Statement
I thread time, I untangle memory, I weave fictional territories, I embroider organs to inhabit impossible bodies.
In an exercise of resistance and resilience driven by textile materials and procedures, I produce constructions, sensorial and wearable objects that relate to the space to produce photographs, performances, videos and installations.
I investigate the ritualistic dimension of manual crafts as a practice of individual and collective reinvention, I create fables about territories, bodies and other diverse and powerful natures that arise from the sense of not belonging triggered by immigration processes.
My work lives in the practice of collecting insignificances, detachments and accumulations, interested in the memory load of these materialities and as a strategy to interfere in the destiny and permanence of things in the world.
Declaração
Fio o tempo, desfio a memória, teço territórios ficcionais, bordo órgãos para habitarem corpos impossíveis.
Em um exercício de resistência e resiliência conduzidos por materiais e procedimentos têxteis, produzo construções, objetos sensoriais e vestíveis que se relacionam com o espaço para produzir fotografias, performances, vídeos e instalações.
Investigo a dimensão ritualística dos fazeres manuais como prática de reinvenção individual e coletiva, crio fabulações sobre territórios, corpos e outras naturezas diversas e poderosas que brotam do sentido de não pertencer que atravessam os processos imigratórios.
Meu trabalho vive na prática de colecionar insignificâncias, desapegos e acúmulos, interessada na carga de memória das materialidades e como estratégia para interferir no destino e na permanência das coisas no mundo.
Mônica Lóss
Soledade, RS , Brazil | 1978
PhD in Arts and Education by the University of Barcelona, Spain, Master in Education and postgraduate in Surface Design by the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, and by the same institution, she holds a bachelor's degree and a teaching degree in Visual Arts. She has participated in exhibitions in many different institutions in Brazil, United States, Mexico and Europe such as: Embassy of Brazil in Stockholm (Sweden), KORU6, Helsinki (Finland) and GalerijaARgenTUM, Vilnius, (Lithuania) in 2018. Her work was selected for the “97th Annual All Media Exhibition”, Michigan,USA (2019), the “1° Visual Arts nacional show Virgínia Artigas”, SP, BR (2020) and for the “Deep Blue See show”. Ground Floor Gallery, NY, USA (2020). She was an invited artist in the exihibition “Se antes do fim..." in the Maré Foto Festival. RN, BR (2021), Festival Internacional do Rio, RJ, BR (2021), “Mostra Museu: Art in the quarentine”, SP, BR (2021), and “In Praise of Magic”, Paradice Palase – Brooklyn, NYC (2021). Manufactured Narratives: Chronicles of Textile Artists. UICA, Grand Rapids, MI, USA (2022); Margens da cidade, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, DF (2022); New York Latin American Art Triennial. “ABYA YALA:STRUCTURAL ORIGINS”. Queens College Art Gallery / Kupferberg Center for the Arts, NYC (2022); Maskoletânea. Coletivo Maskarada. Galeria Espaço Piloto. Brasília, DF(2023); TENUOUS THREADS. Atlantic Gallery, NYC (2023); Between the lines (Entrelinhas), Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, SP, BR (2023). Also noteworthy is the solo exhibition “Offerings”, at “Cluley Projects Gallery”, Dallas, Texas, (2023), which was one of the artists awarded the “New futures Award” during The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX , (Spring 2023). Recently participeted in the exhibition “After Burner”at Techne ArtCenter, Oceanside, CA (2024) and Looking Back 2024. Cluley Project Gallery, Dallas, TX was the winner of the People's Choice Award at ARTventure 2024, Costa Mesa, CA, USA.
Mônica Lóss
Soledade, RS, Brasil| 1978
Doutora em Artes e Educação pela Universidade de Barcelona, Espanha, Mestre em Educação e pós-graduada em Design para Superfícies pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS - Brasil e, pela mesma instituição, é bacharel e licenciada em Artes Visuais. Atualmente vive e trabalha em San Diego, Califórnia, é membro do grupo de mulheres artistas Gomagrupa (BR), participa do Grupo de Pesquisa Experiências e Dissidências nas Artes Visuais – Universidade Federal do Amapá – UNIFAP, BR. Nos últimos anos tem participado de exposições em diversas instituições no Brasil, Estados Unidos, México e Europa, destacando-se: Embaixada do Brasil em Estocolmo - Suécia; KORU6, Helsinque -Finlândia; Galerija ARgenTUM, Vilnius - Lituânia; A casa - Museu do objeto Brasileiro, SP - Brasil em 2018. Sua obra foi selecionada para o 97º Annual All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor, Michigan - EUA (2019), “1º Salão Nacional de Artes Visuais Virgínia Artigas”, SP, (2020), e para “Deep Blue See”, Ground Floor Gallery, NY - USA (2020). Artista convidada na mostra “Se antes do fim...” do Festival Maré Foto, Rio Grande do Norte (2021), selecionada para o Festival Internacional de Artes do Rio, Rio de Janeiro (2021); Mostra Museu - Arte na quarentena - SP (2021) e para a exposição “In praise of magic” - Paradise Palase - Brooklyn e Local Project - Long Island – ambas em NYC. (2021). Manufactured Narratives: Chronicles of Textile Artists. UICA, Grand Rapids, MI, USA (2022); Margens da cidade, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, DF (2022); New York Latin American Art Triennial. “ABYA YALA: STRUCTURAL ORIGINS”. Queens College Art Gallery / Kupferberg Center for the Arts, NYC (2022); Maskoletânea. Coletivo Maskarada. Galeria Espaço Piloto. Brasília, DF, BR (2023); TENUOUS THREADS. Atlantic Gallery, NYC (2023); Entrelinhas, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, SP (2023). Destaca-se ainda, a exposição individual “Oferendas”, Cluley Projects Gallery, Dallas, Texas, (2023) artista premiada com “New futures Award” durante a The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX, USA (Spring 2023). Recentemente participou da exposição After Burner at Techne Art Center, Oceanside, CA (2024) e Looking Back 2024. Cluley Project Gallery, Dallas, TX. Foi vencedora do “PrêmioEscolha do Público” no ARTventure 2024, em Costa Mesa, Califórnia, EUA.
CV
Education
2013 - PhD in Arts and Education, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2009 - Degree of Advanced Studies (DEA), University of Barcelona, Spain
2007 - MA in Arts and Education, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
2005 - Postgraduate degree in Surface Design, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
2004 - Degree in Visual Arts - Art of teaching, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
2003 - Degree in Visual Arts- Bachelor, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
Solo exhibitions and special projects
2025
_Stitched and Forged: The Art ofKelly Witmer and Mônica Lóss. Oceanside Museum of Art, OMA west at the Seabird.Oceanside, CA, USA
2023
_Offerings. Cluley Project Gallery. Dallas, TX, USA
2022
_Offerings I. Museu da Pedra e da Mineralogia Egisto Dal Santo. Soledade, RS, Brazil
_Offerings I. Soledade Cultural Center, Soledade, RS, Brazil
2020
_Latin Artists Cultural Collection - 2020. Latin Artists, Brazil
2019
_Silence. Instalation in Aquarium Gallery, Ann Arbor Art Center, AnnArbor, Michigan, USA
_Ropa al viento, collective book of artists, Espacio de Arte OSDE, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
2004
_Inversions, Spazio d’arte Gallery, Italian association of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
2002
_Straitjacket, Tuesday Cultural Project, Black BoxTheater, Centro de Artes e Letras, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
_Eye into eye. Soledade Cultural Center, Soledade, RS, Brazil
_Eyes, Spazio d’arteGallery, Italian Association of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
_Ar: Acervo Rotativo [400 artistas, 400 obras]. SesiSão José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
_Blackout.Ashton Gallery. San Diego, CA, USA
_Vivael arte. She/They Gallery. Santa Anna, CA, USA
_Face-Off.Phes Gallery. Carlsbad, CA, USA
_Obra têxtil. Museu de ArteContemporânea de Niterói, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
_ARTventure.Juried Art Exhibition. Costa Mesa, CA, USA
_Ar: Acervo Rotativo [400 artistas, 400 obras]. Centro Cultural SESI Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
_Index Maskarada. Galeria Index, Brasília, DF, Brazil
_32nd Annual Juried Exhibition.Curated by Armando Pulido Jr. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA,USA
_Mostra Museu - Art in Quarentine, Instituto Pavão Cultural and Galeria Cis Guanabara, Campinas, SP, Brazil
_Ar: Acervo Rotativo [400 artistas, 400 obras]. SescItapetininga, SP, Brazil
_Looking back 2024. ClulleyProjects, Dallas, TX
_ After Burner. Techne Art Center. Oceanside, CA
_ Fantastic Fiber. Yeiser Art Center. Paducah, KY
_ Ar: ACERVO ROTATIVO [ 400 artistas, 400 obras ]. MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Pedro Manuel-Gismondi. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2023
_Orbis in Rerum natura. Exhibition Space of the Artistic Collection of the Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
_The Last Group Show. Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
_XIII Performance Exhibition: Image and Intersectionality. Cañizares Gallery |EBA/UFBA. Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
_AR: Acervo Rotativo. MACS – Contemporary Art Museum of Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
_Experimental Loop – International Video Art Festival. PTM Contemporary, New York American Art Triennial (NYLAAT). Governors Island Arts, NY, USA
_Network Apotheke: Between painting and ArtEducation. Apotheke painting studio. Catarinense School Museum (MESC). Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
_Between the lines. Collective exhibition by Gomagrupa. Curadoria Sylvia Werneck – Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, SP, Brazil
_II Lux Festival of performances. Lux Arts Space. Vera Building. São Paulo, Brazil
_31st Annual Juried Exhibition. Curated by Isabel Casso. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, USA
_ Windows to the Inside: Expressions of Mental Health. Curated by Grace Heanney. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
_Tenuos Threads. Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, NY
_ Maskoletânea. Coletivo Maskarada. Galeria Espaço Piloto. Galeria da Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brasil
2022
_Margens da cidade/ Márgenes de ciudad. Curadoria Paula Santiago – Espaço Expositivo do Acervo Artístico da UFSM | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
_NYLAAT | New York Latin American Art Triennial. “ABYA YALA: STRUCTURAL ORIGINS”. Queens CollegeArt Gallery / Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Flushing, NY, USA
_ISMP | Sensitive Image of Possible Memories. Curated by Gabriel Bicho - Instituto de Leitura Quindim, Caxias do Sul,RS, Brazil
_Margens da cidade/ Márgenes de ciudad. Curadoria Paula Santiago – Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, DF, Brazil
_Mirrors. Curated by Cota Azevedo e Edson Cardoso - Museu Correios de Brasília, DF, Brazil
_Manufactured Narratives: Chronicles of Textile Artists. UICA - Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2021
_Bienal Europeia e Latino-americana de Arte Contemporânea. Sustentabilidade: a natureza na arte. Centro cultural Correios São Paulo, SP, Brasil
_III Festival de Arte Têxtil Fibra de Artista. Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
