REGINA PARRA
EDUCATION
2009 —2011 Master of Art History
Faculdade Santa Marcelina, FASM, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Thesis: “Anri Sala: Territories of Passage and Recognition of Otherness”
Advisor: Lisette Lagnado
CAPES Merit Scholarship
2004—2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts
FAAP—Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
FAAP Merit Scholarship
2003 Painting Course
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
College Professor, Fine Arts, FAAP—Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2011—2018
Undergraduate Program Courses:
Bidimensional Language & Color Theory I, Drawing I, Painting I, Painting VI, and Performance Studies.
Fine Arts Graduate Program:
Performance Studies
Visiting Professor, Entropic School (Escola Entrópica), Tomie Ohtake Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil , 2015—2018
Contemporary Painting
Art Mentor, Painting Mentoring Program, Espaco Aldeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012—2018.
Mentored young artists working primarily with painting.
Visiting Professor, Escola Sao Paulo, Brazil. Fall, 2009
Introduction to Painting and Contemporary Art.
MAIN LECTURES
Imposed Social Roles of the Female Body in Latin America, Ace Hotel in partnership with Residency Unlimited (R.U.), New York
Helio Oiticica: The Artist as an Proposer, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Reading, UK
Feminist Art, Casa Vogue in partnership with Vogue Magazine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Art and Eroticism: From the Greeks to Contemporary Art, in conversation with Contardo Calligaris, Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
For a Geography of Proximity, in conversation with Moacir dos Anjos, Fundacao Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
Languages
English, Portuguese, and French
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Pagan, Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2022 The Deviant, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Brussles, Belgium
2019 For a geography of proximity, Museum of Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2019 Still I Rise, FAMA Museum, Itu, Brazil
2019 Bacchae, Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2018 Regina Parra Video Works, O Sitio, Florianópolis, Brazil
2016 Why are you trembling, woman?, Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014 It is possible but not right now, Pivô, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011 Behind the Windows, Centro Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 Eldorado, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife, Brazil
2009 Mise-en-scene, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 Rumour, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
GROUP SHOWS
2023
Colección MACBA, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Tropisme Équateur, Le Credac, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry, France
The Living Room: We are Two Abysses, Art Geneve, Switzerland
Meu corpo: território de disputa, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo
2022
Ophelia, Americas Society, New York, USA
Forest: Ancestry and Dystopia, Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry, Miami, USA
2021
Longing for Something, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, USA
Biblioteca Floresta, Sesc Belenzinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tactics of Disappearance, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Boundaries, VillageOne, New York, USA
2020
Beyond Appearances: Women Looking at Women, Kunstraum, New York, USA
2019
Feminist Histories, MASP Museum of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM_Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
What I really want to tell you..., Atchugarry Art Center, Miami, USA
Eco Shifters, Fondazione Fabricca del Cioccolato, Blenio Valley, Switzerland
Pinacoteca: recent acquisitions, Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
Arte Atual, Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
Holes in Maps, 601 Artspace, New York, USA
Olho tentacular, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biblioteca: Floresta, MARP Museum of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Olho chamado realista, SESC MINAS, Tiradentes, Brazil
2017
FUSO – International Video Art Festival, National Museum of Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Say the Same Thing, OnCurating Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Sights and Sounds, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Arquitetura e paisagem urbana, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, SP, Brazil
Estou cá, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil
Acervo Videobrasil no Cambridge, Ocupação Hotel Cambridge, SP, Brazil2015
O espírito de cada época, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Encruzilhada, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
Art Triennal, SESC Sorocaba, Brazil
2013
Suspicious Minds, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil Suspended Time, Miami, USA
Cães sem Plumas, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
Arquivo Vivo, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
17o Videobrasil_International Festival, SESC Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Mostra Extranatureza, Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2011
Rice and Beans, Wynwood, Miami, USA
A Carta da Jamaica, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arte Pará, Museu do Estado do Pará, Belém, Brazil
À Sombra do Futuro, Instituto Cervantes, São Paulo, Brazil
AWARDS
2018 3M Public Art Award, Sao Paulo
2017 SP_Art Fair Prize, Sao Paulo
2011 Video Award, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife
2011 VideoBrasil Prize, Sao Paulo
2006 First Prize Visual Arts Annual FAAP, Sao Paulo
RESIDENCIES
2021 Monira Foundation Residency Program, New Jersey
2020 The Watermill Center Residency Program, Watermill
2019 Annex_B Residency Program, New York
2018 Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn
2014 Pivô Residency Program, Sao Paulo
2009 Red Bull House of Art, Sao Paulo
COMISSIONS & PROJECTS FOR PUBLIC SPACES
2021 Forbidden Bird, public art commissioned by The55Project, curated by Omar Lopez-Chaoud, Miami Beach
2020 The impossible, public art commissioned by Sao Paulo municipality, Sao Paulo
2018 I will go on, public art commissioned by 3M Public Art Award, Sao Paulo, curated by Bernardo Mosqueira
2015 Chance, public art commissioned by Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, curated by Bernardo Mosqueira
2011 7536 Steps for a Geography of Proximity, video commissioned by The Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife, curated by
Moacir dos Anjos
2011 The Pearls, as I have written, video installation commissioned by VideoBrasil Prize, Sao Paulo
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
MACBA_Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo
MASP_Museum of Sao Paulo
FAMA Museum
Associaçao Cultural Videobrasil
Joaquim Nabuco Foundation