Ana Prata

(this page was last updated in March 2019)

Sete Lagoas, Brazil, 1980.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

PIPA Prize 2017, 2018 and 2019 nominee.

Ana Prata understands paintings as a medium for experimentation and language. Her works have formal variation, and present themselves in different scales, themes and materials. It can be characterised by a sort of nomadism, where the permissiveness for change is a feature of the process, giving up absolute certainties, for the sake of a constant arbitrariness. Often the work is structured in the idea of children’s drawing, in universal symbols, and regularly makes clear reference to modern art, as a kind of pictorial alphabet. Together the works result in a dynamic universe, where relations are built at all times, in different directions. They reveal something of humour and grace combined. Ana Prata has a degree in Fine Arts by the School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has had many solo exhibitions in the Millan Gallery in São Paulo, Brazil, and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London, UK, and has participated in exhibitions in the Institute Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo, the Institute Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro, the Cultural Centre São Paulo (CCSP), Festival Video Brazil in São Paulo,Beijing Minsheng Art Museum among others.

Website: www.anaprata.net

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Artworks

Curriculum

Education
– Fine Arts, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Solo Exhibitions
2017
– “Miss Natural e outras pinturas”, Millan Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Portraits”, Discoveries, Hong Kong Art Basel, China
2016
– “Gone Astray”, Pippy Houldsworth gallery, London, UK
2015
– “Vitrine”, Kunsthalle São Paulo, Brazil
– “Minutemen”, La Maudite, Paris, France
– “Bikini Projects#1”, Kubikgallery (kubikulo), Porto, Portugal
2014
– “O sol e a diferença”, Millan Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
– “e também o elevador, o vulcão e o jantar”, Institute Tomie Othake, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Nada pertence”, Marília Razuk Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
– “Jogo de Desmontar”, University Centre Maria Antônia, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Sala de Espera”, Cultural Centre São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Group Exhibitions
2017
– “Troposphere”, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
– “Tão diferentes, tão atraentes”, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Os Designios da Arte Contemporânea no Brasil”, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo (MAC-USP), São Paulo, Brazil
– “A Luz Que Vela o Corpo é a Mesma Que Revela a Tela”, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
– “The Visible World Is Merely An Isolated Case”, Cuchifritos, New York, USA
– “Around the Edge”, Broadway 1602, New York, USA
– “Dropping the Guru”, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2015
– “O Espírito de Cada Época”, Institute Figueiredo ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2014
– “Autoria, curadoria, reforma, contra-reforma”, Studio Alvaro Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Quase figura, quase forma”, Estação Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– 18º Festival Videobrasil, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Lugar Nenhum”, Institute Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Recorte Transversal”, Transversal Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
– “Manobras Poéticas”, Athena Contemporânea Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
– 17º Festival Videobrasil, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Os primeiros dez anos”, Institute Tomie Othake, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Vistas a perder de vista”, Penteado Gallery, Campinas, Brazil
2009
– “Exposição de Verão”, Silvia Cintra Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008
– “menos 21”, Graduating Exhibition ECA-USP, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Entre 5 Paredes”, Collective in atelier, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Ana Prata, Bruno Dunley, Marcos Brias”, Marília Razuk Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– 12º Salon Paulista de Arte Contemporânea , Casa das Rosas, São Paulo, Brazil