Ms. De Carvalho’s works are dynamic architectural landscapes composed of paintings, drawings, collage, foam and wood that are focus the on the economic, social and political issues of uncontrolled urbanization of the slums dwellers. Her works convey the complexity, chaos, and paradoxes of contemporary life that affect America, her native Brazil, and all of humanity in the age globalization. Through beaming colors and multiple surfaces her urban labyrinths transmit the energy of these constantly changing cities. Priscila De Carvalho is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship Award (2008-09), Aljira Emerge 10 Fellowship Program (2008), Artist in the Market Place at Bronx Museum (2009), Queens Council on the Arts Fund (QCAF 2009), and has been nominated for The Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program in New York, NY (2010). She has been an artist-in-residence at Lower East Side Prinshop keyholder residency award (2011-12), Socrates Sculpture Park residency and exhibition (2011), Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning Workspace Program (2009-10), and Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (2010). Her work has been featured in individual and group exhibitions in the United States of America, and internationally, including Socrates Sculpture Park (2011), The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA, 2010), The [S] Files/The Street Files, Her work has been reviewed by the The New York Times (August 2009, June 2011), Art Aldia International (March 09), Art Nexus (August 2009) and many others. Ms. Carvalho lives and works Long Island City, New York.
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