_Arte e Natureza: Poéticas e pedagogias da mãe terra. (on-line) Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil
_AR: Acervo Completo 1/3 – 279 artistas. Acervo Rotativo. Curadoria Laerte Ramos – Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, SP, Brasil
_Exposição Espelhos. Curadoria Cota Azevedo e Edson Cardoso - Espaço cultural Correios Niterói, RJ, Brasil
_In Praiseof Magic. Local Project – Long Island, NY, USA
_In Praise of Magic. Paradice Palase – Brooklyn, NY, USA
_Collective 2021 EIXO. Eixo Arte Contemporânea. Niterói, RJ, Brazil
_FIAR - Festival Internacional de Artes do Rio. RJ, Brazil
_FestivalFixe- Performance coletiva Dupladu especial Fixe Gomagrupa- ação on-line-Zoom | @gomagrupa
_Dupladu- Gomagrupa- ação on-line- Instagram - @gomagrupa
_Mostra Museu: Arte na quarentena - Curated by Ana Carolina Ralston - São Paulo, SP, Brasil
_1º Mostra Internacional de Economia Criativa - Cult Cultura - São Paulo, Brasil
_Se antes do fim... Maré Foto Festival, Curated by Sofia Bauchwitz, Rio Grande do Norte, NR, Brasil (Artista convidada)
_Imagem Sensível de Memórias Possíveis. Curated by Gabriel Bicho, Exposição Coletiva Virtual e de Lambe-lambe. Pelotas, RS, Brasil
2020
_"Dissidências". Apotheke VirtualGallery, CEART / UDESC. Florianópolis - SC, Brazil
_Goma1.5 M. Goma Grupa. Virtual Gallery @ goma_1.5, Brazil (Link)
_"Tramações. A memória e o têxtil". (Virtual exhibition). Capibaribe Gallery / UFPE. Recife, PE, Brazil
_V BIG -Guarulhos International Small Format Biennial. Guarulhos, SP, Brazil
_1° Salão Nacional de Artes Visuais Virgínia Artigas. (Virtual exhibition). Artrilha, Brazil
_3rd collective EIXO 2020. Eixo Arte contemporânea. (Virtual exhibition). Niterói, RJ, Brazil
_Exposición online Internacional Casulo (capullo/coccon). Hábitat transformador. Confluências de Arte, Clorinda, São Miguelde Tucuman, Argentina
_PandemicAction of Narratives (Virtual Exhibition). LEPPAIS / UFPEL, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
_Threaded II. Envision Arts Gallery. (Virtual exhibition). Denton, TX,USA
_Deep Blue See. Ground Floor Gallery. Brooklyn,New York, USA. (In Artsy)
2019
_Perspective Small. Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
_Art for the holidays. WSG HolidayShow. WSG Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA
_97th Annual All Media Exhibition. Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor,Michigan, USA
_Imaginaris femeninis. Ser donna. Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Barcelona,Catalunya, Espanya
2018
_Places - International Collective exhibition from the art and design group. Gallery Nelson Elwanger, Campus Silveira Martins/UFSM, Silveira Martins, RS, Brazil
_Art for the holidays. WSG Holiday Show. WSG Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
_Brazilian Contemporary Jewels - Reflection_Necklaces - Galerija ARgenTUM,Vilnius, Lithuania; Embassy of Brazil, Stockholm, Sweden
_Brazilian Contemporary Jewels - Reflection_Necklaces - KORU6, Helsinki,Finland
_Afectos Entramados -Universidad de Guanajuato, León, Guanajuato, México
_Places - International Collective exhibition of the Art and Design Group.Gallery Cláudio Carriconde, Centro de Artes e Letras, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
_Reflection_Necklaces. A CASA Museu do objeto Brasileiro. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2017
_Art for the holidays. WSG Holiday Show. WSG Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2015
_Surface Design Perspective. Gallery Cláudio Carriconde, Centro de Artes e Letras, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
_“Ten”, Colletive Exibhition from group of design and art, Year 10,Gallery Cláudio Carriconde, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
_Mail art and Nature. Centro de Artes e Letras, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Awards
2024
_People's Choice Award at ARTventure 2024, Costa Mesa, CA, USA.
