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Bio  

Quinha Mukai Faria (b. 1988, Campinas, Brazil) is an artist whose work reconsiders bodies, materials, and the systems that sustain life on Earth. Drawing on nearly two decades in healthcare, her practice is concerned with adaptation, maintenance, and what cannot be fully measured or resolved.

Faria received an MFA from Bard College and holds a BS in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Human Physiology from the University of Oregon. She was named the 2025 Elaine de Kooning Memorial Scholar at Bard and the 2025 Kuwahara National Arts Scholar of the Japanese American Citizens League. Faria was awarded support from the Ford Family Foundation’s Golden Spot, enabling residencies at Caldera, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Yucca Valley Material Lab. 

She spent several years apprenticing under master tailor Larnell Baldwin in Philadelphia, studying patternmaking and custom alterations. Faria’s collaborative project with the Philadelphia Packaging Company, A Phonebook, received support for their work alongside local small business owners in 2020.
She is a Registered Nurse.