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Statement
For nearly a decade, I confined my daily practice to boxes, nurturing within myself a growing longing to explore materials that would enable deep dives into the expressive, the divine, and the cosmic - a realm where I can recall and embrace sensations fostering flexibility and malleability.
Years later, encountering the life and work of psychiatrist Nise da Silveira (1905-1999), I recognized that my practice of wearables and birds has always been tied to what she termed the "scaphander": plunges into the unconscious. These gestures turn inward to the research, in every silent predawn at the atelier-box. Over years of production, I have observed the varied germination times of different seeds, which taught me to see forms as a medium for non-verbal communication.
In my work, I activate these bonds through cutouts, embroideries, sewing, crochet, and collage. Incorporating these practices - in dialogue with anthroposophical principles - reintegrates the body with nature, revives heritages, and evokes the biomorphic movement of the early twentieth century, within this interweaving of forms emerging through time. Thus, wearables, boxes, and fabric cutouts become imaginary extensions of the body, weaving narratives that embrace care and intuition as forces of liberation: devices for passage and shelter.
Anna Biondo
Projects
Director of Special Projects, The55Project, Miami, since 2020
General coordination of the exhibition The Earth's Heat / Leisure of the Earth, Pablo Atchugarry Foundation, Miami, 2023
Monitoring and coordination of the Brazilian Artists Residency project in the United States: Mano Penalva (2020), Nádia Taquary (2021), Rafael RG (2022), André Azevedo (2024), Pâmela Castro (2024), Bel Falleiros and Renata Cruz (2025), The55Project and El Espacio23, Miami
Involvement - Playroom Project. Collaborative artistic activities at Miami Children's Hospital, 2008-2015.
Coordinator of the Volpi project - The Music of Color, a traveling exhibition by MAM-SP at Malba, Buenos Aires, 2006.
Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, 2004-2007
Exhibitions
2025
Lumen Art, Miami Art Week, curated by Bia Duarte
Atlas, Canteiro and The55Project, São Paulo, curated by Carla Chaim
Remorph: Unending, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Doral, curated by
Wild and Sacred, set design and costumes, Dionysus Brazilian Theater Festival, Miami
The things we carried, Emporium B Gallery, Miami, curadoria de Liana Rivas
2024
Visions from Inside the Walls, Coral Gables Museum, Miami, curadoria de Aurora Molina
What Does Miami Mean to You?, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Miami
Art in Community, Oolite Arts, Miami
Unraveling Surrealism, Pinecrest Gardens, Miami
Echoes of Madness, cenografia e figurino, Dionysus Brazilian Theater Festival, Miami
Underground Fair III (curated by Nuria Richards)
The flow of time and the flow of the wind, Brazil-USA Cultural Center, Miami
Messengers in Venice, performance
2023
MOOD and Animalia, Art Fluent, Online Gallery, NY
Animal 7, Teravana International Art Competition
Color Culture, Hand Weaving Museum, NY
Pinta Miami Art Week, site-specific, curated by Felix Suazo
2022
Just Breathe, The55Project, Miami Art Week, curated by Felipe Hegg.
A Room of Our Own, Camp Gallery, Miami
El Portal (public installation, Artnez, Miami)
Cargo (EAV Exhibition, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, curated by Pedro Varela).
Training
Postgraduate studies in Mental Health based on the work of Nise da Silveira, Freedom Jungian Institute of São Paulo, since 2024.
Writing workshop with Susan Perrow, Anthroposophical Center of São Paulo, 2025
Project Mentoring Workshop with Carla Chaim and Josué Mattos, 2024-2025
Parapsychology Laboratories, Ipappi Institute, 2024
Printmaking Workshop, Oolite Arts Miami, 2024
Printmaking Workshops, Graphias Printmaking with Salete Mulin, São Paulo, 2024
Open Collage Workshop with Pedro Varela, Parque Lage School of Arts, Rio de Janeiro, 2022
Visual Languages, with Leda Catunda, Santa Marcelina University, 2004
Theatre Laboratory, Macunaíma School of São Paulo, 2003
Bachelor's degree in Design, University of Fine Arts of São Paulo, 2002
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, University of Santa Barbara, California, 2000
2026
Artist Residency, Dimensions Variable, Francie Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez, Miami
Under the Red Tent - women's collective and community activation series, Fama Fiber Art Miami Association, Camp Gallery, Miami