Catanduva, Brazil, 1980.
Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The exploration of material as a form of expression in the work of Lucas Simões is not, as may appear at first sight, a fetish for materiality, but rather a research that aims to fill the support of the artistic object with meaning. His training as an architect, where technique and poetics are profoundly interlinked, gives one of the possible keys for understanding his production. Painting, cartography, books, photography, concrete, steel, paper…have already been objects of his investigation. Through daily experimentation with materials and know-how, the artist finds the necessary means of expression, as in his more recent sculptures and installations in concrete, which reflect his research into brutalist architecture and the failure of its utopian sense.
Solo exhibitions
2020
– “Arregaçadxs [Queer Drawings]”, Solo Project, Arco, Madrid, Spain
2019
– “Drawing Tense”, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, USA
– “Inbound”, Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
– “Awaiting Masses”, Patron Gallery, New York, USA
2018
– “Ressaca”, Galeria Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “White Lies”, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
2017
– “Corpos de Prova”, Patron Gallery, Chicago, USA
– “PerpetualInstability”, Expo Chicago, Galeria MARSO + Patron Gallery, USA
– “Corpos de Prova”, Galeria Pasto, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– “White Lies”, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2016
– “Solo Project”, Untitled Art Fair, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Miami, USA
– “Abysses”, Emma Thomas Gallery, New York, USA
– “All that can be done and undone”, Solo Project, NADA, New York, USA
– “tudo que pode ser feito e desfeito”, Solo Project, SP Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Recalque Diferencial”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Perpetual Instability”, Space in Between Gallery, London, England
2014
– “NotUrna”, Pivô (Sao Paulo); Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz IFF (Ribeirao Preto); Biblioteca Mario de Andrade (Sao Paulo), Brazil
– “Deserto”, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
– “Deluded Detachment”, Solo Project at Arco Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2013
– “Desmanche”, Caixa Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “o peso, o tempo”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Desmanche”, Caixa Cultural, Rio de janeiro, Brazil
2012
– “Caixão Perdido”, Pivô, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Desmanche”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
– “é de papel o mundo que eu conheço”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Group exhibitions
2019
– “Experimentando Le Corbusier”, Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON), Curitiba, Brazil
2018
– “The Cave Wall Was Always There”, Galeria Pelaires, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
– “Experimentando Le Corbusier”, Museu da Casa Brasileira (MCB), Sao Paulo, Brazil
2017
– “MA”, Galeria Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Mil Bestias que Rugen: Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica”, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain
– “Politic of Dreams”, Fondacion Hippocrène, Paris, France
– “Building Materials”, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
– “Acervo: Outras Abordagens”, Museu de Arte Contempoânea da USP (MAC USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Perpetualinstability”, Iniciativa Curatorial Marso, Mexico City, Mexico
2016
– “Abysses – Solo Project”, Artissim Art Fair, Turim, Italy
– “Letters to the Mayor”, Pivô, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Grave Gravidade”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Jogo de Forças”, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Obras”, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, USA
2015
– “Imagine Brazil / Artists’books”, D H C/ART Foundation for Contemporary, Quebec, Canada
– “10a Bienal do Mercosul – Mensagens de Uma Nova América”, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “Fotos contam fatos”, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Ter lugar para ser”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, CCSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Transpoéticas”, Sesc Ramos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Hybrid Art 2015”, Theatre of Russia, Moscou, Russia
– “Imagine Brazil”, Instituto Thomie Othake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Concreto/concreto: Plano Piloto”, Solo Project, Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Tudo deixará de Existir – Made by Brazilians”, Hospital Matarazzo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “La Historia La Escriben Los Vencedores”, OTR Espacio de Arte, Madrid, Spain
– “Operações Fotográficas”, Sesc Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013
– “Amor e ódio à Lygia Clark”, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
– “Imagine Brazil”, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
– Prêmio Foco, Bradesco Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Coleção Itaú de fotografia brasileira, Casa das Onze Janelas, Belem, Brazil
– “Beyond the Library”, Frankfurt Buchmesse, Germany
– “Além da biblioteca”, Itochu Aoyama Art Square, Tokyo, Japan
– “Betão à vista”, Mube, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012
– “After Image, The photographic process(ed)”, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
– “Something About the State of Being”, Philip J.Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Arts and Design, Denver, USA
– Coleção Itaú de Fotografia, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Elogie Duvertige”, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2011
– “Fronteiriços”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– Doações Recentes, MAC – USP cidade universitária, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Geração 00, a nova fotografia brasileira”, Sesc Belenzinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Projeto Incubadora”, Galeria Olido, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Arsenal”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Salão de pequenos formatos da Amazônia”, UNAMA, Manaus, Brazil
– “é de papel o mundo que eu conheço”, MARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Viagem Passagio”, Museu de Itatiba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
– “Citi Novos Artistas”, Espaço Cultural Citibank, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008
– “Impulso”, Galeria Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007
– “Vinte e poucos anos”, Galeria Baró Cruz, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Residencies
2019
– CCA Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain [June]
– AnnexB, New York, USA [March / April / May]
2017
– “URRA”, Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina [April / May]
– “Iniciativa Curatorial Marso”, Mexico City, Mexico [January / February]
2016
– “The Fountainhead”, Miami, USA [November / December]
2015
– “Pivô”, Sao Paulo, Brazil [April – October]
– “Bow Arts”, Balfron Tower, London, England [February / March]
2014
– “Espaço Fonte”, MAM AM, Recife, Brazil [April / May]
Awards
2010
– Salão de pequenos formatos da Amazônia, UNAMA, winner of the Grande Prêmio, Belem, Brazil
2009
– Prêmio Citi Novos Artistas, Espaço Cultural Citibank, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013
– Prêmio Foco Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Collections open to the public
– MAR, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– MAC USP , Museu de Arte Contemporânea da cidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– Coleção ITAÚ de fotografia brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA
– CCSP, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– IFF- Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– Kablanc Otazu Foundation in Navarra, Spain
