(b. 1956 in Marilia, Brazil). Lives and works in Paris since 1982.
EDUCATION
1993 Scolarship Leonard de Vinci, Ministry of Culture and Francophonie.
1982-83 Ntional School of Fine Arts, Paris.
1978-80 Watford School of Arts, London.
1974-76 Faculdade de Artes Plásticas F.A.A.P., São Paulo.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 L’eau rougie de la veine mémoire, RX&SLAG, Paris, France.
2023 Quadro negro, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil. Text Guilherme Wisnik
2023 Museu de tudo, Casa de vidro, Instituto Bardi, São Paulo, Brazil. Text Matheus Nunes
2023 Heaven (As you saw so shall you reap), Capela do Morumbi, Museus da Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Roberta Saraiva.
2021 Conflicting Perspectives, SLAG&RX, New York, NY.
2021 Traversées, RX&SLAG, Paris, France.
2019 Projet Solo, curator Sandra Hegedus, ArtRio fair, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2019 Alinhavai, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
2019 Por um fio, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil.
2019 Point à la ligne, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
2018 Service des objets trouvés, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France.
2017 Etendoir d’émotions, SAM Art Projects, private foundations area, Monte Carlo art fair, Monaco, France.
2016 Le peu de réalité, Abbaye Saint-Jean d’Orbestier, Olonne Castle, curator Philippe Piguet
2016 Estratégias obliquas, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
2016 Solo, Untitled art fair, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Miami, USA.
2014 Plano, linha, ponto e nó, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
2012 Mémoire de mes cent ans, Caixa Cultural, Brasilia, Brazil.
2012 O Brasil ! Julio Villani, Chapel of the Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, France.
2012 Pas si bête. Des histoires comme ci., Villa des Tourelles Gallery, Nanterre, France.
2011 Palimpsesto, Galeria Murilo de Castro, Belo Horizonte, Brésil.
2010 L’arpenteur, Zadkine Museum, Paris, France.
2009 Le glaneur, l’ange et l’enfant bossu, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2007 Verso Reverso, SESC Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Entre deux lumières, Espace Franz Krajcberg, Paris, France.
2006 Gallery 32, London, UK.
2006 Habitat center, New Delhi, India.
2005 Je ne suis pas d'ici, Latin America House, Paris, France.
2005 L'origine du monde, Contemporary Art Cebter 10neuf, curator Philippe Cyroulnik, Montbéliard, France.
2005 Arche de Noé, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France.
2004 L’endroit du verso, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002 Appropriations/ Expropriations, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
2002 Remedos e remendos, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2002 Pinturas e objetos indiretos, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.
2000 Galerie Cleyne Huis, The Hague, Netherlands.
1999 Paço das artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1999 Dieppe Castle Museum, France.
1998 Passage of Retz, Paris, France.
1998 Museu de arte, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
1997 Interventions on collections, Agen Museum of Fine Arts, curator Yannick Lintz, Agen, France.
1990 Archaeological forms, La Base, Paris, France.
1990 Usine Ephémère, Paris, France.
1988 Laage-Salomon Gallery, Paris, France.
1988 Riverin Arlogos Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
1986 Marius Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1985 Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris, France.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 A tela insurgente, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, curator Antonio Gonçalves Filho
2025 Coleção Vilma Eid – Em cada canto, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, curated by Ana Roman and Catalina Bergues
2023 Africa, Diálogos com o contemporâneo, curated by Paula Braga and Renato Araújo. Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba.
2023 Ensaios para o Museu das Origens, curated by Paulo Miyada, Izabela Pucu. Itaú cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2022 AOULIOULE, est-il besoin de mots? Curated by Sylvie Fanchon and Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Musée Regional d’Art contemporain Occitanie – MRAC Serignan
2022 Beyond photography, une sélection de photographies plasticiennes des années 70 à nos jours [ Nabuyoshi Araki, Alan Belcher, Gaston Bertin, Braco Dimitrijevic, Robert Heinecken, David Hockney, Philippe Jusforgues, Robert C. Morgan, Tania Mouraud, Richard Prince, Miguel Rio Branco, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jon Tower, Julio Villani, Kanji Wakae, Roger Welch], Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France.
2022 Le langage des oiseaux, project by Association Jeune Création, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, France.
2022 Tècnica Mixta Sobre Paper IV, works on paper [ Eduard Arranz Bravo, Bill Beckley, Lluís Bosch Cruanas, Miguel Ángel Campano, Jordi Cerdà, Antoni Clavé, José Duarte, Jaume Faixó, Federico Guzmán, Yvonne Kracht, Antoni Miralda, August Puig, Donald Sultan, Antoni Tàpies, Josep Iclès, Joan Vilacasas, Julio Villani], Galerie Richard Van Vanderaa, Girona
2022 Resonant horizons, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
2021 O museu de dona Lina (Bo Bardi), œuvres de la collection du MAM-Salvador de Bahia, curator Daniel Rangel.
2021 Entre espaços, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
2021 Natura artis magistrat, Galerie Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville
2021 Doutrina das Cores, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
2021 Baião de dois, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil.
2020 En être, 70ème édition de Jeune Création, galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin
Amanhã há de ser outro dia, Grandes Serres de Pantin, curator Sofia Lanusse
Collapsible, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2020 Collapsible, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2020 Letters and signs [Alighiero E. Boetti, Jean-Louis Brau, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Claes Oldenburg, On Kawara, Ed Ruscha, Julio Villani, Jacques Villeglé], Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2019 Le petit collectionneur (jouets d’artistes), Carbono galeria, curators : Artur Lescher and Mariane Klettenhofer, São Paulo, Brazil.
2019 … et l’obscur, Thoronet Abbay, curator Jean de Loisy, Thoronet, France.
2018 Œuvres sur papier, Mercedes Viegas Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2017 4+4, Galerie RX, curator Sandra Hegedus, Paris, France.
2017 Figures et formes géométriques, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France.
2017 A imensidão dos mapas, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, curator Agnaldo Farias, Curitiba, Brazil.
2015 Être étonnée, c’est un bonheur !, Chapel of the Visiation, curator Philippe Piguet, Thonon-les-Bains, France.
2014 Afindades 40 anos, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014 Manifesto, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2014 Made by razilians, Hôpital Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 O Brazil, Chapel of the Visitation, curator Philippe Piguet, Thonon-les-Bains, France.
2011 Punto Linea Curva, Contemporaneo C.C. Borges, curator Philippe Cyroulnik, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011 Hémisphère Sud, Granite Gallery, Art School Gérard Jacot, Belfort, France.
2010 Instalação Sonora 66 x 96, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008 Mão Dupla, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Projections, Contemporary Art Center 10neuf, curator Philippe Cyroulnik, Montbéliard, France.
2006 Stop Over, Centre FriArt, curator Sarah Zurche, Freiburg, Switzerland.
2006 Passion et raison d’un esprit constructif : une conquête de l’art d’Amérique latin, works of the Daniella Chappard Foundation, Le Bellevue, Biarritz, France.
2005 Amalgames brésiliens, Musée de l’œuvre, curator Ingrid Jursac, Mantes-la-Jolie, France.
2004 Don’t call it performance, Museo del Barrio, New York, USA.
2003 Don’t call it performance, Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
2001 L’art en toute liberté, Europ’art, Genova, Switzerland.
2000 Continental shift, Ludwig Foundation, Aix-la-Chapelle, France.
1998 City canibal, Paço das artes, São Paulo Biennal, Brazil.
1998 Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Gilberto Chateaubriand collection, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1998 33ème Salon de Montrouge, France.
1999 Vivre Paris, Espace Electra, Paris, France.
1997 Latin America House, Paris, France.
1996 24th Bienal of Pontevedra, Spain.
1995 Contemporary Art House Chaillioux, Fresnes, France.
1994 Eles desenham como pintam, MAM, Rio de Janeiro and MAM, Salvador.
1991 Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France.
1991 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France.
1988 Modernidade, MAM, curators Marie Odile Briot, Aracy Amaral, Roberto Pontual, São Paulo, Brazil.
1987 Modernidade, MAM, curators Marie Odile Briot, Aracy Amaral, Roberto Pontual, Paris, France.
1984 Projet Out-Door, Museu de arte contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil.
1980 Desenhos jovens, Museu de arte contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museums of the City of Paris.
National Center of Plastic Arts.
Department of Cultural Affairs of Paris.
National Furnitures.
Museum of Public Assistance, Paris.
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Carpet, Manufacture nationale des Gobelins.
Carpet, Manufacture de la Savonnerie.
Chapel of the Vaugirard Hospital, Public Assistance, Paris.