Ourinhos, Brazil, 1973.
Lives and works in New York, USA, and São Paulo, Brazil.
Henrique Oliveira holds a BA degree in Visual Arts (Painting) from ECA-USP and in Communication from ESPM. He also holds a Master degree in Visual Poetics from ECA-USP.
In 2018, Henrique Oliveira developed his first site specific in Brazil: a permanent installation fixed at the main stair of Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project was comissioned by Instituto PIPA and after nearly three months of work it was finally inaugureted in December 2018. Titled “Desnatureza 3”, the installation – that resemble somewhat a tree trunk – deals with the ambivalence between art and culture and the notions of cicle and renovation.
Some of his most recent exhibitions include: IX Enku Grand Award – Museum of Fine Arts (Gifu, Japan, 2018); Van de Weghe Gallery (New York, USA, 2017); Galeria Millan (São Paulo, Brazil, 2016); “Fissure”, Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois (Paris, France, 2015); “Adenocalcinoma Poliresidual”, Arthur Ross Gallery (Philadelphia ,USA, 2014); “Transarquitetônica”, MAC-USP (São Paulo, SP, 2014); “Baitogogo”, Palais de Tokyo ( Paris, France, 2013) and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, USA, 2011) among others.
His works are part of several Collections of Institutions around the world, such as: Museum of Fine Arts (Gifu, Japan), VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, USA), Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), MAM-Rio (Rio de Janeiro, RJ), Pinacoteca Municipal de São Paulo, Instituto Itaú Cultural, Museu Afro-Brasil (São Paulo, SP), among others.
Education
2007
– Masters in Visual Poetics – School of Comunication and Arts, University of São Paulo
2004
– Graduation in Fine Arts, bachelors in painting – School of Comunication and Arts, University of São Paulo
Solo Exhibitions
2018
– Site specific at Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– IX Enku Grand Award – Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
2017
– Van de Weghe Gallery, NY, USA
2016
-Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
-McClain Gallery, Houston, USA
-“Fissure”, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
2014
– “Adenocalcinoma Poliresidual”, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
– “Transarquitetonica”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Projective Eye Gallery”, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
2013
-“Baitogogo”, Palais de Tokyo, SAM Art Projects, Paris, France
2012
– Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-“Realidade Líquida”, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
-“Ursulinens Prolapse”, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
2011
– Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
– Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, USA
2010
– “Colagens”, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, USA
– Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
– “Tapumes”, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA
– Flying Circus Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2008
– “Temporada de Projetos”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– Galeria Baró Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
– 11º English Culture Festival, British Council, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Programa de Exposições”, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
2006
-“1th Show of Annual Program”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
-Baró Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
-“Tapumes”, House of Latin America Culture, Brasília, Brazil
2000
-“Drawings and Paintings”, FUNARTE (National Art Foundation), São Paulo, Brazil
1998
-“Paintings”, University of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2017
– “Stage of Being”, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands
– “Troposphere: Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art”, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
– “The Other Side: narratives of the unconscious”, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2016
– XIII Bienal de Cuenca: Impermanence, Cuenca, Ecuador
– “Bizarre Spaces: Attacks, Transformations, Explosions”, MARTA Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
– “The end of the World”, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
– “Small Gestures”, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
– “Os Muitos e o Um”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
– “Crafted: Object in Flux”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
– 4th Lubumbashi Biennale, Democratic Republic of Congo
– “FIAC Hors les Murs”, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
– “Quando Piso em Folhas Secas”, Sala de Arte Santander, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Fusion: Art of the 21th Century”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
– Centre d’Arts et de Nature, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
– “From Valongo to Favela: imaginary and periphery”, MAR (Museu de Arte do Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– “Brasiliana: Installations from 1960 to the present”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
– “La distance juste”, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
– “L’Arbre de vie”, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
2012
– “OIR (Outras Idéias para o Rio)”, Parque da Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Inside Out and from the Ground Up”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
– “Sculpture is Everything”, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2011
– “Projeto Travessias”, Galpão das Artes, Favela da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Art in Brazil (1950 – 2011)”, Europalia Festival, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
