Rochelle Costi (1961–2022) was a Brazilian photographer, painter, and installation artist.
She photo-documented life in São Paulo in a systematic approach similar to an ethnographical study.
She graduated in 1981 with a degree in social communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).
[4] She participated in the "Quadrennial of Photography" at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (1985); "A Paixão do Olhar", at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (1993); "Contaminated Photography", at Centro Cultural Sao Paulo [pt] (1994); "Novas Travessias: New Directions In Brazilian Photography", at The Photographers' Gallery, London (1995); "Sampa", at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1996); VI Bienal de La Habana (Cuba, 1997); X Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (2009); 29th São Paulo Art Biennial (2010); 20th Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala (2016).
[5][6][4][2] Her work is in museum and public collections, such as Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France; Fundación Arco, Madrid; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, USA; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo; São Paulo Museum of Modern Art; and Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.