Carla Zaccagnini | |
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Born | 1973 (age 50–51) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Carla Zaccagnini (born 1973) is a Brazilian artist and curator.
Zaccagnini was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. In 1981 she moved to Brazil with her family. She received a BFA degree from the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo in 1995. In 2004 Zaccagnini earned an MA in Visual Poetics from the Universidade de São Paulo. [1]
IN 2021 she was a guest curator for the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. [2] In 2022, Zaccagnini published a book, Cuentos de Cuentas (Accounts of Accounting), both a memoir and a book about money and financial collapse. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Her work is included in the collection of the Tate Museum, London [7] and the Guggenheim Museum. [1] Her work Elements of Beauty: a Tea Set is Never Only a Tea Set, 2014 - 2015 is held in the collection of the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo. [8]
Zaccagnini is married to fellow artist, Runo Lagomarsino, and they both exhibited in Los Angeles in 2016. [9]
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