Thais Bertolin

Thais Bertolin Brazilian women artist, lives and works in São Paulo.
In her practice, since 2007, Thais has specialized in historical photographic processes and has focused her research on the universe of expanded photography.
She has the ability to transform and recreate images using different photography processes and combine it with other techniques such as engraving, watercolor and drawing adding elements and layers to the image that guarantee artistic creation and experimentation. In her research one photography point to an inexhaustible repertoire of combinations generating infinite possibilities for new images.


Her work establishes a dialogue between the internal and external world, between the visible and the unfathomable. It is a symbiosis between the ancient and the contemporary.

Thais studied photography at the Escuela Efti de Fotografia in Madrid, and directed her studies towards historical photographic processes and laboratory techniques. Back in Brazil, she studied photoengraving, where she had her first contact with the universe of metal engraving. Since then she has focused her studies through different engraving techniques and images transfers.

2023 - Concurso Nacional de Fotografía Cuartoscuro 2023 IDENTIDAD. Cuidad de México. México
2019 - Transmutações do Feminino. Fábrica de Cultura. São Paulo. Brazil
2018 Mulheres Latino-Americanas na Literatura e Artes Visuais, Biblioteca Latino-Americana. São Paulo.
2018 Exposição Santuários. Salão de exposições do Paço Municipal de Santo André,
2016. Imagem e Haicai. Museu Histórico Paulo Setúbal. Tatuí.
2015. Novas Impressões - Mostra de trabalhos do Ateliê de Artes Visuais Oswald de Andrade. São Paulo.