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Regina Parra is an artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil, with over seven years of university teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level, a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, and an MFA in Art History.

In addition to her experience as a professor, she has fifteen years of practice as a professional artist, working with painting, video, performance, and choreography.  Much of her work is centered on women’s social body—as a place of affirmation and potential power. Parra’s research rests at the intersection of colonialism and capitalism and their lasting injustices and historical violence toward women.

Parra’s work has been shown at institutions such as the Jewish Museum, in New York (USA), MACBA-Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (SPA), Mana Contemporary in Chicago (USA), Americas Society in New York (US), Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (ITA), Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry (FRA), and Museu Nacional de Lisboa (POR).

In 2023, Parra held a solo exhibition at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo (BRA). Last year, she held exhibitions at Lyles & King Gallery in New York and Galerie Mighela Shama in Geneva.

She was awarded the 3M Public Art Prize (2018), the SP-Arte Prize (2017), the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation Video Prize (2011), and the Videobrasil Prize (2011).

In 2026 she was a resident at Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris; in 2021 she was selected for the Monira Foundation Residency Program; and, in the previous year, for the residency program at The Watermill Center. She was also an artist-in-residence at Annex_B and Residency Unlimited, both in New York, and at Pivô in São Paulo.

Her work is featured in the collections of institutions such as ICA_Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) Barcelona; Museum of Art of Sao Paulo (MASP); Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo; Figueiredo Ferraz Institute; Joaquim Nabuco Foundation; Museum FAMA, VideoBrasil, among others.