Ponta Grossa, Brazil, 1966.
Lives and works in Londrina, Brazil.
Rogério Ghomes uses photography to explore a sensitive universe that is more than just a record. Meanings are hidden behind his enigmatic images. For the artist, the beginnings of each work are the result of chance journeys through territories, travels and discoveries. Then, with the decanting of this memory, the images take on new layers: they suggest the spiritual, the existential, “the way of being and existing” as he puts it. Just as important as the click of the camera is the use of text, which adds a sensitive layer to the work, revealing and giving new form to meanings that can’t be captured with color and light alone. The word games, whether in the titles or in the images themselves, are like revelations that the artist makes little by little of the meanings he invites us to discover. Nothing in his work is by chance: the framing, treatment, title, print, installation, connection with space. Everything is thought out, the partial results of research that tests the limits of photography and is far from over.
Winner of the Funarte Visual Arts National Network Program (2015) with the project Expanded Field: narratives of the image and the MinC/Funarte/Petrobrás Visual Arts Connection Call (2013) with the project Expanded Field: the convergence of images. He was a finalist for the PIPA Award (2012) and the Brasil Arte Contemporânea Award at ARCO_ madrid (2010). He has held solo exhibitions and taken part in several national and international group exhibitions, including 20 years Faxinal das Artes: processes and gaps MAC PR (2022), Lugar-comum MAC USP (2021), Afinidades MON (2021), Pequenos Gestos: memórias disruptivas – MAC PR (2019), Curitiba International Biennial (2015 and 2019). Ibero-American Photobooks – Lisbon (2017). Silver Night of Projections – Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal (2015). Everyone needs a mirror to remember who they are, Encuentros Abiertos, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008), Pirelli Photography Collection, Museu de Arte de São Paulo – MASP (2009), II Bienal Internacional de Fotografia Cidade de Curitiba (2000), Panorama de Arte Brasileira – MAM SP (1997), VI Havana Biennial (1997).
His works are part of private collections and public institutions such as: ABACT Photography Collection, Joaquim Paiva Collection – Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro – MAM RJ, McLaren London Collection, Pirelli – MASP Photography Collection, Curitiba Cultural Foundation – FCC, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – MAM SP, Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo – MAC USP, Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná – MAC PR, Oscar Niemeyer Museum – MON, National Museum of Fine Arts – MNBA.
He holds a PhD in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design from PUC-SP and a Master’s degree in Design from UNESP. He teaches in the Department of Design at the State University of Londrina (UEL).
Education
-PhD in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design – PUC SP, 2016.
-Master in Design – UNESP, 2009.
-Specialist in Photography – UEL, 1998.
-Designer by – PUC PR, 1988.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
-“Talvez busque um lugar onde já estou” _ Zilda Fraletti Gallery, Curitiba PR, Brazil.
2017
-“Se pudéssemos ser estranhos outra vez.” _ Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba PR, Brazil.
-“Quando tudo deixar de ser.” _ Referência Gallery, Brasília-DF, Brazil.
2016
-“Preciso acreditar que ao fechar os olhos o mundo continua aqui.” _ DaP UEL Londrina PR, Brazil.
2015
-“Não confie na sua memória”. _ Centro Cultural SESI/AML Londrina PR, Brazil.
2012
– “Projeto R U A [Ruídos Urbanos Amplificados]”, Atelier Aberto, Campinas, Brazil.
– “Donde estoy, estoy a esperar te”, MARP Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
– “Sinto saudades de tudo, inclusive de mim”, Centro Cultural Sistema FIEP, Curitiba, Brazil.
– “Donde estoy, estoy a te esperar!(Where I am, I am waiting for you)” – Galeria Ybakatu, Curitiba, Brazil.
2011
– “Desejo & Reparação (Desire & Restoration)”- Museum of Art of Londrina, Brazil.
2008
– “Todos precisam de um espelho para lembrar quem são…(Everybody needs a mirror to remember Who they are)”, Encuentros, “Abiertos – Festival de la Luz”, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Recoleta Cultural Center), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007
– “Todos precisam de um espelho para lembrar quem são… (Everybody needs a mirror to remember who they are)”, FUNARTE Brasília and Ybakatu, Curitiba, Brazil.
2004
– “Território Ocupado (Occupied Territory)”- Paço das Artes SP, São Paulo, Brazil.
2003
– “… Olhai “, Museum of Contemporary Art of Americana SP, São Paulo, Brazil.
2002
– “Território Ocupado (Occupied Territory)” – Ybakatu Espaço de Arte Curitiba (Art Space of Curitiba), atelieaberto, Campinas, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
-“Lugar-Comum” – Museum of Contemporary Art University of São Paulo – MAC USP, Brazil.
2021
-“Afinidades” – Oscar Niemeyer Museum – MON, Brazil.
-“Poéticas Plurais” – Zilda Fraletti Gallery, Curitiba PR, Brazil.
