Ruth Albernaaz is the artistic name of Ruth Albernaz-Silveira. Born in Chapada dos Guimarães – MT, Brazil.
Ruth started to work with art at age 12, creating compositions with elements from the Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) biodiversity on artisanal paper that she manufactures. In her career, she has become a transdisciplinary visual artist, using various media and languages for her compositions in paper, installations, non-objects, canvas paintings, woodcarvings and poems. Ruth is a biologist with a Masters in Environmental Sciences and a PhD in Amazonian Biodiversity from the Bionorte Network of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation - MCTI. Her doctoral research was conducted with the Rikbaktsa indigenous people, focusing on the connections between art, culture and conservation of the Amazon’s biocultural diversity.
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