Yuri Firmeza

(this page was last updated in July 2018)

São Paulo, Brazil, 1982.
Lives and works in Fortaleza, Brazil.

Represented by Casa Triângulo and Athena Contemporânea.

PIPA 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2018 nominee.

Holds a masters degree in Visual Arts from the ECA/USP, with a with FAPESP re-search grant. Graduated in Visual Arts at the Faculdade Grande Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil (2005). The solo exhibitions already presented include: 2013, “Turvações Estrátigráficas”, Museu de Arte do Rio; “Voragem”, Demolden Video Project in Santander, Spain; 2011, “Vida da Minha Vida”, Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste in Fortaleza.

The group exhibitions already presented include: 2014, 31º Bienal de São Paulo: “How to (…) things that don’t exist”; 2013, “Love and Hate to Lygia Clark”, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; “33º Panorama da Arte Brasileira: Formas Únicas de Continuidade no Espaço”, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; “Bienal MASP Pirelli de Fotografia”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; 2008, “Laços do Olhar”, Tomie Ohtake Insti- tute, São Paulo, Brazil; 2008, Cali’s 7th Performance Festival, Colombia; 2007, “Confrontações Poéticas”, CCBNB, For- taleza, Brazil; 2006, “Rumos Artes Vi- suais”, several venues in Brazil; 2005, “Espacios en transito”, Lima’s Cultural Center of Fine Arts, Peru.

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