public Art, The Brochstein Pavilion, Houston, TX, USA
2019
Future Fossil, Johnson-Kulukundis Gallery, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
21st Century Wisdom: Healing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile Block Houses, 18th Street Arts Center,
Santa Monica, CA, USA
2018
Azul Maia / Maya Blue, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR
Encontro das Águas / Meeting of Waters, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
2017
The Mayan, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
Stereoscopic Vision: Clarissa Tossin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT, USA
2016
Meeting of Waters, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
Brasília Teimosa, Galeria Baobá, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, BR
How does it travel?, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
2014
Transplantado (VW Brasília), Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR
2013
Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA
Blind Spot: Window into Houston, Clarissa Tossin, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, TX, USA
Study for a Landscape, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
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, USA
selected solo screenings / video installations
2026
Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, Moving Image Media Art Program, West Hollywood Public Art Project, West Hollywood, CA, USA
2025
Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los volcanes canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing, Spazio Supernova, Rome, Italy
2024
Ch’u Mayaa, Track II Screening Program, KADIST Art Foundation, DRC No. 12, Beijing, China
Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, The Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
2023
Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los volcanes canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing, Artist Film Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022
White Marble Everyday, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
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, USA
Ch’u Mayaa, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2020
Light and Space, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019
Clarissa Tossin: Ch’u Mayaa, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA
New Media Series: Clarissa Tossin, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Ch’u Mayaa, Concert Hall, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Unruly Alliances, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018
When the Land Speaks: Clarissa Tossin, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
selected group exhibitions
2026
Design in Industry, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA (upcoming)
Female avant-gardes of Latin America (1915 to present), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE (upcoming)
Into the Time Horizon, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, USA
Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
2025
Home and Beyond / Making Places, Power Station of Art Library, Shanghai, China
O Spleen e a flor, Martins&Montero, São Paulo, BR
Grounded, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s-2020s, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Complexo Brasil, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, PT
Crivo, a perspectiva de Luisa Strina, Casa Bradesco, São Paulo, BR
Maya Blue: Ancient Color, New Visions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA
You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA
17th Gjon Mili International Exhibition of Photography and Moving Image: She Who Starts the Song…, National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina
Future Fossils, MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA, USA (traveled to Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg (2025), Torggler Fine Arts Center (2026), Christopher Newport University, Newport News (2026))
2024
Prospect.6 Triennial: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, New Orleans, LA, USA
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, (Getty PST: Art x Science x LA), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (traveled to Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston (2025), Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis (2025))
Futures in Space, National Air and Space Museum: Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC, USA
An Archaeology of Standards: The Production of Otherness, Foment de lesArtes i el Disseny, Barcelona Design Centre, Barcelona, ES
Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
A New View of 20th and 21st-Century Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, USA
The Objects We Choose, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Dancing about Architecture, The High Line Art, New York, NY, USA
Shifting Center, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
5th Chicago Architecture Biennial: This is a Rehearsal, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Inheritance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2022
Mountain/Time, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
2021
ReVisión: Art in the Americas, Denver Art Museum, Denver (traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2023)
Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA
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
Mis/Communication: Language and Power in Contemporary Art, Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University (traveled to Gannett Gallery, SUNY Polytechnic Institute (2022), Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Adirondack (2023), Marion Gallery, SUNY Fredonia (2023), Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz (2024))
2020
Kissing Through a Curtain, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Stayin’ Alive, Another Space, New York, NY, USA
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, MSU, MI, USA
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, USA
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, USA
LAMOA DS#7, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Place: Jane Benson, Joseph Havel, Leslie Hewitt, Rick Lowe, Clarissa Tossin, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA
Bagage Claims, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2018
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
12th Gwangju Biennial: Imagined Nations / Modern Utopias, Gwangju, South Korea
Other Walks, Other Lines, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Mon Nord best ton Sud, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Somewhere in Between, California State University, Pomona, CA, USA
Emerald City, K 11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Stream Capture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, USA
PST/CST, BANK/MAB Society, Shanghai
Bagage Claims, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
In Any Direction, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2017
Condemned To Be Modern, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, (Getty PST: LA/LA) California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside (traveled to Queens Museum, Queens (2019))
Visual Intelligence, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Bagage Claims, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, USA
99¢ or less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI, USA
Vernacular Environments, Edward Cella, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lives Between, Kadist, San Francisco and Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2016
Trans-Americas: A sign, a situation, a concept, Museum London, Canada
Marler Medienkunst-Prize 2016, Skulpturenmuseum, Glaskasten Marl, Germany
Everyday Reflections in Abstraction, Space Collection, Irvine, CA, USA
PlaceBound, Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, USA
Customizing Language, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
United States of Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI, USA
Five Artists, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
In Search of an Exit (or Eight Characters in a Parlor), Heritage Square Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
After Landscape: Copied Cities, Fabra i Coats Centre D'Art Contemporani Barcelona, Spain
MetaModern, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois (traveled to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2015), Orlando Museum of Art (2015), De Vos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University (2016), Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs (2016))
2014
Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe, Sante Fe, NM, USA
Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA
The Cartographer, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Apollo TBD, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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, USA
Sneakerotics, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Soft off, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
La Elipsis Arquitectónica, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Mexico City, MX
2012
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, 2013))
Dallas Biennale, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA
2011
Building Arts, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Material Traces, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA
YLA 16: Thought Cloud, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, USA
Nowhere Near Here, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, USA
2010
The First Thing, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
I Know What You Did Last Summer, Saint Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2009
Feeling Feelings, Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Why Theory, Spring Art Towers, Los Angeles, CA, USA
CAA Los Angeles M.F.A, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008
M.F.A. Mid-residency Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
Allan Kaprow: Art as Life Happenings Series, Vasquez Rocks Park, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Truth, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
fellowships, grants & residencies
2026
Commission by the City of Los Angeles for LAX Public Video Art Installation, LA, USA
2025
Bvlgari Whitney Biennial Affiliated Artist – American Academy in Rome, Italy (Spring 2025)
2023
Smithsonian Fellowship - National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C., USA
2020
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL, USA
2019
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, New York, NY, USA
LAB VERDE: Art Immersion Program in the Amazônia, Manaus, BR
Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artist Lab Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2018
Artadia Los Angeles Award, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Juméx Foundation Research Grant (for Artist Lab Residency at 18th Street Arts Center,
Santa Monica, CA, USA)
2017-18
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2016
Commission by the City of Los Angeles for Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Projeto Residências Artísticas, Recife, BR
2014
Emerging Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2013
Artpace, International Artist-in-Residence, San Antonio, TX, USA
ARC Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, CA, USA
2012
VI Concurso de Videoarte, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil
Artistic Innovation Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, CA, USA
2010-2012
Core Program Fellowship, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, USA
2011
SOMA, Mexico City, MX,
2010
Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain (mentor: Mona Hatoum)
2009
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, Maine, USA
public collections
The Art Institute of Chicago
Casa Niemeyer, Universidade de Brasília
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (MSU Broad)
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Fundação Inhotim, Brazil
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles
Museu de Arte de São Paulo – MASP
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
Seattle Art Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
education
2009 MFA California Institute of the Arts
2000 BFA Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo