“My work engages with material cultural production primarily through installation, video, and sculpture. I'm concerned with how cultural differences resist, or are transformed, through exchanges at a local and global level. Sometimes this inquiry follows my own geographic displacements; growing up in Brasília, Brazil, instigated an early interest in the unacknowledged narratives implicit in the built environment. In order to re-contextualize these historical narratives, I employ decolonizing strategies based on my own lived experiences. By doing so, I propose relationships that question established subject positions and claim spaces for idiosyncratic experiences.”
Recent solo exhibitions include Circumnavigation Towards Exhaustion (2021) at La Kunsthalle Mulhous, Future Fossil (2019) at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, USA, Encontro das Águas (2018) at the Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, USA), and Azul Maia (2018) at Galeria Luisa Strina (São Paulo, Brazil). In 2018, her work was included in the exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2018), and the 12th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea, 2018), among others. In 2017, she received a commission by the city of Los Angeles for the exhibition Condemned To Be Modern, part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA organized by the Getty Foundation
Tossin is the recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant (2020), The Andy Warhol Foundation Grant via Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) (2020), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2019), an Artadia Los Angeles Award (2018); a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2017-18), among others.
Her work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; New Orleans Museum of Art; Casa Niemeyer – Universidade de Brasília