– “Artists in Dialogue 2: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira”, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2010
– 29ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil
– IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Casa de la Cultura de Puebla, Mexico
– 3rd Edition Prize CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art plásticas, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil
– IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
– “One of each one”, Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– 3rd Edition Prize CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art, Galeria Juvenal Antunes, Rio Branco, Brazil
2009
– 3rd Edition Prize CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
– 7th Bienal do Mercosul “Grito e Escuta”, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “Nova Arte Nova”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Gabinete”, Museu Vítor Meireles, Florianópolis, Brazil
2008
– “Nova Arte Nova”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Seja marginal, Seja Herói”, Galerie Vallois and Galerie Seroussi, Paris, France
– “Something from Nothing”, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA
– “Summer Show”, Silvia Cintra/ Box4 Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Studio Project”, Baró Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
– “Future of the Present”, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
– “CTRL _ C + CTRL_V/ Cut and Paste”, Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
– “The Moebius Spiral or the Limits of Painting”,Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosário, Argentina
– “Ut pictura diversitas”, Galeria Marta Traba, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Itaú Contemporary – Art in Brazil 1981-2006”, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
-Arte BA (Open Space), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
– 13th Bahia Salon, Salvador, Brazil
– “Fiat Mostra Brasil, Porão das Artes”, Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Paralela 2006”, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Collective Show of Annual Programe”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Viva! – alive culture of brazilian people – A look at brazilian contemporary art”, Museu Afro Brasil, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Projéteis Prize FUNARTE for contemporary art”, Palácio da Cultura Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005
– “Projectiles d’Art Contemporain in Espace Brésil, FUNARTE, Year of Brazil in France, Paris
– 5th Flamboyant Prize, National Art Salon of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
– “Visualidade Nascente”, University Center Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil
– “In Transit”, graduated artists from ECA/USP, Olido Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2004
– “Projéteis FUNARTE”, Palácio da Cultura Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– 9th Biennial of Visual Arts of Santos, Santos, Brazil
– Annual Program, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2003
– “Art of the New Millennium”, Guimarães Rosa Art Center, Jundiaí, Brazil
– “Interiors”, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
2002
– 5th Show Revelation Prize, Contemporary Art Museum of Americana, Americana, Brazil
– “Group Show Espaço Miolo”, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Miolo”, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
1999
-31th Art Salon of Piracicaba, Piracicaba, Brazil
Awards
2017
– IX Enku Grand Award. Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
2016
– Prix Pierre Cardin (sculpture). Académie des Beaux-Ats, Paris, France
2011
– APCA (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte) Prize – Highlight of the year, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
– CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça Prize for Visual Arts
2007
– Cultura Inglesa Festival Prize, Conselho Britânico, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Water Tower” Trophy in the Visual Arts category, Cultura Inglesa Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2006
– Prêmio aquisição, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
– Prêmio Projéteis FUNARTE de Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Fiat Mostra Brasil Prize
2005
– Visualidade Nascente Prize, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil
Grants and residencies
2015
Pioneer Works, NY, USA
2013
SAM Art Projects, Paris, France
2010
The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, USA
2009
Artist Research Fellowship (research grant), Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
2008
Cité Internationale des Arts, studio-residency, Paris, Frace
2005
FAPESP – Master degree grant – project ‘Painting and its language – materials and techniques in Brazilian contemporary art’
Atelier Amarelo, studio residency, São Paulo, Brazil
2004
FAPESP – academic scholarship – project ‘Image and Material – Investigating painting through the material matter’
Institutional and Public Collections
– VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, USA
– Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
– City of Houston Civic Art Program, William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, USA
– Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Fundação Edson Queiroz, Fortaleza, Brazil
– Pinacoteca Municipal, Coleção de Arte da Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil
– Coleção Centro Cultural da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
– Coleção Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil
– Coleção Metrópolis / TV Cultura, São Paulo, Brazil
– Museu Afro-Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
