BIO

Juliana Arruda (1971, São Paulo, SP, Brazil) is an artist and visual poet. She also works as a researcher. She lives and works in São Paulo. Photography is her primary medium, combined with experimental practices that resist the accelerated pace of contemporary life and create spaces for silence and encounter. In dialogue with writing, video, embroidery, ceramics, and other materials and media, her work explores the friction between image and word, between life and fiction. Her practice grows out of a poetic attentiveness to small things and engages with themes such as everyday life, memory, nature, and time.

She holds a degree in Law from PUC-SP, studied Photography at Panamericana School of Art and Design, and completed a postgraduate certificate in Art Education at SENAC-SP. She holds a master’s degree and is currently a PhD candidate in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP.

She has exhibited her work at festivals and exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. Her first photobook, Segunda Pele (Second Skin), (Fotô Editorial, 2022), was awarded at the 2023 Belfast Photo Festival and selected for the 2024 Photobook Awards in Braga, Portugal. In 2025, the dummy of her photobook Ofereço Meu Retrato Como Lembrança (I Offer My Portrait as a Memento) was a finalist for the La Luminosa Latin American Publication Award at FELIFA. That same year, she won first place in the Special, Other category of the International Photography Awards – IPA 2025 with the project Minha Mãe Me Plantou Uma Árvore (My Mother Planted Me a Tree), which also received an honorable mention at Fotoslovo 2026.

Contact: juarrudaarte@gmail.com