MARIA VIRGINIA GAPSKI GIORDANI
Born 1994 in Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
EDUCATION
2025 - present MFA. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
2023 - 2025 Master's degree in arts, Parana State University, Curitiba, Brazil
2017 - 2022 Bachelor’s Degree in Sculpture, Paraná State University, Curitiba, Brazil
2015 Exchange Program, Playa Ancha University – AUGM (Association of Universities of the Montevideo Group) Valparaiso, Chile
2012 - 2017 Educator’s Degree in Arts Federal University of Paraná, Matinhos, Brazil
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Weaving Ariadne’s thread. Galeria da Maré, Paranagua, Brazil
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Brain Series. Nós Collective exhibit. Ponto de fuga gallery, Brazil
2022 Via Corporis. Vórtice collective exhibit. Leonor Botteri exhibit room, Embap- Paraná State University, Brazil.
2021 Via Corporis. Encontros e acasos collective exhibit.
2021 Chrysalis, Separate, repair. Cartography series: Exhibited at Unicentro Art show, Guarapuava, Brazil.
2021 Blind me and surrender. Exhibited at Contemporaneas art show, UFPR Litoral, Matinhos, Brazil.
2020 Endometrium. Exhibited at I.ntervalo art show. UFPR Litoral Arts Center, Matinhos, Brazil.
2019 Alveoli. Third year sculpture class art exhibit. Escola de música e belas artes do Paraná gallery, Curitiba, Brazil.
2019 Calo. Curitiba Contemporary art circuit. Municipal Museum of Art, Curitiba, Brazil.
2018 Red: liminal body. Our art show. Escola de música e belas artes do Paraná gallery, Curitiba, Brazil.
2015 Silence. Poetic bodies exhibit. Paraná Federal University, Matinhos, Brazil.
2014 Body. Professors, staff and students' art exhibit. Paraná Federal University, Matinhos, Brazil.
2014 Escad-ar* Installation. Stairs exhibit at Raquel Queiroz theater. Paranagua, Brazil.
2014 Escad-ar* Installation. Lab arts performative actions exhibit. Matinhos Cultural center, Brazil.
*The title of this installation is a word play between the Portuguese words escada (stairs) and ar (air). I chose not to translate this title because it would lose its meaning in English.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
2024 Research Grant - Action Research Project – PEA in Curitiba Municipal Public School, Brazil
2022 Research Grant - Action Research Project – PEA in Curitiba Municipal Public School, Brazil (Selected twice through project proposals, achieving an A grade)
2015 Scholarship AUGM (Association of Universities of the Montevideo Group)
TEACHING
2017 - 2025 Middle and High School Art Teacher, State Public School, Curitiba, Brazil
2021- 2025 Middle School Art Teacher, Municipal Public School, Curitiba, Brazil
PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
2019 The arrival. (Performance: Duration 3’6 min) Site: Anna Belenzier Studio, Curitiba, Brazil.
2015 Experiment: stairs, object, space, path. (Collaborative Performance: Duration 20 min) Performance Paraná at Federal University, Matinhos, Brazil.
2014 Clippings. (Colletive Performance: Duration 11 min) Site: Professional and technological education sector, University Federal of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil.
2013 Staircase Experiment: Object, space, path.... (Collaborative Performance: Duration 20 min). Sites: Matinhos Cultural center, Matinhos, Brazil and UNICENTRO - State University of the Midwest, Guarapuava, Brazil.
PUBLICATIONS
2024 GIORDANI, M.V. G, BANDEIRA, D. A. Who's Present? Performative Pedagogy and Experimental Arts Research in Elementary School. Apotheke Journal, v. 10, n.2. p. 094–110. https://doi.org/10.5965/244712671022024094
2023 GIORDANI, M.V. G, MARANHO, E. P, KERN, K. Via Corporis: Connections Between Esoteric Traditions, Life and Embroidery. The Mosaic: Journal of Arts Research, v. 16, p. 154-177. https://periodicos.unespar.edu.br/mosaico/issue/view/387
2020 GIORDANI, M.V. G, PANEK, B. M. The mediatic transposition: an interaction between literature, illustration, and the engraving technique. Brazilian Journal of Development, v. 6, p. 59714-59730. http://dx.doi.org/10.34117/bjdv6n8- 401