Ding Musa

(this page was last updated in August 2020)

São Paulo, Brazil, 1979.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Represented by Galeria Raquel Arnaud and Ponce + Robles

PIPA 2012 and 2020 nominee.

Ding Musa is an artist and professional photographer who has participated in exhibitions in several countries, galleries, museums, and institutions. Musa completed a residency in Cardiff, Wales in 2004 and today lives and works in São Paulo. Musa’s photos have been published in books, magazines, and catalogues. The artist has also worked as a director of photography for short films, web series, documentaries, and video clips. He recently directed the photography in the film “Campo da Paz”, made in Palestine. He is currently working on a feature film about Dominguinhos (a Brazilian musician) and previously worked on the scenography for the theatrical play “As Desgraçadas”. Musa taught photography at Sesc Santana in 2010 and at Senac Santana in 2009.

Website: www.dingmusa.com.

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Artworks

Biography

He studied music at FSM, Geography at Universidade de São Paulo, and has a degree on Photography from Senac. His work, although centerd in photography, and mainly based on reading and construction of images with photography, dark chamber and its developments, also covers video, drawing, objects and installation. His work addresses concepts such as the idea of “project” and its vialibities, “construction units”, always related to the gaze and its ways of understand as political individual inside a specific context from the perception of their own gaze. Ding is a member od the Aparelhamento, group which has developed projects of Cozinha Ocupação 9 de Julho and Galeria Reocupa in partnership with the MSTC – Movimento Sem Teto do Centro [Homeless People Movement of Downtown]. He also is a part of the ALI – Arte Livre Itinerante, an educational project developed by 9 artists of the Cidade-Tiradentes in São Paulo.

He’s participated in several solo and group shows in Brasil and internationally. Among those the solo highlights:
“parêntesis”, 2019, galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil

“Unidade de Construção”, 2019, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
”do discurso político brasileiro”, 2017, galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
“ANABASIS – “Alicante x Elche / Ladrillo x Palmera”, 2017, Mustang Art Gallery, Alicante, Brazil

“Emplazamiento”, 2017, na Galeria Ponce + Robles, Madrid, Spain

“Ressonâncias”, 2015, La Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain
“Extensão – Minha vista”, 2011, no Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAnd the following group exhibitions:

“O Que Não É Floresta É Prisão Política”, galeria Reocupa, São Paulo

“Ação e Reação”, Casa do Brasil, 2018, Madrid, Spain
“CODE”, 2017, Galeria Osnova, Moscow, Russia
“contraponto”, 2017, Museu Nacional de República, Brasília, Brazil
“MAC USP no século XXI – A Era dos Artistas”, 2017, MAC USP, São Paulo, Brazil
“Raid 8”, 2016, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
“10a Bienal do Mercosul”, MARGS, Usina do Gasómetro, 2015, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“Duplo Olhar”, 2014, no Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BrazilFurthermore, he held several international exhibitions in countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom.He’s participated in the art residencies tactileBOSCH, in Cardife, Gales, in 2004, and Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2012. He ministered classes of Photography’s History at Senac and Sesc Santana, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. He’s also worked as photography director in cinema, shorts, series and documentaries, recently in movie “Campo da Paz”, made in Palestine.His works are in several of Brazil’s and worldwide museums, among them the Modern Art Museums of Salvador, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás, the Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná, the Museu do Estado do Pará, the Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto and the Acervo Municipal at the Centro Cultural São Paulo.

Curriculum

Solo Exhibitions
2014
-“Equações”, Gallery Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012
-“Fronteira”, Carpe Diem Art and Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
-“Extensão: minha vista”, Centre of Art Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Os buracos que nós cavamos”, Gallery Transversal, São Paulo, Brazil.
2006
-“Baldio”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Narrativas”, British Brazilian Centre, São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-“Janela RGB”, Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Campos”, University Centre Maria Antônia, São Paulo, Brazil.
2004
-Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.

Group Exhibitions
2015
-“Resonancias”, Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain.
-“Simultánea: Fotógrafos latinoamericanos de la colección Carpe Diem”, Gallery Slowtrack, Madrid, Spain.
-“Instantánea: fotógrafos latinoamericanos de la colección Carpe Diem”, Carpe Diem Art and Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
-“Into The Light”, Gallery Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
-“Manifesto: poder, desejo e intervenção”, Museum of Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“Duplo olhar”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“¿Quién teme a un monocromo?”, Gallery Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain.
-“Entre dois mundos”, Museum Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Eclipse”, Pinacoteca Municipal, Foundation Pró-memória, São Caetano, Brazil.
-“2 anos de projeto”, Project Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013
-“Fronteiras incertas”, Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Um retrato quase apagado”, Cerveira Biennial, Portugal.
-“A imagem adquirida”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
-“Azimute”, Project Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Do barroco para o barroco, está a arte contemporânea”, Casa de la Parra, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2012
-“Caminhos da fotografia”, Exhibition Centre Santander, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“This is Brazil”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiosco Alfonso, and Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de A Coruña, Spain.
-“Entre comissários e curadores: os artistas e os livros”, Fábrica ASA, Guimarães, Portugal.
-“Passato imediato”, Marta Traba Gallery, Memorial of Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-“Boite invaliden”, Invaliden1 Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
-“L’arte non é cosa nostra”, 54th Venice Biennial, Italy.
-“Patrimônio(s)”, 6th São Tomé and Príncipe Biennial, Portugal.
-“Geração 00”, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Collective, Gallery Transversal, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Urbano avesso”, Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Atelier Fidalga, Santander, São Paulo, Brazil.
2010
-New acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“FIAT LUX”, Museum of Contemporary Art Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain.
-“Passo Fidalga”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Paralela”, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Coleção MAM – BA: 50 anos de arte brasileira”, Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, Brazil.
2009
-“Paper Mind”, Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Nuevas miradas”, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
-“Fidalga”, Carlos Carvalho Zoom Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
-“Entretempos”, Carpe Diem Art and Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
-“Foto Fidalga”, Carpe Diem Art and Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
2008
-New acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Arte pela Amazônia”, Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Provas de contato”, Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Presente Fidalga”, Sesc Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
-“Cícera”, Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Arquivo geral”, Arte em Dobro Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“MAM 60”, Oca, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
-“Outra objetividade”, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
-New acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Ligações cruzadas”, Cultural Centre Dragão do Mar, Museum of Contemporary Art of Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Leilão de parede”, Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Salon of April, Cultural Centre Dragão do Mar, Museum of Contemporary Art of Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Fotografia”, Arte em Dobro Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Veracidade”, University Art Museum of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2006
-“Veracidade”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-Collection Lourival Louza Prêmio Flamboyant, Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
-“Construção”, Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
-11th Paulista Salon of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Urban Scapes”, DNA Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
-“Convocatórias VIII”, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain.
-“Between the Sheets”, Juno Records, London, UK.
-“Paralela”, Prodan, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-“Olhar vivo”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“Kissing the Pink”, The Art Academy, London, UK.
-“Olhares paulistanos”, Paço das Artes, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
-5oth National Art Salon of Goiás, Award Flamboyant, Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
-“10 anos de acervo”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-12th Salon of Bahia, Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, Brazil.
2004
-Panoramas, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“São Paulo no acervo do MAM”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Olhares paulistanos”, public installation through January and February, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Annual exhibition program, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Sinestesias”, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
-29th Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto, Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
-Arte Pará, Gallery da Residência, Museum of the State of Pará, Brazil.
-“Co-Habitation”, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff, UK.
-“Experimentica”, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, UK.
-“Co-Habitation”, More Front Studio, London, UK.
2003
-31st Salon of Contemporary Art Luiz Sacilotto de Santo André, Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Fotografia ordinária”, Funarte, São Paulo, Brazil.
-15th National Contemporary Art Salon of Praia Grande, Palácio das Artes, Praia Grande, Brazil.
-3rd National Art Salon of Goiás, Flamboyant Award, Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
-“From Bahia to over By Yer”, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff, UK.
-“From Bahia to over By Yer”, More Front Studio, London, UK.
-“Fotografia”, Gallery Virgílio, São Paulo, Brazil.
-3rd Porto Seguro Photography Prize, São Paulo, Brazil.
2002
-59th Paranaense Salon of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Curitiba, Brazil.
-“Auto retratos”, Senac Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-1st Contemporary Art Salon of São Paulo, Foundation Cassiano Ricardo, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Comtemporary Art Salon of Curvelo, Brazil.
1998
-“Comunicação”, Funarte, São Paulo, Brazil.
1997
-“Novos caminhos”, Atelier Studio Cardin, São Paulo, Brazil.
1996
-“Retratos”, Funarte, São Paulo, Brazil.
1995
-“Retratos”, Casa Guignard, Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Awards and Distinctions
2007
-Acquisition, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Acquisition, Centre Dragão do Mar, Museum of Contemporary Art of Fortaleza, Brazil.
-Acquisition, Municipal Archive, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
2006
-Honorable Mention, 11th Paulista Salon of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-Acquisition, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Acquisition Prize, Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, Brazil.
-Flamboyant Acquisition Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
2004
-Acquisition Prize, Arte Pará, Museum of Art of the State of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-Acquisition Prize, 29th Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto, Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
2003
-Acquisition, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-Acquisition Prize, 15th Salon of Praia Grande, Brazil.
2002
-Honorable Mention, Foundation Salon Cassiano Ricardo, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Acquisition Prize, Contemporary Art Salon of Curvelo, Brazil.
1995
-Revelation Prize, Casa Guignard, Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Collections
-Municipal Archive, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
-Centre Dragão do Mar de Art and Culture, Museum of Modern Art of Fortaleza, Brazil.
-Foundation Cassiano Ricardo, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
-Museum of Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
-Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
-Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
-Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, Brazil.
-Museum of the State of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
-Palace of the Arts, Praia Grande, Brazil.
-Prefecture of Curvelo, Brazil.

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