Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988, Anna Costa e Silva uses the encounter between people as a fundamental subject of her work, researching and proposing reformulations of social fabrics and affective situations, building projects at the intersection between visual and performing arts, cinema, photography and installation. . His research focuses on states of intimacy, sleep, wakefulness, strangeness and temporal suspension, provoking the limits between reality and fiction, experience and memory.
Master in Visual Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, the artist received awards such as FOCO Bradesco ArtRio, Funarte Scholarship for Artistic Production, American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts, was nominated for the 2018 and 2020 PIPA Awards and a finalist for the Marcantonio Vilaça 2019 . He has exhibited his work in individual and collective exhibitions at institutions such as Centro Cultural São Paulo, Casa França Brasil, Parque Lage, Oi Futuro, Pivô, BienalSur, Buenos Aires, Art In Odd Places, NY, Contemporary Art Center, Lithuania, among others. In 2022, he participates in the Mercosul Biennial, Sonho, Trauma e Fuga. He has works in public and private collections, including the Rio de Janeiro Art Museum and the Moreira Salles Institute.