Timboteua, Brazil, 1983.
Lives and works in Belém, Brazil
Éder Oliveira was born in 1983 in Timboteua, in the Amazonian state of Pará. He graduated in Arts Education–Fine Arts from the Federal University of Pará. He is a painter by métier, and since 2004 he has developed works that deal with the issue of cultural identity. Oliveira’s main focus is the Amazonian man and his identity, image, and marginalization. Oliveira creates site-specific works, interventions, and oil paintings on canvas.
The artist’s main group exhibitions include: 31st São Paulo Biennial (Pavilion Ciccillo Matarazzo, Ibirapuera, 2014), “Pororoca: A Amazônia no MAR” (Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro, 2014), “Amazon, Cycles of Modernity” (Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, 2012), and “The Triumph of Contemporary” (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, 2012).
Oliveira has received the following awards: “Bolsa Funarte de Estímulo à Produção em Artes Visuais” (2014), Award of Visual Arts from the Integrated System of Museums (2008), and the 2nd Grand Prize of Salon Arte Pará (2007).
Oliveira’s work is in the following collections: Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Casa das Onze Janelas, Museum of the Federal University of Pará, and Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro.
Graduated in Art Education – Plastic Arts from the Federal University of Pará, he is a painter by trade and since 2004 develops his artistic research in the relationship between portrait themes and identity, having as main object the Amazonian man.
Working on various supports, such as oils on canvas, interventions, and site-specific, with this theme held individual exhibitions Malerei – oder die Fotografie als Gewaltakt (Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany, 2016), You are the Seta (Periscope Gallery Contemporary Art, Belo Horizonte, 2016), Red Pages (Galeria Blau Projects, São Paulo, 2015) and Enlistment (Sesc Galleries in Belém, Ji-Paraná, Macapá, São Luís, 2015-2017), besides participating in collective exhibitions, among them (Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro, 2016), 31st Biennial of Arts SP (Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, 2014) and its itineraries in 2015 in Campinas (Sesc Campinas) and Portugal (Serralves Museum) and Pororoca: The Amazon in the MAR (Museum of Art of Rio, 2014).
Among the scholarships and awards are the Lingener Kunstpreis 2016 (Germany), Rede Nacional Funarte Artes Visuais (2015), the Seiva Art Projects Prize (Cultural Foundation of Pará, 2015), Funarte Stimulus Grant for Production in Visual Arts (2014) , The Visual Arts SIM Award for the Integrated Museum System (2008) and the 2nd Grand Prix of the Salão Arte Pará (2007).
Education
2007
-Degree in Art Education–Fine Arts from the Federal University of Pará.
Individual Exhibitions
2015
-“Páginas Vermelhas”, Blau Projects, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Alistamento”, Cultural Centre Sesc Boulevard, Belém, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitons
2014
-“Pororoca – A Amazônia no MAR”, Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Como falar de coisas que não existem”, 31st São Paulo Biennial, Brazil.
2013
-“Ruídos e Silêncios: Corpos Flutuantes”, Museum of the Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-“Amazônia, Lugar da Experiência”, Museum of the Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-“Circular Campina”, Atelier do Porto, Belém, Brazil.
2012
-“Amazônia, Lugar da Experiência”, Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém, Brazil.
-“Amazônia, Ciclos de Modernidade”, Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, Brasília, Brazil.
-“Amazônia, Ciclos de Modernidade”, Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“O Triunfo do Contemporâneo”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“Círio Nosso de Cada Dia”, Theodoro Braga Gallery, Belém, Brazil.
-“Coletiva / Coletivos”, Atelier do Porto, Belém, Brazil.
2011
-30th Art Salon of Pará, Historical Museum of the State of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
2010
-“Amazônia, a Arte”, Vallery Museum, Vitória, Brazil.
-“Amazônia, a Arte”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2008
-“Corporaturas”, Historical Museum of the State of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-“Contiguidades: dos anos 1970 aos anos 2000”, Historical Museum of the State of Pará, Brazil.
-“Eu, o Outro, Fortaleza”, Cultural Centre Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Acervo Onze Janelas, Gravura no Pará”, Museum Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém, Brazil.
-“Vertentes da Pintura Contemporânea”, Galpão das Artes, Marabá, Brazil.
-“Vertentes da Pintura Contemporânea”, House of Culture of Castanhal, Brazil.
2007
-“Ser do que é Anônimo”, Institute of Arts of Para, Belém, Brazil.
-“Encruzilhada”, Fidanza Gallery, Belém, Brazil.
-26th Art Salon of Pará, Historical Museum of the State of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-“Experimento I”, Memorial dos Povos, Belém, Brazil.
2006
-25th Salon Arte Pará, Historical Museum of the State of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-12th University of the Amazon Salon of Small Formats, Graça Landeira Gallery, Belém, Brazil.
2005
-15th Salon Primeiros Passos, Museum of Arts Brazil United States, Belém, Brazil.
Awards
2008
-SIM Prize in the Visual Arts, Coletiva Corporaturas, Integrated System of Museums.
2007
-2nd Grand Award, 26th Art Salon of Pará, Foundation Rômulo Maiorana.
2006
-Acquisition Award, 25th Art Salon of Pará, Founation Rômulo Maiorana.
Collections
-Foundation Rômulo Maiorana, Belém, Brazil.
-Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
-Museum Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém, Brazil.
-Museum of the Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
-Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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