Monica Rizzolli
São Carlos, São Paulo (1981)
Education
- 2012–14Kunsthochschule Kassel, Klasse Spehr, guest student
- 2001–05Instituto de Artes da UNESP São Paulo, Visual Arts
Additional training
- 2018Workshop Body, Space and Object - Interacting between the handmade and the digital, with Caroline Broadhead and Max Warren of Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, at ETA, Sesc 24 de Maio
Awards and grants
- 2015MAK Schindler Scholarship Program, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna
- 2012Creatives in Residence, Sunhoo Industrial Design Park, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Funding: SUNHOO
Residencies
- 2015MAK Center Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, at the Pearl M. Mackey Apartments, LA, USA
- 2014A.I.R., DRAWinternational, Caylus, France
- 2014DATs Creatives in Residence FACHWERKEN / MITWIRKEN, Nürnberg, Germany
- 2014Residência NÔMADE, Ateliê Coletivo 2e1, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2013Sweet Home, Hablarenarte, Madrid, Spain
- 2012Creatives in Residence, Sunhoo Industrial Design Park, China
Group exhibitions
- 2026EmMeio#18, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
- 2025Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
- 2025Art Dubai - Growth Patterns, Booth X11, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 2025Neo Botanica - An Atlas of Artificially Generated Flora, Load Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2024Enter Art Fair, Artscape Digital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2024Bright Moments Venice the FINALE COLLECTION, Bright Moments Venice, Venice, Italy
- 2024NFT.NYC - VOL 1 - MINTING 03.27 - 60 ALPHA
- 2024Década dos Oceanos – I Mostra Nacional de Criptoarte, CCBB-SP, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2024PHYGITAL, Centro Cultural PGE-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2023Gateway Miami, FAENA FORUM, Miami, USA
- 2023Década dos Oceanos – I Mostra Nacional de Criptoarte, CCBB-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2023GEN/GEN GENERATIVE GENERATIONS, Gazelli Art House's central Mayfair gallery, London, England
- 2023Unbound: Ecology in the Age of Machines, UNIT LONDON DIGITAL, London, England
- 2023Issue #07: She Codes, TGAM The Generative Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain
- 2023NFT.NYC, Hudson Yards and Times Square, New York, USA
- 2023Gen XX, Seattle NFT Museum, Seattle, USA
- 2023REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS FUTURE, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
- 2023Manaca Cycle, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
- 2022Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art, Phillips Auction House, London, England
- 2022Immutable, Vellum LA, Los Angeles, USA
- 2022Simulation Sketchbook: Works in Process, Vellum LA, Los Angeles, USA
- 2022NFT.RIO, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2022Collection, Bright Moments Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2021The Digital, Art Basel, Miami Beach, USA
- 2021EmMeio#13: Contaminações, Media Lab / BR, Panoramas 2021
- 2021Processing Community Day BR
- 2018FILE ONLINE 2018 | Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
- 20182nd edition of GIF, festival of Interactions, Design and Communication, IED (Istituto Europeo di Design)
- 2017Audiovisual installation Amarelinha Digital, façade of the FIESP/SESI headquarters, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2016Zonas de Compensação 3.0, Galeria do Instituto de Artes da UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2015Final Projects: Group XL, MAK Center's Artists and Architects-in-Residence, Los Angeles, USA
- 2014MAP ART – CULTURAL SYMBIOSIS. Brazilian contemporary art in Germany, rosalux & Embassy of Brazil, Berlin, Germany
- 2014Fronteiras e Estados de Sítio, Pinacoteca Potiguar, Natal, Brazil
Solo exhibitions
- 2015¿PUEDES ENCONTRARME?, BAUCHWITZ/RIZZOLLI, El Patio de Martín de los Heros, Madrid, Spain
Curatorship
- 2026Espaço de Arte Gerativa, TokenNation 2026 – 4th edition, Pavilhão da Bienal de São Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Auctions
- 2023CHRISTIE'S 3.0 NEXT WAVE: THE MIAMI EDIT, Gateway Miami, Miami, USA
Selected talks
