BIO

Juliana Arruda 

juarrudaarte@gmail.com 

1971, São Paulo/SP, Brazil.

Artist, photographer, and visual poet, researcher of image and word. She lives and works in São Paulo, exploring photography in its expanded field as a central language. Her work relies on experimental practices that resist the accelerated gaze of contemporary society, betting on the latency of silence and the encounter between image and word. She creates poetic, almost tactile works that intertwine life and imagination, traversing themes such as everyday life, memory, and time. Graduated in Law from PUC/SP, she studied Photography at Panamericana School of Art and Design, holds a postgraduate degree in Art Education from SENAC/SP, and is a master and PhD candidate in Communication and Semiotics at PUC/SP. Her first photobook Segunda Pele (Second Skin), edited and published in 2022 by Fotô Editorial, was awarded at the Belfast Photo Festival 2023 and selected for the Photobook Awards 2024 in Braga, Portugal. In 2025, the dummy of her photobook Ofereço meu retrato como lembrança (I Offer My Portrait as a Memento) was selected as a finalist for the Premio Publicación Latinoamericano La Luminosa FELIFA. She received first place in the category “special, other” at the International Photography Awards – IPA 2025.