Helena Kozuchowicz a Brazilian visual artist known for her fluid line and bold gestures, features portraits of figures inspired by candid moments, transforming daily situations into captivating visual narratives. Recently she presented a series of large-scale paintings and works on paper in her first U.S. solo exhibition at the Brazilian Consulate in New York City.

Focused on everyday activities in which a figure or pairs of figures interact with each other and with the space around them in ways that typically go unnoticed by most of us. In each work, the Brazilian-born artist invites the viewer to slow down, to observe the subtle nuances of body language and human interaction. She thereby proposes in each composition a quiet narrative in which ordinary actions can convey extraordinary meaning. With a background in architecture, Kozuchowicz has a special sensitivity to constructed space and spatial relationships. She examines how figures occupy a range of domestic and public architectural environments—from the rarified surroundings of the artist’s studio, or a familial dining room, to the cramped quarters of a subway car. The architectonic forms, however, are simply implied rather than described. 

Since 2022, she has been based in New York City. With an MFA at the New York Academy of Art, she is now working from her studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn NYC.