Denilson Baniwa, Glicéria Tupinambá, Helio Eudoro, Kimberly Orjuela, Maiko Rodrig, Marie-Danielle Duval, Martín Rodríguez, Molly Bertheaud Le jaguar et l’oiseau écarlate
© Célia Tupinambá a Fernanda Liberti, still from the video A dança do pássaro Tupinambá/ The dance of the Tupinambá bird, 2021.
Artist Biographies
Denilson Baniwa is from the Amazon region and belongs to the Baniwa people. His work is grounded in research on the presence and absence of Indigenous peoples within Brazil’s official histories, while also exploring Indigenous cosmologies and their artistic representations in order to share and preserve ancestral knowledge. He has participated in exhibitions at CCBB, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, CCSP, the Afro-Brazilian Museum, MASP, MAR, the Museum of Tomorrow, the Sydney Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Museo Amparo in Mexico, Inhotim, among others. In 2024, he was one of the curators of the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
+Paulo Fluxus is a Brazilian light and laser artist who has been internationally active for more than 16 years. A multimedia visual artist and activist, he develops interventions in urban and forest environments, as well as projects for exhibitions, rituals, festivals, and film productions. His work explores the aesthetic, political, and tactical dimensions of light, particularly laser, often in collaboration with Indigenous artists and in support of Indigenous peoples and forests. He holds a degree from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo, is a member of the Projetemos network, and is the founder of TANQ Rosa Choq and CANiL da USP.
Glicéria Tupinambá, also known as Célia Tupinambá, is from the village of Serra do Padeiro, located within the Tupinambá Indigenous Territory of Olivença, in the southern region of the state of Bahia. She is actively involved in the political and spiritual life of the Tupinambá people, with a particular focus on issues related to education, the village’s productive organization, social services, and women’s rights. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Indigenous Intercultural Relations from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IFBA) and a master’s degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Recently, she became the first Indigenous artist to represent Brazil at the country’s pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
+Fernanda Liberti (born in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian visual artist working at the intersection of photography, moving image, and painting. Her practice explores the intersections between nature and urban life, memory, migration, and colonial histories, with a focus on women, Indigenous peoples, people of colour, and LGBTQ+ communities. Through collaborative and research-based projects, she considers images as living archives. Her recent works include Dust From Home (2024), recipient of the Deloitte Photo Grant 2023. Winner of the 2022 Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award in the Young Talents category, her work has been exhibited internationally. She lives and works between London, Athens, and Rio de Janeiro.
Helio Eudoro is a Brazilian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. He works across sculpture, painting, photography, poetry, installation, and performance. He holds a Master of Visual Studies (MVS) from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University. His practice has been presented at numerous institutions, festivals, and exhibition spaces in Canada, Brazil, and the United States. Eudoro is the recipient of several awards, including the GOG Award for Exhibition of the Year (2023), the Toronto Arts Foundation Space Award (2023), the Carmen Lamanna Award (2022), and the RBC Newcomer Arts Award (2020).
Kimberly Orjuela is a Colombian artist based in Montreal, Canada. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2023. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2024, 2025, and 2026, as well as from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2025. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in a group exhibition at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, organized by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in March 2025, and currently in the exhibition Ancestral Abiayala: Ceramics from the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto.
Maiko Rodrig is a Brazilian artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. His attachment to analogue methods has led him to explore hand printing and darkroom techniques, where he considers photographic emulsion both as a subject and as a material. Alongside his figurative portraits, he creates vibrant camera-less abstractions on photosensitive paper using various light sources. Through ongoing research and the development and refinement of his own techniques, he explores the physical dimension of analogue photography and considers the darkroom as a space of devotion.
Marie-Danielle Duval is a Senegalese-Québécois artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She studied visual arts at UQAM (BFA) and Concordia University (MFA). In 2024, she presented her work in solo exhibitions at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Galerie McClure, and Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay. Her projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation International Grant, and the FRQSC. Through the lens of her diasporic experience, Marie-Danielle explores the transformative power of narratives by transposing literary figures into the visual field. Through an autofictional approach to portraiture, she is committed to highlighting marginalized stories, giving them a central place and allowing them to resonate collectively.
Martín Rodríguez (MX/US/CA) is a transmission and sound artist based in Montreal whose practice exists at the intersection of radio, migration, and expiation. Rooted in his Xicanx upbringing along the Arizona–Mexico border, his practice employs performance, intervention, and installation to explore the sonic histories of Mexico, the United States, and Canada. His recent works extend into migratory and agricultural contexts, community engagement, resilience, interdependence, and collective listening. Drawing from the Xicanx methodology of rasquachismo, Rodríguez reconfigures materials through pragmatic acts of reinvention shaped by adaptation and scarcity. His work has been presented nationally and internationally.
Molly Bertheaud is a Canadian-American artist based in Montreal who works with industrially knitted and hand-embroidered textiles, painting, performance, and installation. She combines traditional craft practices with new technologies to create contemporary mythologies. Her work explores the tensions between desire, responsibility, madness, and hope in the face of uncertainty. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Her work has been presented in a solo exhibition at Galerie McClure, through a residency at Atelier 43, and in international projects including the Wassaic Project in New York.
Bringing together artists from Abya Yala (the so-called Americas), Le jaguar et l’oiseau écarlate explores the dynamic intersections of terrestrial and aerial perspectives through rich feline and avian symbolic traditions. Drawing on Indigenous, Latinx, feminist, queer, and diasporic approaches, the exhibition examines territorial, cultural, and migratory narratives shaped by both ancestral and contemporary understandings of animal symbolism.
Partly inspired by the Tupinambá feather cloak — an Indigenous ceremonial garment historically made from scarlet ibis feathers and reactivated today by Tupinambá communities — the exhibition brings the jaguar and the scarlet bird into dialogue as powerful figures of memory, cosmology, transformation, and resistance. Deeply rooted in Indigenous cosmologies of Abya Yala, these symbols provide a framework for reconsidering colonial legacies as well as contemporary forms of cultural expression.
Through sculpture, installation, video, painting, and tapestry, the exhibition brings together the perspectives of artists with Brazilian, Canadian, Colombian, Mexican, American, and Senegalese backgrounds to propose a multifaceted reflection on alterity, fiction, transculturation, and postcolonial identities. By bringing diverse artistic practices and cultural perspectives into dialogue, Le jaguar et l’oiseau écarlate highlights the enduring influence of animal iconographies in the contemporary construction of belonging, historical memory, and cultural transformation.
© Célia Tupinambá a Fernanda Liberti, still from the video A dança do pássaro Tupinambá/ The dance of the Tupinambá bird, 2021.
Rodrigo D’Alcântara is a Brazilian visual artist, filmmaker, researcher, and curator based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from Concordia University, a Master of Fine Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Brasília. His research-creation process focuses on counter-hegemonic and anti-colonial narratives related to gender, sexuality, mythology, and transculturalism. His internationally acclaimed career includes exhibitions and screenings at institutions such as the Royal Society of Canada, ISEA International, the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, the Museo Ettore Fico, the Werkstatt der Kulturen, and the Mendes Wood DM Gallery. As a curator, D’Alcântara has recently organized group exhibitions at Canadian cultural institutions such as TransWEB (SBC Contemporary Art Gallery, QC) and The Hungry Mist (Oxygen Art Centre, BC), and co-curated the exhibition Tropi-X: Brazilian Art in Canada: 1970s–Now (Museum London, ON).