Cinthia Marcelle

Cinthia Marcelle lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil, and graduated in Fine Arts from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, in 1999.

Marcelle uses video and photography to document the effects that her interventions have on the usual order of things. Particularly, Marcelle’s work is inspired by the chaos and turmoil of possibilities which can be found in everyday life. She tries to gain a distance from this chaos and reorganise the disorder formally. Her actions create situations that challenge our notions of conventional behaviour by introducing humorous coincidences and connections.

Marcelle has had solo shows at Serralves Museum, Portugal (2025); Marta Herford Museum, Germany (2023); Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain (2022); MASP, São Paulo, Brazil and Modern Art Oxford, UK (2018); Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago (2017); MoMA PS1, New York (2016); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2013); among others.

Selected group shows include: If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2026); Nebula, Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice (2024); Bodies in Motion: Form in the Making, Kunsthalle Mainz (2024); A Clearing in the Forest, Tate Modern, London (2022); Collective Individuals, Gallerie d’Italia, Torino (2022); Museu da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo (2021); Desert X, Coachella Valley, California (2019); Casa do Brasil, Colegio Mayor Universitario, Madrid (2018); Working for the Future Past, Seoul Museum of Art (2017); Art Lessons, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (2017); Video Art in Latin America: Selections from Brazil, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and Getty Research Institute, Miami (2016); Project 35: The Last Act, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2015); Slow Future, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2014); Many Places at Once, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2014); and Mythologies By Proxy, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2013).

Marcelle has also participated in many biennales, most notably: 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2025); Biennale Arte, Venice (2024); 10th Berlin Biennale (2018); she represented Brazil in the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), for which she received a Special Mention for National Participation; Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015); Biennial do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2013); Istanbul Biennial (2013); Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013); 5th Auckland Triennial (2013); New Museum Triennial (2012); 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010); 9th Lyon Biennial (2007); and 9th Havana Biennial (2006).

Her work is currently on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, as part of If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, until 3 January 2027.