Solange Pessoa b. 1961, Ferros, Brazil; lives and works in Belo Horizonte

Her selected solo institutional exhibitions include Catch the Sun with Your Hand, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2025); Pilgrim Fields, Tramway, Glasgow (2025); Solange Pessoa, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2023); Longilonge, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa (2019); Metaflor-Metaflora, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horizonte (2013); Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2008); Museu da Inconfidência, Ouro Preto (2000); Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (1995); and Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (1992).

Pessoa has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, including Exposition Générale, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris (2025); Collector #3, Jardin Botanique de Bordeaux and La Petite Escalère, Bordeaux (2025); Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles, Barbican Centre, London (2024); Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Triennale Milano, Milan (2024); The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Living Worlds, Fondation Cartier, Lille (2022); Elementos Vitais: Ana Mendieta in Oaxaca, OA Juarez, Oaxaca (2021); This Morning, in the Sweet Torpor of the Great Forest, is Like Every Morning in the World, SALT, Renens (2020); Invenção de Origem, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2018); La Fin de Babylone – Mich Wunder, dass ich so Fröhlich bin, Köln Skulptur #9, Cologne (2017); New Shamans (2016), High Anxiety (2016), and No Man’s Land: Women Artists (2015), Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Arte e Patrimônio, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2014); Arqueologia das Terras Altas, 4th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2003); and Mostra do Redescobrimento, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2001).