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Biography
Marcela Cantuária (Rio de Janeiro, 1991) builds pictorial narratives around the memory, popular struggles and experiences of women in the Global South. Political history, spirituality and symbols of tarot and astrology coexist in images of great chromatic intensity.
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Trained in Painting at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, she raises the image as a place of dispute: she recovers characters and stories displaced from official history and places them in compositions that link historical research and imagination. His practice also extends to murals, textiles and ceramics.
In 2023 he opened The South American Dream at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, his first solo exhibition in the United States. His work is part of collections such as MASP, MAR and the Pinacoteca de S ã o Paulo. In Marquesa, his painting explores the relationships between resistance, collective memory and representation.
Documented career
Institutional highlights
Individual · Pérez Art Museum Miami
2023–2024 · The South American Dream, first solo exhibition of Marcela Cantuária in the United States, organized by Jennifer Inacio at the PAMM.
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3–29 March 2026 · Exhibition in the House of the Council of Arévalo, curated by Aldones Nino, with the collaboration of Collegium, Marquesa Gallery and the City Council of Arévalo.
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Selected highlights
Education
- Painting, Escola de Belas Artes de la Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (EBA-UFRJ).
Solo exhibitions
- 2023–2024 · The South American Dream, Pérez Art Museum Miami. First individual in the United States.
Collections
- Museum of Art of S ã o Paulo (MASP).
- Museum of Art of Rio (MAR).
- Pinacoteca of the State of S ã o Paulo.
- Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
- Museu da Maré.
Documentary selection
Press and publications
Marcela Cantuária: The South American Dream
Reading of the PAMM exhibition, its political narratives and its symbolic imaginary.
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Documentary profile with trajectory, exhibitions and collections.
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