Nascida em 1973, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Vive e trabalha em Los Angeles, Estados Unidos.
Educação
- Mestrado, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, EUA.
- Bacharelado, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brasil.
- Lectures / Panels.
- Symposium on Latin American & Latino Art featured in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, panel with Jonathas de Andrade; Clara M. Kim; Clarissa Tossin and Dan Fox – Frieze, Getty and Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, USA.
- A Conversation on Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, panel with Idurre Alonso, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, David Evans Frantz, Irene Tsatsos and Clarissa Tossin – LA Art Show, USA.
- LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, Speakers include Paula Flores, Mark Hirsch, Gretchen Hoffman, and Clarissa Tossin – UC Santa Barbara, USA.
- Visiting Artist Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA.
- Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Davis, USA.
- Visiting Artist Lecture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA.
- Desmapeando o Mundo: Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Guilherme Wisnik and Teté Martinho, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007-2009
1996-2000
2017
2016
2015
Prêmios
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Nova York – Visual Arts.
- Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
- Artadia, Los Angeles.
- ARC Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, USA.
- VI Concurso de Videoarte, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brasil.
- Artistic Innovation Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, EUA.
- CAA Los Angeles MFA Award, College Art Association, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Prêmio do Diretor, California Institute of the Arts, EUA.
- Prêmio Interdisciplinar, California Institute of the Arts, EUA.
2019
2018
2013
2012
2009
2008
Bolsas
- Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Harvard University.
- Emerging Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Artpace, International Artist-in-Residence Fellowship (guest curator: Hou Hanru), San Antonio, USA.
- Core Program Fellowship, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, EUA.
- Fundación Botín (mentora: Mona Hatoum), Santander, Espanha.
- Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Donald and Doris Fisher Fellowship e CalArts Matching Fellowship), Skowhegan, EUA.
- Bolsa Mestrado, California Institute of the Arts, EUA.
2017-2018
2014
2013
2010-2012
2010
2009
2007-2009
Residências
- 21st Century Wisdom: Healing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile Block Houses, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, EUA.
- Fundação Joaquim Nabuco – Projeto Residências Artísticas, Recife, Brazil.
2019
2015
Exposições Individuais
- 21st Century Wisdom: Healing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile Block Houses, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, EUA.
- Future Fossil, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study – Harvard University, Cambridge, EUA.
- Azul Maia, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil.
- When the Land Speaks, MSU Broad Museum, East Lansing, EUA.
- Encontro das Águas, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, EUA.
- The Mayan, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Stereoscopic Vision, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery – Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, EUA.
- Encontro das Águas, JOAN, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Brasília Teimosa, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brasil.
- How does it travel?, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los angeles, EUA.
- Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art Project Room, Long Beach, EUA.
- Transplantado (VW Brasilia), Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil.
- Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities (curadoria de Hou Hanru), Artpace, San Antonio, EUA.
- Blind Spot: Window into Houston Clarissa Tossin (curadoria de Amy Powell), Blaffer Art Museum – University of Houston, Houston, EUA.
- Study for a Landscape, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, EUA.
- On Brasília (curadoria de Sally Frater), Centre 3, Hamilton, Canada.
- Gasto, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil.
- Real, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, EUA.
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
Exposições Coletivas
- García, Raina, Shore, Tossin, Luhring Augustine, Nova York, EUA.
- Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, Nova York, EUA.
- Short Shadows: Spring 2019 Screening Series, EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY, EUA.
- Somewhere in Between, Kellogg Art Gallery – Cal Poly Pomona , Pomona, EUA.
- Other Walks, Other Lines, San Jose Museum of Art, San José, EUA.
- Baggage Claims, Peeler Art Center Galleries – DePauw University, Greencastle, EUA.
- Mon Nord est Ton Sud, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, França.
- 12a Bienal de Gwangju, Coréia do Sul.
- Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nova York, EUA.
- The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, EUA.
- Emerald City, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China.
- Stream Capture, College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, EUA.
- PST/CST, BANK/MABSociety, Shanghai, China.
- Bagage Claims, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, EUA .
- Baggage Claims, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, EUA.
- Mundos Alternos. Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, UCA ARTSblock, Riverside, EUA.
- Lives Between, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Condemned to be Modern, LAMAG Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Vernacular Environments, Part 1, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, EUA.
- 99 Cents or Less, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, EUA.
- Lives Between, KADIST, São Francisco, EUA.
- Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California, EUA.
- Meta Modern, The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, EUA.
- Prêmio Marl de vídeo arte, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Alemanha.
- Trans-Americas: A sing, a situation, a concept, Museum London, London, Canadá.
