Clarissa Tossin (born 1973) is a visual artist from
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
and based in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
. Her collaborative, research-based practice develops alternative narratives found in the built environment, using elements of installation, sculpture, and moving image to explore intersections of place, history, and aesthetics.
Early life and education
Born in
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, twelfth most populous city in the country ...
in southern Brazil, Tossin grew up in the capital city of
Brasília
Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located at the top of the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitsche ...
. She attended college in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
at
Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), then moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to pursue graduate study at
CalArts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of bot ...
, receiving her MFA in 2009.
Work
Tossin's work upon moving to
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
often referred back to her previous life in
Brasília
Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located at the top of the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitsche ...
, using her own migration as a mode of understanding modernity, urban development, and globalization. Her installatio
''Brasília, Cars, Pools and Other Modernities''(2009-2013) establishes an architectural bridge between the two cities:
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...
, responsible for Brasília's urban plan, also designed the Strick House in
Santa Monica
Santa Monica (; Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to ...
. Through videos, sculptures, photographs, and ephemera, including a 1973
Volkswagen Brasília
The Volkswagen Brasília is a rear-engined compact car, manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen in Brazil between 1974 and 1982; in Mexico from 1975 to 1982; and as knock down kits in Nigeria where it was marketed as the ''Igala'' from 1976 to 198 ...
loaded with pool-cleaning equipment, the work brings out the cities' shared architecture, swimming pools, and car culture, as well as their convergent histories of
urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly t ...
alongside the burgeoning auto industry and highway infrastructure, elaborating their paradoxically utopian and dystopic place in the global imagination.
Tossin's next major body of work focused on the Amazon region and its histories of industrial incursion and architectural displacement. The video and sound installation ''Streamlined: Belterra, Amazónia/Alberta, Michigan'' (2013) deal with
Belterra, a rubber plantation in the Brazilian
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology c ...
, and
Alberta, Michigan, an
Upper Peninsula
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. – is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by t ...
sawmill town, both modeled on New England villages and built concurrently in 1935 to source materials for auto manufacturing in the United States. ''Encontro das Águas / Meeting of Waters'' (2018), an installation investigating the manufacture of electronics in the
Free Economic Zone of Manaus
The Free Economic Zone of Manaus ( pt, Zona Franca de Manaus, - ZFM) is a free economic zone in the city of Manaus, the capital of the State of Amazonas, Northern Brazil. The initial idea, a free trade port in Manaus, came from Deputy Francisco ...
, includes terra cotta casts of electronics produced in Manaus, woven satellite images from the region sourced from
Google Earth
Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geog ...
, and cut down
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economi ...
delivery boxes woven into baskets.
Climate crisis and space exploration
Much of Tossin's most recent work examines the origins and impacts of the
climate crisis
''Climate crisis'' is a term describing global warming and climate change, and their impacts. The term and the alternative term ''climate emergency'' have been used to describe the threat of global warming to humanity (and their planet), and to u ...
, increasingly through the lens of 21st century
space exploration
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. While the exploration of space is carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration though is conducted both by robotic spacec ...
. These works connect plans for mining and settlement of the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
and
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...
with terrestrial legacies of
resource extraction
Extractivism is the process of extracting natural resources from the Earth to sell on the world market. It exists in an economy that depends primarily on the extraction or removal of natural resources that are considered valuable for exportation w ...
,
colonialism
Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their relig ...
, and
environmental degradation
Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment (biophysical), environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; an ...
on
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...
. According to curator Sandrine Wymann,
"Tossin contemplates the day, not far off, when we exhaust this planet's resources and flee to Mars to begin anew, as an extra-terrestrial civilization with no choice but to continue elsewhere or perish."
The suspended, double-sided circular weavings in ''A Queda do Céu (The Falling Sky)'' (2019) interlace satellite views of the
Amazon River
The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile.
The headwaters of t ...
and 2019 fires in
Amazônia
The Amazon rainforest, Amazon jungle or ; es, Selva amazónica, , or usually ; french: Forêt amazonienne; nl, Amazoneregenwoud. In English, the names are sometimes capitalized further, as Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Forest, or Amazon Jungle. ...
with NASA images of the great Martian plain
Amazonis Planitia
Amazonis Planitia (, Latin ''Amāzŏnis'') is one of the smoothest plains on Mars. It is located between the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic provinces, to the west of Olympus Mons, in the Amazonis and Memnonia quadrangles, centered at . The plain' ...
and the
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye ...
, comprising woven patterns that resemble agricultural land partitions viewed from space.