- 2026Poética da Arte Gerativa: projetos autorais, #25.ART – Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia, Brasília, Brazil
- 2026Quero pesquisar em artes, e agora?, Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 2025Seminário MUSEHUM 2025, panel “Tecnologia brasileira: como a gente pode ter tecnologias de informação que façam sentido para o Brasil, as sabedorias ancestrais e um futuro sustentável”, Museu das Comunicações e Humanidades, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2022Nft in Europe, Théâtre du Gymnase, Paris, France
- 2022Generative Art Seminar, School of Arts UCP & Serralves, Porto, Portugal
- 2021NFT como Arte - com Monica Rizzolli, Role nas Midias Produção Multimídia
- 2021The future of arts in NFT: Utopia or hype?, CryptoBr, with Bia Patolli, Catarina Papa, Giselle Beiguelman
- 2021Talk about Creative Programming, SESC Santana, with Alexandre Villares, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2021The creative use of algorithms in Brazilian art, MULTIVERSO, with Giselle Beiguelman and Patricia Oakim
- 2019Programação para Design Gráfico, Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Design, Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2019Números Aleatórios na Arte, ETA | SESC Guarulhos, with Nicolau Centola, Guarulhos, Brazil
- 2018Sistemas paramétricos - Sistemas gerativos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais - PPGAV/ECA/USP
Articles
- 2017VILLARES, Alexandre B A; MOREIRA, Daniel de Carvalho; GOMES, Monica Rizzolli. ENSINO DE PROGRAMAÇÃO EM UM CONTEXTO DE EXPLORAÇÃO GRÁFICA COM PROCESSING MODO PYTHON. In: Anais GRAPHICA 2017 - XII International Conference on Graphics Engineering for Arts and Design. Anais… Araçatuba (SP), UNIP, 2017.
Selected courses and workshops
- 2021Introdução à programação criativa, HOMEOSTASIS LAB – NOVO TEMPO
- 2021Introdução ao desenho com Processing, SESC Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2020Nature of the Code: Simulações Físicas com Programação, SESC Av Paulista, with Alexandre Villares, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2019Arte algorítmica e programação criativa, Casa Plana, with Alexandre Villares, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2019Design de superfície com programação e ferramentas digitais, SESC 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil
Event co-organization
- 2016–21Noite de Processing, monthly event on art and programming
- 2021Processing Community Day BR
- 2020Processing Community Day SP
- 2019Processing Community Day SP
Other projects
- 2025–Editor of Variável magazine
- 2019Corpos são paisagens — laser-engraved records, opening of SESC Guarulhos, in partnership with Dupla (Natália Calamari and Rodrigo Mafra)
- 2019Parametric visual identity for the project “Tecnologias e Artes em Rede: Tecnologias Livres”, for Sesc SP’s Espaço de Tecnologias e Artes
- 2018Variable-data cover for Tupigrafia 12 magazine
- 2018Máquinas de Desenhar project, Monica Rizzolli and João Adriano Freitas, Circuito SESC de Artes
- 2017Parametric cover for Amarello #27 Perspectivas magazine
Interviews
- 2025Monica Rizzolli Interview - Generative Art, Rock Badger Agency
- 2023Arte gerativa e NFTs se popularizam na comunidade artística, Pedro Doria, Cora Rónai, Meio
- 2023Art After Hours: In Conversation with Monica Rizzolli at Her Studio in Portugal, Tribul, Alexia Wright
- 2023Remembrance of Things Future: A Conversation with Monica Rizzolli, Artist Experimenting on the Blockchain, Unframed LACMA, Lady Cactoid
- 2023Monica Rizzolli interview at NFT in Europe, NFT in
- 2023Rethinking Rarity: Monica Rizzolli, Dirt, Terry Nguyen
- 2022AN INTERVIEW WITH MONICA RIZZOLLI, Bright Moments, Malte Rauch
- 2021In Conversation with Monica Rizzolli, Artblocks, Jeff G Davis
- 2021Mestres do algoritmo: computadores vão tomar lugar de artistas?, Revista Veja, Amanda Capuano
- 2021Monica Rizzolli: conheça a artista programadora que contribui na mudança de paradigmas dos NFTs no mundo da arte, Vogue Brasil, Isabel Junqueira
- 2021As the NFT Market Explodes Again, Artists Fend Off Old Art-World Power Structures, Time, Andrew R. Chow
Collections
- 2023Our Collection, Le Random
- 2023The Cozomo de' Medici Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
- 2023NFT Art Collection, The Arab Bank Switzerland, Switzerland