Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. Born in 1942 in Italy, Maiolino’s practice expresses a concern with creative and destructive processes. Working across a wide range of disciplines and mediums—spanning drawing, printmaking, poetry, film, performance, installation, and sculpture—Maiolino relentlessly explores notions of subjectivity and self. In 2005, the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo held the artist’s first retrospective exhibition in Brazil, and in recent years she has had several major retrospectives, including at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2022); MALBA, Buenos Aires (2022); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2020); and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019). In 2022, the artist was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of London. Maiolino’s work integrates several important public and private collections around the world, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
