Salvador, Brazil, 1971.
Lives and works between Cachoeira and Salvador, Brazil.
Gaio’s research deals with the construction of the space and its unfolding, leading in question the relations of intensity between the man, the territory and flux. He thinks that his works call the attention to this moving space and out from the fixed territorial law that conducts the architectural office’s projects at the same time subtly pointing to one unequal, deficit and excluded housing policy.
Education
Master degree in Visual Art from Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
Solo exhibitions
2010
-“Sobre a praça e seus múltiplos”, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Bent City”, CCBN, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“The bridge”, National Art Studio, Seul, Korea.
2008
-“2102”, Cité des Arts, Paris, France.
-“The city does not live here anymore”, Capanema Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2007
-“Out of place”, French Alliance Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
-III project’s season in Cultural Center São Paulo (CCSP), São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Places, Gesto Cooperative art space, Porto, Portugal.
2006
-“Desterro”, Trajectories Project 2006, Joaquim Nabuco’s Fundation, Recife, Brazil.
2005
-“Invisible architecture”, Paulo Darzé Art Gallery, Bahia, Brazil.
Group exhibitions (selected)
2014
-III Bahia Biennial, Salvador, Brazil.
-“A Realidade do Sonho”, CCBN, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Reencenação”, Mosteiro de São Bento, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Arquivo e ficção”, Arquivo público da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Arte de Passagem”, Casa de Castro Alves, Salvador, Brazil.
2013
-“Possíveis Mirantes”, Centro Cultural Dragão do mar, Brazil.
-“Esquizópolis”, Museum of Modern Art Bahia (MAM), Salvador, Brazil.
-“Tupy todos os dias”, Museu Náutico da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Arte Nordeste”, Museu Murilo La Greca, Recife, Brazil.
-“Triangulações”, MAMAM, Recife, Brazil.
-“Arte Nordeste”, Pinacoteca do estado, Natal, Brazil.
-“Triangulações”, Museu Nacional, Brasília,Brazil.
2012
-“Walking”, CCBN, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Passado e Presente da globalização no olhar fotográfico”, ICBA, Hamburg, Germany.
2011
-“Home”, Chandong e Goyang Art studio, Seoul Contemporary Art Museum, Korea.
-Itamaraty Contemporary Art award, Itamaraty, Brasília, Brazil.
-32º Brazilian Arts Panorama, MAM-SP, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Contemporary Portuguese Arts”, Marta Traba Gallery, Latin American Memorial, São Paulo, Brazil.
-SP Arte 2011, SOSO Gallery, Pavilhão do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
-17th Bienal de Cerveira, Cerveira, Portugal.
2010
-Luanda’s Trienal, Luanda, Angola.
-Open Art ,Galeria Le Gronard, Paris, France.
-SP Photo, Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Art and new spacialities”, Oi Futuro Art Space, Brazil.
-“1° Bridge”, SOSO Gallery Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil.
2009
-“Bankside 9TG/SE1 London”, ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Saccharum BA”, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Letters/Tajects”, CCBN, João Pessoa, Brazil.
-“OpenArt”, Conjunto Cultural dos Correios, Salvador Brazil.
-“MAM BA 50 years Collection”, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
2008
-“New Art New”, CCBB São Paulo, Brazil.
-Cultural Center Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Over Reaction”, Cultural Center São Paulo (CCSP), São Paulo, Brazil.
-“68+40”, French Alliance, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Retalhos Postais”, Tavira Museum, Portugal.
-Harmony Art show Nehru Art center, Mumbai, India.
2007
-2nd Harmony Art Foundation Sculpture Show, Mumbai, India
-14º Salão da Bahia, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-58º Salão de Abril, Dragão do Mar Cultural Center, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Parallel City”, Solar do Ferrão Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Crossed lines”, Dragão do Mar Cultural Center, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Notices from now”, French Alliance Gallery , Salvador, Brazil.
-“Entrecentros”, ICEA Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
2006
-“Winter”, Tint Art Gallery, Tessalonika, Greece.
-“Paradoxos”, Rumos Itaú Cultural Projects, Itaú Cultural Institute São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Paradoxos”, Paço das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“The Public and the private: Transitions in the contemporary art”, Dragão do Mar Cultural Center Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Cities: Constructions and precariousness”, Museu de arte Contemporânea de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
-“5 out”, PAA art gallery, Porto, Portugal.
2005
-XII Salão da Bahia, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Air View”, Marta Traba art Gallery, Memorial of Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil.
-5º Amadeo Souza-Cardoso’s Award, Amadeo Souza-Cardoso Museum, Amarante, Portugal.
-“Contemporary Fragments”, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil.
-“Contemporary Fragments”, 57 art Gallery, Leiria, Portugal.
-“Afuera”, Tierra fertil art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004
-Rita Câmara art Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
-“April 1º”, Santa Luzia art gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
2003
-“Unclassified Project”, Bananeira’s art space, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Streets”, Angola’s house, Salvador, Brazil.
2002
-I Ceará América Biennial, Dragão do Mar Cultural Center, Brazil.
-IX Salão da Bahia, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Bahia’s Painting”, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
2001
-III Biennial of Visual arts of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-+100 artistas plásticos, Museum of Sacred Art, Salvador, Brazil.
2000
-“Terrenos”, ICBA, Salvador, Brazil.
-“V Bienal do Recôncavo”, Centro Cultural Danneman, São Félix, Brazil.
-“XXVIII Salão regional de artes plásticas da Bahia”, Centro de Cultura de Alagoinhas, Alagoinhas, Brazil.
-“Cinco universos em papel”, Galeria Moacir Moreno, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Salões regionais de artes plásticas da Bahia”, Awarded Artists, Galeria Solar do ferrão, Salvador, Brazil.
Residencies
2007
Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai, India (60 days).
2008
Cité des Arts, Paris, France (60 days).
2009
French/ Deutsch Fund – ICBA / Alliance Française, Marseille, France (30 days).
2010
Chandong e Goyang Art studio, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seul, Korea..
Awards
-Funarte National Foundation of Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-São Paulo Cultural Art Center Award, São Paulo, Brazil.
-14º Salão da Bahia, Museu de arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-Braskem Award ( Categoria artes plásticas) de Cultura e Arte 2004, Bahia, Brazil.
-V Bienal do Recôncavo, Centro Cultural Danneman, São Félix, Brazil.
-XXVII Salão Regional de Artes Plásticas da Bahia, Centro de Cultura de Valença, Bahia, Brazil.
Public collections
-Reliance Centre, Dihrubai Ambani Group, Mumbai, India.
-São Paulo Cultural Art Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai, India.
-Gesto Cooperative art space, Porto, Portugal.
-Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-Phillips do Brasil S/A, Brazil.
-Universidade das Artes, Caxias do Sul, Brazil.
-Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil.
-Centro de Cultura Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
