MAM Garden at Sesc

She was a Polish sculptor who became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. She arrived in Brazil in 1927 and began her artistic career at the age of 44. With works marked by formal synthesis and lyrical expression, she was part of the Brazilian modernist generation.

is a visual artist known for works that combine sculpture, installation and performance with everyday objects from the Northeast. His work explores themes such as displacement, identity and social inequality, with humor and lyricism.

Photo: Zanone Fraissat | Folhapress

She graduated in Painting from the Institute of Arts at UFRGS (1959), where the guidance she received as a student from Iberê Camargo was decisive for her understanding of technique as an instrument for investigating the image. She is one of the leading names in Brazilian contemporary art, with a prolific career spanning more than five decades and multiple languages. Her work investigates regimes of visual representation, exploring issues such as distortions of perspective, shadow projections, and shifts in perception in relation to architectural space. In many works, she creates illusory images that seem to expand or alter the architecture of the environments, blurring the lines between reality and representation. She works with diverse media, such as printmaking, screen printing, installation, video, projections, cut vinyl, and site-specific interventions, frequently articulating appropriated images and graphic operations that question power, politics, and visual culture. She has been a teacher and researcher at the School of Communication and Arts at USP since 1974, where she played a central role in the training of several generations of artists. His works are part of collections such as MoMA, New York, MAM São Paulo, MASP, Pinacoteca de São Paulo and MAC USP.

Ivens Machado was born in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (1942), and died in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (2015). He began his career with works on paper and experimental videos in the 1970s, marked by themes such as sexuality, violence, and power. From the following decade onward, he turned to sculpture and installation. He began using construction materials such as concrete, broken glass, and rebar to create raw and ambiguous forms, inspired by Brazilian vernacular architecture and the tensions of the human body, from aggression to eroticism. His retrospectives are notable. Ivens Machado, at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes, France (2025), and Ivens Machado, at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil. He also participated in the 12th, 13th, 16th and 22nd São Paulo Biennials (1973, 1975, 1981, 1994). 

Photo: Rodrigo Trevisan/Disclosure

was a Brazilian sculptor of Italian origin, prominent in Brazilian modernism. The son of Italian immigrants, he moved to Rome with his family in 1911. In the 1920s, he became involved in anti-fascist movements, was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison. After serving four years, he was extradited to Brazil by diplomatic intervention. In 1937, he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Ranson in Paris, where he was a student of Aristide Maillol and spent time with Henry Moore and Marino Marini. Returning to Brazil in 1939, he joined the modernist movement, collaborating with artists such as Vitor Brecheret and Mário de Andrade. In 1943, he settled in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as a teacher and mentor to young artists. His work is marked by geometric shapes and abstraction, using materials such as bronze and marble.

He was an Italian-Brazilian painter, sculptor, designer and ceramist. Born into a humble family, he began his professional career at the age of 13, working in a ceramics factory. He moved to Venice, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and attended the studios of sculptors Umberto Feltrin and Guido Cacciapuoti. In 1927, he immigrated to Brazil, settling in São Paulo. Here, he stood out for the production of public monuments, such as the Monument to the Heroes of the Atlantic Crossing, at the Guarapiranga dam. In addition, he actively participated in the artistic life of São Paulo, joining the group of painters who attended live model sessions, such as Alfredo Volpi, Mário Zanini and Penacchi. Zorlini was also responsible for several tombs and busts in cemeteries in São Paulo. He died in 1967, leaving a significant legacy in Brazilian visual arts.

was a Peruvian painter and sculptor who lived in Brazil. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts with Daniel Hernandez. He arrived in Brazil in 1945, holding his first exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. After living in France and the United States, he settled permanently in Brazil in 1969, acquiring Brazilian citizenship. His work ranges from expressionism to abstraction, with emphasis on bronze sculptures of human and animal figures.

He began his artistic training in Athens and later studied sculpture in Paris, at the Académie de La Grande Chaumière with Ossip Zadkine, and at the Académie du Feu with László Szabó. He settled in São Paulo in 1961 and developed a body of work dedicated primarily to sculpture, moving between figuration and abstraction in investigations of rhythm, plane, and spatial structure. He worked with different materials and scales, especially metal and brass, creating compositions that articulate organic and geometric forms. Alongside his artistic production, he taught at FAAP, where he lectured on three-dimensional expression for several decades. His works are part of institutional collections such as those of MAM São Paulo and MAC USP.

