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Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1962.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Represented by Galeria Laura Marsiaj.
PIPA 2011 nominee.
Ana Miguel started her trajectory as an engraver. From the 1980s on she creates three-dimensional works and installations. The artists also works in theatre, collaborating with Adriano and Fernando Guimarães’ productions of Samuel Beckett. Human relations, literature, the use of words, the upheaval of familiar meanings, the experience of feelings and affects constitute the core of her disturbing and sharply humorous body of work.
Website: www.anamiguel.com
Video produced by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2011:
Marcelo Campos, June 2010-
Deleuze and Guattari see the territory as “an effect of art”. The artist reorganizes functions and regroups forces. Ana Miguel’s propositions create gravitational
forces, something that few artists are able to achieve. Her works situates themselves in a scale that is non grata to the artists of the 1980s generation.
Ana Miguel has always been a pioneer of the fabulist take that more recent artists have resorted to. Her use of engravings had the double function of linking her to historical schools and art environments was at the same time a mark of her singularity. Inhabiting childhood and at the same time killing childhood was a strategy increasingly used by the following generations of artists.
Selected Solo Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions Awards Collections
2012
-“Sonho escrito na tinta de Brasil”, CCBNB, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Modos de atravessar um deserto”, Galeria Moura Marsiaj, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-“Um tesouro no cofre”, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010
-“Fechar os olhos para ver”, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2006
-“RAPUNZEL”, El Borde Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-“LIVRO=SONHO”, Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Je t’adore”, Espace galerie Flux, Liège, Belgium.
2005
-“Je t’adore”, Le Vivat Scène conventionnée danse & théâtre, Armentières, France.
2004
-“Para Conter um Labirinto: Narrativas”, Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002
-“I MISS YOU”, Gallery 32, London, United Kingdom.
2001
-“Caso de Amor”, Galeria Le Corbusier, Embaixada da França, Brasília, Brazil.
-“As Flores Também Ficam Instáveis e Podem Ferir”, Galeria ECCO, Brasília, Brazil.
2000
-“Florezinhas”, Galeria São Paulo, Brazil.
1999
-“Trazia as mãos frias”, invited artist, Galeria de Bolso da Casa da América Latina, UnB, Brasília, Brazil.
1998
-“Ostras”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“a posteriori”, galeria Athos Bulcão, Brasília, Brazil.
1995
-“Circulación”, 10é Cicle d’Art Contemporani a Gràcia, Barcelona, Spain.
1994
-“De com les ostres produeixen les seves perles”, Sala Fortuny, Reus.
-“Allò que es llegeix on no es llegeix”, Escola Taller d’Art, Reus, Spain.
2015
-“Ficções”, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Ver e ser visto”, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Museu”, Espaço Sensível, (acervo do Museu Nacional), Museu Histórico e Artístico de Planaltina, Brazil.
-“Da escrita”, delas, elas, Galeria do Lago, Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Rythmes d’Écritures”, École des Arts de Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium.
-“OBAOBA”, Galeria Bangbang, Lisboa, Portugal.
2014
-“Há escolas que são gaiolas e há escolas que são asas”, Museum of Art Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013
-“Amor”, Museu Casa de Benjamin Constant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2012
-“Gravura em campo expandido”, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Novas aquisições – Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand”, Museum of Modern Art (MAM RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2011
-“Gigantes por la propia naturaleza”, IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain.
-“Vestígios de Brasilidade”, Santander Cultural Recife, Brazil.
2010
-“Brasília: Síntese das artes”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Brazil.
2009
-“Outro Vai Ser”, Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Alcova”, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Poética Têxtil”, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-“TOQUE”, Museu Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“NINHUMANOS”, Prêmio Interferências Urbanas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Moradias Transitórias”, SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Desenho em todos os sentidos”, SESCs Petrópolis, Teresópolis e Friburgo, Brazil.
-“Poética da percepção”, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Relatos Culturais”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
-“Moradias Transitórias”, Museu Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da República, Brasília, Brazil.
-“ARTE PARÁ”, invited artist, Belém, Brazil.
-“80/90 Modernos”, Pós Modernos etc., Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Achados e Perdidos”, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil.
2006
-“Manobras Radicais”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“En attendant la reprise”, Cycle Couper/Copier/Coler, La Vénerie, Brussels, Belgium.
-“Safety Nest”, Sesc Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-“O Corpo na Arte Contemporânea Brasileira”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Centre culturel Les Chiroux”, Liège, Belgium.
-“A/MAZE”, La Trefilerie, Brussels, Belgium.
2003
-“Gentil Reversão – Versão Castelo”, Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002
-“25ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo”, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Kunstlieche Liebe”, Kulturzentrum Kammgarm, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
2001
-“Território expandido III”, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Tell me no lies”, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Per-Versus”, Espaço Obra Aberta, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“Gentil Reversão”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Brazil.
2000
-“Brasil: Plural y Singular”, MAM de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-“The Theatre of Installation”, Museum of Installation, London, UK.
-“O Século das Mulheres”, Algumas Artistas, Casa de Petrópolis Instituto de Cultura, Brazil.
1999
-“O Objeto / Anos 60-90”, Museum of Modern Art (MAM RJ) and Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
I-I Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
1998
-“Mais leve que o ar,” obras do acervo do MAB, Galeria Athos Bulcão, Brasília, Brazil.
1997
-“Cegueses”, Museu d’Art de Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
1996
-“New Art”, Barcelona, Espanha. Ateliers Abertos, Barcelona, Spain.
1995
-“My bloody Valentine”, Real Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
-“Infância Perversa”, Museum of Modern Art (MAM RJ) Rio de Janeiro and Museum of Modern Bahia (MAM BA), Salvador.
-“En el otro lado de las cosas”, Tecla Sala, Barcelona, e CAZ la Galería, Zaragoza, Spain.
1994
-Projeto Macunaima, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2008
Prêmio Interferências Urbanas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2000
International Prize at the 2nd ARTEBA Mercosul Engraving Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998
Prize at the 5th Bahia Salon.
Candango Culture Prize in Visual Arts for her exhibition a posteriori, Brasília, Brazil.
1996
Scholarship recipient from the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
1993
Finalista at Vals Biennial, Spain.
Special prize at the Premio Nacional de Grabado, Calcografia Nacional, Madrid, Spain,
as well as the following National Prizes in Plastic Arts in Reus, Catalonia, Spain.
1990
Brasília Arts Prize, Brasília, Brazil.
1985
Carioca Prize, Gravura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1984
Mini Print international Prize, Cadaqués, Spain.
1983
Salão Paranaense Prize, Curitiba, Brazil.
1981
Carioca Prize, Gravura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Funarte Prize, Fluminense Federal University Salon, Brazil.
-Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Cândido Mendes Collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Museum of Modern Art Bahia, MAM, Brazil.
-Museu de Arte, MAB, Brasília, Brazil.
-Centre de Lectura, Reus, Catalonia, Spain.
-Engraving Section of the National Library of Madrid, Spain
-ARTEBA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.