Uryssé is a young indigenous leader of the Kuikuro people from Afukuri, in the Xingú indigenous territory in Mato Grosso (Brazil). He is a rapper, poet, slammer, writer, and has an indigenous rap group called Nativos MC’s. He studies language and literature at the State University of Campinas.

Visiting Professor at Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, in “Curatorial Theory and Practice”; Program Director of Art & Design at the International House of Japan; Honorary Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts; and Former Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
She has been honored with the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award (2020), the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2015), the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil, 2017), and the Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2024).
Hasegawa has curated numerous biennales in Istanbul (2001), Shanghai (2002), São Paulo (2010), Sharjah (2013), Moscow (2017), and Thailand (2021), and international exhibitions including Japanorama: A New Vision on Art Since 1970 at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017), and Fukami: A Plunge into Japanese Aesthetics in Paris (2018). Her publications include Art and New Ecology: Anthropocene as Dithering Time (Ibun-sha, 2022); Japanorama: Un Archipel en Perpétuel Changement (Centre Pompidou-Metz Éditions, 2017); and Performativity in the Work of Female Japanese Artists in the 1950s–1960s and the 1990s (Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, 2010).