A visual artist and researcher, she holds an MA in Visual Arts from EBA-UFBA and is currently a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP. Her practice unfolds within contemporary visual arts through video, installation, photography, and collaborative processes, investigating the image as a site of encounter. Through fabulation as a relational practice, her work is grounded in listening, connection, and the production of alterity.

She has participated in the 27th and 31st São Paulo Biennials. In 2015, she received the PIPA Prize (both popular vote and jury) and the Marcantonio Vilaça Prize, and was awarded at the 18th International Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. In 2020, she was a commissioned artist at the 11th Berlin Biennale.

Recent exhibitions include O Brasil São Muitos (Galeria Municipal Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, 2025); Histories of Ecology (MASP, São Paulo, 2025); Construction, Occupation: Re-enacting the City (Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, 2025); Ainda Não é o Fim do Mundo (Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2025); Baile Circular (MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, 2024); Ana Mendieta: Silhueta em Fogo / Terra Abrecaminhos (Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, 2023); Negros na Piscina (Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2023); the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020); Liebe und Ethnologie (HKW, Berlin, 2019); Feminist Histories (MASP, São Paulo, 2019); Histories of Sexuality (MASP, São Paulo, 2017–2018); La réplica infiel (CA2M, Madrid, 2016); and Rainbow in the Dark (Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, 2015).

Her works are part of collections including Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia (MAC-BA), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ), Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Coleção de Arte da Cidade (Centro Cultural São Paulo), Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, and Instituto PIPA.

Claudia Chávez is a director, screenwriter, and art educator. Her practice reflects a commitment to art as a tool for social transformation and the defense of human rights, developing projects that engage culture, resistance, and identity.

Her works include Arte quilombola, o legado continua (2025), a documentary screened at festivals that addresses art as a form of resistance and territorial defense; Onde cheguei está chegado (2024), a series about the production of a posthumous album featuring unreleased songs by samba artist Riachão; and Àkàrà no fogo da intolerância (2020), awarded at the Brazilian Design Grand Prix, the XVII Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema, the Northeast Independent Film Showcase, and the Curta! Documentary Awards. She also directed Arte em expansão (2017), Brasilianos – Jovens músicos do Neojibá (2013), and La Felicidad (2019). In 2014, she collaborated on the video installation Sérgio e Simone, with artist Virginia de Medeiros, presented at the 31st São Paulo Biennial.

Her audiovisual trajectory is closely connected to her pedagogical practice. In 2010, she worked with the program Ponto Brasil (TV Brasil), producing short documentaries with cultural initiatives in Bahia and leading audiovisual workshops. During the same period, she conducted workshops in communities in Salvador.

In 2024 and 2025, she led audiovisual and photography workshops at Escola Criativa Boca de Brasa, a project by Fundação Gregório de Mattos carried out across different neighborhoods in Salvador. During this time, she also developed Miradas de mi Barrio, a participatory cinema project aimed at teenagers in Barrios Altos, in the historic center of Lima, Peru, focused on collective documentary production and public screenings that foster encounters between young participants and local residents.