Rosana Paulino (b. 1967, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. She received a BA in visual art from Universidade de São Paulo (1995), a specialization in engraving from the London Print Studio (1998), her doctorate in Visual Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at the Universidade de São Paulo (2011), and a residency focused on lithography at the Tamarind Institute, New Mexico (2022). Paulino has had solo exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2022); Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro (2019); The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Ohio (2019); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2018); Museu de Artes Visuais da Unicamp, Campinas (2018); Senac, São Paulo (2017); and Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural, Lisbon (2017); among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the 59th International Biennale di Venezia (2022); DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2022); Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo (2022); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, and Belo Horizonte (2022); Public Art Foundation, New York, Boston, and Chicago (2022); National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (2021); Museu Judaico de São Paulo (2021); Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo (2021); Museu de Art do Rio, Rio de Janeiro (2020); Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo (2020); Mana Contemporary, Chicago (2020); Kunstverein Hannover (2020); and Sydney Biennial (2020); among others. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow (2006–2008) and received a CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) grant (2008–2011). In 2014, she was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for a residency at the Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy.