EMILIA ESTRADA
(b. Córdoba, 1989) Emilia is an artist and researcher, based in Rio de Janeiro. Engaging with ideas of occupation and displacement, Estrada sensitively addresses the undeniable lacunas in official archives through an excavation of buried memories and unofficial historical narratives. Her work challenges cartography as a tool for erasure and domination as well as Western scientific objectivity. Estrada’s drawing and installation, weaving poetic and archival elements, examines the symbolic structures that shape territorial imaginaries and mechanisms through which history and narrative are produced.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art of Rio, the Museum of Art of Rio, the National Museum of Fine Arts, and SESC Pompeia, among others, and is part of both public and private collections. She studied Visual Arts at the National University of Córdoba (UNC) and the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and was a grantee of the Contemporary Artistic Practices program at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro.
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Formas das águas – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio
Curated by Pablo Lafuente and Raquel Barreto | Rio de Janeiro
2025
TEMPO COMPOSTO - Athena Gallery
Curated by Lucas Alberto | Rio de Janeiro
2025
EVERY MORNING, A TIME - HATCH Gallery
Curated by Amina Diab | Paris
2024
OTRA ORILLA [Another Shore] - Gateway Exhibition at Manarat Saadiyat
Curated by Odessa Warren and Carine Harmand | Abu Dhabi
2024
ABRE ALAS 19 - Gentil Carioca Gallery
Curated by Agrade Camíz and Daniela Castro | Rio de Janeiro
2023
MUAMBA: Brazilian Traces of Movement - Ruby Cruel Gallery
Curated by Lucas Albuquerque | London
2022
MANJAR NASCENTE - Solar dos Abacaxis
Curated by: Bernardo Mosqueira, Catarina Duncan and Ana Clara Simões Lopes | Rio de Janeiro
2022
A PARÁBOLA DO PROGRESSO [Parable of Progress] - SESC Pompéia
Curated by Lisette Lagnado, André Pitol and Yudi Rafael | São Paulo
2022
OUTRAS IMAGINAÇÕES POLITICAS [Other Political Imaginations] - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio - MAM
Curated by Luisa Duarte and Pollyana Quintella | Rio de Janeiro
2022
ZIL, ZIL, ZIL - Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica
Curated by Bruna Costa, Felipe Carnaúba and Antonio Tebyriçá | Rio de Janeiro
2022
HEAT - Quadra Gallery
Curated by Victor Gorgulho | Rio de Janeiro
2021
MIRA - ArtRio 2021
Curated by Victor Gorgulho | Rio de Janeiro
2020
CASA CARIOCA [Carioca Home] - Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR
Curated by Joice Berth and Marcelo Campos | Rio de Janeiro
2019
NAZANZA - Aymoré Gallery
Curated by Aldones Nino, Anna Priscila Marques, Bárbara Machado, Carole Chueke, Juliana Knopp, Juliana Pajek, Lorena Brito, Lucas Albuquerque, Osvaldo Carvalho, Pietro di Biase, Silvana Marcelina and Thais Rocha | Rio de Janeiro
2018
ARTE APROXIMA [Art Approaches]- Museu Nacional de Belas Artes - MNBA
Curated by Lisette Lagnado | Rio de Janeiro
2018
POUSO DE EMERGÊNCIA [ Emergency landing] - Caixa Preta
Curated by Rafa Bqueer and Vinícius Monte | Rio de Janeiro
2018
JUNHO DE 2013, 5 ANOS DEPOIS [June 2013, 5 years later] - Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica
Curated by Daniela Machado and Gabriela Lúcio | Rio de Janeiro
2016
DEPOIS DO FUTURO [After the Future] - EAV Parque Lage - Curated by Daniela Labra | Rio de Janeiro
RESIDENCES
2025
Gasworks Residency
London
2020
Residency in Instituto Adelina
São Paulo
2019
Artist Residency in Museu da Imigraçao
São Paulo
2019
ABERTA Residency in Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica
Rio de Janeiro
2017
Research grant for International Residencies for Research and Production Bilbao, Euskadi (Basque Country)
2015
Fellow of the Contemporary Art Practices Program at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage
Rio de Janeiro