1976, London, England

She holds an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BFA in Product Design from FAAP Faculty of Fine Art, São Paulo, Brazil.

 Selected exhibitions: This Future is Unthinkable. Yet Here We Are Thinking It, Damian & The Love Guru, Brussels (2019), Artworks Open curated by Tai Shani and Emma Talbot, Barbican Arts Trust (2018), ARCO Lisbon, Opening section curated by João Laia (2018), I Am He As You Are She As You Are Me, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, House of Egorn, Berlin (2018), That Same Far Place, Chezkit, Pantin (2018), Stranger than Paradise, StudioRCA Riverlight, London (2017), Herland, Bosse & Baum, London (2017), Seamless Territories, Blyth Gallery, London (2017), With Institutions Like This…, curated by Victor Wang and Alex Meurice, The Averard Hotel, London (2016), Fur, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, White Cube Toilet, London (2012).

Performances: Muamba Grove, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2018), Stranger than Paradise, StudioRCA Riverlight, London (2018), Resistance’s Flow, Royal College of Art, London (2017) 

Vanessa was shortlisted for the VIA Arts Prize, London (2018), in 2017 she was selected by Richard Wentworth for the Almacantar Studio Award and granted the Fall Residency Program at Ox-Bow, USA.

Participated in the exhibition ‘de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands]’, curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, in 2022