Governador Valadares, Brazil, 1977.
Lives and works at Paulo Nazareth Arte Contemporânea, in Santa Luzia, Brazil.
The body is present in all of Paulo Nazareth’s work. Over his entire trajectory, he has collected paradoxically iconoclastic iconographic readings of objects, places, alleged discourses and socio-cultural customs, executing in all his work a picturesque narrative that goes beyond ordinary techniques, seeking to place physical bodies in the exhibition space.
Born in 1977 in the city of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Paulo Nazareth carries with him the baggage of a wanderer, having traveled long distances, from the village of Caiová to New York, from Miami to Mumbai, among several curious destinations. Of these experiences, one might conclude that Nazareth’s narrative signals have been lost, but no, the artist succeeds in combining different references to foster a pluralist relationship between Brazil’s aesthetic historiography and mankind’s path stretching back to its origins.
In 2012, Nazareth placed first in the MASP Visual Arts Prize. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions and group shows in Berlin, Russia and the U.S. and it can also be found in the Boros Collection (Berlin), Thyssen-Bornemisza Art (Vienna), the Pinault Collection (Paris), the Banco Itaú Collection (São Paulo), the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and the Rubbel Family Collection (Miami).
Education
2006-2010
Studies in Linguistics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2005-2006
BFA, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2003-2005
MFA, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
1998-2000
Wood craving with Mestre Orlando, famous artist from Bahia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-“Genocide in Americas”, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
2014
-“Che Cherera”, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
-“The Journal”, Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
-Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
2013
-“Veneza Neves”, Veneza, Ribeirão das Neves, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2012-2013
-“Premium Bananas”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo – MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
-“News from Americas”, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
-“Na impossibilidade de nomear”, Muna – Museu de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2008
-“Paulo Nazareth LTDA”, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2007
-Museu de Arte de Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2004
-“Gambiarreiro”, SESI-MINAS, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
-“The Migrant (Moving) Image”, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands
-“Kiti Ka’ Aeté”, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom
-“22th Curitiba Internacional Biennial – World Light”, Curitiba, Brazil
-“Imagine Brazil”, DHC/Art Foundation For Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
-“19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas”, São Paulo, Brazil
-“1th Bienal Internacional de Asunción – Grito de Libertad”, Asunción, Paraguay
-“Novos Talentos: Fotografia Contemporânea no Brasil”, Caixa Cultural do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-“5th Prêmio CNI SESI SENAI Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
-“Walking Sculpture 1967-2015”, deCordva Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA
-“Here There” (Huna Hunak), QM Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, Qatar
-“Alimentário”, Museu da Cidade – OCA, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
-“Imagine Brazil”, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
-“Alimentário”, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-“Cães Sem Plumas”, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
-“Histórias Mestiças”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
-“É Tudo Nordeste?”, 3ª Bienal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
-“The Rise and Fall of Art Biennales”, LATVIAN Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
-“BRICS”, OI Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2013-2014
-“Imagine Brazil”, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
-“Entre-temps… Brusquement, et ensuite”, 12e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
2013
-“The Encyclopedic Palace”, 55 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
-“Museum as Hub: Walking Drifting Dragging”, New Museum, New York, USA
-“Conversation Pieces”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
-“Chambres à Part, Edition VIII”, La Réserve Paris, Paris, France
-“Unstable Territory: Borders and identity in contemporary art”, Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi | CCC Strozzina, Florence, Italy
-“avante brasil”, Kunst Im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
-“Coleção Itaú de Fotografia Brasileira”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
-“The insides are on the outside – O interior está no exterior”, Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil
-Bienal de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
2012-2013
-Bienal de Benin, Cotonou, Benin
2012
-“New Brasil, Bolivia Now”, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil
-“City as a Process”, Ekaterinburg Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
-“Il va se passer quelque chose”, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France
2011
-“Caos e Efeito”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
-“MYTHOLOGIES”, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
-“Meditation, Trance”, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
-“Por aqui forma tornam-se atitudes”, SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil
-“Entre Pontos”, JACA – Jardim Canadá Art Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
-“Diante da Duvida de Nomear o que Vejo…”, MAC, Curitiba, Brazil
-“Interações Florestais Terra Una – Liberdade”, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2009
-“Mll2 – 2nd annual manifestation of performance”, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
-“Pesta Seni Performa”, CCCL, Surabaya, Indonesia
-“Festival de Performance de Belo Horizonte”, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
-“Na impossibilidade de nomear…”, Museu de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil
-“Mercado de Arte: quem…Mercado de Banana”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
-“Sobre o Deslocamento de Coisas e Gente”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
-“Sobremesa de Queijos”, Museu Mineiro, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2007
-“Multiparidade”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
-“Individual”, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2006
-“Praradoxo Brasil Rumos”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
-“Praradoxo Brasil Rumos”, Paço das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005
-“International Video-Performance Art Festival”, Tallinn, Estonia
-“Coletiva”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Jataí, Jataí, Brazil
Awards & Grants
2012
-MASP de Artes Visuais – Mercedes-Benz Award, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
-12º Salão Nacional de Arte de Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2004-2005
-Bolsa Pampulha – 28º Salão de Arte de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Collections
-Boros Collection, Berlin
-Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
-Pinault Collection, Paris
-Coleção Banco Itaú, São Paulo
-Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro – Gilberto Chateaubriand, Rio de Janeiro
-Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
-Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
-Rubbel Family Collection, Miami
