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Bio  

Quinha Mukai Faria (b. 1988, Campinas, Brazil) is an artist working in painting and sculpture. Her years at the hospital bedside shaped her interest in what cannot be collected or measured and the connections that emerge across overlapping networks inside and beyond the human body. Through hands-on making and close attention to how materials respond, she explores the porous relationships between physiologic, social, and environmental systems. With a background in human physiology and critical care nursing work, Faria culls readily accessible materials to merge with provisional and building materials, summoning the bodily and social uses of objects and materials through transformation.

She 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. Her work has been exhibited at Asian Arts Initiative, Vox Populi, Mural Arts (Philadelphia), and Carnation Contemporary (Portland).