Rosângela Rennó Gomes (Belo Horizonte, MG, 1962) is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

[3] These stories include the “inglorious” episodes of history, the shameful events of the past that successive Brazilian political regimes would like to gloss over, which she says can be found or uncovered in the “lowest categories of the image”: vernacular photography, identification shots, portraits.

Her thesis was an artist book based on her 1996 series, Scar (Cicatriz) of reproductions of photographic negatives from the archives of the São Paulo Penitentiary Museum.

[7] When she began her graduate studies in 1988, she developed a photographic series based on discarded strips of negatives found near film editing studios on the University of São Paulo campus.

Rennó joined the curatorial team of the Museum of Art of São Paulo in 2014, organizing an exhibition about the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in 2016.

[11] The title of 2005–510117385–5 (published in 2010) comes from the criminal inquiry number corresponding to the 2005 theft of 946 works, including 751 photographs, from the Aloísio Magalhães Room of the Brazilian National Library.