Anna de Castro Barbosa (b. 1995, Montpellier, France) lives in Montreuil and works in Paris. After studying art history, mediation, and museology at the Sorbonne, she entered the Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2018, obtaining her DNA in 2021. That same year, she enrolled at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she earned her DNSAP in 2024 with distinctions from of Tatiana Trouvé and Dominique Figarella.

Sensitive to the tension between materialities, she invites the viewer to engage with multisensory environments involving haptic images, odors, and sensuality. Her work investigates and provokes relationships through unease and oddity, implying dynamics of seduction, attraction, and repulsion. Drawing from horror cinema, botany, medicine, entomology, and archaeology, she explores a shifting materiality in which relationships to the world are woven. Her practice is inhabited by living matter—fats, sugars, and plants—which she utilizes to explore metamorphosis and the uncanny.

Selected solo & group exhibitions include: Chorale at French Place, (Milan, 2026); I won’t move so I don’t wake you up at Pablo Birthday (New York, 2026); Abraham and Wolff (Paris, 2026); Wallonie-Bruxelles Center (Paris, 2025), Beaux-Arts de Paris (Paris, 2025), Spiaggia Libera (Malmousque, 2024), Galerie du Crous (Paris, 2024), Galerie Strouck (Paris, 2024), Poush (Aubervilliers, 2024), and Beaux-Arts de Paris, Atelier Tatiana Trouvé (Paris, 2023). Awards include the Diptyque Scholarship (2024), Bredin-Prat Scholarship (2024), and Prix Dauphine for Contemporary Art (2024).

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