Alan Oju holds a bachelor’s degree in History from the Santo André Foundation (2010) followed by a Master’s in Visual Poetics from the School of Communications and Arts – USP (2018). Alan creates interventions, photos, videos, performances, objects, paintings, and installations using cartographic techniques.
Oju spent 2013–14 taking part in the LABMIS Photography Residency at the Museu da Imagem e Som. He received the Artistic Research Scholarship from the Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade in 2014, and in 2015 he presented his first solo exhibition, “Fragmentos,” which was organized by Coletivo Ágata. In cultural institutions such as the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR-RJ), Museu de Arte de Ribeiro Preto (MARP-SP), Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS-SP), Centro Universitário Maria Antonia (SP), and Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC – Uruguay), among others, he took part in multiple group shows. In 2016, he received the Visualidade Nascente – Visual Arts award from the Pro-Rectory of the University of São Paulo. In 2019, he received the “Foto Única” award from the Paranapiacaba Photography Festival. In 2020, he received the Aldir Blanc and Arte Como Respiro – Audiovisual by Itaú Cultural acquisitions awards. In 2021, he received the Iniciativa Cultural prize from the Santo André city hall.
Minidoc: Desejos Ltda.
Ambivalente: Processos
Paisagem Esculpida II
Reminiscências
Coletivo Autônomo Temporário
Black Flag
Intervention performed in the city of São Paulo – Brazil
Processo: Janelas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 – Desejos Ltda. – “Desires Ltd”
Curatorship: Andrés I. M. Hernández
MUnA – Museu Universitário de Artes / Uberlândia – MG
2018 – Paisagem urbana: frestas, fricções e descaminhos
“Urban landscape: crevices, frictions and detours”
Master’s defense: Agnaldo Farias, Branca de Oliveira, Livia Aquino
Espaço das Artes USP / São Paulo – SP
2015 – Fragmentos – “Fragments”
Curatorship: Ágata Collective
Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade / São Paulo – SP
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Fetiche: Retrato – “Fetish: portrait”
Curatorship: Paulo Azeco.
Nonada Art Gallery / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
2023 – Diálogos a partir de obras do Acervo “Dialogues based on works from the Collection” | Education Center MARP
Curatorship: Nilton Campos
MARP – Ribeirão Preto Art Museum / São Paulo – SP
2023 – Superfície Matéria (Densidade Identitária) – “Matter Surface (Identity Density)”
Curatorship: Paulo Azeco
Nonada Art Gallery – It is not here / São Paulo – SP
2022 – Atravessar o presente – “Get Through the Present”
Curatorship: André Carvalho, André de Souza, Grassine, Gustavo Cossio, Pamela Marques and Thales Aquino.
Boulevard ESDI-UERJ / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
2022 – A palavra: Verso – “The Word: Verse”
Curatorship: Paulo Azeco.
