Clarissa Tossin

Clarissa Tossin (Brazil, b. 1973) is a visual artist who uses moving images, installation, sculpture, and collaborative research to engage the suppressed counter-narratives implicit in both the built and natural environments of extractive economies. She has had solo exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado (2022); and La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France (2021). She has also participated in the 14th Shanghai Biennial (2023); the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial (2023); and the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020). Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Fundação Inhotim, Brazil.

Clarissa Tossin
Clarissa Tossin, Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, (video still), 2013 (two-channel video). Courtesy of the artist

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