(this page was last updated in April 2023)
Cuiabá, Brazil, 1972.
Lives and works in Chapada dos Guimarães, Brazil.
PIPA 2021 nominee.
PIPA Online 2021 winner
Ruth Albernaz (Cuiabá, MT, 1972) is an artist-biologist with ‘caboclo’ origin, post doctoral student in Teaching in Amazon (forest), IFMT, 2021; Doctor in Biodiversity and Biotechnology, 2016; self-taught in art, with research and artistic production focused on the connections between human beings/nature; shamanism, blessings, healing/caring, ancestral knowledge and conservation of sociobiodiversity. She produces paintings, objects, installations and illustrations. She makes exhibitions and curatorship to contribute to sensitive sharing, reinventing the world and re-existing in dark times. She lives in Chapada dos Guimarães and Cuiabá, Mato Grosso.
Website: www.ruthalbernaz.com.br
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2021:
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“Shamanic Flight, 2014, acrylic on canvas”, 80 x 80 cm, Shamanic Flights Exhibition
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“Voos Xamânicos“, 2021. Duration 14’01”
“Ruth Albernaz – Residência CasaCorpo“, 2020. Duration 7’33”
“Pantanal.avi“, 2011. Duration 4’04”
Academic education
2021/2022
-PhD in Teaching at the Instituto Federal de Ciência e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso – IFMT.
2016
-Doctorate in Amazonian Biodiversity by Rede Bionorte – MCTI, with research with the indigenous people Rikbaktsa – Art / culture / conservation of biodiversity in the Amazon forest.
2012
-Specialization in Collaborative Management of Socio-Ecological Systems in the Brazilian Amazon, UNEMAT / University of Florida.
2010
-Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the State University of Mato Grosso – UNEMAT with research in Ethnoecology from the Cuiabá Mirim community, Pantanal de Mato Grosso.
1997
-Degree in Biological Sciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso – UFMT.
Artistic residence
2020
-He coordinated the Artistic Residency with the subject CasaCorpo, Ateliê Livre in the Museum of Art and Popular Culture at the Federal University of Mato Grosso – UFMT, from January to October.
Individual Exhibitions
2020
-Poetica Pantaneira, site specific installation for Sesc Pantanal;
2019
-Bio, Gallery Sesc Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, curated by Imara Quadros;
-Casa de Ninha, site specific installation and activation for Sesc Pantanal;
-Ninho de Palavras, site specific installation and activation, Sesc Arsenal.
2018
-Casa Cuidar and Jardim Cura, site specific installation and activation for Sesc Arsenal;
-Tsanipê, performance with the participation of Sophia Mehinako, Aldeia Guaná from Sesc Arsenal.
2016
-Patuá, Sesc Casa do Artesão, Cuiabá – MT, curated by Imara Quadros.
2014
-Shamanic Flights, Galeria do Sesc Arsenal, Cuiabá – MT.
“Memória e Libertação – Ruth Albernaz“, 2020. Duration 1’56”
“Exposição Permanente do Acervo do MACP – Ruth Albernaz“, 2020. Duration 1’20”
“Resumo Cultural Comadre PITU Mostra a Exposição Patua da Artista Ruth Albernaz“, 2016. Duration 4’00”
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