ABOUT_
Bio_
Sabrina Barrios is an interdisciplinary artist whose work delves into the possibilities of the metaverse, and explores the tension between material, digital, and spiritual worlds.
Born and raised in Brazil, Barrios finished her bachelor's degree in Graphic Design (UFSM, 2004), before relocating to New York to complete her MFA at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute (2012).
Recent exhibitions include Em Toda Encruzilhada, Um Portal (Meta Gallery, RJ, BRA, 2025); Blue Lotus (Troy Glow, NY, 2024); Reversa (Farol Santander Museum SP, BRA, 2024); HoloDeity (Illumination Battery Park, NY, 2023); Corrente (Farol Santander Museum POA, BRA, 2023); Portal Station (MACS, BRA, 2022); Where the Sky Meets the Earth (Baku Biennale, Azerbaijan, 2019); Beam (Casa Amarela Providência, BRA, 2018); Birth (Pscheuench Experimental, Poland, 2017); The Horse Rider and The Eagle (Bains Connective, Belgium, 2017); Coup D’etat (Staten Island Cultural Center, NY, 2016); and Yuga Cycle (Ca’d’Oro Gallery, NY, 2015).
The artist has exhibited paintings in The Fourth Bronx Museum Biennial (NY, 2017); Anita Schwartz Gallery (BRA, 2015); and videos at the MoMA: Abstract Currents (NY, 2013).
Residencies include The Kingsland Wildflowers (NY, 2022), The Studios MASS MoCA (MA, 2017); Arteles (Finland, 2017); Banco Santander Foundation (Spain, 2016); Bains Connective (Belgium, 2016); and The Wassaic Project (NY, 2015).
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Bio_
Sabrina Barrios é uma artista interdisciplinar cujo trabalho se aprofunda nas possibilidades do metaverso e explora a tensão entre os mundos material, digital e espiritual.
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Nascida e criada no Brasil, Barrios concluiu seu bacharelado em Design Gráfico (UFSM, 2004), antes de se mudar para Nova York para concluir seu MFA no Pratt Institute (2012).
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Exposições recentes incluem Em Toda Encruzilhada, Um Portal (Meta Gallery, RJ, BRA, 2025); Blue Lotus (Troy Glow, NY, 2024); Reversa (Farol Santander Museum SP, BRA, 2024); HoloDeity (Illumination Battery Park, NY, 2023); Corrente (Farol Santander Museum POA, BRA, 2023); Portal Station (MACS, BRA, 2022); Where the Sky Meets the Earth (Bienal de Baku, Azerbaijão, 2019); Beam (Casa Amarela Providência, BRA, 2018); Birth (Pscheuench Experimental, Polônia, 2017); The Horse Rider and The Eagle (Bains Connective, Bélgica, 2017); Coup D’etat (Staten Island Cultural Center, NY, 2016); e Yuga Cycle (Ca’d’Oro Gallery, NY, 2015).
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A artista expôs pinturas na Meta Gallery (RJ, 2025); Quarta Bienal do Bronx Museum (NY, 2017); Galeria Anita Schwartz (BRA, 2015); e vídeos no MoMA: Abstract Currents (NY, 2013).
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Residências incluem The Kingsland Wildflowers (NY, 2022), The Studios MASS MoCA (MA, 2017); Arteles (Finlândia, 2017); Fundação Banco Santander (Espanha, 2016); Bains Connective (Bélgica, 2016); e The Wassaic Project (Nova York, 2015).
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Artist Statement_
I create site-specific installations, videos, paintings, drawings, and sculptures that refer to holograms, the metaverse, other dimensions and possible realities. My connection to ancestry, non-hegemonic philosophies and sacred geometry merge with my research on quantum physics and technological networks, such as hyperconnectivity and web 3.0.
These references led me to create the concept of “techno-ancestry”, which is a call to inhabit the present moment with profound awareness of our roots and a vision for future worlds. My artworks often depict portals and trajectories, and insert the public into a technological sphere while simulating our ancestral connection grids.
My artistic journey is deeply informed by my Umbanda heritage (African-Brazilian religion), a legacy passed down from my grandparents, terreiro mediums. Tribal visual patterns, ancient languages, ritualistic processes, and themes of spirituality permeate my work, as do influences from the Neo-Concrete movement of the 70’s in Brazil, that transcended the 2D wall to create 3D immersive spaces to be experienced with one’s body.
Moreover, in a society where mechanisms for monitoring personal data are an increasing concern, but physical connections, affections and ancestral wisdom are still valued, my work reflects the duality between material and digital, or physical and ethereal–that are sometimes antagonistic, other times, complementary.
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Artist Statement_
A artista Sabrina Barrios cria instalações site-specific, vídeos, pinturas, desenhos e esculturas que se referem a hologramas, metaverso, outras dimensões e realidades possíveis. Sua conexão com a ancestralidade, filosofias não hegemônicas e geometria sagrada se fundem com sua pesquisa em física quântica e redes tecnológicas, como hiperconectividade e web 3.0.
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Essas referências a levaram a criar o conceito de “tecno-ancestralidade”, que é um chamado para habitar o momento presente com profunda consciência de nossas raízes e uma visão para mundos futuros. As obras da artista retratam portais e trajetórias, e inserem o público em uma esfera tecnológica enquanto simulam nossas redes de conexão ancestrais.
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A jornada artística de Sabrina é baseada em sua herança familiar, um legado adotado pelos avós, médiuns da Umbanda. Padrões visuais tribais, linguagens ancestrais, processos ritualísticos e temas de espiritualidade permeiam seu trabalho, assim como influências do movimento neoconcreto dos anos 70 no Brasil, que transcendeu a geometria 2D para criar espaços imersivos 3D a serem vivenciados com o corpo.
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Além disso, em uma sociedade onde mecanismos de monitoramento de dados pessoais são uma preocupação crescente, mas conexões físicas, afeto e sabedoria ancestral ainda são valorizadas, seu trabalho reflete a dualidade entre material e digital, ou físico e etéreo–que às vezes são antagônicos, outras vezes, complementares.
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EDUCATION FORMAÇÃO
2012 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA | M.F.A.–Fine Arts
2004 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, BRA | B.F.A.–Graphic Design
SOLO SHOWS EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS
2025 Em Toda Encruzilhada, Um Portal–Meta Gallery | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2022 Estação Portal–MACS | Sorocaba, BRA
2022 Rise of the Missing Planet–NOoSphere | NY, USA
​2019 Frequência do Invisível–MASM | Santa Maria, BRA
2018 Feixe–Casa Amarela Providência | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2017 Birth–Pscheuench Experimental | Zakopane, Poland
2016 The Horse Rider and The Eagle–Bains Connective | Brussels, Belgium
2015 Zero–Laboratory | Spokane, WA, USA
2012 In Finities–Pratt Institute Gallery | Brooklyn, NY, USA
GROUP SHOWS (selection) EXPOSIÇÕES COLETIVAS (seleção)
2025 Guttenberg Arts | NJ, USA
2024 Troy Glow | NY, USA
2024 Farol Santander Museum | São Paulo, BRA
2024 The Clemente | NY, USA
2023 Farol Santander Museum | Porto Alegre, BRA
2023 Illumination | NY, USA
2022 Repopulations: New Horizons–Last Frontier NYC | NY, USA
2022 This Reality–Subject Matter | USA
2022 Through Mossy Ways–I Like Your Work Podcast | USA
2019 Factors 6.0–BIENALSUR | Santa Maria, BRA
2019 Where the Sky Meets the Earth–Baku Biennale | Baku, Azerbaijan
2019 Peito Aberto–Femea Alma Fala | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2019 Interseções Poéticas (curadoria Fernando Cocchiarale) | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2019 Ave Eva Evoé Voa–Casa Voa (curadoria Sonia Salcedo) | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2019 Onyx–Alfa Gallery | Miami, USA
2018 Consciousness–Alfa Gallery | Miami, USA
2018 Partidos–Despina | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2018 Plano de Fuga–Marques456 | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2017 Ley Lines–The Wassaic Project | Wassaic, NY, USA
2017 The Fourth Bronx Museum Biennial | New York, NY, USA
2017 Epic of Creation–Arteles | Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2017 Ground Control–No.4 Studio | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 Eutopia–The Vanderbilt Republic | Staten Island, NY, USA
2016 The Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition | Wassaic, NY, USA
