Bio + CV
Mayra Sérgio was born in Rio de Janeiro and is currently based in Amsterdam.
Sérgio studied Cinema and worked for 5 years as a Set Designer in Brazil until she moved to the Netherlands in 2013. Through her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, she was able to combine the sense of narrative acquired by her previous practice with the Dutch approach of material research. Her work investigates decolonising procedures of selfhood through a sensorial scope.
Sérgio's work has been featured in Frame Magazine and the New York Times amongst other publications.
Education
2016 BA in Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2008 BA in Cinema Studies, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Upcoming solo exhibition
2025 Vistas Collide, Indebt, Amsterdam (NL)
Upcoming group exhibitions
2024 And Now This!, PAKT Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 Ceramic Brussels, Brussels (BE)
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Doing the Stuff with the Thing, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL) (duo with Romy Yedidia)
2019 The Landscape Crossing an Ocean, ISO, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Wetter than Wet, Josilda da Conceição Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Sensorial Shelter, Frame magazine at Gaggenau, London (UK)
Group Exhibitions
2022 Moving Stories, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)
2021 Swaying on the Edge, Online exhibition, swaying.online
2020 Project Space, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam (NL)
2020 Prospects & Concepts, ArtRotterdam, (NL)
2019 Gyeonggi Ceramic Biennale, Gyeonggi (SKR)
2019 Dead Darlings, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
2018 This Art Fair at Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 The Explore Store, Rotterdam (NL)
2017 Tijdelijk Museum, Bijlmerbajes, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 REVERB & RESIDUE, Radion, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Ventura Lembrate, Milan (IT)
2017 Talente 2017, Messe München, Munich (DE)
2017 Object, Art Rotterdam Week, Rotterdam (NL)
2016 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Kunstlijn Haarlem, Haarlem (NL)
2016 Verborgen Stegen Festival, Schiedam (NL)
2016 The Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)
2016 Borders & Migrations, Radion, Amsterdam (NL)
2015 Disclosing, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (NL)
Upcoming Residency
2024 The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen (CN)
Grants/Honors
2022 Mondriaan Fonds, Project Grant
2021 Mondriaan Fonds, Project Grant
2021 AFK, Project Grant
2021 Mondriaan Fonds, Project Grant
2019–2020 Mondriaan Fonds, Project Grant
2019 Awarded diploma of honor by Korean International Ceramic Biennale
2018–2019 Mondriaan Fonds, Stipendium For Emerging Artist
2018–2019 AFK, Project Grant
2018 LAM/Van de Broek Foundation, Exhibition Grant
Commissions
2022 Uprooting/Downrooting for Valkhof Museum
2021 Moroccan Earth Print for Private Collector
2017 To Break Ground for Tijdelijk Museum at the Bijlmerbajes, NL
Coffee prints for Gaggennau by Frame Magazine
2016 Earth Prints for duo Marie Ilse Bourlanges and Elena Khurtova
Selected press & publications
2024 Het Primarie Zintvig, article, Metropolis M, April/May
2024 Mayra Sérgio on Coffee, Olive Oil & Pulverised Residue, interview for online magazine Mater.Digital
2023 Baksteen – Brick, book by Kunsthal Kade
2022 De kracht van de ontroerende tentoonstelling Moving Stories zit ’m in details, de Volkskrant
2022 Moving Stories in Museum Het Valkhof, Nu te Zien!, AVROTROS
2022 Moving Stories vertelt verhalen over migratie via kunst en archeologie, NRC
2020 Als niemand aan je vraagt iets te maken – Jonge kunst op Art Rotterdam 2020, Mister Motley
2017 Refugees Confront the Past Through Art, at a Pop-Up Museum, New York Times
2017 Smells Like Home, Frame Magazine, July/August Edition
2017 Verliefd op Nederland, Financieele Dagblad – Persoonlijk, 01 October
2017 Brazilian Artist Mayra Sérgio’s coffee sculptures for Gaggenau, Lux Magazine
2017 Bakkie Steen, DUDE – Dutch Designers Magazine, Spring Edition
2016 Sensorial Shelter, Stichting Simulacrum. Year 25, Number 1. Article written by the artist.
Teaching
2020–2024 KABK, Den Haag (NL)
Lecture
2019 URCA University, Ceará (BR)