Marcela Florido

BIOGRAPHY

Visual contemporary artist Marcela Florido works with large scales paintings. Her practice questions modern ideas of the body's representation and its relationship to the Brazilian context. Florido's work portrays plants native to Brazil, and female portraiture, which convey charged energies and secular states. she delegates her interest in space on her canvas by imagining the different ways that the body can inhabit physical space. This action mirrors her personal experience of living in various places growing up. She renders elements of her home country from memory.

Her work has been the subject of exhibitions in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. She has been awarded residencies at The Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Kaayza, Brazil; Tilleard Projects, Kenya; Mass MoCA, Massachusetts and The Vermont Studio Center, Vermont. She is the recipient of a 2015 Viridian Artists' Prize, selected by Lauren Hinkson, senior curator at The Guggenheim Museum. 

Florido has taught at Yale School of Arts and Cornell University School of Art. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London in 2013 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art in Painting in 2015.

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