Paula Nishijima is a Brazilian-Japanese visual artist with a research-oriented practice that unfolds at the crossroads of art, science, and technology. She investigates the collective, self-organised behaviour of living systems in nature, and how it inspires more collaborative, sustainable and more ethical forms of relationships between humans, nonhumans, and the environment. Her artistic research is materialised into different media, such as video, photography, and bioart. Recent exhibitions include WRO Biennale (Wroclaw, Poland); Plug-in Habitat (LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijón, Spain); Here and Now, Media Art Festival (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 2021); Teachable Moment (Stove Works, Chattanooga, USA, 2020). She received an MA in Arts and Culture from Leiden University, The Netherlands and holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, São Paulo, Brazil. She is part of FRIEC collective, a global platform for urban ecological art that nurtures humanity’s cultural relationships with nature; Luv ‘til it Hurts, an artist-led project about HIV and stigma; Translocalia, a network of artists, curators, designers, and professionals from different domains that plan for the future through art.
