Anna Maria Maiolino

Anna Maria Maiolino is an Italian-born Brazilian artist who was born in Calabria, Italy in 1942. She moved to Venezuela in 1954 and then settled in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1960. Maiolino studied at the Escuela Nacional Cristóbal Rojas in Caracas and the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.

Maiolino emerged as an artist during the 1960s in Brazil when the country was under military dictatorship. She participated in the New Figuration Movement, which was a reaction to abstraction and an attempt to create art that reflected Brazil's socio-political situation at the time. Maiolino has worked in various mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. She often integrates non-traditional materials such as clay and cement into her work. Her interest in bodily subjectivity and abjection is reflected in her use of repetitive, tubular forms made from molded, unfired clay.

Selected solo exhibitions include PSSSIIIUUU..., Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo (2022); In Everything, All, Galeria Luisa Strina (2019); Poetic Wanderings, Hauser & Wirth, New York (2018); ALL OF IT, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (2016); CIOÈ and performance in ATTO, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2015); Point to Point, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2014) and Affections, MASP, São Paulo (2012), among others.