Rizza (Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, 1985) lives and works in São Paulo. Her practice encompasses sculpture and installation, and her research centers on the relationship between viewer, light and space. The artist investigates optical phenomena capable of generating dynamic visual and spatial interactions, producing works that activate their surroundings through reflections, shifts and perceptual variations. Although structurally static, her works transform in the viewer's experience: changes in the surrounding environment and the movement of viewers reveal their dynamism and symbiotic relationship with their setting.
The intersection of art, science and technology occupies a central place in her practice. Self-taught, Rizza incorporates technological resources and industrial processes that enable the manipulation and transformation of materials, exploring 3D modeling, algorithmic programming parameters, as well as cutting, folding and casting techniques. Her work brings together constructive rigor and sensory experience, expanding the limits of sculpture across scales ranging from individual objects to large-scale installations.
Since 2017, Rizza has exhibited her work in Brazil and abroad. In 2019, she created her first installation in São Paulo, House of Energy, as well as the public intervention Reflexão in Belo Horizonte, supported by the Municipal Cultural Incentive Law. In 2020, she presented the public artwork A Criação in Praça Adolpho Bloch, which was later also installed at Praça Victor Civita. In 2021, she presented the solo exhibition Tudo que é uno se divide at Zipper Galeria, consolidating the gallery's representation of her. In 2024, she joined Usina de Arte with the installation Fóton. In 2025, she held the solo exhibition Gesto Paramétrico at Zipper Galeria, deepening her research using parametric software and affirming mathematics as a visual language in works of monumental scale. That same year, she participated in the Contemporâneas Vivara project, with interventions at prominent sites in São Paulo, including Praça das Artes, Avenida Paulista and Consolação Metro Station. The works in this series also entered institutional collections and programs: Auri became part of Museu FAMA's collection in Itu, while Aurum was included in MON sem Paredes, a program of the Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba.