Brasília, Brazil, 1997.
Lives and works in Brasília, Brazil.
Cecília Lima, born in Brazil in 1997, is a visual artist who lives and works in Brasília, Brazil. In her artistic research, she seeks to explore relationships between architecture, scales, spatial occupations, traces, balance, and other dimensions that constitute matter. Everyday displacements are the guiding axis of her experiments in languages such as sculpture, installation, video, and others. Graduated in visual arts from the University of Brasília – UnB. Cecília Lima exhibits regularly since 2017. In 2019, she had her first solo show at the Esponcedra Art and Culture gallery, in Barcelona, Spain. In 2020 she was nominated for the 11th edition of the Pipa Prize.
Education
2018
– Creative Process Lab, NAVE, Brasília, Brazil
2015
– Bachelors’ Degree in Visual Arts, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Brasília, UnB
Solo exhibition
2021
– “Hospitality”, curated by Yana Tamayo, National Museum of the Republic, Brazil
2019
– “Arquitecturas Cambiantes”, Esponcedra, Center for art and culture, Barcelona, Spain
Group Exhibitions
2023
– “Extas’e.1”, curated by Ianni Luna e Antenor Ferreira, Latin America’s House of Culture, CAL, Brasília, Brazil
2022
– “NÓS”, curated by Vivian Fainglod, Dezoito Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– “One day I opened my eyes and it was Brasília”, curated by Ana Avelar e Renata Reis, Brasilia Museum of Art, Brazil 2022
2021
– Cosmographies, curated by Clarissa Diniz, Index Art Gallery, Brasília, Brazil
2020
– “Brasília em obras”, Galeria Index, Brasília, Brazil
– “The invention of silence”, curated by Malu Serafim (online)
2019
– “2o Prêmio Vera Brant de Arte contemporânea”, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, Brazil
– “Transmito”, Manoobra, Brasília, Brazil
– “Hospitalidade”, Dona Lembrança, Olhos D’água, Brazil
– “Triangular: arte deste século”, Casa Niemeyer, Brasília, Brazil
2018
– “Todo espaço entre”, A Pilastra, Brasília, Brazil
– “Se eu fosse dizer que é aqui”, NAVE, Brasília, Brazil
– “Pélago”, A Pilastra, Brasília, Brazil
2017
– Mostra 2017 Tubo de Ensaios, Tubos Urbanos, Casa da América Latina, CAL, Brasília, Brazil
– #16. ART Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia Brasil, Imaginar o real, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
– “Além da forma, livro de artista”, Casa do Cantador, Brasília, Brazil
Residencies
2020
– Residency programme Transmetatlanticus, Latin America’s House of Culture, CAL, Brazil, Online
2019
– Residency Program by Esponcedra, Center for art and culture, Barcelona, Spain
– Residência Hospitalidade, Olhos D’água, Brazil
Coletion
– Latin America’s House of Culture, CAL, Brasília, Brazil