Similarly, Tossin's ''Future Geography'' (2021) weavings combine strips of Amazon.com delivery boxes with
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
images of
Shackleton Crater
Shackleton is an impact crater that lies at the lunar south pole. The peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, while the interior is perpetually in shadow. The low-temperature interior of this crater functions as a ...
on the Moon (proposed site of the first US lunar ice mining facility),
Jezero Crater
Jezero is a crater on Mars in the Syrtis Major quadrangle, about in diameter. Thought to have once been flooded with water, the crater contains a fan- delta deposit rich in clays. The lake in the crater was present when valley networks were for ...
on Mars (landing site of NASA's
''Perseverance'' rover), and the
Hyades star cluster
The Hyades (; Greek Ὑάδες, also known as Caldwell 41, Collinder 50, or Melotte 25) is the nearest open cluster and one of the best-studied star clusters. Located about away from the Sun, it consists of a roughly spherical group of hundreds ...
(the nearest to the
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar S ...
), highlighting the intersection of scientific and commercial interests in space exploration.
''The 8th Continent'' (2021), a triptych of large-scale jacquard tapestries commissioned by
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
, represents the culmination of Tossin's interest in science and commerce converging in outer space. Working with Rice's Space Institute and Houston's
Lunar and Planetary Institute
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is a scientific research institute dedicated to study of the Solar System, its formation, evolution, and current state. The Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and is supp ...
, Tossin sourced NASA images surveying the Moon's permanently shadowed polar craters for concentrations of water ice, to be mined for use in making hydrogen fuel for deep space ventures, including NASA's proposed
Artemis
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Artemis (; grc-gre, Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity. She was heavily identified wit ...
missions. Mapmaking has long been used to establish and project territorial sovereignty, and NASA's surveys of lunar resources are no exception. Harking back to the gilt and silk threaded tapestries of the medieval and Renaissance periods, Tossin recontextualizes these images within a regal tradition of showcasing sovereign wealth and power; metallic gold threading indicates likely stores of lunar ice—the gold of the future.
''Death by Heat Wave (Acer pseudoplatanus, Mulhouse Forest)'' (2021) ponders the demise of all life in the death of a single tree. A silicone cast of a decomposing
Sycamore
Sycamore is a name which has been applied to several types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms. The name derives from the ancient Greek ' (''sūkomoros'') meaning "fig-mulberry".
Species of trees known as sycamore:
* ''Acer pseudoplata ...
from the
Mulhouse
Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...
forest signals the mass die-off of Sycamores across the region due to rising temperatures, while measuring the pace of human activity against much slower natural cycles of decay and regeneration. Another work, ''Rising Temperature Casualty (Prunus persica, home garden, Los Angeles)'' (2021), features a silicone cast of a peach tree from Tossin's garden in Los Angeles. Taken together, they register both the global reach of climate change and the similarity of its effects for disparate species in widely separated places. ''Vulnerably Human'' (2022), a silicone-based skin-shed cast of an astronaut suit incorporating meteorite powder, tree bark, and soil, evokes the precarious next stage of human civilization, bridging the vulnerability of human bodies in space with the fragility of life on Earth.
Reclaiming the Mayan Revival
Another important focus in Tossin's recent work involves 1920s
Mayan Revival
Mayan Revival is a modern architectural style popular in the Americas during the 1920s and 1930s that drew inspiration from the architecture and iconography of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
History
Origins
Though the name of the s ...
architecture, which co-opted the architecture and iconography of
pre-Columbian
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, th ...
Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area in southern North America and most of Central America. It extends from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica. W ...
.
The single-channel video ''Ch'u Mayaa'' draws out the suppressed influence of
Maya
Maya may refer to:
Civilizations
* Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America
** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples
** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples
* Maya (Ethiopia), a populat ...
architecture on
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...
's
Hollyhock House
The Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright originally as a residence for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall (built, 1919–1921). The building is now the centerpi ...
(1919-1921), foregrounding the building's Indigenous symbology through a dance performance by
Crystal Sepúlveda based on gestures and postures found in ancient Maya ceramics and murals, thus reclaiming the building to the Maya architectural lineage. A series of sculptures based on the
Mayan Theater
The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, California is a landmark former movie palace and current nightclub and music venue.
History
The Mayan Theater opened in August 1927 as a performance arts theater.
Leon Hefflin Sr. rented out the Mayan Theater d ...
