Born in São Paulo, Brazil. Lives in Milan.
MBA Master in Business Administration, SDA Bocconi, Milan
MSc in Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic of the University of São Paulo
RU Residency Unlimited, New York, Artist-in-residence (2025), mentored by Lucas Mertehikian, Director of the Humanities Institute at the New York Botanical Garden
BoCs art residency, Cosenza, Artist-in-residence, curated by Giacinto Di Pientrantonio (2019)
AnnexB art residency, New York, Artist-in-residence (2019)
RU Residency Unlimited, New York, Artist-in-residence (2018)
Nominated for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation's (CIFO) Grants and Commissions Program (2019-2020)
Lectures and Talks:
Plant Humanities, Debora Hirsch and Lucas Mertehikian, RU Residency Unlimited, New York
2025 Plant Humanities Conversation: Plant Extinction and Resurrection, New York Botanical Garden, New York, speakers: artists Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Debora Hirsch moderated by author Matthew Battles. This series is co-organized by Dr. Yota Batsaki and Dr. Lucas Mertehikian.
HM&C Talks: Debora Hirsch and Lucas Mertehikian; New York
HM&C Talks: Debora Hirsch & Cornelia Lauf; New York
AI e beni culturali tra ricerca e creatività, CINECA, Bologna;
Other talks included: Gallerie d’Italia Academy di Intesa Sanpaolo, Milan; Festival AI Como, ATED Associazione Ticinese Evoluzione Digitale; Bocconi University, Milan; Accademia di Brera, Milan; IED Master in Brand Communication, Milan; John Cabot University, Rome; Videocittà, Rome; Università Statale di Milano; Italian Perfumery Institute, Milan; ETH Digital, Milan; Galleria di Arte Moderna di Milano; Palazzo della Ragione, Verona; Encuentro Creativo, Ambasciata e Camera di Commercio Italia in Mexico, among many others
Selected solo shows and installations
Sylva: Coding Nature, commissioned by American Express, Milano (2025)
Debora Hirsch: Herbaria, Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York (2024)
Echoes of the Mediterranean, Nexus Project, Torre Piacentini, Genoa (2024)
Plantalia, Villa Bernasconi Museum, Cernobbio (2023-2024)
Até Aqui, Boccanera Gallery, Trento and Milan (2021)
Debora Hirsch: Firmamento, Hutchinson Modern and Contemporary, New York (2021)
Firmamento, MARS Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, Italy (2017)
Andata e Ritorno, Palazzo Della Ragione, Verona, Italy (2016)
Donotclickthru, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy (2016)
Ida e Volta, MuBE Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Brazil (2014)
Framed, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, US (2013)
Limite, MuBE Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Brazil (2012)
BR 101, Fondazione A. Olivetti, Rome (2009)
Selected group shows
Il respiro della Natura, GAM, Palazzo della Ragione, Verona (2025) - upcoming
Plantalia, Art in Motion, The Arts House, Singapore (2024)
AIntropocene, ETHMilan, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milano (2024)
Scented art - Saving Beauty, Building Future, Palazzo Giureconsulti, Milano (2024)
Plantalia, La Collina di Loredana, Panteleria (2024)
Art, Nature and Artificial Intelligence, CIFRA (2024)
L’opera d’arte nell’epoca dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, Palazzo Pigorini, Parma (2024)
La storia non si ripete ma fa rima, Studio La Città Gallery, Verona (2023)
VDA Award 2023, L’Arte digitale, Plantalia (2023)
Raggio Verde, Museo Santa Maria Della Scala, Siena (2023)
Raggio Verde, Museo Botanico dell'Università di Siena, Siena (2023)
Montagne Sacre, Artra Gallery, Milan (2023)
FIAT LUX, Museo Diocesano, Noto (2023)
Trame Sacre, Duomo di Cosenza, Cosenza (2022)
Art Feeds on Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland (2021)
BLAST Estetiche della Violenza, ex Palazzo delle Poste, Verona (2021)
Bound up Together, Smack Mellon, New York (2020)
La Cittá Ideale (public art), Mirandola (2020)
CURRENTS: An Overwhelming Response, A.I.R. Gallery, New York (2020)
L'Arte non si ferma, Fondazione Luca e Katia Tomassini (2020)
WOMAHR, Palazzo Gil Fondazione Molise Cultura, Campobasso and Palazzo de' Mayo, Chieti (2020)
Libere Tutte, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy (2019)
Contemporanei/Contemporanee, Polo Santa Marta, AGI Verona Collection, Italy (2019)
The Iconography of Silence, Hutchinson Modern, New York (2019)
Eco Shifters, Fondazione La Fabbrica Del Cioccolato, Torre, Switzerland (2019)
Eco Shifters, Carriage Trade, New York (2019)
Scivias, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria (2019)
Somewhere Under a Vast Solid Dome (special project), Dix9, Paris, France (2019)
Belvedere, Teatro dei Fauni, Locarno, Switzerland (2019)
Video Formes, Festival Intl D'Arte Numériques, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2019)
Welcome to the Anthropocene! riss(e), Varese, Italy (2018)
Panorama Punjab in association with WBX Out of the Box, New York (2018)
Fugitive Designs, RU Residency Unlimited, New York (2018)
WunderMoRE, MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome (2018)
BelVedere, MIART @MARS, Milan, Italy (2018)
Panorama Punjab, Qila Mubarak, Patiala, India (2018)
Dreams & drama. Law as literature, nGbK, Berlin, Germany (2017)
Art in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland (2017)
Arte contro la corruzione, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy, 2017
Medicine in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland (2016)
Before Nightfall, Anthology Film Archives, New York (2016)
Imago Mundi, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2015)
E Il Topo, Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, AplusA, Venice, Italy (2015)
Gender in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland (2015)
YIMBY - Yes in My Back Yard, Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea, Saronno (2015)
World Academy, Project for EXPO 2015, Piazza Citta’ di Lombardia, Milan, Italy (2015)
Framed, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona (2014)
Crime in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland (2014)
Premio Michetti, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy (2013)
Biennale Adriatica Roncaglia XXXII, Passato prossimo, San Felice, Italy (2013)
MAP project, EX3, Firenze, Italy (2012)
Quelli che restano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (2011)
MAP project, MAGA Museum, Gallarate, Italy (2011)
Invisibilia, GAM Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy (2011)
Framed book and video, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2010)
Framed, 100 round trips to Hollywood, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (2010)
Nuovi pittori della realtà, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2009)
XV Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome (2009)