Thiá Sguoti (1995), based in São Paulo, Brazil, is an multimedia artist whose research centers on the mythical figure of the mermaid. Graduated in Visual Arts, the artist establishes dialogues between mythology, culture, and lived experience, addressing issues of gender, aesthetics, and spirituality through multiple techniques. Since 2014, her practice investigates an iconography that proposes non-colonial forms of existence, materialized in works that traverse the symbolic and the sensorial. Sguoti creates everything from objects to garments, enabling playful metamorphoses of real and imaginary bodies, and, drawing from these, explores other possibilities of worship and metamorphosis.
Is the first trans people to exhibit on a public museum at Itu (São Paulo, BR), she recently joined the inaugural exhibition of the first Transgender Museum of History and Art in Brazil, MUTHA, and the Acervo Rotativo's collection, curated by Laerte Ramos, and has participated in collective exhibitions such as A Noite Não Adormece nos Olhos das Mulheres (The Night Does Not Fall Asleep in Women's Eyes), in 2026, curated by the Mulheres Arquivadas' project at Caroço, As Jóias da Rainha (The Queen's Jewels), in 2024, curated by Renato de Cara at São Paulo Fashion Week, the 25th Salão de Artes Visuais de Vinhedo and the 69th Salão de Abril, in addition to his last solo exhibition Santuário, in 2026, curated by Marina Bortoluzzi at SOBRESOLO, awarded in Call VoA 2022-23 with the residence Kaaysá Art Residency.
The artist research departs from the mythical figure of the mermaid to investigate how images, symbols, and narratives construct modes of existence. Working across sculpture, sculptural garments, painting, and object-making, the artist establishes dialogues between mythology, spirituality, popular culture, and religious iconography, proposing fantasy as a critical and political tool.
Her work understands myth as a living system of meanings capable of revealing tensions between body, gender, spirit, power, and memory. By shifting the mermaid from the realm of folklore to that of spirituality, Sguoti develops a distinctive iconography populated by hybrid creatures, sigils, relics, amulets, and ritual artifacts that oscillate between the sacred and the fictional.
Iron, latex, resin, pigments, metal leaf, and modeling processes are employed to create objects that simultaneously evoke archaeological sculptures, ceremonial instruments, and devices of fabulation. Rather than merely representing existing mythologies, the artist constructs new possibilities for worship, belief, and belonging, producing material fictions that challenge the boundaries between invention and tradition.
By investigating how images produce reality and how symbols can operate as devices for subjective and collective transformation, Sguoti’s works bring together the playful and the ritualistic, artifice and devotion, suggesting that imagining other worlds is also a way of reinventing how we inhabit this one.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2026 | Santuário. Curated by Marina Bortoluzzi. SOBRESOLO. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2025 | Vesica Piscis: O Elo Perdido. Curated by Thais Rivitti. lapa, Lapa. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2016 | Limites do Inconsciente. Organized by Fernanda Lago and Marcelo Lago. Centro de Cultura Raul de Leoni. Petrópolis (RJ), Brazil.
COLLECTIVE
2026 | A Noite Não Adormece nos Olhos das Mulheres. Curated by Gui Zrenner - Mulheres Arquivadas' Project. Caroço. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2026 | Portal. Curated by Bruno Cordeiro. Move Arte. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2025 | Corpo Vibrátil. Curated by Lucas Dilacerda. Blombô. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2025 | Como Construir uma Paisagem. Curated by Vitor Mazon. Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto. Santo André (SP), Brazil.
2025 | Sala de Jantar. Curated by Luana Fortes and Cristina Tolovi. Galeria Marília Razuk. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2025 | AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. Centro Cultural SESI São José dos Campos. São José dos Campos (SP), Brazil.
2024 | Os Nomes do Fim. Curated by Bruna Fernanda, Lucas Goulart and Thais Rivitti. Galeria Vermelho. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2024 | AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. Sesi Campinas Amoreiras. Campinas (SP), Brazil.
2024 | AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. Sesi São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto (SP), Brazil.
2024 | Como Construir uma Paisagem. Curated by Vitor Mazon. CasaBASA.temp. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2024 | Sustentar o Efêmero. Curated by Tania Rivitti and Marcia Lerro Pimenta. Museu Republicano de Itu. Itu (SP), Brazil.
