born in
Porto Alegre, Brazil;
lives and works in
Los Angeles
solo exhibitions
2025 Ponto sem retorno / Point of No Return, Museu de Arte São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo
All That You Touch, You Change, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
2024 Focus: Clarissa Tossin, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
2023 to take root among the stars, Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Vulneravalmente Humano, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2022 Falling From Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
Disorientation Towards Collapse, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
2021 Circumnavigation Towards Exhaustion, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France
The 8th Continent, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice Public Art, The Brochstein Pavilion, Houston
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
2018 Azul Maia / Maya Blue, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Encontro das Águas / Meeting of Waters, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
2017 The Mayan, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
Stereoscopic Vision: Clarissa Tossin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown
2016 Meeting of Waters, JOAN, Los Angeles
2015 Brasília Teimosa, Galeria Baobá, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife
How does it travel?, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles
Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
2014 Transplantado (VW Brasília), Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2013 Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities, Artpace, San Antonio
Blind Spot: Window into Houston, Clarissa Tossin, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston
Study for a Landscape, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
2012 On Brasília, Centre 3, Hamilton, Canada
2011 Gasto / Spent, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2009 Real, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
selected solo screenings / video installations
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
2022 White Marble Everyday, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
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
Ch’u Mayaa, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
2020 Light and Space, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles
2019 Clarissa Tossin: Ch’u Mayaa, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
New Media Series: Clarissa Tossin, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
Ch’u Mayaa, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Unruly Alliances, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, San Francisco
2018 When the Land Speaks: Clarissa Tossin, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing
selected group exhibitions
2026 Design in Industry, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (upcoming)
Female avant-gardes of Latin America (1915 to present), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (upcoming)
Into the Time Horizon, Nevada Museum of Art
Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University, Portland
2025 Home and Beyond / Making Places, Power Station of Art Library, Shanghai, China
O Spleen e a flor, Martins&Montero, São Paulo, Brazil
Grounded, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s-2020s, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
Complexo Brasil, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
Crivo, a perspectiva de Luisa Strina, Casa Bradesco, São Paulo
Maya Blue: Ancient Color, New Visions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas
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 (traveled to Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg (2025) - Torggler Fine Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News (2026))
2024 Prospect.6 Triennial: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, New Orleans
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
An Archaeology of Standards: The Production of Otherness, Foment de lesArtes i el Disseny, Barcelona Design Centre
Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A New View of 20th and 21st-Century Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Objects We Choose, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2023 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Dancing about Architecture, The High Line Art, New York
Shifting Center, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
5th Chicago Architecture Biennial: This is a Rehearsal, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Inheritance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2022 Mountain/Time, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
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
Por um Sopro de Fúria e Esperança, MuBE-Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo
Janelas para Dentro, Casa Milan, São Paulo
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
Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Stayin’ Alive, Another Space, New York
Mecarõ: Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection, MO.CO. Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier
Farsa, língua, fratura, ficção: Brasil-Portugal, Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo
InterStates of Mind: Rewriting the Map of the United States in the Age of theAutomobile, Broad Art Museum, MSU
Seismic Movements: Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh
2019 Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
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
LAMOA DS#7, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
Place: Jane Benson, Joseph Havel, Leslie Hewitt, Rick Lowe, Clarissa Tossin, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, Queens
Bagage Claims, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2018 Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
12th Gwangju Biennial: Imagined Nations / Modern Utopias, Gwangju, South Korea
Other Walks, Other Lines, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
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
Emerald City, K 11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Stream Capture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
PST/CST, BANK/MAB Society, Shanghai
Bagage Claims, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
In Any Direction, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge
2017 Condemned To Be Modern, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles
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
Bagage Claims, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
99¢ or less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
Vernacular Environments, Edward Cella, Los Angeles
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
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
PlaceBound, Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank
Customizing Language, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
2015 United States of Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
Five Artists, David Nolan Gallery, New York
In Search of an Exit (or Eight Characters in a Parlor), Heritage Square Museum, Los Angeles
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
Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum, Queens
The Cartographer, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
Apollo TBD, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles
Liberdade em Movimento, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre
Roesler Hotel #25: Dispositivos para um mundo (im)possível, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo
Art@Tell, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2013 Panoramas do Sul - 18º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea, Sesc_Videobrasil, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
Tempo Suspenso, Brazil Fair, Miami
Sneakerotics, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Soft off, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles
La Elipsis Arquitectónica, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Mexico City
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
2011 Building Arts, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
Material Traces, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
YLA 16: Thought Cloud, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
Nowhere Near Here, Houston Center for Photography, Houston
2010 The First Thing, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
I Know What You Did Last Summer, Saint Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn
2009 Feeling Feelings, Compact Space, Los Angeles
Why Theory, Spring Art Towers, Los Angeles
CAA Los Angeles M.F.A, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2008 M.F.A. Mid-residency Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Allan Kaprow: Art as Life Happenings Series, Vasquez Rocks Park, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Truth, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
fellowships, grants & residencies
2026 Commission by the City of Los Angeles for LAX Public Video Art Installation
2025 Bvlgari Whitney Biennial Affiliated Artist – American Academy in Rome (Spring 2025)
2023 Smithsonian Fellowship - National Air and Space Museum
2020 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago
2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award, New York
LAB VERDE: Art Immersion Program in the Amazônia, Manaus
Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship, Los Angeles
Artist Lab Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
2018 Artadia Los Angeles Award, Los Angeles
Juméx Foundation Research Grant (for Artist Lab Residency at 8th Street Arts Center)
2017-18 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge
2016 Commission by the City of Los Angeles for Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Exhibition
2015 Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Projeto Residências Artísticas, Recife
2014 Emerging Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles
2013 Artpace, International Artist-in-Residence, San Antonio
ARC Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2012 VI Concurso de Videoarte, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
Artistic Innovation Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2010-2012 Core Program Fellowship, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
2011 SOMA, Mexico City
2010 Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain (mentor: Mona Hatoum)
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
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
education
2009 MFA California Institute of the Arts
2000 BFA Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo