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Isa Toledo

NO WORDS

30 JANUARY 2026 - 14 MARCH 2026 

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Isa Toledo (b. 1990, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice encompasses painting, text-based work, video and performance, with an ongoing interest in found language, domestic objects and the textures of everyday life.

Toledo has been represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, since 2021, with whom she participated in ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon. Her solo exhibitions at the gallery include No Words, Casa Commedia and Pick a Card Any Card.

In Portugal, her work has been presented in various institutional and independent contexts. Her solo and commissioned installations include a project at Mupi Gallery, Porto, a window display at Livraria STET, Lisbon, and a solo public art project in downtown Lisbon.

Her work is part of the Portuguese State Collection.

She has participated in group exhibitions at Galeria Quadrum, Kubik Gallery, and Zaratan, Lisbon. She has also presented performance work at Casa do Comum, Lisbon. Internationally, Toledo has exhibited at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, New York; HVW8 Gallery, Berlin; Fotopub, Slovenia; and Maison de la Poésie, Paris. Between 2020 and 2022, she developed a series of short films for the Smuggler agency and in 2023, she presented the performance Autorretrato at Central 1926, São Paulo, directed by Felipe Hirsch.

Toledo has a degree in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art, London, and a master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She co-founded ButchCamp, a visual archive and project that explores camp aesthetics, featured in publications such as Dazed, i-D, Teen Vogue, and New York Magazine.

"(The exhibition) started with me having these materials, me having an idea of a composition that could be made with them. These are fabrics that I have at home in piles. (...) I always have this thing when I'm accumulating things at home: "I'll use it one day, I'll need it". And part of this work sometimes is like: "Well, today's the day!"

Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho

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