Regina Parra

Regina Parra investigates the tension between oppression and rebellion through a multifaceted work—paintings, drawings, videos, performances, installations, neon signs—bound to other creative areas such as dance, music, costume design, and cinema. What unites all these elements is theater, the artist’s first training. Her work is centered on woman’s social body, as a place of affirmation and potential power. Challenging official narratives perpetrated by patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism, Parra inverts the assumptions of vulnerability about female bodies through works that mark a critical, feminist stance.

Parra holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and completed a Master’s in Art History under the guidance of curator Lisette Lagnado. She graduated with a degree in theater and worked as assistant director to Antunes Filho until 2003. A connection with the performing arts, especially with Greek tragedy, is present in her work as a visual artist.

She was awarded the 3M Public Art Award, in 2018, and the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation’s Video Award and Videobrasil Award, both in 2011. Parra was also nominated for the Emerging Artists Award, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami.

Her work is part of collections such as Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo; Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; FAMA, Itu; Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto.

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