(this page was last updated in July 2024)
Florianópolis, Brazil, 1986
Lives and works in between Florianópolis, São Paulo, Brazil, and Los Angeles, USA
PIPA Prize 2024 nominee
Noara Quintana (Florianópolis, 1986) is a visual artist, lives and works between Florianópolis, SC, São Paulo, SP, and Los Angeles, USA. Her research focuses on the materiality of everyday objects and the indices of histories of the Global South they carry. Through installations and sculptures, her work points to economic exchanges, architectural forms and narratives contrary to the legacy of colonial imagery.
Website: www.noaraquintana.com
She participated in several exhibitions and residencies, being in 2023 resident artist at the Delfina Foundation at the Inclusartiz Institute, London, UK, “Lauréate 2020” at the Institut Français at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR, and resident at Pivô Arte Pesquisa, São Paulo, SP, in 2021. In recent years she has been part of exhibitions such as: Frestas – SESC Arts Triennale “O rio é uma serpente”, Sorocaba, SP (2021); “For The Phoenix To Find Its Form In Us”, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE (2021); “11o Salão Nacional Victor Meirelles”, MASC, Florianópolis, SC (2022); “The Children Have to Hear Another Story – Alanis Obomsawin”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE (2022), “Pays rêvé, pays reverse”, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR (2023), “ Contra-Flecha: Arqueia mas não quebra”, Galeria Almeida & Dale, São Paulo (2023), “No Song Unsung” Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2023), “Whispers from the South”, Lamb Gallery, London (2023 ); “Futuro Fóssil”, Lanterna Mágica at Galeria Projeto Vênus, São Paulo (2023); “Labinac: What we have always done”, Casa Zalszupin, Almeida & Dale and Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo (2023); and “Bubuia”, “Águas como Fonte de Imaginações e Desejos”, Bienal das Amazônias, Belém (2023).
Education
2019
– Summer School, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art – SFSIA, “States of Consciousness in Cognitive Capitalism”, Berlin, Germany
– Summer School, SAVVY Contemporary, “Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a school of design (100 Years of Bauhaus)”, Berlin, Germany
2014
– M.A. in Visual Arts, São Paulo State University – UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– B.A. in Plastic Arts, Santa Catarina State University – UDESC, Florianópolis, Brazil
Awards and Fellowships
2023
– Fellowship of Instituto Inclusartiz and Delfina Foundation Residency, London, UK
2021
– Fellowship of Pivô Art and Research, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
– Lauréate 2020, Institut Français and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2019
– Scholarship of Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA), Berlin, Germany
2017
– Fellowship “Art and Research Residency – IIAC/EHESS” of Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation, Cité Internationale des Arts and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) / Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC), Paris, France
2015
– Acquisition Prize of the 21st Anapolino Art Exhibition, Anápolis, Brazil
2012
– Scholarship of CAPES – Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education, São Paulo, Brazil
Residencies
2023
– Delfina Foundation Residency and Instituto Inclusartiz, London, UK
2021
– Pivô Research Artistic Residency, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
– Cité Internationale des Arts and Institut Français, Paris, France
2018
– FAAP Artistic Residency, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Cité Internationale des Arts, “Art and Research Residency”, Paris, France
– BetOnest, Angermünde, Germany
– GlogauAir Residency, Berlin, Germany
2016
– Ateliê 397 Residency, “We are very open”, São Paulo, Brazil
– Casa Tomada Residency, “Interval-School”, São Paulo, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2023
– Lanterna Mágica, “Futuro Fóssil”. São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– École des Hautes Études en Sciences (EHESS), “Concrete Mirror”, in collaboration with Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Paris, France
2014
– Memorial Meyer Filho, “Soundings from bottom to surface”, Florianópolis, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibition
2024
– Brand Library & Art Center, “Summertime”, Glendale, CA, USA
– Museu Arte Moderna – MAM, “1000º”, 38º Panorama Nacional das Artes., São Paulo, Brazil (Forthcoming)
2023
– Bienal das Amazônias, “Bubuia”. Curated by Keyna Eleison, Vânia Leal and Sandra Benites. Belém, Brazil
– Casa Zalszupin com Almeida&Dale e Galeria Jaqueline Martins. “LABINAC – O que sempre fizemos”. Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. São Paulo, Brazil
– Tropigalpão, “Show”. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Organized by Projeto Vênus, Marli Matsumoto, Mitre Galeria and Central Galeria
– Lamb Gallery, “Whispers from the South”. London, UK
– Idyllwild Arts Center e SUPERCOLLIDER, “The Grammar of Animacy”. Idyllwild, Los Angeles, EUA
– Brea Gallery, “No Song Unsung”. Curated by Isabel Beavers, Supercollider. Brea, CA, USA
– Cité Internationale des Arts, “Pays Rêvé, pays reverse”. Paris, France
– Almeida& Dale Gallery, “Contra-flecha: Arqueia, mas não quebra”. Curated by Germano Dushá, Rafael RG e Ariana Nuala. São Paulo, Brazil
2022
– KADIST and PIVÔ, “from underwater mountains fire makes islands”. Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, São Paulo, Brazil
– Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), “The Children Have to Hear Another Story – Alanis Obomsawin” (online programme), in collaboration with the artist Maria Thereza Alves. Berlin, Germany
– Santa Catarina Art Museum – MASC, “11th Victor Meirelles National Salon”. Florianópolis, Brazil
– Marli Matsumoto Gallery, “Cultivation”. Curated by Raphaela Mehlson, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
– FRESTAS Triennial of Arts SESC, “The River is a Serpent”. Curated by Beatriz Lemos, Diane Lima, and Thiago de Paula Souza. Sorocaba, Brazil
– SAVVY Contemporary and Ifa Gallery , “FOR THE PHOENIX TO FIND ITS FORM IN US. On Restitution, Rehabilitation and Reparation”, Berlin, Germany
– Kiosko Galeria and Nube Gallery, “When there is no shade it is noon”. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
– Zipper Gallery, “Cosmic Algorithm”, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
– Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico, “Son del Pueblo” (online), project of the artist Maria Thereza Alves, Valle de Chalco, Mexico
2019
– SAVVY Contemporary, “Spinning Triangles (100 Years of Bauhaus)”, Berlin, Germany
2018
– Ateliê 397, “Sharp Voices”, São Paulo, Brazil
– Funarte, “Imminence of tragedy”. São Paulo and João Pessoa, Brazil
– Santa Catarina Art Museum, “Exile Excavation”. Florianópolis, Brazil
2017
– GlogauAir, “Open Studios”, Berlin, Germany
– Casa de Cultura, “On the Road and Off”, Arte Londrina. Londrina, Brazil
2016
– SESC Belenzinho, “POTLATCH – Art Exchanges”, curated by Paulo Miyada. São Paulo, BR.
2014
– Gentil Carioca Gallery, “ABRE ALAS 10”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Public Collections
2022
– “Evenings of Water” [“Noites d’água”] , “Dense Forest: Patauá and Caeté” and “Dense Forest: Manioc and tamba-tajá” [Mata-Cerrada], KADIST Foundation, San Francisco, USA, and Paris, France
– “Dense Forest for Hector Guimard: Sucuri, Cacau, Guambé and Tamba-Tajá”, Santa Catarina Art Museum – MASC, Florianópolis, Brazil
2015
– “Essay on time” and “Horizon Appeals”, Visual Arts Museum of Anapolis – MAPA, Anápolis, Brazil
