Bia Furtado (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist from São Paulo, Brasil. With a bachelors’ degree in Studio Art from Carleton College and a post-baccalaureate in ceramics from the University of Arkansas, Bia has exhibited both domestically and internationally. She has also collaborated as partner artist with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (through the Mobile Art Lab) and with the Multicultural Center at the University of Arkansas.

Through art-making and play, Furtado’s art practice investigates contemporary mythologies and imagines ways of re-contextualising the past—in her creative universe, human and nonhuman species operate together to resignify normative gender roles. For example, in the exhibition, She Drags In Crocs, Cuca, a well-known crocodilian woman in Bra(s)ilian folklore, is re-imagined as the guardian of Drag Queen history. Using ceramics as their primary medium, and inspired by its unique quality of preserving memory and touch, Bia create both sculptural and functional works that layer personal and collective memories with references culled from sources like fairy tales, folklores, children stories, queer and feminist studies, and historical archives.