(this page was last updated in June 2016)
São Paulo, Brazil, 1977.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Represented by Galeria Leme.
PIPA 2012 nominee.
Part of the text “Entremeios” by Clarissa Diniz about the artist
Paulo Almeida (1977-SP) develops a work that is largely conceptual, procedural and in close relationship with the environments that surround him – notably, the art one. The artist has been working mainly with painting, linking it directly to the space-time context that involves it using constructive strategies usually related to other languages – such as photography, video, performance, installation and site specific practices -, and using it as a way to critically position himself over the art system when revealing its commonly implicit mechanisms of visibility and legitimacy.
Focused on a metalinguistic approach to art and its social system, the artist has been keeping a work process that consists in the research and bring to the present of the history – recent or not – of the site where it will be displayed, procedure performed by adaptation to the specific context of each work, always incorporating new strategies and giving to his paintings a strong site specific nature, where the construction process is emphasized rather than the final product. In paintings developed through the constant overlapping of images resulting from their own exhibition’s contexts, the artist shows the polyphony of the art and the world, metaphorizing the usually complex network of efforts that compounds it and that tends to cancel memories rather than news, by a permanent selection dynamic, combination, overlapping and erasure, in accordance with the globalization procedures.
Education
2005
-Fine Arts, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-“_It’s my painting.D.R. _It’s my wall.D.R.”, Galeria principal – Facultad de Artes, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de México. UAEM/AMEXCID, Toluca, Mexico.
2013
-“A Experiência do Programa de Residência Artística”, FAAP/M.R.E, Itamaraty, in Índia, MAB-FAAP Centro, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Museu de Arte Brasileira”, FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Por um outro ponto de vista”, SESC Ipiranga, São Paulo, Brazil;
-“A Brief History About Exhibitions – Trajetórias: 2010 – 2003”, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil.
-“From India”, Brazilian Embassy, New Delhi, India.
2012
-“Reflecting the Museums”, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-“Simultaneous solo”, Project Room Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
-“Coletiva 17.11.2004_13.01.2007”, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions
2016
-“Temporalidade sobreposições e apagamentos”, curated by Cauê Alves and Danillo Vila, Divisão de Artes Plásticas, Casa da Cultura/UEL, Londrina, Brazil.
2014
-“Residência Artística como ambiente de práticas artísticas”, MAB-CENTRO FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Edital Honourable Prize to the Merite Art and Patrimony 2013, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2012
-“Arte Visual Iberoamericano”, Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
-“Black Market – Amplificadores 2011/2012”, Museu Murillo la Greca, Recife, Brazil.
-“Convivendo com Arte – Pintura Figurativa”, Centro de Exposições Torre Santander, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Espelho Refletido”, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Arte Visual Iberoamericano”, Universidad del Arte Ganexa, Panamá; Centro Cultural Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Embaixada do Mexico, Guatemala.
-63rd April Salon – “A Cidade e suas Desconexões Antrópicas”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-“Black Market” / 2nd Temporada de Projetos 2012, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-“Sem Limites”, Sim Galeria, Curitiba, Brazil.
-“Arte Visual Iberoamericano”, Sala Nacional de Exposiciones Salarrué, San Salvador, El Salvador; Instituto Cultural Mexicano, San José, Costa Rica; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Brazil; Galeria Marta Traba, Memorial da America Latina, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador.
-“Carnavalesque – wrestling with a mirror image created by others”, World Bank Art Program “About Change”, Washington, USA.
-“Hermes”, Ateliê Carla Chaim, São Paulo, Brazil.
2010
-II Mostra Iberoamericana de Arte, Centro Cultural de España en México – CCE-MX, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009
-II Mostra Iberoamericana de Arte, Centro Nacional de las Artes – CENARTE, Cidade do México, Mexico.
-Taller Abierto, Centro de Artes de San Agutín – CASA, San Agustin de Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
-63rd Paranaense Salon, MAC Curitiba, Paraná Brazil.
-“Obra Menor’, Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-“III Mostra da Temporada de exposições do CCSP”, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Arte pela Amazônia – Arte e Atitude”, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
-“Recortar e Colar | CRTL+C_ CRTL+V”, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“La Espiral de Moebius o los Limites de la Pintura”, curated by Claudia Laudanno, Centro Cultural Parque de Espanha; Agencia Espanhola de Coperación Internacional; CCPE / AECI, Rosario, Argentina.
-Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador.
2006
-Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiânia, Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer, Goiânia, Brazil.
-“Paralela 2006”, Pavillhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Outros Lugares”, Casa das Onze Janelas, Bélem do Pará, Brazil.
-“Exposição Paradoxos Brasil”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Tinta”, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-3rd Program Rumos de Artes Visuais, 2005/2006 Edition, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2004
-36th Anual de Artes Plásticas Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Convíveo”, DAAM-FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Casa dos Doces”, Espaço Cultural Casa do Lago, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil.
-“LABOR III”, São Paulo, Brazil.
Special Projects
2008
-Mapa de Las Artes BA: /01.08.2008-30.09.2008/, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Das Curadorias: /1986-2008/, Redes de Criação, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
Awards
2013
Edital Honra ao Mérito Arte e Patrimônio, Iphan, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
Reflecting The Collection, 15th Cultura Inglesa Festival, Centro Brasileiro Britânico, São Paulo, Brazil.
Residencies
2005
-Becas de Excelencia de Programas Especiales del Gobierno de México para Extranjeros – “Estancias de Creacíon Artistica” 2015, Agencia Mexicana de Cooperacíon Internacional para El Desarrollo – AMEXCID, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de México, UNAMEX , Toluca, México
2013
-Programa de Residências Artísticas no Exterior – Foreign Relations Ministery in partnership with Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP, Global Arts Village Zorba the Buddha, New Delhi, India
2012
-Fundação Joaquim Nabuco in partnership with Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Brazil
2009
-Centro Nacional de las Artes and Centro de las Artes San Agustin Etla, Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico. -Supported by Programa de Residencias Artisticas para Creadores de Iberoamerica y Haiti en México – Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – FONCA – and Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo – AECI
2008
-El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Collections
-IPHAN – Instituto do Patrimônico Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brazil
-MAB-FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
-Brazilian Embassy, New Dehli, India
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