(1927), a landmark movie palace in Los Angeles, form the basis of Tossin's installation ''The Mayan'' (2017). The theater's interior design by
Francisco Cornejo directly appropriates motifs found in several Maya sites:
Quiriguá
Quiriguá () is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. It is a medium-sized site covering approximately along the lower Motagua River, with the ceremonial center about from the north bank. ...
and
Piedras Negras Piedras Negras may refer to:
* Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a city in the state of Coahuila, Mexico
** Piedras Negras Municipality, a municipality in Mexico, with the center in the eponymous city
* Piedras Negras (Maya site)
Piedras Negras is the ...
in
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
, and
Yaxchilán
Yaxchilan () is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In the Late Classic Period Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta River, with Piedr ...
in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. Tossin exposes this mimicry with skin-like silicone imprints of the reliefs that decorate the theater's doors and walls, combined with plaster casts of hands and feet sourced from the archeological sites, and bits of faux jaguar fur, quetzal feather, and serpent skin.
Tossin's collaborative film ''Mojo'q che b'ixan ri ixkanulab' / Antes de que los volcanes canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing'' (2022) presents an immersive sensory journey across languages, music, and architectural spaces that are variously imagined and real, cosmological and colonized. Commissioned by
EMPAC
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which opened on October 3, 2008. The building is named after Curtis Priem, co-founder ...
, the work centers on 3D printed playable replicas of ancient Maya musical instruments, 3D scanned and modeled by archaeologist and curator
Jared Katz, exploring their capacity to voice alternative modes of knowledge. The film's narrative follows the personal histories of its Maya protagonists, including K'iche'-Kaqchiquel poet
Rosa Chávez, Ixil Maya artist
Tohil Fidel Brito Bernal (who appears inside the Mayan Revival
Sowden House in Los Angeles), and Mexican flautist
Alethia Lozano Birrueta, featuring music and sound design by Brazilian composer
Michelle Agnes Magalhães and cinematography by
Jeremy Glaholt.
As art historian Susanna Phillips Newbury observes:
"Whether reinserting figurative traditions and ritual practices of Mayan motifs in early twentieth-century Los Angeles architecture, as in her 2017 video ''Ch'u Mayaa'', or more broadly examining a grotesque, postlapsarian world,
ossinemploys the future perfect language of speculative science to propose ways of seeing our devastated present."
Exhibitions
Tossin's solo exhibitions include:
* ''to take root among the stars'' at the
Frye Art Museum
The Frye Art Museum is a modern and contemporary art museum located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1952 to house the collection of Charles and Emma Frye and has since grown to include rotating temporary ex ...
, Seattle (2023)
* ''Vulneravelmente Humano / Vulnerably Human'' at
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2023)
* ''Falling From Earth'' at
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver), in Denver, Colorado, was founded in 1996 as the first dedicated home for contemporary art in the city of Denver. For seven years, MCA Denver occupied a renovated fish market in Sakura Square in lower dow ...
(2022)
* ''Disorientation Towards Collapse'' at
Commonwealth and Council
Commonwealth and Council is an American contemporary art gallery located in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
History
The gallery was founded in 2010 by artist and curator Young Chung. It began in his apartment on Commonwealth Avenue and Council Street i ...
, Los Angeles (2022)
* ''Circumnavigation towards exhaustion'' at
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France (2021)
* ''Off the Wall: Clarissa Tossin, The 8th Continent'' at
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
, Houston (2021)
* ''Future Fossil'' at the
Harvard Radcliffe Institute
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...
, Cambridge (2019)
* ''21st Century Wisdom: Healing Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block houses'' at the
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2019)
* ''Encontro das Águas / Meeting of Waters'' at the
Blanton Museum of Art
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent coll ...
, Austin (2018)
* ''Azul Maia / Maya Blue'' at
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2018);
* ''The Mayan'' at
Commonwealth and Council
Commonwealth and Council is an American contemporary art gallery located in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
History
The gallery was founded in 2010 by artist and curator Young Chung. It began in his apartment on Commonwealth Avenue and Council Street i ...
, Los Angeles (2017);
* ''Stereoscopic Vision'' at
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...
(2017);
* ''Streamlined: Belterra, Amazónia/Alberta, Michigan'' at the
Museum of Latin American Art
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) was founded by Dr. Robert Gumbiner in 1996 in Long Beach, California, United States and serves the greater Los Angeles area. MOLAA is the only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contempora ...
, Long Beach (2015);
* ''Brasília Teimosa'' at
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, BR (2015);
''Transplantado (VW Brasilia)''at
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2014);
* ''Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities'' at
Artpace
Artpace is a non-profit contemporary art gallery located in San Antonio, Texas, United States, founded by Linda Pace. Artpace opened its doors in 1995, and focuses on the artistic process. Occupying the space of a former Hudson automobile dealers ...
