Arapiranga, Brazil, 1934.
Lives and works in Salvador, Brazil.
Plastic artist, graduated in Sculpture, Engraving, and Painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia, he has participated in countless collective exhibitions in Bahia, Brazil, and abroad, highlighting several official exhibitions such as the National Modern Art Salon of Rio de Janeiro, National Modern Art Salon of Brasília, Salon of the Art Museum of Belo Horizonte, Baiano Hall of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, II Baiano Hall of Photography, Paranaense Hall, and São Paulo Biennial. Among the exhibitions abroad are Artists from Bahia in Peru, Madrid, Los Angeles, Spain, Festival of Black Art, Nigeria, “Introspectives”, Contemporary Art by Americans and Brasilians of African Descent, Cleveland, Ohio, Los Angeles. Coordinated the Northeast Project of Plastic Arts, composed of 12 artists, holding exhibitions, lectures and murals in all capitals of the Northeast. He dominates all techniques of Plastic Arts and Graphics. His professional work dates from 1950, and he is currently doing research with the computer, through several programs. He has already made dozens of sculptures, murals, grids and sidewalks for squares and public buildings in the city of Salvador, and has also made dozens of photographs, costumes, scenery, and Carnival decorations. Currently, his most representative work of public art is at the Hospital Aliança da Bahia.
Plastic artist, graduated in Sculpture, Engraving, and Painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia, he has participated in countless collective exhibitions in Bahia, Brazil, and abroad, highlighting several official exhibitions such as the National Modern Art Salon of Rio de Janeiro, National Modern Art Salon of Brasília, Salon of the Art Museum of Belo Horizonte, Baiano Hall of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, II Baiano Hall of Photography, Paranaense Hall, and São Paulo Biennial. Among the exhibitions abroad are Artists from Bahia in Peru, Madrid, Los Angeles, Spain, Festival of Black Art, Nigeria, “Introspectives”, Contemporary Art by Americans and Brasilians of African Descent, Cleveland, Ohio, Los Angeles. Coordinated the Northeast Project of Plastic Arts, composed of 12 artists, holding exhibitions, lectures and murals in all capitals of the Northeast. He dominates all techniques of Plastic Arts and Graphics. His professional work dates from 1950, and he is currently doing research with the computer, through several programs. He has already made dozens of sculptures, murals, grids and sidewalks for squares and public buildings in the city of Salvador, and has also made dozens of photographs, costumes, scenery, and Carnival decorations. Currently, his most representative work of public art is at the Hospital Aliança da Bahia.
As a professor, he started at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Bahia in 1952. He dedicated himself to the University for 42 years, retiring as a full professor at the School of Fine Arts and as Adjunct Professor IV at the School of Architecture. He is Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of UFBA. He has participated in countless academic activities, especially those developed in the areas of Extension and Research, in undergraduate courses and Master’s degrees, having participated, since the 1960s, in the Higher Councils of the Federal University of Bahia, University Council and Council for Coordination.
As an administrator, he was Head of Department for 5 times, Course Coordinator and Director of the School of Fine Arts at UFBA. He was one of the founders of the workshops of Plastic Expression of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, 1980, being its coordinator until 1988. He was one of the creators of the National Photography Salon of Bahia, having coordinated and held 4 salons.
As an essayist and art critic, he has done studies and written about almost all Bahian artists, collaborated with all Salvador newspapers, and for several years wrote columns on the Plastic Arts in the Diário de Notícias and in the Tribuna da Bahia.
He has participated in the cultural policy of the State of Bahia, having organized, as General Secretary, the I and II National Biennial of Fine Arts of Bahia. As Artistic Director he was responsible for the Convivium Gallery from 1964 to 1968, and for several issues of the Revista da Bahia from 1974 to 1983. He was a member of the Bahia State Council of Culture from 1979 to 1983.
He has received numerous honors in recognition of his work, among them the medal 2 de julho, awarded by the Salvador City Hall, in 1977, and the invitation by the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia to participate in the Regional Salons, as a “Guest Artist” and, in 1999, as President of the Jury.
In 2002 he was accepted as a member of the Brazilian Association of Art Critics. He is currently a member of the Bahia Academy of Sciences (ACB) and the Bahia Academy of Letters (ALB).
During the Pandemic of COVID-19, independent of numerous book covers, he carried out in 2021 an important project in honor of Saint Dulce of the Poor and Our Lord of Bonfim, consisting of 28 works of art, drawings engraved on stainless steel plates, arranged on wooden totems, throughout Avenida dos Dendezeiros, Salvador, 16 of them of his authorship.
