Jota Mombaça

Jota Mombaça (b. 1991, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) is an interdisciplinary artist based between Lisbon and Natal whose work unfolds in a variety of mediums. The sonic and visual matter of words plays an important role in her practice. She is currently interested in researching elemental forms of sensing, anticolonial imagination, and the relation between opacity and self-preservation in the experience of racialized trans artists in the Global Art World. Her solo exhibitions have been held at venues including West Den Haag, 2024; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, 2024; CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts, 2023; and Kadist, San Francisco, 2022. Her work has also been presented at venues such as WIELS, Brussels, 2025; Aspen Art Museum, 2024; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, 2023; De Appel, Amsterdam, 2022; 34th Bienal de São Paulo, 2021; 22nd Biennale of Sydney, 2020; 46th Salon Nacional de Artistas in Colombia, 2019; and 10th Berlin Biennale, 2018.