Luciana Napchan is a visual artist working across painting, woodcut printmaking, photography, film, and text.
Working between the Atlantic Forest and her studio, she develops works shaped by gesture, material transformation, and close observation. Her practice investigates the body as a living territory marked by memory, nature, and language.
Her projects often unfold over long periods of time, moving between image, writing, and spatial experience. Series such as Letters to Debret, I Scream – 20 Years Later, Tree IDs, Columbus Diary, and Core Being explore relationships between landscape, perception, history, and embodiment.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museu da Imagem e do Som, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Art Museum of the Americas, and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Napchan received awards including the Prêmio Estímulo de Fotografia and ProAC. Her series I Scream was featured in a special Latin American art edition of Time Magazine.
She studied cinema, art, and communication at the University of São Paulo and at the University of Television and Film Munich, where she worked alongside artists such as Katharina Sieverding and Klaus Mettig. She lived for several years in Europe and the United States, experiences that continue to shape her visual and philosophical vocabulary.
Working between the Atlantic Forest and her studio, she develops works shaped by gesture, material transformation, and close observation. Her practice investigates the body as a living territory marked by memory, nature, and language.
Her projects often unfold over long periods of time, moving between image, writing, and spatial experience. Series such as Letters to Debret, I Scream – 20 Years Later, Tree IDs, Columbus Diary, and Core Being explore relationships between landscape, perception, history, and embodiment.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museu da Imagem e do Som, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Art Museum of the Americas, and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Napchan received awards including the Prêmio Estímulo de Fotografia and ProAC. Her series I Scream was featured in a special Latin American art edition of Time Magazine.
She studied cinema, art, and communication at the University of São Paulo and at the University of Television and Film Munich, where she worked alongside artists such as Katharina Sieverding and Klaus Mettig. She lived for several years in Europe and the United States, experiences that continue to shape her visual and philosophical vocabulary.