Beatriz Chachamovits
My work explores the intersection of marine ecosystems, mythology, and material transformation, reimagining our relationship with the ocean. Drawing from scientific research and South Florida’s coastal landscapes, I create ceramic sculptures, drawings, and installations that merge natural history with fiction. Through coral-encrusted vessels, mythical figures, and immersive environments, I examine cycles of growth and decay, resilience and loss.
As an environmental artist and educator, I translate ecological narratives into tangible forms that invite engagement and reflection. Ceramics, with its ability to mimic the textures and structures of coral, allows me to highlight both the beauty and vulnerability of underwater ecosystems. My site-specific projects expand this dialogue, immersing audiences in spaces that evoke both urgency and wonder.
At the heart of my practice is storytelling—bridging scientific knowledge with ancestral wisdom and speculative mythologies. By crafting artifacts of an imagined future, I invite people to step beyond the role of observer, dissolving boundaries between art, science, and environmental advocacy. These works reframe marine life as both fragile and powerful, revealing the ocean as a sacred space of knowledge, memory, and transformation.
Beatriz Chachamovits is an environmental artist and educator from São Paulo, Brazil, living and working in Miami, Florida. Her work explores the beauty and fragility of marine ecosystems through ceramic sculptures, drawings, and installations that merge natural history with speculative mythologies. By highlighting the intricate forms of underwater life, she invites deeper reflection on our impact and responsibility toward ocean conservation. She is the author and illustrator of the book The little handbook of marine fishes and other aquatic marvels (Pequeno manual de peixe marinhos e outras maravilhas aquáticas), published by Companhia das Letrinhas in São Paulo, Brazil in 2018.
Selected solo exhibitions include “Into the Great Dying: Waters We Share” at Faena Art Project Room in Miami, Florida (2022), and “Into the Great Dying: Roles We Play” at the Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Florida (2023) and “ Meet me in the clearing between the waves” an early career survey at Miami Design District in Miami, Florida (2024). Selected group exhibitions include the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Coral Expedition: 1865 - 2018” (2018), the Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, Florida, “C[h]oral Stories and Collective Actions” (2022), and FAU University Galleries in Boca Raton, Florida, “SouthxEast Triennial” (2023).
Chachamovits has received fellowships to attend residencies at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts and Penland School of Craft. She is the recipient of Oolite Arts’ The Ellies Awards (2023) and was commissioned by the City of Miami Beach for the Elevate Española public art project (2023). Her work has been featured in Vogue Magazine’s “Earth and Us” section, Arte Al Día, and the National Geographic Education platform as part of an AAAS grant to teach fifth graders about women in marine science. She is currently a resident artist at The Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood, Miami.
Interview with environmental journalist Louis Aguirre for his segment in Local 10 news, Don't trash our treasure, aired on May 22nd 2024.
Interview for Bakehouse Art Complex filmed in 2022
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