Lyz Parayzo (1994)  is a transsexual artist who currently lives and works between Paris and São Paulo. 

The various senses of the term playing, as the act of participating in a game, provide an entry point into the work, research and political activism of multidisciplinary artist Lyz Parayzo. Since 2015, she has drawn on both her dissident body and Latin American art history to frame the art world's power dynamics and historical exclusion, which she navigates through play.

Brazilian art history not only inspired Parayzo's early works but continued to be a site of tension. She was aiming to produce at the intersection between creating a practice of referentiality and finding ways to exceed it. By situating her sculptural production in dialogue with 1960s Concrete, Neo-Concrete, and Kinetic Art, tendencies considered the pillars of international Latin American art, she has ingeniously deployed a Trojan horse strategy to hack the system. 

Parayzo's works are in private and public collections world wide such as Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) , Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) , Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC) de Niterói, Ca sa de Cultura da América Latina, Centro Cultural do Alumínio (CCA). She has won numerous prizes and awards and will be part of a special project for the 2024 Venice Biennial.

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