Raphaela Melsohn

Raphaela Melsohn builds spaces from and for our bodies. Her work explores the physical and relational dimensions of experience—how we live in space, and how space, in turn, shapes our ways of being. Working across materials and languages, she creates objects and environments that demand bodily presence, proposing alternatives through collaboration, contamination, and non-hierarchical arrangements. Cracks, flows, holes, and organic forms emerge as structures that strain and reconfigure both social and spatial norms.

She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2022) and a BA in Visual Arts from FAAP (2016). In 2022, she taught the course Printmaking on, through, and below the matrix at Columbia University. Recent solo exhibitions include Cortando linha se faz espaço at Galeria LABOR (2024), uma casa feita de chão at Marli Matsumoto (2023), Vestir armadilha at casamata (2016), and Investigações em VÍDEO: registro, deslocamento do olhar e FORMAS DE PENSAR at MIS (2016). Her group exhibitions include Donde tejen las arañas (Proyectos Multiproposito, 2025), After Eden (RGR, 2024), Antes e Agora, Longe e Aqui Dentro (Museu Oscar Niemeyer, 2024), Por muito tempo acreditei ter sonhado que era livre (Arte Atual, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2022), Columbia MFA Thesis (Wallach Gallery, 2022), Biblioteca Floresta (Sesc Belenzinho, 2021), and Eco Shifters (Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato, 2019). She has recently taken part in residencies at SURO (Mexico), Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), AZ West (USA), YBYTU (Brazil), and Red Gate Residency (China). In 2022, she was commissioned to create a public work in relation to Hélio Oiticica’s Subterranean Project, installed at Socrates Sculpture Park in New York.