Clarissa Tossin

Clarissa Tossin is a Los Angeles-based, Brazilian artist using moving-image, installation, sculpture, and collaborative research to engage suppressed counter-narratives implicit in the built and natural environments of extractive economies. Tossin centers underrecognized histories that come to define a place, while preserving evidence of cultural difference, resistance, and transformation. Tossin is the recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant (2020); Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2019); an Artadia Los Angeles Award (2018); and a Juméx Foundation Research Grant (2018), among others. She has been a Fellow with the Contemporary Art Fellowship (2019); and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2017–18). Recent solo exhibitions include Falling from Earth (2022) at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver; Disorientation Towards Collapse (2022) at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Circumnavigation Towards Exhaustion (2021) at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse in France, among others.

Events and Residencies

Friday / November 3, 2023 at 6:00 pm

EMPAC Fall 2023

Shifting Center
November 3–18, 2023
Tania Candiani, Clarissa Tossin and Michelle Agnes Magalhães, and Clarissa Tossin
October 27–November 18, 2023

EMPAC Fall 2023

August 5–12, 2023
Residency, Commission
Clarissa Tossin and Michelle Agnes Magalhães
September 27–October 8, 2021

EMPAC 2019–22

Residency, Commission
Clarissa Tossin
Wednesday / March 17, 2021 at 5:00 pm

EMPAC Spring 2021

Rosa Chávez and Tohil Fidel Brito in conversation with Clarissa Tossin and Mariana Fernández
February 18–May 3, 2021

EMPAC Spring 2021

November 9, 2020–December 30, 2021

EMPAC 2019–22

Residency, Commission
Clarissa Tossin
Thursday / November 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm

EMPAC Fall 2019

Work in Progress