- Placebound, Nan Rae Gallery na Woodbury University, Burbank, EUA.
- Everyday Reflections in Abstraction, Sayago & Pardon – The SPACE Collection, Irvine, EUA.
- Customizing Language, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, EUA.
- MetaModern, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, EUA.
- United States of Latin America, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, EUA.
- MetaModern, SMOCA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, EUA.
- After Landscape. Copied Cities, Fabra i Coats – Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Espanha.
- MetaModern, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, EUA.
- Unsettled Landscapes (curadoria de Candice Hopkins, Lucía Sanromán, Janet Dees e Irene Hofmann), SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, EUA.
- Made in L.A. 2014 (curadoria de Connie Butler e Michael Ned Holte), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Bringing the World into the World (curadoria de Hitomi Iwasaki), Queens Museum, Nova York, EUA.
- Liberdade em Movimento (curadoria de Jacopo Crivelli ), Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
- Roesler Hotel #25: Dispositivos para um mundo (im)possível (curadoria de Luisa Duarte), Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brasil.
- The Cartographer, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Art@Tell, University of St. Gallen, Suíça.
- Panoramas do Sul – 18º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil (curadoria de Solange Farkas, Eduardo de Jesus, Fernando Oliva and Julia Rebouças), SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brasil.
- Tempo Suspenso (curadoria de Luisa Duarte ), Brazil Fair, Miami, EUA.
- Sneakerotics, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, HK.
- Soft off, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, EUA.
- La Elipsis Arquitectónica (curadoria de Ruth Estévez and Javier Toscano), Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Cidade do México, México.
- When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes (curadoria de Jens Hoffmann), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, EUA.
- When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes (curadoria de Jens Hoffmann), CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, EUA.
- Dallas Biennale (curadoria de Florence Ostend), Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, EUA.
- Vantage Point, The Mission Projects, Chicago, EUA.
- 2012 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, EUA.
- Building Arts, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, EUA.
- Nowhere Near Here (curadoria de Michelle White and Toby Kamps), Houston Center for Photography, Houston, EUA.
- Material Traces, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, EUA.
- YLA 16: Thought Cloud, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, EUA.
- 2011 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, EUA.
- The First Thing, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, EUA.
- I Know What You Did Last Summer, Saint Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, EUA.
- Feeling Feelings, Compact Space, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Why Theory, Spring Art Towers, Los Angeles, EUA.
- M.F.A. Conversations, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, EUA.
- CAA Los Angeles M.F.A., Helen Lindhurst Gallery – USC, Los Angeles, EUA.
- M.F.A. Mid-residency Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, EUA.
- Allan Kaprow: Art as Life Happenings Series – Publicity, Vasquez Rocks Park, MoCA, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Truth, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, EUA.
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
Coleções Públicas
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge.
Kadist Art Foundation, São Francisco/Paris.
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Nova York.
Bibliografia
- Symposium on Latin American & Latino Art featured in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, panel with Jonathas de Andrade; Clara M. Kim; Clarissa Tossin and Dan Fox – Frieze, Getty and Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
- A Conversation on Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, panel with Idurre Alonso, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, David Evans Frantz, Irene Tsatsos and Clarissa Tossin – LA Art Show.
- LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, Speakers include Paula Flores, Mark Hirsch, Gretchen Hoffman, and Clarissa Tossin – UC Santa Barbara.
- Visiting Artist Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.
- Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Davis.
- Visiting Artist Lecture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.
- Desmapeando o Mundo: Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Guilherme Wisnik e Teté Martinho, Galeria Luisa Strina.
- Unmapping the World, em conversação com Michael Ned Holte, Los Angeles, EUA.
- MOLAA Art Conversation: Clarissa Tossin & Aleca Le Blanc, Long Beach, EUA.
- UCLA, Aula de História da Arte Brasileira – Prof. Aleca le Blanc, Los Angeles, EUA.
- Sicardi Gallery: Study for a Landscape, Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Prof. Chris Taylor, Houston, EUA.
- Universidade de York, Canadá.
- Universidade de Waterloo, Canadá.
- Sicardi Gallery: See-through Utopia, Clarissa Tossin in conversation with Prof. Peter T. Lang, Houston, EUA.
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, EUA.
- Houston Center for Photography, EUA.
- “Made in L.A. 2014,” Butler & Holte, Hammer Museum, Delmonico/Prestel, EUA.
- “Liberdade em Movimento,” Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
- “Unsettled Landscapes,” SITE Santa Fe, EUA.
- “Panoramas do Sul – 18º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil,” Edições SESC, Brasil.
