BIO

Juliana Arruda (b. 1971, São Paulo, Brazil) is an artist and visual poet, as well as a researcher. She lives and works in São Paulo. In her artistic practice, she engages with experimental approaches that resist the accelerated gaze of contemporary society, embracing the latency of silence and the encounter between image and word. She works with photography, writing, video, ceramics, embroidery, and other materials and mediums. Her work interweaves life and imagination through a poetic attentiveness to small things, traversing themes such as everyday life, memory, nature, and time.

She holds a Law degree from PUC/SP, studied Photography at Panamericana Escola de Arte e Design, earned a postgraduate degree in Art Education from SENAC/SP, and is a master's graduate and current doctoral 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 shortlisted 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 a finalist at the Premio Publicación Latinoamericano La Luminosa FELIFA. Also in 2025, she won first place in the Special, Other category of the International Photography Awards – IPA 2025 with the work Minha Mãe Me Plantou Uma Árvore (My Mother Planted Me a Tree)..

Contact: juarrudaarte@gmail.com