Brasília, Brazil, 1995.
Lives and works in Brasília, Brazil.
Gustavo Silvamaral is a Brazilian artist born and raised in Brasília, where he completed his bachelor’s degree on Visual Arts from Universidade de Brasília and where he still develops his work to this day. The artist builds a continuous dialogue with pictorial language, regardless of the support he uses, positioning himself as a painter. There is an insistence on thinking the monochrome, placing color as the protagonist of the work, thinking its relationship with space. Silva’s yellow and its possible meanings are always being negotiated between the work and those who look at it; it is a potency in itself and in the relationship it intends.
Silvamaral constructs a painting that extends to everything that meets the gaze, places himself as an active observer of the world, bringing reality as a primordial tool, but a reality that changes within the whims of the pictorial gaze. Gustavo accumulates various discarded objects and uses them as an essential visual reference for his work, cataloguing these materialities in his countless artist’s notebooks, which are the conductors of many of his propositions.
Academic education
2019
– Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Universidade de Brasília
Artistic Residence
2019
– VI Residencia Epécuen, Ambos Mundos Gallery, Epecuén, Argentina
– II Prêmio Vera Brant de Arte Contemporânea, Casa Niemeyer, Brasília, Brazil
2017
– II Saloon/Residence, Eixo do Fora, Olhos D’água, Brazil
– OCA, CAL International Artistic Residence, Brasília, Brazil
2016
– Political Performance Participation, Lago Oeste, Brazil
Art Saloons and Awards
2021
– PIPA Prize nominee
2020
– 16 Salão Nacional de Arte de Guarulhos, Guarulhos, São Paulo
2019
– II Prêmio Salão Mestre D’armas, Museu Histórico e Artístico de Planaltina, Planaltina, Brazil
– II Prêmio Vera Brant de Arte Contemporânea, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, Brazil
2017
– II Salão/Residência Eixo do Fora, Olhos D’água, Brazil
– 7 Prêmio Ibema Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil
2016
– I Prêmio Vera Brant de Arte Contemporânea, Palácio do Buriti, Brasília, Brazil
Solo exhibitions
2021
– “Pinturas listradas e batatas fritas”, Galeria Karla Osorio, Brasília, Brazil
2018
– “Laranja C.I. 15895”, DeCurators, Brasília, Brazil
2016
– “Rapaz Latino Americano”, Galeria XXX, Brasília, Brazil
Group exhibitions
2021
– “Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021”, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
– “Rumor”, Caixa Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
– “Curare”, Galeria Casa, Brasília, Brazil
2019
– “Artpocalipsis”, Hiperespacio, Montevideo, Uruguai
– “Triangular: arte deste século”, Casa Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia, Brazil
– “Qual nome da sua exposição de arte contemporânea”, Espaço Piloto, Brasília, Brazil
– “Transmito”, Galeria Manoobra, Brasília, Brazil
– “Atravessamentos”, Galeria Casa, Brasília, Brazil
– VI Residência Epecuen, Galeria Ambos Mundos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– 14o Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, “Fronteiras em Aberto”, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, Brazil
– “PALAVRA, ANIMAL NÃO DOMÉSTICO”, Espaço Piloto, Brasília, Brazil
– “Utopias Efêmeras”, Piscina de Onda do Parque da Cidade, Brasília, Brazil
– “Três Quadrados Amarelos”, Galeria Karla Osorio, Brasília, Brazil
2018
– “Métrica”, OMA Galeria, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “GLAM, brinaesilva”, Antonieta, Brasília, Brazil
– “Forma e Matéria”, FAOP Galeria Nello Nuno, Ouro Preto, Brazil
– “A você mostrarei”, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
– “Cuerpos Digitales para la Acción – Performances de decolonización tecnológica”, El Galpón Espacio (Lima – Peru), DeCurators (Brasília – Brazil)
2017
– “Fuga #3”, Atelier Valéria Pena-Costa, Brasília, Brazil
– “Limiar de Lugar Algum”, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
2016
– “Carnaval Cospobre”, Galeria FAU-UnB, Brasília, Brazil
– “Plano de onde? Piloto de que?”, Espaço Piloto, Brasília, Brazil
Works in collection
– Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
– Casa da Cultura da América Latina, Brasília, Brazil
– Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
Curatorship
2020
– BURAQUERA, Objeto Encontrado, Brasília, Brazil
