Itaara, Brazil, 1975.
Lives and works in Recife, Brazil
Cristiano Lenhardt uses videos, performances, observations, photographs, drawings and prints to create his work. He investigates the attraction and transformation of materials and symbols in everyday objects. In addition, he investigates the illusory interplay between the bidimensional plane and tridimensional space through drawings.
Education
-Artistic Orientation at Torreão Cultural Institution, Porto Alegre, 2001- 2003.
-Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Federal University of Santa Maria, 1996-2000.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-“O Habitante do Plano para Fora”, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Raree show 2”, Gallery Jacqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
-“Litomorfose”, Gallery Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Matéria Superordinária Abundante”, Amparo 60 Gallery, Recife, Brazil.
2013
-“Planalto”, Amparo 60 Gallery, Recife, Brazil.
2011
-“Papel Sensível”, Tijuana/Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2010
-“Nenhuma Luz”, Amparo 60 Gallery, Recife, Brazil.
2009
-“Filmes de Studio”, Torreão, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“A Quarta Cor, Temporada de Projetos”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-“Diamante, Gallery Marcantonio Vilaça, Cultural Institute Real Bank, Recife, Brazil.
2003
-“Ajuste Manual”, Cinema and Video Festival of Santa Maria, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions
2015
-PIPA Prize, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil || Southern Panoramas, Galpão Videobrazil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-5th CNI SESI SENAI Marcantônio Vilaça Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“No Sound”, Anexo Gallery Millan, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“A mão negativa”, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Outdoor I”, WARM São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Depois do Futuro”, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2014
-“Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Centre for the Arts, Ohio, USA.
-“Laboratório Curatorial”, SP-Arte 2014, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Valsas”, Gallery Amparo 60, Recife, Brazil.
-“Cristiano Lenhard:t A Realidade do Sonho”, Cultural Centre Bank of the Northeast, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Verbo”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
-14/15, Bolsa de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013
-“Mitologias por Procuração”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Caminhando”, Cultural Centre Bank of the Northeast, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Ambiguações”, Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2012
-“Rumos Artes Visuais”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Da próxima vez eu fazia tudo diferente”, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“O Efeito da Frase”, Museum Murilo La Greca, Recife, Brazil.
2011
-“Mythologies”, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
-“Ficciones”, Encuentro Biennial de Fotografía y Nuevos Medios, Foundation Pablo Atchugarry, Uruguay.
-17th International Festival of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail”, art exchange, University of Essex, UK.
-“Ano Novo”, Gallery Silvia Cintra+Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010
-“Constructing Views”, New Museum, New York, USA.
-“Territórios Recombinantes”, Institute Sergio Motta, Museum of Modern Art Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil.
2009
-7th Biennial of Visual Arts Mercosul, Foundation Biennial of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-63rd Salão Paranaense, Curitiba, and SPA das Artes, Recife, Brazil.
2008
-Exhibition Programme, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
-SPA das Artes, Recife, Brazil.
2006
-Fiat Show Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil.
2004
-“Contemporary Exhibition in Porto Alegre”, SPA das Artes, Recife, Brazil.
Awards, Grants & Residencies
2014
-Illy sustainArt Award Brazil, SP-Arte, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013
-Residency, Gasworks, London, UK.
-Phosphorus, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-Made in Mirrors Foundation, Guangzhou, China.
-Bolsa Iberê Camargo, Artists Programme, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2008
-Videoarte Contest Prize, Foundation Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil.
-Projectiles of Contemporary Art, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2006
-26th Prize of the Salon of Visual Arts of Pernambuco, Brazil.
