1974, lives and works at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Combines different techniques and artistic practices in her work, such as photography, video, installation, performance, and collage. In a critique way, her works reconfigure memories, particularly Afro-Atlantic memories, and construct new narratives that invoke a non-linear idea of time.

She was awarded the Itaú Cultural Rumos Program 2015/2016, the ZUM Photography Scholarship from the Instituto Moreira Salles 2018, and the 7th Marcantonio Vilaça National Industry Award 2019. She has recently participated in important exhibitions such as “Feminist Histories, artists after 2000” – MASP, “Afro-Atlantic Histories” – MASP/Tomie Ohtake, “When the world changes” – Kirchner Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and “Rethinking everything” – Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France. She opened her solo exhibition “Aline Motta: memory, travel, and water” at MAR/Museum of Art of Rio in 2020. In 2021, she showcased her video works at the New Museum (NY) in the program “Screen Series”. In 2022, she released her first book “Water is a Time Machine” published by Fósforo and Luna Parque Edições, opened a solo exhibition in the atrium of Sesc Belenzinho, and in the video room of MASP. In 2023, she exhibited at the 15th Sharjah Biennial, and at MoMA in “Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond,” and soon, at the 35th São Paulo Art Biennial.

Participated in the exhibition Between Our Knots: Ten Years of ZUM/IMS Grant in 2023