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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1977.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and New York, USA.
PIPA 2013 nominee.
Ana Dantas graduated in Advertising and Film at Emerson College in Boston, USA. From 2000 to 2005, she worked in film production in New York City with several directors, including Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese. In 2005, she returned to Brazil and started working with video editing. In 2008, she became part of an art study group supervised by artist Marcos Bonisson. Between 2009 and 2011, she attended the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, where she studied with Denise Cathilina, Luiz Ernesto and Bob N, among others. From 2010 to 2012, she worked as a video editor and assistant to the artist Arthur Omar. She also edited videos directed by Marcos Bonisson about different artists. Currently, she lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and New York, where she continues to work editing other artists’ videos and also developing her individual work. In November 2013, was part of the Group Exhibition “Physis | soma – o corpo, a expressão e a poética do movimento” at Casa das Rosas, in São Paulo. In 2014, Dantas received the Award of Merit, Focal Point from the Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, USA.
Website: www.anadantas.net
Video made by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2013:
Videos by the artist
“Trânsito de Netuno”. Duration: 1’06”
“Where”, 2011. Duration. 0’27”
“Time”, 2010. Duration: 0’36”
Untitled, 2009. Duration: 0’34”
Untitled, 2009. Duration: 0’25”
“Under the Influence”. Duration: 1’47”
Untitled, 2008. Duration: 0’21”
Untitled. Duration: 0’26”
Solo Exhibitions
2019
– “Alinhamentos: constelações”, Martha Pagy Escritório de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
– “Nyx Series”, The Shed Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Group Exhibitions
2020
– 14th Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art: “Entremundos”, Curitiba, Brazil
2018
– “Em Cada Linha um Traço, Em Cada Fio uma Trama”, Martha Pagy Escritório de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– ” Woodstock Squared Fundraiser exhibition”, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, USA
– “Woman’s Film Festival – Experimental Program”, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017
– “Ana Dantas & Ursula Tautz”, Instituto Cultural PLAJAP, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
– “Coletiva em Ipanema”, Instituto Cultural PLAJAP, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Afluências – Ana Dantas & Jaqueline Vojta”, Martha Pagy Escritório de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Qual é o seu link?”, Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbenkian, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Momenta Art Spring Benefit”, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2015
– “TRIO Biennial”, Parque das Ruínas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Zona Oculta”, Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbenkian, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Under the Subway Video Art Night”, Project Space Kleiner Salon, Berlin, Germany
– “Under the Subway Video Art Night”, The ANNEX Art Social Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
– “Thought I buried It”, Cashama – 1351 Gallery, Harlem, New York, USA
– “Women Experimental Films”, The Shed Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2014
– “Focal Point”, Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD, USA.
– “Fotografia Transversa”, Fundacao Vera Chaves Barcellos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
2013
– “Physis Soma – o corpo, a expressao e a poetica do movimento”, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Campo de Livros II – FotoRio 2013”, Centro Cultural Justica Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “MoMA Pop Rally: Abstract Currents – interactive video event”, MoMA, New York, USA.
AWARDS / RECOGNITION
2014
– Award of Merit, Focal Point, Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD, USA
2013
– Nominated artist for PIPA Prize, Brazil
2012
– New Generation Artist – The ARTIGO Award for Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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