Nonada Art Gallery / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
2022 – O encontro é um lugar impossível – “The encounter is an impossible place”
Curatorship: Allan Yzumizawa
Correios Cultural Center – SP / São Paulo – SP
2022 – We’re here. (collective work with ali:leste, Aparelhamento and Mútua)
Curatorship: Thaís Rivitti
SESC Pinheiros / São Paulo – SP
2021 – BIENALSUR
Curatorship: Diana Wechsler (Ways of living)
EAC – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo / Montevideo – Uruguay
2021 – 49o Contemporary Art Salon Luiz Sacilotto
Selection: Baixo Ribeiro, Georgia Kyriakaks and Taisa Palhares
WEB and Paço Municipal / São André – SP
2021 – Acervo Rotativo 1/3 “Revolving Collection 1/3”
Curatorship: Laerte Ramos
Oswald de Andrade Cultural Workshop / São Paulo – SP
2021 – Rio Grande Photofluxo Festival
Curatorship: Gabriel Bicho
Street / Porto Velho – RO
2021 – Ideias (in)adequadas para questões (in)apropriadas
“(In)appropriate ideas for (in)appropriate questions”
Curatorship: Multiplicity Poetic Research Group
Atelier Paulista / São Paulo – SP
2021 – Entranhamentos Ocupação Imagética
“Estrangements Imagetic Occupation”
Curatorship: JP Accacio and Marcelo Bressanin
Casa JP Accacio / São Paulo – SP
2021 – Nínguem vai tombar nossa bandeira
“No one will take down our flag”
Curatorship: Julia Lima
Street / São Paulo – SP
2020 – Arte Londrina 8 – Polissemia política
“Londrina 8 Art – Political Polysemy (postponed)”
Curatorship: Danillo Villa and Michelle Sommer
DAP-UEL – Londrina State University / Londrina – PR
2020 – Não Há Ninguém Aqui – “There’s Nobody Here”
Curatorship: Nilton Campos, Yolanda Cipriano and Josué Mattos
Contemporary Art Center W / Ribeirão Preto – SP
2020 – Casa Carioca – “Carioca House”
Curatorship: Joice Berth and Marcelo Campos
MAR – Rio Art Museum / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
2020 – Ao Ar, Livre – “Outdoor, Free”
Curatorship: Tiago de Abreu Pinto
Street / Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Paulo – SP
2019 – Do Que Se Guarda – Projeto Limite
“From what to keep – Limit Project”
Curatorship: Nilton Campos
MARP – Ribeirão Preto Art Museum / São Paulo – SP
2019 – 26o. Praia Grande Fine Arts Hall
Seleção: Ana Kalassa, Isabel Pochini and Téo Senna
Palácio das Artes / Praia Grande – SP
2019 – 2o. Refluxo – Festival Experimental de Artes
“2o. Refluxo – Experimental Arts Festival”
Open Call – FAV
Cultural Center UFG / Goiânia – GO
2019 – Visual Arts Laboratory
Selection: Andrey Rossi, Thiago Toes and Thomaz Pacheco
OMA Gallery / São Bernardo do Campo – SP
2019 – 16o. Ubatuba Visual Arts Hall
Selection: Carlos Fonseca Vicente, Ricardo Cherbeluka and Paula Borghi
FundArt / Ubatuba – SP
2019 – 44o. SARP – Contemporary Ribeirão Preto Art Salon
Selection: Nilton Campos, Rejane Cintrão and Sergio Romagnolo
MARP – Ribeirão Preto Art Museum / Ribeirão Preto – SP
2019 – Muros – “Walls”
Selection: Cris Veit, Cris Bierrenbach, João Kulcsár, Maíra Erlich and Roberto Linsker
Paranapiacaba Photography Festival / Santo André – SP
2019 – Abraço Coletivo – “Collective Embrace”
Curatorship: Paula Borghi
Studio 397 / São Paulo – SP
2018 – I Bienal da USP – “USP Biennial”
Curatorship: DCE Livre Alexandre Vannucchi Leme
Espaço das Artes USP / São Paulo – SP
2017 – 15o. Programa de Exposições – “Exhibition Program”
Selection: Nilton Campos and Thaís Rivitti
MARP – Ribeirão Preto Art Museum / Ribeirão Preto – SP
2017 – “La Platadormance Art Festival – SIDE B”
Curatorship: Amor Experimental
Street / São Paulo – SP
2016 – 24o. Visualidade Nascente – “Nascent Visuality”
Selection: Carmem Aranha, Felisberto Sabino da Costa and Luiz Musa
Maria Antonia University center / São Paulo – SP
2016 – Arte Londrina 4 – Temporalidades, Sobreposições e Apagamentos
“Londrina 4 Art – Temporalities, Overlays and Erases”
