Sandra Cinto

Sandra Cinto is a Brazilian artist living and working in São Paulo. She studied art at the Faculdades Integradas Teresa D’Ávila, San André, Brazil. She also received fellowships from Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2000–01) and Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2005). Solo exhibitions of Cinto’s work have been presented at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2011); Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2010); Mairie du 8ème, Paris (2009); and Museum of Contemporary Art Union Fenosa, La Coruña, Spain (2007). Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.

Cinto was recently commissioned to create an outdoor public work for Parque Leopoldina in São Paulo (When The Night Comes Into My Room, 2010) and one for the SESC swimming pool in Santo André (Japonism, 2010). In 2006 she participated, with several other Latin American artists, in the Zoo Portfolio Latin American edition, a portfolio of works curated by Adriano Pedrosa, published by Archeus and sold to raise funds for the Zoo Art Fair for emerging artists.

Her work is held in a number of museum collections, including The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro; and Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil, amongst others.