Education

Master of Fine Arts in Textiles, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC.

Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.

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Selected Exhibitions

Objects at Play, SUDESTADA, NYC.

Shared Currents, ProjectArt. All Street Gallery, NYC.

In/Between 2026: Reclamation Mirrored, Ford Foundation Live Gallery at New York Live Arts, NYC.

Making Space as Matrix, Kellen Gallery, NYC.

Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (IAP) Presentation, SUPR OMEN and Flux Factory, NYC.

Inner Riches, The Sebastians, NYC.

Parsons Benefit, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC.

Passage Patterns, International Organization for Migration, Parsons MFA Textiles, Aquafil. Presented in NYC, at NeoCon in Chicago, IL, and in Geneva, Switzerland.

Spirited, New York Textile Month and Parsons MFA Textiles, NYC

Threads of Connection: Textile Dialogues in a Changing World, :iidrr Gallery and New York Textile Month, NYC.

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Residencies and Fellowships

NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYC.

ProjectArt at Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY.

Awards and Scholarships

President’s Scholarship, MFA Textiles, The New School, NYC.

Honorable Mention, Iconicidades Design Contest, Government of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Best Architecture Thesis Award — Prêmio José Albano Volkmer, Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil, Rio Grande do Sul Chapter, Brazil,

  for Utopias: To Live in the Contemporary.

Teaching and Academic Appointments

Part-Time Faculty, School of Constructed Environments, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC Courses taught:

  Beyond Threads: Fashion and Space for a New Era, Fall 2025.

  Upholstery and Soft Goods, Spring 2026.

  Decolonized and Decarbonized Dinner Party, Spring 2026.

Teaching Assistant, Studio Lab: Textiles/Materials, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC.

Teaching Assistant, Fabrication and Process, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC.

Research Assistant, MFA Textiles, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC.

Workshops and Public Programs

Textiles instructor, Drawing Room, NYC.

Workshop Leader at “Cross-Stitch Brooches”, SUDESTADA, NYC.

Organizer and Faculty Facilitator at Decolonized and Decarbonized Dinner Party, Parsons School of Design, Governors Island, NYC.

Curator and panelist at Artist Talk Gringo à Brasileira, New Women New Yorkers, Governors Island, NYC.

Participating Artist and Public-Program Contributor at A Decolonized and Decarbonized Dinner Party, Parsons School of Design, Governors Island, NYC.

Metamorphosis: From Textile to Textile, New York Textile Month at :iidrr Gallery, NYC. Co-Host and Co-Facilitator with Rachel Dana.

Curatorial

Gringo à Brasileira, solo exhibition by Patrícia Colmenero, New Women New Yorkers, Governors Island, NYC.