São Paulo, 1978.
artist working on the borders of dance, visual arts and literature.
Member of the CID (International Dance Council, UNESCO)
​
Awards
2013 FUNARTE – Women in Visual Arts
2020 FUNARTE Respirarte Visual Arts
2020 Aldir Blanc PROAC Visual Arts
2020 Bump'n Grind Video and Performance Festival (Canada). Best activist film.
Public collections
MAC USP – Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of SP
MARP - Ribeirão Preto Art Museum
MunA - University Art Museum of the Federal University of Uberlândia
Private collections
Luciano Benetton Collection
​
Education
1995-2000 Degree in Law - Largo São Francisco Law School (USP-University of São Paulo)
2002-2004 Degree in Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies at the Free University of Berlin (FU BERLIN - not completed)
2011-2012 Master in Movement Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London, United Kingdom)
2015-2020 PhD in Design from Anhembi Morumbi University (São Paulo)
2021 – Post-Doc PUC São Paulo Communication and Semiotics - Art, Activism and Feminism
​
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 Words and viscera. LONA gallery (São Paulo)
2022 The Book of Time. LUX art space (São Paulo)
2021 At night I cry. CLAREIRA MAC-USP (Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo)
2020 Absent Body. MUNA (University Art Museum – Federal University of Uberlândia)
2020 Cristina Elias: Every Woman. Paço das Artes, São Paulo
2017 REGISTRATION: Performance, objects and video. Paço das Artes, SP. Project Season 2017.
2017 Cristina Elias. Music Box. Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
2015 PER-FORMARSI: L’AZIONE COME FORMA DI PERCEZIONE. MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome
2014 PHONETIC FRAGMENTS OF A (SI) Funarte Women in Visual Arts Award 2013 MAM (São Paulo Museum of Modern Art); MIS (Image and Sound Museum, São Paulo)
2011 Here and There [or Somewhere InBetween], Radial System, Berlin
2009 SUSPENDED EPIPHANY, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon
2006-2007 PASSAGENS DE LISBOA, High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue, Lisbon
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2023 Um Céu - partnership with César Meneghetti (Ateliê Alê, São Paulo)
2023 Nowhere now (Ed. Vera, São Paulo)
2023 Artist Notebooks (Canvas gallery, São Paulo)
2022 From drawing the line to superficiality (Lona Galeria)
2022 Unknown (Canvas gallery)
2022 The body language (The room, Venice)
2022 Open archive (Lona galleria, São Paulo)
2021 Venice International Art Fair (The Room, Venice)
2021 London Contemporary Art Fair (The Line, London)
2021 Rome International Art Fair (Medina Art Gallery, Rome)
2021 MARP Ribeirão Preto Art Museum – Exhibition season.
2021 Do you see me? Are you listening me? Digital Narratives. (Casa Niemeyer, Brasília).
2020 Interações I – Lona Galeria, São Paulo
2020 Women Essence MUSA ARTS SPACE / UNESCO (Rome, Italy).
2020 Women on stage Paço das Artes São Paulo.
2018 Retrotopias Occupation Edifício Madalena Laura, São Paulo.
2018 Asymmetric Crossings: Text and Movement. Atelier Alê, São Paulo.
2018 BURGOS #2 FUNARTE São Paulo.
PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO FESTIVALS
2013 Plataforma-Berlin, Uferstudios, Berlin.
2013 Boddinale – International Experimental Video Festival, Loophole, Berlin.
2015 VERBO, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo.
2015 Transfusion. Casa Guilherme de Almeida Museum, São Paulo.
2015 Ada Studio / Uferstudios, Berlin. Presentation season.
2016 Dança em Foco, Rio de Janeiro.
2018 SheDevil, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome.
2020 Bump’n Grind Film and Performance Festival, Toronto.
2022 PerformAR Performance Festival (São Paulo)
2022 LUX Performance Festival (São Paulo)
2022 MIRADA Ibero-American Performing Arts Festival (SESC, Santos)