Cybèle Varela

Cybèle Varela, (born 1943, Petrópolis), is a Brazilian mixed-media artist currently based in Europe. She is a painter, video artist, and photographer. From 1962 to 1966, Cybèle Varela studied visual arts at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. She began her career as a painter and sculptor, winning the Young Contemporary Art Prize at the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo in 1967 with the triptych: "Of all that could have been, but that wasn’t". The same year she exhibited for the first time at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial. Varela was awarded a scholarship by the French government to study in Paris at the Ecole du Louvre in 1968-69. In 1971-72 she stayed at the Cité Internationale des Arts, and in 1976-78 studied...