Graziela Paes, aka VJ Grazzi, is a visual artist from Brasília, Brazil. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Digital Media and has specialized in Video Mapping, VJing, and Fulldome at VJ University. She is a member of the internationally respected group United VJs and part of the women-led art collective Multimanas.

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In 2018, she won the VJ Torna International tournament held at the Pantheon of the Fatherland in Brasília. That same year, she was awarded Best Work at the Salvador Mapping Festival with her piece Sétima República, and was featured at the Ibiza Light Festival in Spain, with her work projected onto the ancient walls of the island.

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Currently, Grazzi tours across Brazil with artists Baco Exu do Blues and Jão. In early 2024, she developed the visual content for Jão’s Super Turnê, which premiered with two major shows at Allianz Parque Stadium in São Paulo. The tour spanned the country and won the Multishow Award for Show of the Year. She also directed visuals for Di Ferrero’s Outra Dose Tour. In 2024, she participated in major festivals such as Rock in Rio Lisboa, performing with Jão and Ivete Sangalo, and Rock in Rio Brasil, where she contributed to six shows, including Nx Zero, Jão, Luedji Luna, Young Piva, and especially Iza, for whom she designed video mapping content for the facade of the Sunset Stage. She mentored emerging artists in video mapping at Salvador Mapping, where she also co-created a tribute piece to Feira São Joaquim in collaboration with Ani Haze. She was invited by Amazônia Mapping Festival to lead a live visual content lab and premiered her work YBYTU on the facade of the State Museum of Pará in Belém. Her piece Tapputi-Belatekallim was selected for the Competitive Showcase under the theme Memory, Inspiration, and Ancestrality at the Immersphere Festival. She also worked as a visual production assistant and VJ for Liniker’s CAJU Tour.

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In 2023, she was part of the technical team for NX Zero’s Cedo ou Tarde Tour, which included around 50 shows in 6 months and concluded with two major performances at Allianz Parque Stadium, where she was responsible for creative direction of the visuals. That same year, invited by Salvador Mapping, she created and performed a visual show alongside Ilê Aiyê on the facade of the Church of Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia. In early 2022, she began producing and operating visuals for Baco Exu do Blues’s QVVJFA Tour. In April, she performed at the ChillOut Dome, a curated performance space at the MOV Festival during Rock the Mountain in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro In 2021, Grazzi collaborated on the visual production for the photo series Singularidades, featured on the cover of L’Officiel Brasil #83 alongside artist Urias. She created SAPÓ, a video mapping piece featuring Gilberto Gil, for the main showcase at Salvador Mapping and contributed to the digital scenography of Pabllo Vittar’s Bang Bang music video. In 2020, she was invited to the Cerrado Mapping Festival in Santa Bárbara (Augusto de Lima, Minas Gerais), where she created O Cântico da Terra. She designed visuals for the Follow the Sun live show by DJ Bhaskar, filmed at Pedra Furada in Jalapão, Tocantins. At the end of that year, she developed the digital scenography for the InVogue editorial in Vogue Brasil’s November issue and produced XAMANIK, an audiovisual piece for A.Front Festival in Fortaleza, Ceará. In 2019, invited by Brasília Mapping Festival, she created the visual piece MASSIVA, shown on the dome of the National Museum Honestino Guimarães. That same year, she made her international debut in Budapest, Hungary, at Cinetrip Sparty Special—a famous visual-music event held inside thermal baths in Eastern Europe.

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Grazzi’s visual work is present at major cultural events in Brazil such as Rock in Rio, Lollapalooza, Coala Festival, SP_Urban, MOV Festival, and more. She has also toured with the Só Track Boa Festival and the Dubdogz duo. Beyond visual production, Grazzi continues to teach and mentor both online and in-person video mapping projects through institutions such as VJ University (2019–2020), Salvador Mapping (2023–2024), Amazônia Mapping (2021 & 2024), Redley Garagem + MOV Festival (2021), IESB University Design Program (2020–2021), and A.Front Festival (2020).