Paula Nishijima

Diemen

Paula Nishijima is a Brazilian visual artist whose research-based practice unfolds on the crossroads of life science, technology and participatory social practice. Exploring individual and collective motivations, either through happenings or longer processes of interaction, her production materialises into different digital media, such as video, web applications and photography. Paula received an MA in Arts and Culture from Leiden University/Netherlands and holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho/Brazil. Recent exhibitions include ‘Teachable Moment’, Stove Works, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA (2020); ‘Here and Now’, Media Art Festival Friesland, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (2021) and Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives, Matadero Madrid, Spain (2019). She is part of Translocalia (www.translocalia.com), a network of artists, curators, designers, and professionals from different domains that plan for the future through art.