Rivane Neuenschwander

[2] While her work in the 1990s focused mainly on various forms of mapping and the use of "simple, ephemeral materials familiar to people living in Brazil" such as garlic peels, ants, dried flowers, soap bubbles, spice, dust, coconut soap, water, and slugs, her more recent works have dealt more directly with politics, sexuality, and subjectivity, particularly as an expression of the "pain and indignation that accompanies life in Brazil" under the government of Jair Bolsonaro.

She graduated from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1993 and completed her MFA at the Royal College of Art in London 1998.

[2] Her work Watchword was included in the group show Playtime at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem in Massachusetts in 2018.

[9][10] Neuenschwander embark on the 15 Seconds public art project, initiative organized by Inhotim, which exhibited her work in bus stops around the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2021.

[11] In 2022, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston featured one of her video installation works in To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood.