Josely Carvalho
Josely Carvalho is a visual and multisensory artist, poet, and activist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and New York City. Over the past five decades, she has assembled a body of work in a wide range of media that gives eloquent voice to matters of memory, identity, and social justice while consistently challenging the boundaries between artist and audience and between politics and art.
Carvalho is the 2019 winner of the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Scent from the Institute of Art and Olfaction and has received grants from Creative Capital Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, among others. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in São Paulo and The National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro and her work is held in numerous collections including the Hammer Museum, LA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, BR; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.