Curatorship: Cauê Alves and Danillo Villa
DAP-UEL – Londrina State University / Londrina – PR
2016 – (In)Corporatura
Curatorship: Atelier Paulista
Monica Filgueiras Gallery / São Paulo – SP
2014 – Sobre Lugares e Gestos
“About Places and Gestures”
Selection: Livia Aquino, Pio Figueroa and Ronaldo Entler
MIS – Museum of Image and Sound / São Paulo – SP
2014 – 25a. Mostra de Arte da Juventude
“25th. Youth Art Show”
Selection: Nilton Campos, Juliana Okuda Campanelli and Janete Polo Melo
SESC Ribeirão Preto / Ribeirão Preto – SP
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Ambivalente
“Ambivalent (solo exhibition)”
Independent initiative
http://www.ambivalente.art
2020 – Percursos, Desejos e Dilação
“Routes, Desires and Delay (solo exhibition)”
MUnA – Museu Universitário de Artes
http://www.muna.ufu.br/
2020 – Festival Arte com Respiro: Audiovisual (collective exhibition)
Itaú Cultural
Breathe With Art Festival: Audiovisual (collective exhibition)
https://www.itaucultural.org.br/olhares-para-dentro-parte-festival-arte
RESIDENCES / LABORATORIES
2020 – Meios e Processos – “Means and Processes”
FAMA – Marcos Amaro Foundation / Itú – SP
2019 – OMA Laboratory – Visual Arts
OMA Gallery / São Bernardo do Campo – SP
2014-15 – Programa Mergulho Artístico
“Artistic Diving Program”
Oswald de Andrade Cultural Workshop / São Paulo – SP
2013-14 – Residência em Fotografia
“Photography Residency LABMIS”
MIS – Museum of Image and Sound / São Paulo – SP
AWARDS
2021 – Cultural Initiative – Project: Ambivalente
Santo André City Hall – SP
2020 – Arte Como Respiro
“Art as Breathing” – Audiovisual
Itaú Cultural – SP
2020 – Aldir Blanc – Acquisition
Santo André City Hall – SP
2019 – 1o. Foto Única Prize
Paranapiacaba Photography Festival – SP
2016 – Programa Nascente – Visual Arts
Universidade de São Paulo Pro-Rectory – SP
SCHOLARSHIPS
2016-18 – Postgraduate Scholarship CAPES/CNPQ
USP – Arts and Communications School
2014-15 – Mergulho Artístico Program: Research Scholarship
POIESIS – State of São Paulo Cultural Workshop
PUBLICATIONS
2021 – Diagrama Magazine , n.5
Finis Terrae University Publication of the Art School
Providencia – Santiago (Chile)
2015 – [Mira] vol. 7
Photo Collective Caja de Cartón / Concepción – Santiago (Chile)
2015 – O Marginal #2
Casa Rosa Publishing Company / São José do Rio Preto – SP
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS
2018 – Master’s Degree in Visual Poetic
University of São Paulo – ECA/USP – SP
2010 – Bachelor and Degree in History
Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André – FAFIL/CUFSA – SP
Santo André University Center Foundation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto – SP (Brazil)
MAR – Rio Art Museum – RJ (Brazil)
MARP – Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art – SP (Brazil)
MUnA – University Museum of Art – MG (Brazil)
MUNTREF – UNTREF Foundation – Buenos Aires (Argertina)
Clube de Colecionadores Oma Galeria @ Alan Oju
LIVE MUnA – Tatiana Ferraz @ Alan Oju
Alan Oju – Polissemia política – Arte Londrina 8
Casa Carioca por Alan Oju (MAR)
My research focuses on these subjectivation processes because they are the origin of my work. My work begins with an observation of the environment I live in. I see the city as a vast semiotic machine that affects me and others everywhere: walls, monuments, neons, pixos, advertisements, railings, squares, asphalt, concrete, and routes.
In my poetry operations, I look at the areas where different languages converge and diverge, trying to obfuscate these areas with aesthetically pleasing projects comprised of procedural layers and symbioses. I get inspiration from a variety of sources, including photography, video, performance, painting, sketching, installations, and the creation of objects.
