Elisa Rezende

Elisa Rezende (b. 1992, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting tattoo, digital and writing. Currently based in Portugal, where she works from her studio at Praceta David Leandro da Silva, 8, Marvila, Lisbon, she has lived in the UK, Australia, and Finland: geographies that have shaped the visceral, itinerant quality of her work. Her practice is an ongoing excavation of what it means to be human in its most unfiltered form. Through rawness, confessional writing, and symbolic imagery, she explores themes of identity, repressed desires, sexuality, and cultural constraints. Each piece becomes a site of tension between exposure and concealment, instinct and social order, fantasy and memory. Driven by a need to externalize what is most intimate to us, Rezende’s work invites viewers into the messy, contradictory terrain of our internal worlds.