PAULA
BIOGRAPHY
Paula Marcondes was born in 1969 in São Paulo, Brazil, where she attended a German school and later studied law at the University of São Paulo.
She grew up in a household where the distance between people was felt before it was understood. That distance became the first question: what breaks connection between human beings, and what restores it? It is a question she has never stopped asking.
The answer took her first into people and organisations. For thirty years, through ACT Human & Business Development, which she founded in 1997, she researched and taught consciousness, communication, and resilience to Fortune 500 companies and government organisations across Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, and beyond. She lived and worked in Asia for nearly three decades, raised a family, and spent extended periods in Japan for over a decade. She studied painting at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, explored acrylic painting under the guidance of artist Patricia Cabaleiro from 2005 to 2020, and honed her skills in digital photography with photographer Tom White at Objectifs Singapore in 2018.
The art that followed is the same inquiry carried into a different language: material, light, image, and space. The experiences that shaped her earliest understanding of the world became a mirror: not a wound to recover from, but a surface to reflect on, a place from which to listen, and a source of questions that have sustained a life’s research into consciousness, connection, and what it means to be human and to be connected with oneself, other human beings, and the universe in which we exist.
Her practice spans installation, object, painting, performance, photography, and video. The medium is never chosen in advance. It follows the research.
Currently Paula divides her time between São Paulo, Bozeman (Montana, USA), the United Kingdom, and Singapore. She is part of the artist development programmes offered by Galeria Tato in São Paulo, including Clínica para Artistas, Casa Tato 12, and Casa Tato Europa, and is part of the artist group N.OVO.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Paula Marcondes
Born 1969, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil - Bozeman, Montana, USA - United Kingdom - Singapore
paulamarcondesart.com - paulamarcondesart@gmail.com
+55 11 9332 88888 (BRA / WhatsApp) - +1 406 312 3160 (USA)
EDUCATION
2025 Casa Tato Europa - Galeria Tato - Portugal
2024–25 Casa Tato 12 - Lucas Dilacerda - Galeria Tato - São Paulo, Brazil
2024 Clínica para Artistas - Rejane Cintrão - Galeria Tato - São Paulo, Brazil
2018 Digital Photography - Tom White - Objectifs Singapore - Singapore
2005–20 Painting - Patricia Cabaleiro Studio - Singapore
1995 Oil Painting - LASALLE College of the Arts - Singapore
1991 Law Degree - University of São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 Connecting the dots - Galeria Dezoito - Pedro Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2026 Feria Capital - Galeria Tato - Tato DiLascio - Córdoba, Argentina
2026 Whispers of Consciousness - Basel Investor Forum - Davos, Switzerland
2025 Sustaining the Noise - Verso Galeria - Filipe Campello - Lisbon, Portugal
2025 100 a 1000 - Galeria Tato, Galeria Diáspora, Vazio Criativo, Vórtice Cultural (São Paulo) and Parque Glória Maria (Rio de
Janeiro) - Rafael Tenius - Brazil
2025 En_tre - Tato-Europa - Fliporto Arte - Recife, Brazil
2025 Opacidade Ressonante - Galeria Tato - Filipe Campello & Rafael Tenius - São Paulo, Brazil
2025 Crise Fractal - Galeria Tato - Lucas Dilacerda - São Paulo, Brazil
2025 Ciclo Expositivo Casa Tato 12 - Galeria Tato - Lucas Dilacerda - São Paulo, Brazil
2024 Ciclo Expositivo Clínica Para Artistas - Galeria Tato - Rejane Cintrão - São Paulo, Brazil
2024 Jersey Summer Exhibition - CCA Galleries Int'l - Tom Hammick, Ben Johnson, Sue Timney - Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
2024 Corações à Desmedida - Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana - Porto Alegre, Brazil; Casa do Povo - São Paulo, Brazil
2023 Corações à Desmedida - Solar dos Abacaxis - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2023 Circuito Contemporâneo - ArtLab - São Paulo, Brazil
2023 Preview - ArtLab - São Paulo, Brazil
2023 Expo Arte SP - São Paulo, Brazil
2022 Expo Arte SP - São Paulo, Brazil
ARTIST GROUPS
2024–present N.OVO - Galeria Tato - São Paulo, Brazil
RESEARCH PRACTICE
1997–present Founder and Principal Consultant - ACT Human & Business Development
Thirty years of applied research in consciousness, communication, and resilience across Fortune 500 companies and government organisations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, and globally. The ACT framework (Awareness, Communication, Transformation) is the intellectual foundation of the artistic practice. See: paulamarcondesart.com/research
PUBLISHED RESEARCH
2019 "Presenting With Conviction" - Today's Manager, Oct 2019 - Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Singapore
2012–13 "The Resilient Organization" - Roundabout, Dec 2012 / Jan 2013 - Team Management Systems, Australia
2012 "Surviving And Thriving" - Human Resources Magazine, Jan 2012 - Lighthouse Independent Media, Singapore
2011–12 "Bridging The Resilience Gap (Part 2)" - Today's Manager, Dec 2011 / Jan 2012 - SIM, Singapore
2011 "Bridging The Resilience Gap (Part 1)" - Today's Manager, Oct / Nov 2011 - SIM, Singapore
2011 "Training The Mind Versus Training The Brain" - Today's Manager, Aug / Sep 2011 - SIM, Singapore
2011 "Thanks Coach!" - HRM Singapore, Issue 9.8 - Key Media Pte Ltd, Singapore
LANGUAGES
Portuguese - mother tongue
English - fluent
German - fluent (Deutsches Sprachdiplom I)
Spanish - conversational