Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1980.
Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro, Berlin and Lisbon.
Luiza Baldan holds a PhD and a Master’s in Visual Languages from UFRJ (Brazil), and a BFA in Photography/Timebased media from Florida International University (USA). The artist investigates urban dynamics that are established between the individual and the architecture, the memory and the city. Her images and texts result from the interrelation with the surroundings, in a sort of performance expanded by the places where she lives and where she passes through. Immersion is a fundamental part of the research, as it happens in artistic residencies and in long-duration projects involving trips and periodic displacements to revisited places.
Some of her individual exhibitions include: “Estofo”, Anita Schwartz Gallery (Rio, 2017); “Perabé”, PIPA Prize Finalist (MAM Rio, 2016) and Centro Cultural São Paulo (SP, 2015); “Build Up”, MdM Gallery, (Paris, 2014); “Índice”, MAM (RJ, 2013). Group shows: 17° Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Participazioni Nazionali (Brasile), La Bienalle di Venezia (2021); BF20 – Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal (2021); “Casa Carioca”, MAR (Rio, 2020); “Women in the MAR Collection”, MAR (Rio, 2018); “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil”, The Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, USA, 2014); “Lugar Nenhum”, Instituto Moreira Salles (RJ, 2013). Awards: Viva Arte! (SMC RJ, 2015); XI Marc Ferrez Photography Award from Funarte (2010).
She developed the project “Monumentality as a Collectivity” for the publication “The MASP of Lina: 50 years of the building on Avenida Paulista” (2018) and participated in the Photo Collectors Club of MAM-SP (2016). The artist published the books “Derivadores” (with Jonas Arrabal) in 2016 and “São Casas” in 2012.
“Suave”, 2012. Duration: 11’53”
“Petricor”, 2011. Duration: 04’56”
“De murunduns e fronteiras”, 2010. Duration: 04’12”
“Hexa”, 2009. Duration: 01’26”
Education
2015
-Enrolled in the PhD program, Visual Arts, School of the Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
2010
-MFA Visual Arts, School of the Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
2005–2006
-Art theory courses, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro.
2003
-BFA Visual Arts (major in Photography and minor in Art History), Florida International University, Miami.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-“Perabé”, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
-“Build Up”, MdM Gallery, Paris, France.
2013
-“Corta Luz”, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Index”, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2011
-“Algumas séries”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói, Brazil.
-“Insulares e marginais”, Gallery Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010
-“Sobre umbrais e afins”, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, Portugal.
-“Luiza Baldan”, University Centre Maria Antônia, São Paulo, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions
2015
-“Casa Cidade Mundo”, Municipal Art Centre Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Coleções 10”, Gallery Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“A palavra palavra”, Gallery Carbono, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Fotos contam Fatos”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Brasil em preto e branco”, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Ter lugar para ser”, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Fotografia Contemporânea Brasileira: Novos Talentos”, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, Brazil.
-“Atributos do Silêncio”, Gallery Bergamin, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Vértice: Coleção Sérgio Carvalho”, Postal Service Museum, Brasíilia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Frente à Euforia”, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
-“Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil”, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA.
-“Duplo Olhar: um recorte da coleção Sérgio Carvalho”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013
-“Lugar Nenhum”, Institute Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Escavar o Futuro”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2012
-Rumos Artes Visuais 2012-2013, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Collecting Collections and Concepts”, Fábrica ASA, Guimarães, Portugal.
2010
-“Mapas Invisíveis”, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-General archive, Centro Carioca Centre of Design/CAHO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“O Lugar da Linh”a, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, and Museum of Contemporary Art Niterói, Brazil.
-“Além do horizonte: paisagens contemporâneas”, Amarelonegro Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Retrospectiva”, Amarelonegro Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Olhares Femininos: Aqui e Lá”, Gallery Fotoativa, Belém, Brazil.
-“Liberdade é pouco. O que desejo ainda não tem nome.”, Casa BM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009
-37th Santo André Salon of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Nova Arte Nova”, Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Linguagem de Travessia”, Cultural Centre of Federal Justice, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Piscinão da Benvinda de Carvalho”, Gallery Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Small formats, Subterrânea Atelier, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Awards, Scholarships, and Special Projects
2016
-Guest artist of the Photography Collectors Club, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
2015
-III Exhibition Program of 2015, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
-Visual Arts Grant, Viva a Arte! (with Jonas Arrabal), Municipal Culture Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013
-Merit Art and Patrimony Honor, Iphan, Brazil.
-Visual Arts Grant, Funarte (Art residency at Copan/Pivô, São Paulo), Brazil.
2012
-Visual Arts Grant, Pro Artes Visuais, Municipal Culture Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-PIPA nominee, IP and Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2011
-Rumos Artes Visuais 2011-2013, Itaú Cultural, residency at CRAC Valparaíso, Chile.
-PIPA nominee, IP and Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010
-XI Marc Ferrez Photography Award, Funarte, residency at Península, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Programme Brazil Contemporary Art/Exhibition of Artists Abroad, São Paulo Biennial Foundation, Brazil.
-Panel participant: “Poéticas e Retóricas Contemporâneas”, Funarte, Cultural Centre of the Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
-PIPA nominee, IP and Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009
-Art residency at Pedregulho, Iphan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Acquisition award, 37th Santo André Salon, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Nominated to the KLM Paul Huf Award, Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2008
-Cultural Centre São Paulo/Gallery Olido (solo show and acquisition award).
2007
-Finalist: Iberê Camargo Award, Brazil.
2003
-Finalist: Annual Best College Photography, Photographer’s Forum Magazine, USA.
2002
-Color Express Award, Annual Student Show, The Art Museum, Miami, USA.
-Brown L. & Marion Whatley Scholarship, The Visual Arts Spring Review 2002, Florida International University, Miami, USA.
Collections
-Musuem of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Iphan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Municipal Prefecture of São Paulo, Brazil.
-Municipal Prefecture of Santo André, Brazil.
-Coleção MAM Nacional. Rio de Janeiro: Barléu Edições, 2014.
-Escavar o Futuro / Renata Marquez … [et al.]. Belo Horizonte: Foundation Clóvis Salgado, 2014.
-Magazine ArtReview, 3/2014.
-Fotografia na arte brasileira séc XXI. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Cobogó, 2014.
-ESPADA, Heloisa e Lorenzo Mammì. Lugar Nenhum. Rio de Janeiro: IMS, 2013.
-BALDAN, Luiza. São Casas. Rio de Janeiro: Municipal Culture Secretary, 2012.
-Convite à viagem. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural, 2012.
-Revista Lugares, 6/2012.
-Magazine Elástica, 1/2011.
-Santa Art Magazine, 7/2011.
-Lado7, 2/2011.
-Magazine Monopol, 9/2010, September.
-Magazine Textos escolhidos de cultura e arte populares, vol. 7-2, 2010/02 (Centre of Carnival Reference- UERJ).
-Magazine Arte&Ensaios, n.21, 2010/02 (PPGAV-UFRJ).
-VENÂNCIO FILHO, Paulo … [et al.]. Nova Arte Nova. Rio de Janeiro: CCBB, 2008.
-Magazine Virtual Gambiarra (Magazine of Post-Graduate Science and Art Exhibition Programme –
PPGCA/UFF), ISSN 1984-4565/Number 03 – Year III .
-Magazine Noz #3. Rio de Janeiro, PUC, 2009.1. ISSN 1981-9412.
