Angelita is an award-winning artist and designer. Born in Brazil and of mixed European, African, and Indigenous heritage, her work is rooted in questions of identity and belonging.
Having lived across North and South America, the Middle East and Europe, she brings a distinctly global perspective to her artistic practice. Her multicultural background shaped a body of work that explores the tensions of displacement, immigration, and cultural memory.
Angelita studied architecture at the University of Greenwich and the RCA in London, and Columbia University in New York. Over a 20-year career, she worked with world-renowned architects like Bernard Tschumi and Norman Foster. Though architecture profoundly influenced her sense of form and structure, she felt an increasing pull toward more personal forms of expression. This led her to study Fine Art at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, eventually returning to her creative roots through textile-based sculpture and installation.
