Born in 1994, in Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro
Currently lives and works between Paris and São Paulo

​Issues of sexism, racism, LGBTphobia and colonial heritage are inseparable from Lyz Parayzo’s activist art practice. “My work began in a place of activism, but because I was studying at an art school, activism acquired an artistic character.”
Lyz Parayzo didn’t ask permission to enter the Brazilian art circuit. She began her career invading exhibitions, with surprise performative actions centered on her body, at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro, where she studied.
This “guerrilla plan”, as she described it, involved invading openings/vernissages at Parque Lage – which included works by well-known students and artists – as a means of politically positioning herself in a physical and symbolic context that excluded identities like hers.

Exhibitions at Espace_L gallery:
GVA_RIO, Porno Chic, Jeter un sort: objets magiques de Lyz