Marilene Ribeiro

Marilene Ribeiro is an award-winning visual artist and researcher from Brazil. Her practice is focused on interdisciplinary endeavours, bringing together photography, video, intervention and collaboration, with a special interest in the political agency of photography and in the role of image-based media in society. Her projects tackle the environmental and the Human Rights agendas, from a decolonial perspective from the Global South.

Marilene Ribeiro is an award-winning visual artist and researcher from Brazil. Her practice is focused on interdisciplinary endeavours, bringing together photography, video, intervention and collaboration, with a special interest in the political agency of photography and in the role of image-based media in society. Her projects tackle the environmental and the Human Rights agendas, from a decolonial perspective from the Global South.

She holds a PhD in Creative Arts awarded by the University for the Creative Arts/UK, and was trained by Magnum Photos and the Central Saint Martins of the University of the Arts London/UK. Articles featuring Ribeiro’s work have been published on LensCulture, Photoworks, VIST Projects, Viens Voir, RPS Contemporary Photography, The Royal Photographic Society Journal, PhMuseum, amongst others. Works exhibited as solo and group shows in the Americas, Asia and Europe. She is a member of Foto Féminas and Women Photograph, and collaborator of Fast Forward: Women in Photography and the Latin America Bureau.