-“Fotografia | Cidade Paisagem – Referência Gallery, Brasília-DF, Brazil.
-“O inesperado só tem nome depois que aparece” – Alfaiataria Curitiba PR, Brazil.
-“De Perto” – SP-Arte Viewing Room, Brazil.
-“Poéticas Plurais”- SP-Arte Viewing Room, Brazil.
2020
-“Foto-texto” – Contemporary House SP, Brazil.
-“Para onde tudo converge” – SP-Arte Viewing Room, Brazil.
-Fotografia | Cidade Paisagem – SP-Foto Viewing Room, Brazil.
2019
-“Memórias Disruptivas: pequenos gestos” – MAC PR, Brazil.
-“Fronteira sem Limites Sala Adalice Araújo” – MAC PR, Brazil.
-14ª Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil.
-SP-Arte, Brazil.
2017
-“Intercâmbio Portfólio” – Engraving Museum of the City of Curitiba – FCC Curitiba PR
-SP-Arte
2016
-“Da Pintura” – Referência Gallery, Brasília-DF, Brazil.
-“Arte na Fabrika”, Curitiba PR, Brazil.
-SP-Arte, Brazil.
2015
– “Silver Night of Projections”, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.
– “Luz versus Luz”, Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil.
– Ybakatu 20 anos, Curitiba, Brazil.
– “Alguns desvios do corpo”, Londrina Arte 4, Divisão artes Plásticas UEL, Londrina, Brazil.
– Acervo, Fotografia, Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná (MAC PR), Paraná, Brazil.
2014
– ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
– SP arte, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013
-“Território Estrangeiro”- Metropolitan Museum of Curitiba (MUMA), Curitiba, Brazil.
– ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
2012
– “2012: Proposições sobre o futuro”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná (MAC PR), Paraná, Brazil.
2011
– ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
– SP Arte, PARAHAUS, São Paulo, Brazil.
– Coleção Ybakatu (Ybakatu Collection), FIEP Curitiba, São Paulo, Brazil.
2010
– ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2009
– Coleção Pirelli (Pirelli Collection), MASP – MASP SP, São Paulo, Brazil.
2006
– “O Espaço Inventado (The Invented Space)”, MAC PR, Londrina Artes Visuais – Casa de Cultura (Cultural Center) UEL, Londrina, Brazil.
2005
– “BR 2005”, Galeria Virgilio, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Visões Paralelas (Parallel Visions)”, FotoRio 2005, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, Brazil.
2004
– “BR 2004”, Galeria Virgilio, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Outro Lugar (Another Place)”, Galeria Virgilio, São Paulo, Brazil.
2003
– 28º SARP Museu de arte de Ribeirão Preto (Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art), Brazil.
– “Da pele que quer ser vista ao sentido invisível (From the skin that wants to be seen to the invisible sense)”, Espaço Cultural TCE (TCE Cultural Space) RJ, Sala Paschoal Cittadino (Paschoal Cittadino Room) Niterói, Brazil.
– “Desde lapiel que quiere ser vista al sentido invisibile”- 3º Festival de fotografia de Miraflores, Lima PE (Third festival of photography of Miraflores), Lima, Peru.
– VII mês Internacional de la fotografia (Seventh international month of photography), Centro cultural PUCE (PUCE Cultural Center), Quito, Ecuador.
2002
– “Nefelibatas”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM SP), Brazil.
– 9º Salão MAM Bahia (Ninth Exhibit), Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (MAM Bahia), Salvador, Brazil.
– 5º Prêmio Revelação de Artes Plásticas (Fifth runner-up “most promising artist” award); MAC de Americana (award)
– Faxinal das Artes, Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná, Brazil.
2001
– Palácio Capanema (Capanema Palace), FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2000
– XII Mostra da Gravura (Twelfth Picture Exhibit), Curitiba, Brazil.
– III Bienal Internacional de Fotografia Cidade de Curitiba (City of Curitiba Third International Biennial), Brazil.
1999
– “Olhos Blindados (Armored Eyes)”, Ybakatu Espaço de Arte Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil.
1998
– “Ponto Cego (Blind Spot)”, Museum of Image and Sound (MIS SP), São Paulo, Brazil.
1997
– Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Panorama of Brazilian Art), Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM SP),São Paulo, Brazil.
– VI Bienal de Havana (Sixth Havana Biennal), Havana, Cuba.
Collections
-ABACT Photography Collection 2016
-Joaquim Paiva Collection – MAM RJ 1996
-Pirelli MASP Collection – MASP SP 2009
-Ron Dennis Collection – McLaren London – 2010
-SESI/FIEP PR Collection -2012
-YBAKATU Collection -2002 / 2007 /2013
-Cultural Foundation of Curitiba – FCC / 2000
-Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná – MAC PR -1988 -2000
-Museum of Contemporary Art USP – MAC USP – 2014
-Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – MAM SP – 2002
