Born in 1990 in Fall River, USA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, USA
Tura Oliveira was born in Fall River, Massachusetts and received their BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2013). Tura is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans textiles, metal, installation, and performance. They use the dual languages of craft and science fiction to center marginalized visual culture including that of queer communities and Latinx leftist political movements. Their practice is rooted in the sensual materiality and inescapable politics of cloth; hand dyeing, mono printing, quilting, and beading transform silk and found fabrics into images that straddle past and future, human and non-human. The artist creates alien creatures that recall internal organs, humanoid hybrids, egg sacs, and tropical creepers with tentacles outstretched. They have had solo exhibitions at Geary Contemporary, LaMama Galleria, BRIC, and Wave Hill (all in NY), and a 2023 solo booth at Material Art Fair (Mexico City). They have been awarded fellowships and residencies at the British School at Rome, BRIC, the Museum of Arts and Design, Wave Hill, Ars Nova, A.I.R Gallery, Yaddo, and the Tides Institute.
