Clarissa Tossin (b. 1973, Porto Alegre; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2009) and a BFA from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (2000). Solo exhibitions have been held at Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2022); Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston (2022); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2022, 2017); La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2021); Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge (2019); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2019); Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2018); Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2018); and Wesleyan University, Middletown (2017). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Prospect.6, New Orleans (2024); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024, 2018); Shanghai Biennial (2023); Denver Art Museum (2021); Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2021); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2020); Dhaka Art Summit (2020); New Orleans Museum of Art (2020); SESC Pompéia, São Paulo (2020); Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge (2019); Luhring Augustine, New York (2019); 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018); Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2017); and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2017). Tossin is a recipient of Graham Foundation Grant (2020), Andy Warhol Foundation Grant (2020), Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant (2019), Artadia Los Angeles Award (2018), Fellows of Contemporary Art Grant (2019), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2014). Tossin has participated in residencies at LABVERDE Art Immersion Program, Manaus (2019); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2019); Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge (2017-18); Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (2015); and Artpace San Antonio (2013).

Tossin’s work is in the collections of Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho; Kadist Art Foundation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; New Orleans Museum of Art; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.