2016 Greenpoint Gallery | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 JustMAD–Contemporary Art Fair | Madrid, Spain
2015 Teleportation Machine–Museum Sonderjylland | Aabenraa, Denmark
2015 Bienal Internacional de Arte Desde Aquí | Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
2015 How to Build a Portal to a Hidden Dimension–The Paseo | Taos, NM, USA
2015 Governors Island Art Fair | Governors Island, NY, USA
2015 Aabenraa Artweek–Biennial for Contemporary Art | Denmark and Germany
2015 Yuga Cycle–Ca'd'oro Gallery NYC | New York, NY, USA
2015 Multiverse–Chashama Yearly Benefit | New York, NY, USA
2015 One–Saranac Art Projects | Spokane, WA, USA
2015 Supernova–The (un)scene | New York, NY, USA
2015 Anita Schwartz Gallery | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2014 Orion and Vega–Dumbo Arts Festival | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2014 Governors Island Art Fair | Governors Island, NY, USA
2014 Anita Schwartz Gallery | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2014 Synthetic Zero–Bronx Art Space | The Bronx, NY, USA
2013 Festival NAA | Barcelos, Portugal
2013 Degrees of Freedom–Harlem Art Factory Festival | NY, USA
2013 Inside Outside In, Iota Projects And Pop Up Art Shop | NY, USA
2013 Balaclava Gallery | UK
2013 Dos Sonhos Eu Sou o Amor–MoMA PopRally: Abstract Currents | NY, USA
2013 100 NYC Artists, Galeria de Diseño Casa Prado | Barranquilla, Colombia
2013 Structure and the Multiverse–Striphanger Gallery | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2012 The Sketchbook Project–Brooklyn Art Library | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2012 Fotofluxo 2012: Video Projection in Public Spaces | Rio Grande, BRA
2012 Aquarius–Governors Island Art Fair | NY, USA
2012 Perhaps the Mind Never Dies–Governors Island Art Fair | NY, USA
2012 Virion Biennial | Australia
2012 Small Works–Brooklyn Art Space | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2012 VIP Art Fair–Jury Selected Online Fair | UK
2012 Pratt MFA Exhibit–Pratt Institute Manhattan | NY, USA
2012 Instinct | An Art Encounter | Brooklyn, NY, USA
RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS RESIDÊNCIAS
2025 Guttenberg Arts | NJ, USA
2022 The Kingsland Wildflowers’ Residency | NY, USA
2019 Casa Voa | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2018 Casa Amarela Providência | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2018 Despina | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2018 Marques456 | Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2017 Pscheuench Experimental | Zakopane, Poland
2017 Arteles | Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2017 MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) | Massachusetts, USA
2016 The Artist in the Marketplace (AIM)–The Bronx Museum | NY, USA
2016 Just Residence–Banco Santander Foundation | Malaga, Spain
2016 Bains Connective | Brussels, Belgium
2015 The Wassaic Artist Residency | Wassaic, NY, USA
2015 Aabenraa Artweek | Aabenraa, Denmark
2015 Laboratory Residency | Spokane, WA, USA
2014 and 2015 AIR–4heads Residency Program | Governors Island, NY, USA
LECTURES PALESTRAS
2022 MACS | Sorocaba, SP
2022 Montclair State University | Montclair, NJ, USA
2019 Factors UFSM–BienalSur | Santa Maria, RS, BRA
2016 Snug Harbor Cultural Center | Staten Island, NY, USA
2016 The Wassaic Project | Wassaic, NY, USA
2015 The Harwood Museum–Paseo | Taos, NM, USA
2015 Aabenraa Artweek–Biennial for Contemporary Art | Aabenraa, Denmark
2012 “Focus & Motivation”, Hunter College | NY, USA
AWARDS PRÊMIOS
2022 Winner of the Broadway Stages Award–The Kingsland Wildflowers' | NY, USA
2015 Harvestworks Artistic Excellence | NY, USA
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ART DIRECTION DIREÇÃO DE ARTE
2015–present Sr. Art and Creative Director, Sabrina Barrios Studio | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016–2024 Sr. Art Director, Peloton | NY, USA
2013–2015 Sr. Art Director, Bloomberg LP | NY, USA
2012–2013 Art Director, The Project Relay LLC | International
2011–2012 Co-coordinator/Creative Director, Pratt Institute VALS | Brooklyn, NY, USA
2007–2009 Graphic Designer, Época Negócios Magazine | Edições Globo-Condé Nast
| São Paulo, BRA
2006–2007 Graphic Designer, MTV Magazine | Editora Abril S.A | São Paulo, BRA
2006 Curso Abril de Jornalismo at Editora Abril S.A. | São Paulo, BRA