2024 | Duas Asas, Base e Gargalo. Organized by Revista Amarello. Amarello Barra Funda. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2024 | Vivarium. Curated by Núria Vieira. Galeria 25M - Galeria Metrópole. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2024 | As Jóias da Rainha. Curated by Renato de Cara. São Paulo Fashion Week N58. Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras. São Paulo (SP), Brazil
2024 | Me Avise Antes que Acabe. Curated by Bruna Fernanda, David Ribeiro, Lucas Goulart and Thais Rivitti. Galeria Vermelho. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2024 | AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. SESI Itapetininga. Itapetininga (SP), Brazil.
2024 | AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. MARP - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto (SP), Brazil.
2023 | 1001 Oportunidades. Curated by Érica Burini. Espaço Ninetta Rabner. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2023 | AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. MACS - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba. Sorocaba (SP), Brazil.
2023 | Good Vibes. Curated by Thais Rivitti. SP—Arte. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2023 | Mesmo Estando Separados. Curated by Bruna Fernanda, Caio Bonifácio, Glauce Santos and Lucas Goulart. Ateliê397. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2022 | M.U.S.A.. Curated by Oscar D'Ambrosio. Galeria RG - Shopping Parque da Cidade. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2022 | Abre a Rodinha, Meu Amor. Organized by Bruna Fernanda, Érica Burini e Thais Rivitti. Ateliê397. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2021 | Plantão. Curated by Cadu Gonçalves, Lucas Goulart, Núria Vieira, Khadyg Faresand Paola Ribeiro. Ateliê397. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2021 | AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. Oficina Cultural Oswald Andrade. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2020 | 25th SAV - Salão de Artes Visuais de Vinhedo. Curated by Luiz Gustavo Paffaro, Marisa Gallerani Solimeo and Miro Bampa. Centro de Exposições e Galeria Edilson Caldeira. Vinhedo (SP), Brazil.
2019 | 2nd VIVIEUVI Arts Meeting. Organized by Vivian Villanova. Escola Britânica de Artes Criativas (E.B.A.C.). São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2018 | 1st VIVIEUVI Arts Meeting. Organized by Vivian Villanova. Escola Britânica de Artes Criativas (E.B.A.C.). São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2018 | 69th Salão de Abril. Curated by Paulo Klein, Carlos Macêdo, Paloma Santa Rosa e Paulo Amoreira. Casa do Barão de Camocim. Fortaleza (CE), Brazil.
2018 | Coletiva Eixo. Curated by EIXO Arte. Fábrica Bhering. Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
2016 | Corpo Presente. Curated by Ale Lopes e Nathalia Cruz. Cazamais. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2016 | Fundação. Curated by Nathalia Cruz. Ateliê Braço Forte Contemporâneo. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2016 | Qual é o seu link?. Curated by Lúcia Avancini e Marilou Winograd. Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbenkian. Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
2016 | L.O.T.E. - 6th Edition. Curated by Agnus Valente. Instituto de Artes da UNESP. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2016 | Coletiva Eixo > virtual. Curated by EIXO Arte. Estúdio Dezenove. Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
2015 | Novas Impressões. Organized by Marcia de Moraes. Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2014 | L.O.T.E. - 4th Edition. Organized by Agnus Valente, José Spaniol and Sérgio Romagnolo . Instituto de Artes da UNESP. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
AWARDS
VoA Call 2022-2023 | Awarded with residency.
RESIDENCES
OCTOBER 2022 | Kaaysá Art Residency. Curatorial guidance by Agnaldo Farias. Boiçucanga (SP), Brazil.
FAIRS
2026 | CASACOR Goiás — Mente e Coração. Sala Decantar - Leo Magno Arquitetura. Goiânia (GO), Brazil.
2025 | FARGO. Ricardo Braudes. Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer. Goiânia (GO), Brazil.
2023 | 19ª SP–Arte. Exposição Good Vibes. Ateliê397. Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2022 | ArPa. Ateliê397. Complexo do Pacaembu. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2021 | 17ª SP–Arte. Ateliê397. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
COLLABS
2023 — 2026 | Amarello Loja. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
2025 | Lateral Galeria. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
MENTORSHIPS
2020 - 2024 | Clínica Geral. Ateliê397. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
AR - Acervo Rotativo. Curated by Laerte Ramos. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
MUTHA - Museu Transgênero de História e Arte. Curated by Ian Habib. On-line.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Bueno-Seronni Collection. Goiânia (GO), Brazil.
Alayde Alves Collection. São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
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