Mari Nagem is a Brazilian-born interdisciplinary artist conceptually driven by the perception of digital culture and its relation to nature. Navigating various media, using luminous colors and sharpened edges, she creates works that enlighten our perception of critical aspects of the information age, such as the artificiality of landscapes, data subjectivity, and the capitalist race for happiness. With wit, and combining appealing titles, she raises existential questions while trying to bring sensibility to our relationship with and through machines.
In 2025, Mari was awarded the S+T+Arts Buen-Tek Residence Program (Rome and Fortaleza), commissioned a public piece by the Tomie Ohtake Institute for the Emílio Goeldi Zoobotanical Park and Museum (Belém, BR), and was featured in Art Dialogues Magazine. In 2024, she was nominated for the CIFO-Ars Electronica (Austria) and Pipa Prize (Brazil), received an honorable mention from SFER IK Museion (Mexico), a commission for Mostra 3M (Brazil), and the Celia and Wally Gilbert Fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (NY). In addition, she had a solo show at Galeria Lume in São Paulo and was a fellow of the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program in New York. In 2022, she won the Marcantonio Vilaça Prize (Brazil), the Ox-Bow Program Fellowship (US), and held a solo show at Paço das Artes (São Paulo). Nagem has participated in Latin American biennials, including Bienal Sur (Argentina) and the Digital Art Biennial (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). Her work has been shown at SESC, Oi Futuro, MAC Niteroí, the Museum of Image and Sound (Brazil), the Sea Foundation (Netherlands), and festivals such as FILE, Die Digitale Düsseldorf, and Athens Festival. With an MFA from the Haute École d’Art et Design de Genéve (CH), she currently lives and works between NY and Brazil.
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