Alice Miceli is a Brazilian visual artist and photographer whose work interrogates landscapes scarred by historical violence, environmental collapse, and conflict. Based between Rio de Janeiro and New York, her practice combines investigative fieldwork with technical innovation to reshape photographic processes in light of these issues.

Notable projects include the "Chernobyl Project", where she developed a radiographic method to document invisible gamma radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and "In Depth (minefields)", a visual mapping of post-conflict terrain in regions of Cambodia, Colombia, Bosnia, and Angola, leveraging how the photographic medium's intrinsic geometric principles (e.g, perspective and depth of field) influence both the observable content within the frame and the photographer's physical positioning at the time and place of image capture; particularly crucial when positioning, i.e., where one places one's feet on the ground, is the most critical element.

Her work has been exhibited at major biennials, including those in São Paulo and Istanbul, and has been honored with prestigious awards such as the PIPA Prize, the Cisneros-Fontanals Award, and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Djerassi, among others. Beginning in February 2026, Alice will be a fellow at the Clark Art Institute, MA.

Alice Miceli is a Brazilian artist currently based in Rio de Janeiro.

In the realm of visual arts and photography, the pursuit of depicting landscapes marked by historical violence or environmental catastrophe presents a daunting and demanding task. It implies a renewed understanding of "landscape" as a concept. The investigation into this space, which intersects notions of nature, culture, and technology, is fraught with complexities stemming from our underlying cognitive operations. Yet, how do we broach the topic of landscapes embedded in zones of conflict and disaster, areas not only hard to access but resistant to the revealing capabilities of the camera? Alice’s work is deeply rooted in a deliberate engagement with such questions.

Over the years, Alice has received critical recognition for her exhibitions. In 2010, Projeto Chernobyl was presented for the first time as a completed project at the 29th São Paulo Biennial. This project is a nod to one of the most dramatic events of our time – the explosion at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which occurred nearly 35 years ago. It was featured on the cover of “Segundo Caderno” for “O Globo” newspaper, among other several Brazilian outlets. In 2011, Alice held her first solo show in Brazil, at Galeria Nara Roesler in São Paulo, and also had 88 from 14,000 as a solo project at Max Protetch Gallery in New York. In 2014, Alice was presented with the PIPA Prize, one of Brazil's most important contemporary art awards.

In 2019, her work In Depth (minefields) was a solo exhibition at the PIPA Institute in Rio de Janeiro, while Projeto Chernobyl was featured as a solo show at the visual art galleries of the Americas Society (AS/COA), in New York. This highly acclaimed exhibition was featured in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, and the New York Times, among several other media sources. In 2022, In Depth (minefields) was exhibited again as a solo show at the Escola das Artes in the Universiade Católica in Porto, Portugal, and as part of Istanbul Biennial’s 17th edition, also to critical acclaim.

Group exhibitions include Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection, Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL, U.S. (2022); Bienal Sur, MAAC, Guayaquil, Ecuador (2019); Marcantonio Vilaca Prize, MuBE, São Paulo, Brazil (2017); The Materiality of the Invisible, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands (2017); the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia (2016); Basta! Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York, USA (2016); Intersections (after Lautréamont), Cisneros-Fontanals Foundation, Miami, USA (2015); Memory Leak: Views from Between Archiving and Memory, La Capella Barcelona, Spain (2015), as well as several appearances at Berlin’s Transmediale Festival between 2005-2009.

Galeria Nara Roesler represents Alice Miceli