Camile Sproesser (b. 1985) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied visual arts at the University of Fine Arts in São Paulo and cinematography at the InternationalAcademy of Cinema. Her main field of research is oil painting, with productions in various scales and formats. Her work is aggressive and humorous, which gives it a combative character. With bright colors, she creates a universe that can be mischievous, frightening, and playful at the same time, with dangerous animals, sharp knives, and mysterious entities. She was a fellow resident at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for 5 weeks in October 2019 and she will be resident at the Mass Moca’s Studios on May 2020. She had a solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DMin February of 2019. In April 2018, her first solo entitled ‘Serpent Panther and Other Amulets’, was curated by Bruno Dunley and Ana Prata at Galeria Mercedes Viegas, in Rio de Janeiro.