Alice Miceli is a Brazilian visual artist and photographer who works in situations considered impenetrable or untouchable. Her work encompasses the photographic archive of the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh; the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where radioactive contamination altered the landscape in ways invisible to human sight; minefields at sites in Bosnia, Angola, Colombia and Cambodia; and, in her current research, urban space under conditions of war. She develops image-making methods in which the conditions of each site actively participate in the form the image will take.

Her current research considers historical and contemporary cases of urban warfare, asking what happens when war overtakes the civilian meaning and use of a city, and how photography and moving images can register that rupture through their own formal structures.

Miceli’s work has been presented at the São Paulo and Istanbul Biennials and the Americas Society in New York. She received the PIPA Award in 2014 and was a 2026 fellow in the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute. Her residencies include, among others, MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Bemis, Bogliasco, Millay Arts and the Dora Maar House.