Luiz 83 is the artistic name of Luiz dos Santos Menezes. Self-taught, his training stems from the experience he gained on the streets of the city as a “pixador”, an activity that provided the beginning of a visual vocabulary that has been refined based on research that the artist has developed with considerable inventiveness in more conventional media such as drawing, painting and sculpture. His professional experience as an art exhibition organizer also gives him the opportunity to remain in close contact with works of a classical and contemporary nature, an opportunity that results in a sensitively assimilated knowledge. In his works, it is possible to perceive a concretism of a very peculiar type and undoubtedly sophisticated in the formal solutions and conceptual arrangements, and of a POP nature, a quality also perceived through a chromaticism that generally favors bright colors with intense luminosity. The artist has also dedicated himself to performances where he questions the social place of black people and thematizes the relationship of the body with its artistic practice and interactions with the city. The artist has participated in several individual and collective exhibitions, including the solo exhibition “Z” at the Tato gallery and the collective exhibitions “Tendências da Street Art” at the Museu Brasileiro de Escultura and “Pretatitude: insurgencies, emergencies and affirmations in contemporary Afro-Brazilian art” at SESC Ribeirão Preto, São Carlos, Vila Mariana and Santos”.

was a Brazilian sculptor, designer, engraver, layout artist and teacher, recognized as one of the leading names in neoconcretism in Brazil. His sculptural work is marked by the use of iron sheets cut and folded in a single operation, exploring the relationship between form, space and matter.

She was a Brazilian artist, sculptor, jeweler and costume designer of Japanese descent. Her artistic training was broad and interdisciplinary: she studied painting with Massao Okinaka (1955–1957), contemporary architecture at the Goethe Institute, art history, ethnology and archaeology at MASP, aesthetics with Anatol Rosenfeld, theater with Zé Celso and visual communication with Flávio Império.

was a Brazilian visual artist, curator and museologist, recognized for his contribution to the appreciation of Afro-Brazilian culture.

Born into a family of goldsmiths, he began his artistic training in his youth, working in carpentry and typography. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia, excelling in engraving and sculpture. In 1972, he received the gold medal at the 3rd International Biennial of Graphic Art in Florence.

Photo: Afro Brazil Museum/Disclosure

is a Brazilian visual artist whose work investigates the relationship between space, image and urban landscape. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Faculty of Santos in 1984, he deepened his studies in photography and completed a master's degree in Visual Poetics from the School of Communications and Arts at USP in 2003.

She is a Brazilian visual artist whose work spans sculpture, installation and architecture. Since the late 1980s, she has been developing research that investigates the relationship between body, space and matter, using materials such as iron, plaster, rubber, glass, steel cables and architectural elements. Her works explore physical forces such as tension, weight and balance, creating structures that interact with the exhibition space and challenge the viewer's perception.

She is a Brazilian visual artist whose work ranges from sculpture to installation and object, exploring the relationship between form, space and perception. She holds a degree in Painting and a specialization in 20th Century Art History from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná (EMBAP). She furthered her studies in Italy with the artist Luciano Fabro, linked to arte povera, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, in Milan.

Since the late 1980s, Prolik has developed a three-dimensional production marked by geometric structures that unfold in space, using materials such as copper, aluminum and steel. His works often evoke everyday objects, tensioning perception between the familiar and the abstract, the light and the heavy, the static and the dynamic.

He was a Brazilian sculptor, architect and landscaper whose work stands out for its integration of art, architecture and urban landscape. Graduated in Architecture from the University of Brazil in 1959, he collaborated with Roberto Burle Marx between 1954 and 1960, participating in projects for gardens, panels and sculptural murals.

His sculptural production, marked by geometric shapes and materials such as wood, metal and granite, is present in public spaces such as the Palácio do Planalto, in Brasília, and the Mosteiro de São Bento, in Rio de Janeiro. Also noteworthy is the “Monument to Youth”, installed in 1974 near the Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.