“BE ABLE TO SPEAK”

Regina Parra is dedicated to painting, photography and video. Her current poetics establish relationships between theater, body and physical vulnerability. Investigating eroticism as a means to create new powers, the artist deals with themes such as oppression, insubordination and female resistance.

In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the Millan Gallery (SP), Marcos Amaro Foundation (SP), MASC_Santa Catarina Art Museum (SC), O Sítio (SC), Pivô (SP), São Paulo Cultural Center (SP), Paço das Artes (SP), Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (PE) and Leme Gallery (SP).

Among the group shows, the following stand out: Sertão: "Panorama of Contemporary Art", curated by Julia Rebouças, MAM, São Paulo; "Feminist Stories", curated by Isabella Rjeille, MASP, São Paulo; "Current Art", curated by Diego Mauro, Luana Fortes, Priscyla Gomes, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; "Brazil: Knife in the Flesh", curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti and Diego Sileo, PAC_Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan; "Sights and Sounds", curated by Luiza Proença and Jens Hoffmann, at The Jewish Museum, New York; "What I really want to tell you", curated by Jennifer Inacio and Flavia Macuco, Atchugarry Art Center, Miami; "Hole in Maps", curated by Juliana Steiner, 601 Artspace, New York; "FUSO – International Video Art Festival", curated by Lisette Lagnado, National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon; "Say the Same Thing", curated by Giovanna Bragaglia and Miwa Negoro, OnCurating Project Space, Zurich; "CPR Film Festival Argentina", curated by Tainá Azeredo, Buenos Aires; "Emergency", curated by Moacir dos Anjos, Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro; "Totemonument", curated by Isabella Rjeille, at Galeria Leme; "Architecture and Urban Landscape", curated by Cauê Alves, MuBE; "The Spirit of Each Age", curated by Rejane Cintrão, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto; "Crossroads", curated by Bernardo Mosqueira, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro; "Dogs Without Feathers", curated by Moacir dos Anjos at the Museum of Modern Art in Recife; "Rumos Artes Visuais", curated by Agnaldo Farias at Itaú Cultural; "17th International Festival of Contemporary Art SESC_Videobrasil", curated by Solange Farkas at SESC Belenzinho; "Suspicious Minds", curated by Cristina Ricupero at Galeria Vermelho; "The Letter from Jamaica", curated by Alfons Hug at Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, "Rice and Beans", curated by Jacopo Crivelli at Studio Trendy in Miami, "In the Shadow of the Future", curated by Luiza Proença at Instituto Cervantes, and "Grupo 2000e8ä, curated by Paulo Pasta at SESC Pinheiros.

In 2019, she participated in the Annex_B artistic residency program in New York, USA. The previous year, she was in artistic residency at Residency Unlimited (NY) and was awarded by the 3M Art Exhibition. In 2017, she was awarded the SP_Arte Prize and, in 2012, she was awarded the Video Art Prize by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation and nominated for the Emerging Artists Prize, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA. She also received the 1st Ateliê Aberto Videobrasil Prize (2011) and the Iberê Camargo Scholarship Highlight Prize (2009).