Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 1971.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Renata Lucas earned a BA in Fine Arts at the Universidade Federal de Campinas, devoting herself to sculpture. The artist moved to São Paulo in 1992 and completed a Post-Graduate degree at Unicamp and Universidade de São Paulo.
Her first solo exhibition was in early 2001, at the Gallery 10,20×3,60, in São Paulo, an independent gallery formed by a group of artists.
Renata Lucas was the winner of the 1st edition of PIPA in 2010. At the Finalists Exhibition in MAM-Rio, Lucas presented the work ‘Denominador Comum’ from the series ‘Primeira Nota para Flores Raras’. The work, which is now a part of the permanent collection of MAM-Rio, consisted of an intervention on the facade of the Museum. The artist participated in the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2009 and at dOCUMENTA (13), in Kassel, Germany in 2012. Since 2011, Lucas has been a member of the Board of CAPACETE Entretenimento, a residency programme based in Rio de Janeiro. In 2015, Lucas had a solo exhibition titled ‘Fontes e Sequestros’ at Galerie Neugerriemschneider in Germany.
Education
1990/93
Degree in Fine Arts, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
1996/99
Master in Fine Arts, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
2004/08
PhD at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA-USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-fontes e sequestros, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany.
2014
-Renata Lucas, curated by Jeanette Pacher, secession, Vienna, Austria.
-Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-Third Time, Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy.
2010
-Cabeça e cauda de Cavalo, Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
2007
-Resident, Gasworks, London, England.
-Falha, Redcat, Los Angeles, USA.
2006
-Atlas, Galeria Millan Antonio, São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-Gentileza, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2003
-Cruzamento, Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Antifogo, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2002
-Comum de Dois, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Mau Gênio, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2001
-Barravento, Galeria 10,20 x 3,60, São Paulo, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
-United States of Latin America, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA.
-Invento, Oca Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Encruzilhada, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2014
-Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict, CIFO Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Miami, USA.
2013
-“Projeto Casa de Vidro”, Instituto Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo, Brazil.
-When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA.
2012
-“One on One”, curated by Suzanne Pfeiffer, Kunstwerk, Berlin, Germany.
-“Planos de fuga – Uma exposição em obras”, curated by Rodrigo Moura and Jochen Volz, CCBB São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Inhotim – Instituto de arte Contemporânea, Galeria Mata, Brumadinho, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-“Parque Industrial”, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Sense and Sustainability”, Urdaibai Art 2012, Spain.
-“To the Moon via the Beach”, Luma Foundation, Arles, France.
-dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany.
2011
-12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
-“The Spiral and the Square, Exercises in Translatability”, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010
-Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (residence program and exhibition) San Francisco, USA.
-“Entre desejos e Utopias”, a Gentil Carioca Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Open House”, IASPIS International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm, Sweden.
-“Prêmio Pipa”, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009
-“Short Time”, Half House, Barcelona, Spain.
-“Tiempo como materia”. Colección MACBA. Nuevas incorporaciones, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain.
-53ª Biennale di Venezia, Italy.
-Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria.
-San Juan Triennale, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2008
-“This is not a Void”, Luisa Strina gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Revolutions: Forms that Turn”, Biennale of Sydney, Australia.
-“God is Design”, Fortes Vilaça gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“The world as a Stage”, ICA, Boston, USA.
2007
-“The world as a Stage”, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
-“For Sale”, Cristina Guerra gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
-“Positions in Context: 2007 CIFO Grants Program Exhibition, Miami, USA.
-Encuentro Internacional Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.
-“Accident”, Brazilian Vídeo, MNAC, Bucarest, Romania.
2006
“Como viver junto”, 27ª Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
SESI-CNI Marcantonio Vilaça Award, exhibition tour through the main Brazilian capitals, Brazil.
2004
-“Vol”, Vermelho gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Fragmentos e Souvenirs Paulistanos – vol.1”, Luisa Strina gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Bienal de Santos, Brazil.
-“Posição 2004”, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002
-“10,20 x 3,60”, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
-Salão Paranaense, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Curitiba, Brazil.
-Salão de Arte de São José dos Campos, Fundação Cassiano Ricardo, Brazil.
2001
-Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Grants, Awards & Residencies
2011
–Residency at Gasworks, London, UK.
2010
-Magnificent Seven, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, São Francisco, USA.
-Residency at IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden.
-Pipa Prize, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
-DAAD Short Residency, Berlin, Alemanha, DE
-Dena Foundation Art Award, Paris, France.
-Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award, Berlin, DE.
2007 – 2008
-Marcelino Botín Grant (Santander-Espanha): Residency at Gasworks, London, UK
2006 – 2007
-Programa CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Foundation), USA.
2004-05
-SESI-CNI Marcantonio Vilaça Prize, Brazil.
2004-08
-CNPQ Post-graduation Grant, Universidade de São Paulo (ECA-USP), Brazil.
Collections
-MARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
-Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC Curitiba, Brazil.
-MAMAM, Museu de Arte Moderna Aluísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil.
-MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain.
-Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Lisboa, Portugal.
-Coleção José Olympio, Brazil.
-Zabludowicz Collection, Londres, Inglaterra.
-MACBA, Barcelona, Espanha.
-CACI, Inhotim, Brazil.