, San Antonio (2013);
* ''Blind Spot'' at the
Blaffer Art Museum
Blaffer Art Museum is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the Arts District of the University of Houston campus. Housed in the university’s Fine Arts Building, it is part of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts. It was fo ...
,
University of Houston
The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...
(2013); an
''Gasto / Spent''at
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2011).
Her group exhibitions include:
* ''Born in Flames: Feminist Futures'' at the
Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum, is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by A ...
(2021)
* the
Dhaka Art Summit
Dhaka Art Summit is an art summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is organised by Samdani Art Foundation, a non- profit art infrastructure development organisation founded by Nadia Samdani. and Rajeeb Samdani in 2011.
About
The summit displays ...
, Bangladesh (2020)
* ''Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art'' at the
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...
, New York (2018)
* the 12th
Gwangju Biennale
The Gwangju Biennale is a contemporary art biennale founded in September 1995 in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, South Korea. The Gwangju Biennale is hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the city of Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennale Founda ...
, South Korea (2018)
* ''Made in L.A.'' at the
Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...
, Los Angeles (2014).
Awards & recognition
Tossin's work has been supported by grants from the
Graham Foundation
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit that “fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realize ...
(2020) and the
Foundation for Contemporary Art
The Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) is a Ghanaian visual arts foundation that aims to create an active network of artists and provide a critical forum for the development of contemporary art in Ghana. Based in Accra, the FCA was founded in 2 ...
(2019), a Fellowship Award from
Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellows may refer to Fellow, in plural form.
Fellows or Fellowes may also refer to:
Places
* Fellows, California, USA
* Fellows, Wisconsin, ghost town, USA
Other uses
* Fellows Auctioneers, established in 1876.
*Fellowes, Inc., manufacturer of wo ...
(2019), an
Artadia Artadia is an American arts non-profit organization founded in 1999. They are headquartered in New York City, and support visual artists with unrestricted, merit-based financial awards as well as other opportunities.
History
Artadia was founded i ...
Los Angeles Award (2018), a
Fundación Jumex
Fundación is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of Magdalena. Its people are known as Fundanenses. The primary economic activity is livestock-raising, for production of both meat and milk. Other crops are: corn, yuca, o ...
grant (2018), a
California Community Foundation
The California Community Foundation (CCF) is a philanthropic organization located in Los Angeles, California. Foundation Center, an independent nonprofit organization, ranks it among the top 100 foundations in the nation by asset size and total ...
Fellowship for Visual Artists (2014), and a
Center for Cultural Innovation grant (2012).
Tossin was a Fellow at the
Harvard Radcliffe Institute
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...
(2017–18), a CORE Program Fellow at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...
(2010–12), and was artist-in-residence at
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, BR (2015);
Artpace
Artpace is a non-profit contemporary art gallery located in San Antonio, Texas, United States, founded by Linda Pace. Artpace opened its doors in 1995, and focuses on the artistic process. Occupying the space of a former Hudson automobile dealers ...
San Antonio (2013); and the
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 t ...
(2009), among others.
Collections
*
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...
, Chicago, IL
*
Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...
, Los Angeles, CA
*
Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...
, Cambridge, MA
*
Kadist Art Foundation
Kadist is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization with an international contemporary art collection. In addition to being a collecting body, Kadist hosts artists residencies and produces exhibitions, publications, and public events. ...
, San Francisco, CA
*
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...
, Los Angeles, CA
*
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...
, TX
*
MSU Broad At Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
*
New Orleans Museum of Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art (or NOMA) is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the ...
, New Orleans, LA
*
Smith College Museum of Art
The Smith College Museum of Art (abbreviated SCMA), is an art museum in Northampton, Massachusetts connected with Smith College. The museum is known for its compilation of American and European art of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by ...
, Northampton, MA
*
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...
, New York, NY
[Selvin, Claire]
"Whitney Museum Acquires Works by Emma Amos, Ed Clark, Many More"
''ARTnews'', 9 April 2019.
* Casa Niemeyer,
Universidade de Brasília
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Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil
Publications
Tossin, Clarissa
''Unmapping the World / Desmapeando O Mundo'' Edited by Teté Martinho, with essays by Moacir dos Anjos, Michael Ned Holte, and Guilherme Wisnik. 2015. ()
References
External links
Clarissa Tossin official websiteClarissa Tossin on VimeoClarissa Tossin artist profile at Commonwealth and CouncilClarissa Tossin ''BOMB'' interviewClarissa Tossin ''ARTnews'' interview
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1973 births
Living people
Radcliffe fellows
20th-century Brazilian women artists
21st-century Brazilian women artists
21st-century Brazilian artists
California Institute of the Arts alumni