Cinthia Marcelle
Cinthia Marcelle was born in Belo Horizonte in 1974. She is a Brazilian multimedia artist focusing in photography, video, and installation work. She studied at the Universitadad Federal de Minas Gerais. She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, and the Secession. She has been included in the 2018 Berlin Biennale, the 2013 Istanbul Biennial, the 2012 New Museum Triennial, the 2015 Sharjah Biennial, and the 2017 Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of the 2010 Future Generation Prize.
Marcelle lives and works in Belo Horizonte.
One of her first well seen art pieces were photographs she’d made together with the South African artist Jean Meeran, in these photos Marcelle disappeared into the landscape, dressed in a cape with matching colors so that herself and the city elided.In one of her installation pieces, Education by Stone, she pushed numerous rods of chalk, a traditional teaching material, into the school-turned-gallery.This was seen at the MOMA in 2016.