- “La Elipsis Arquitectónica,” Estévez & Toscano, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Arquine, México.
- “When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, EUA.
- “2011-2012 Core Program,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, EUA.
- “2010-2011 Core Program,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, EUA.
- “Why Theory,” California Institute of the Arts, EUA.
- Sharon Mizota, “Review: Nearly a century later, a video artist follows Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mayan footsteps,” Los Angeles Times, (Oct. 15, 2017).
- Evan Moffit, “Review: Condemned To Be Modern” Frieze, (Nov. 29, 2017).
- Christopher Hawthorne, “With Pacific Standard Time, Getty finally climbs down from hilltop oasis it built 20 years ago,” Los Angeles Times, (Oct. 19, 2017).
- Susan Dunne, “Wesleyan Exhibit Looks At Brazil, U.S. Cultural Overlap,” Hartford Courant (February 13, 2017).
- Ana Abril, “Exposição de Clarissa Tossin, nos EUA, apresenta a complexidade do mundo através do avizinhamento de opostos,” Select (30/01/2017).
- “Artist Portfolio: Clarissa Tossin,” Los Angeles Review of Books, Quarterly Journal (summer 2015).
- Edward Goldman, “Art that a) Amuses, b) Challenges, c) Leaves us in Disbelief,” KCRW Art Talk (June 30, 2015).
- Ezabella, Fernanda. ‘Artista faz “ponte aérea” entre Brasília e Los Angeles dentro de um carro’, Serafina (24 de Março, 2015).
- Alexandra Grant, “Biennial at a Crossroads: SITE Santa Fe’s Reinvention,” X-tra Magazine, Vol. 17, Number 4 (Summer 2015).
- Neha Choksi, “Staging a Biennial,” X-tra Magazine, Vol. 17, Number 2 (Winter 2015).
- George Melrod, “Made in L.A.,” Art Ltd Magazine (July/August 2014).
- Abe Ahn, “Broadcasting Los Angeles,” Hyperallergic, (July 28, 2014).
- Su Wu, “Art Matters | A Biennial in, and About, Los Angeles,” The New York Times Style Magazine(June 13, 2014).
- Jori Finkel, “Artists Named for Hammer Museum’s Los Angeles Biennial,” The New York Times(February 18, 2014).
- Bittar, Paula. ‘A Casa que Niemeyer Criou’, Correio Braziliense (24 de julho, 2014).
- Oliveira, Adele. ‘SITE Santa Fe — Clarissa Tossin: Place holders’, Santa Fe-New Mexican Magazine (18 de julho, 2014).
- Vikram, Anuradha. ‘The Politics of Rehearsal’, Daily Serving (14 de julho, 2014).
- Smith, Roberta. ‘If Seeing Is Believing, a Panorama of Truth’, The New York Times (19 de junho, 2014).
- Alvarez, Mariola V. ‘Maintaining Cars, Pools & Other Modernities: Clarissa Tossin’s Brasília’, Gulf Coast, Vol. 26, Issue 2 (Primavera 2014).
- Frater, Sally. ‘Traversing Geographies, Collapsing Architectures’, X-tra, Vol. 16, Número 3 (Primavera 2014).
- Gupta, Anjali. ‘This is Not An Institutional Critique: Artpace’s IAIR 13.2’, Current (24 de julho, 2013).
- Montana, Kelly, ‘Clarissa Tossin at Window into Houston & Sicardi Gallery’, Arts+Culture (24 de maio, 2013).
- Quijas, Fabiola Palapa. ‘Quince artistas se apropian de elementos arquitectónicos y crean desde la cotidianidad’, La Jornada (27 de fevereiro, 2013).
- Zavitovski, Katia, ‘2012 Core Exhibition’, Arts & Culture Magazine (1 de abril, 2012).
- Simek, Peter, “Why Dallas’ First Biennale Art Exhibition Will Also Be Its Last,” Front Row: D Magazine (26 de março, 2012).
- Dessanay, Margherita. ‘Viewing: Clarissa Tossin’, Elephant, issue 7 (Verão 2011): 24.
- Klaasmeyer, Kelly. ‘Building Arts: Alexander Apostol, Dias & Riedweg, Thomas Glassford, Marco Maggi and Clarissa Tossin’, Houston Press (9 de novembro, 2011).
Palestras:
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
Livros/Catálogos:
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
Artigos:
2017
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
- Desmapeando o Mundo
- New Media Series: Clarissa Tossin. Institucional, 01 Novembro 2019 — 26 Janeiro 2020 St. Louis, Missouri, US.
