She completed a law degree at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, then started working in the advertising industry for a few years.

During a three-year stay in New York, she went for one year at the Parsons School of Design and worked in the fashion industry, being associated to Liz Clayborne and Fiorucci in São Paulo.

In 2007 she attended the Visual Culture Studies with Katharina Sieverding at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg.

Her work is part of private and institutional collections, including Thomas Koerfer, Museum Tinguely in Basel, and the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva among others.

Over the years, she has received a series of grants from Terre des Hommes child relief agency, Volkart Stiftung in Winterthur, ECPAT national agency for child protection in Switzerland, Don Bosco Mondo youth aid in Latin America, Syngenta, Cape Capital, UBS Culture Foundation, Regula Curti of Beyond Foundation in Switzerland, and Mauro Salles.