Marcela Rapallo is an artist, researcher, and educator who combines these facets in projects developed with multiple groups and working networks, centered on performative drawing, real-time animation, and interdisciplinary experiences of collective creation. She creates exhibitions, theater works, performances, educational and mediation projects, consultancies, and training programs for festivals, galleries, cultural centers, foundations, community programs, and universities in different countries. For more than 25 years, she has created and participated in interdisciplinary collectives focused on drawing as a time-based art form and on collective drawing. She leads the Trazos team, developing open-source technologies for artistic, educational, and community-based projects. She also co-founded the group Andrógina/O (2000–2004), dedicated to performance and visual experimentation, where she developed the project Visual Dialogues, based on live drawing and painting.
She received the Prince Claus Fund Award (CAREC, 2025). She was nominated for the Ars Electronica CIFO Grants & Commissions Program (2025). She was invited to participate in the Creative Learning Festival (Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan). She has presented her work at venues and festivals including Banco de la República (Cali, Colombia, COP16), Domo Lleno and Real Mix 0.4 (Bogotá Planetarium, 2024), Sala Inmersiva CCK (2024), Festival Escuchar, Sonidos Visuales (MAMBA, 2023), Festival Animal (Rosario, 2019), Accademia Albertina (Italy, 2018), Democritus University of Thrace (Greece, 2018), Let It Vj Festival (Club Cultural Matienzo, 2015), ACTI Festival (Colombia, 2013), Expin Media Lab Workshop (UAO, Cali, 2012), FAM Festival (Chile, 2011), FNArtes (2011), FITI Festival (El Salvador, 2010), ArtFutura (CCEBA, 2010), Sapo Galería, Contemporary Drawing (2009), OficinaProyectista (2008), Cultura y Media Festival (Centro Cultural San Martín, 2009), Fase 1 Festival (Centro Municipal de Exposiciones, 2009), Tecnoescena08 (Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2008), and Kentler International Drawing Space (New York, 2008).
Since 2003, she has developed educational and participatory programs that integrate art, technology, and collective creation. She produced content for the Digital Education Plan (Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires), where she developed the project Drawing on Stage. She coordinated teacher training programs together with Escuela de Maestros and the CAJ program of the National Ministry of Education. She has designed and facilitated workshops and projects for institutions including the Centro Cultural de la Ciencia (C3), Museo Moderno, Fundación Telefónica, Fundación Varkey, Fundación Proa, ACUMAR, Fundación Augusto y León Ferrari, and Programa Cultural en Barrios. She developed projects such as Moving Mural, Drawn Music, and Steps and Traces, presented at Tecnópolis, the CCK, Museo de la Cárcova, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, and Centro Cultural Recoleta, among others.
She holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), where she teaches postgraduate courses, directs the research projects Open Drawing and Water: Participating in Ecological Challenges through Scientific Information and the Arts, was part of the design team for the diploma programs in Artistic Pedagogies for Integral Environmental Education and Cultural Mediation, Community, Arts and Technologies, and currently serves as Artistic Coordinator of the latter. She has been an international guest lecturer at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti (Italy), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá), and Universidad San Buenaventura (Cali). She was a guest artist at the Expin Media Lab workshop (UAO, Cali, 2012).
