Beatriz Chachamovits

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 human impact and responsibility toward ocean conservation. She is the author and illustrator of The Little Handbook of Marine Fishes and Other Aquatic Marvels (Pequeno Manual de Peixes 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 the Faena Art Project Room in Miami, Florida (2022); Into the Great Dying: Roles We Play at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida (2023); and Meet Me in the Clearing Between the Waves, an early career survey at the Miami Design District, Miami, Florida (2024). Selected group exhibitions include Coral Expedition: 1865–2018 at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018); C[h]oral Stories and Collective Actions at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida (2022); and Entangled in the Mangroves at The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida (2025).

Chachamovits has received fellowships to attend residencies at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts and the Penland School of Craft. She is a recipient of Oolite Arts’ The Ellies Award (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 on 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.