- Ch’u Mayaa. Institucional, 11 Outubro 2019 — 05 Janeiro 2020 Northampton, MA, US.
- Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art. Institucional, 06 Setembro 2019 — 05 Janeiro 2020 Cambridge, US.
- García, Raina, Shore, Tossin. 28 Junho — 16 Agosto 2019 Nova York, US.
- Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas. 07 Abril — 18 Agosto 2019 Nova York, US.
- Future Fossil. 31 Janeiro — 16 Março 2019 Cambridge, US.
- 21st Century Wisdom: Healing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile Block Houses. 22 Janeiro — 29 Março 2019 Santa Monica, California, US.
- Somewhere in Between. 06 Novembro 2018 — 17 Março 2019 Pomona, US.
- Other Walks, Other Lines. 02 Novembro 2018 — 10 Março 2019 San José, US.
- Baggage Claims. 25 Outubro — 09 Dezembro 2018 Greencastle, US.
- Mon Nord est Ton Sud. 13 Setembro — 11 Novembro 2018 Mulhouse, FR.
- 12a Gwangju Biennale 2018. 07 Setembro — 11 Novembro 2018 Gwangju, KR.
- Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay. 13 Julho — 30 Setembro 2018 Nova York, US.
- When the Land Speaks. 03 — 29 Julho 2018 East Lansing, Michigan, US.
- The House Imaginary. 20 Abril — 19 Agosto 2018 San Jose, US.
- Emerald City. 27 Março — 22 Abril 2018 Hong Kong, CN.
- Stream Capture. 16 Janeiro — 04 Março 2018 Minneapolis , US.
- Encontro das Águas. 13 Janeiro — 01 Julho 2018 Austin, US.
- Mundos Alternos Art and Science Fiction in the Americas. 16 Setembro 2017 — 04 Fevereiro 2018 Riverside, US.
- Baggage Claims. 15 Setembro — 31 Dezembro 2017 Orlando, US.
- Condemned to be Modern. 10 Setembro 2017 — 28 Janeiro 2018 Los Angeles, US.
- The Mayan. 09 Setembro — 21 Outubro 2017 Los Angeles, US.
- Lives Between. 31 Agosto — 28 Outubro 2017 Tel Aviv, IL.
- 99 Cents or Less. 19 Maio — 06 Agosto 2017 Detroit, US.
- Latin American/Latino Art. Sexta 05 Maio 2017 Nova York, US.
- Lives Between. 08 Março — 06 Maio 2017 São Francisco, US.
- Stereoscopic Vision. 31 Janeiro — 05 Março 2017 Middletown, Connecticut, US.
- Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation. 29 Janeiro — 04 Abril 2017 Pasadena, California, US.
- Prêmio Marl de vídeo arte. 23 Outubro 2016 — 12 Fevereiro 2017 Marl, DE.
- Meta Modern. 09 Outubro 2016 — 27 Fevereiro 2017 Palm Springs, US.
- Encontro das Águas. 08 Outubro — 20 Novembro 2016 Los Angeles, US.
- Trans-Americas: A sing, a situation, a concept. 10 Setembro — 11 Novembro 2016 London, CA.
- Placebound. 28 Agosto — 02 Outubro 2016 Burbank, US.
- Everyday Reflections in Abstraction. 29 Julho 2016 — 01 Janeiro 2017 Irvine, US.
- Customizing Language. 07 Janeiro — 14 Fevereiro 2016 Los Angeles, US.
- Brasília Teimosa. 21 Novembro 2015 — 31 Janeiro 2016 Recife, BR.
- MetaModern. 26 Setembro — 06 Dezembro 2015 Orlando, US.
- United States of Latin America. 18 Setembro 2015 — 03 Janeiro 2016 Detroit, US.
- Desmapeando o Mundo. Terça 21 Julho 2015 São Paulo, BR.
- Desmapeando o Mundo. Sábado 13 Junho 2015 Los Angeles, US.
- MetaModern. 30 Maio — 30 Agosto 2015 Scottsdale, US.
- How does it travel?. 29 Maio — 11 Julho 2015 Los Angeles, US.
- After Landscape Ciutats Copiadas. 14 Março — 17 Maio 2015 Barcelona, ES.
- MetaModern. 30 Janeiro — 29 Março 2015 Champaign, US.
- Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan. 16 Janeiro — 26 Abril 2015 Long Beach, US.
- Unsettled landscapes. Notícia, 20 Julho 2014 — 11 Janeiro 2015 Santa Fe, US.
- Bringing the World into the World. Notícia, 14 Junho — 12 Outubro 2014 Nova York, US.
