In the Studio: Regina Parra

Join us live on Instagram from your cell phone, or watch here and on YouTube after, for a series of remote visits to artists' studios to bring Americas Society's Visual Arts public programs to your home. Every Wednesday and Friday this month, contemporary artists will dialogue with our Visual Arts department about their work and practice.

About the artist:

Regina Parra (b. Sao Paulo, 1984) lives and works between São Paulo and New York. Parra has a MFA in art history from Faculdade Santa Marcelina and a BFA in fine arts from FAAP. She also studied theater and worked in the field with Antunes Filho (1929-2019) for many years. The connection between the performing arts—especially Greek tragedy—is present in her production as a visual artist. Her experience in directing actors and creating sets for the theater becomes evident in her videos, compositions, and performances. Painting, video, and performance are the main poetic instruments Parra uses to address issues like resistance and subversion. Her works have been shown at institutions such as the Jewish Museum (NY), Pablo Atchugarry Art Center (Miami), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Shiva Gallery (NY), PAC_Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan), Museu Nacional (Lisbon), On Curating Project Space (Zurich), MASP, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MAM, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Pivô, CCSP, Parque Lage, Paço das Artes, Fundação Marcos Amaro, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (all in Brazil). She was selected for the Water Mill Center 2020 Residency Program. And was awarded the SP_Art Fair Prize, the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation's Video Award and the Videobrasil Award. And was nominated for the Emerging Artists Award, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami.  In 2019 she was part of the Annex_B Artist Residency, New York. And, in the previous year, she was an artist in residency at the Residency Unlimited Program (R.U.) in, Brooklyn, New York.

Visit the Americas Society Visual Arts YouTube Channel for recordings of In the Studio Series and other previous events.

More digital content from Visual Arts at Americas Society:

• Read the exhibition catalogue for Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo.
• Watch the documentary Feliciano Centurión: Abrazo Íntimo al Natural, directed by Mon Ross (2016).
• Watch recent events videos:
  • Curator's Perspective – Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
  • "I Am Reborn at Every Moment" – Contemporary Reflections on Feliciano Centurión and AIDS
  • Ulises Carrión – Art, Mail, Books, and So…
  • Book Launch: Alejandra Seeber – Picture This Featuring the Artist in Conversation with Guillermo Kuitca

Image caption: Regina Parra. Courtesy of the artist.