2023
_New futures Award -Dallas Spring 2023 Award. The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX, USA
2006
_Scholarship CAPES for develop the master degree reserch in Artand Education at Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rs, Brazil
2005
_Video “Carneação” selected work in Santa Maria Video and Cinema,Prefeitura Municipal de Santa Maria e RBS, RS, Brazil
2001
_Manipulet eyes” award-winning work1st Salão de Artes Plásticas de Gravataí, Fundarc, Gravataí, RS, Brazil
_Selected work in XX Salão Universitário de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Publications
_COLÁS, María José Juan,RINCÓN, Norma Alzate, SANTOS, Mônica Lóss dos, VILA, Ana Abascal. Correo certificado con acuse de recibo. Unainvestigación narrativa colaborativa: cartas, mujeres y museos. In: Educaçãoem Museus / Organização de Grupo Amplia; Ilustrações de Maria Carolina Alves,Sarah de Assis Andrade; Apresentação de Daniela Franco Carvalho. –Uberlândia/MG: Subsolo, 2024. (Pág. 29- 43)
_SILVA, Larissa Rachel Gomes Silva; SANTOS, Mônica Lóss dos; FREITAG, Vanessa. Narratives intertwined with textiles. v. 11 n. 11 (2023): Cartema 11 Magazine - ISSN: 2763-8693 / Cartema 10 - Dossier: Memory and textiles. (2023)
_KOBAL, Mariana; LÓSS, Mônica; RESTREPO, Natália. Bicho Raro Project. Ojeada Literary+Art Magazine – Issue 1 – 2021. Ojeada(@ojeada.art) Ann Arbor, MI, EUA
_LÓSS, Mônica. Nomads: the challenge of wandering through memory. In: Tramações [electronic resource]:memory and textiles / organizers: Luciana Borre, Luana Andrade. – Recife: Pró-Reitoria de Extensão e Cultura da UFPE; Ed. UFPE, 2021. (Pg. 171-177)
_LÓSS, Mônica. Regalo I. Pausa na Rede, 3rd edition. DRAFT, ISSN: 2358 3703 (online) (2021)
_LÓSS, Mônica. Project Cabeças. In: Debating sustainability [electronic book]: looking at contemporary art. [Organization: Violeta Sutili, Leila Pessoa Bechtold]. Criciúma, SC: Authors’ Ed., 2021. (Pg. 21)
_International Catalog Coletivo Meio Cura - Multiformat book edition. Flotar Programa, Pac,Harmonipan Editions. Mexico, 2021
_Weaving under good/bad weather. REVISTA TÊMPERA. Vol.03/ Nº 9 ISSN 2675 0295 (impresso)/ 2674-5909 (online). Revista Têmpera, v. 03, p. 194, 2021
_How to present time and [co]existence today? [Compor] Magazine v.1 / 2020 - UDESC (Link magazine)
_PROJECT2020 - 4th Call. Online publication and exhibition. UFSM / PPGART. Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. (Link to publication)
Public Collection
_AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Residency
_Zait Residência - Online monitoring program. Coordination Daniela Labra. Zait Platform, Berlin, Germany(2023
_Juntos a la Distância – Frontera. Proyecto Ace.BAS, Argentina
_Residência Volante (4th ed.) Maskarada Collective, Brasília, DF, Brazil
Conferences, workshops and speeches
2024
_O têxtil como prática dereinvenção. Resistência e Resiliência. FIAPO - Saberes têxteis na arte contemporânea,no ensino e na cultura popular. Instituto de Letras e Artes na FURG,Universidade de Rio Grande. Rio Grande, RS, BR
2022
_Educational/exhibitory “Aguas vivas, Corpas vivas” with the taller, “Tramasmás allá de los mares”. Flotar Program, MUFI - Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
2021
_Workshop in the immersion “Embroidered stamps”. Flotar Program, Museo de laFilatelia de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
_Lecturer at “Femmes artistes et exploration du corpsféminin du seminaireLes Arts dans les Amériques et les Caraïbes”. Universitéde Bretagne Occidentale(UBO) et l’Université de Caen, Jeudi 30 September 2021
_Round table: The role of museums in education during the 1st Regional Museum Seminar – See, review and transverse Museums during the one promoted bythe 3rd Museological Region/SEM/RS and the Museum of Precious Stones and Mineralogy Egisto Dal Santo de Soledade, in May 21, 2021, during the 19thNational Museum Week / IBRAM
_Lecturerat “New perspectives – Transver Museums – Museum of Precious Stones and Mineralogy Egisto Dal Santo and Municipal Museum of Soledade – Soledade, RS,with the speech entitled: “Who likes the past is a museum? Articulating experiences to think about other possible museum ideas”
_Lecturerin “Dissident Dialogues” – Action that makes up the exhibition “Dissidences” ofthe Apotheke Study Group on Dissidence. UDESC/CEART, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
2020
_Conference I PAED Cycles - Encounters to affirm life, with a speech entitled “Starting over in the middle: saying yes to the invitation of art”. PAED/UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil