BIO

Katia Canton is a psychoanalyst, writer, and visual artist. She studied architecture and dance and graduated in journalism from ECA USP in São Paulo. She also studied French literature and civilization in the advanced studies course offered by the Alliance Française in conjunction with the University of Nancy II. In 1984, she moved to Paris with a modern dance scholarship at the Peter Goss studio.

She lived in New York for eight years, working as a reporter for various newspapers and magazines and earning her master’s and doctoral degrees at New York University. Her academic research is interdisciplinary and connects arts and fairy tales from various eras and cultures around the world. She worked for a year and a half as a fellow at MoMA in New York, creating art and narrative projects in the education department. Back in Brazil, she joined the University of São Paulo as a professor, becoming an associate professor at the Museum of Contemporary Art (where she was deputy director) and at the Inter-unit Graduate Program in Aesthetics and Art History.

Her artistic work is multimedia, including drawing, painting, photography, and objects, and conceptually ties to issues of dreams, desires, and narratives. She has held exhibitions in museums, galleries, and cultural institutions in Brazil and abroad since 2008. She turned to the study of psychoanalysis starting in 2017. She practices in a private clinic and conducts courses and study groups.

As an author, in addition to writing books about art, she has created over 50 illustrated books for children and young adults, receiving several awards in Brazil and abroad. Among them, she has received the Jabuti Award three times and awards from the National Foundation for Children’s and Youth Books.