Rachel Rosalen is a Brazilian
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
who works in
São Paulo and
Tokyo.
Biography
Rosalen was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She received a
bachelor's degree in
architecture and
urbanism from the
Fine Arts University of São Paulo and a
master's in multimedia art from
Campinas State University (UNICAMP), Brazil. She also had a Fellowship of CNPq as a teacher and researcher at the Department of Communication and Body Arts at the
Pontifical Catholic University
A pontifical university is an ecclesiastical university established or approved directly by the Holy See, composed of three main ecclesiastical faculties (Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law) and at least one other faculty. These academic institute ...
, São Paulo, Brazil from 2002–03, and was invited to teach the post-graduate course Creation of Images and Sounds on the Electronic Media, São Paulo, SENAC, from 2002–05. In 2003, she received an
Artist in Residence Fellowship from the
Japan Foundation
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at N&A Nanjo and Associates Curatorial Office. Since then, she has lived and worked in both São Paulo and Tokyo.
In 2006, she won a New Media Prize from the state government of São Paulo (Prêmio de Apoio a Cultura de São Paulo). In 2007, she won the Sérgio Motta Art and Technology Foundation Prize., with a work, "The Garden of Love" That same year, she was invited to be a resident artist at Warteck PP, Basel, Switzerland.
In recent years, Rosalen has followed a unique path in Brazilian
electronic art production. Her work includes video, performance art, telematics, interactive video installations, projects based on databases, and programming. She often assembles specific interfaces for each work and makes use of these devices to discuss a broader project dealing with relationships between life and death, war, violence, the media, eroticism, and the construction of the body in the contemporary metropolis. She often invites other artists, programmers, or electronic engineers to collaborate in her projects.
[Aneta Glinkowska, "Rachel Rosalen’s Translocal Urbanities at Yokohama Museum of Art" Tokyo Art Beat 2005-10-16 ]
Tokyo Art Beat
Accessed. 17 March 2015
References
External links
Official website
Brazilian artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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