Education
2014-2015
Master of Research in Arts and Design, St Lucas University College of Art and Design, Antwerp, Belgium.
2013-2014
Researcher at Jan van Eyck Post-Academic Institute, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2009 – 2011
MFA Experience Design, Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden.
2002 – 2007
BA Industrial Design, School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-“Arte e a sofisticação da linguagem ao poder”, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Resistir ao passado, ignorar o futuro e a incapacidade de conter o presente”, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2014
-“Aquilo que passa não te pertence, o que fica e não é nada”, Workshop Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon.
2013
-“Wild Attacks of Cynicism”, Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-“Cut Corner”, Seven Art Ltd, New Delhi, India.
2010
-“A Pair of Lungs | A Lack of Faith”, Seven Art Ltd, New Delhi, India.
2008
-“Frame Series”, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.
Group Exhibitions
2015
-“Poppositions”, Brussels, Belgium. With collective Francis.
-“Love will tear us apart”, Hal Antwerp, Belgium.
2014
-“Konst i Industrilandskapet”, Museum of Forgetting, Kultur Natten, Norrköping, Sweden.
-Screening, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden.
-“Open Studios”, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.
-“Boletim”, curated by Paulo Miyada, Sesc São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Some Profound Misunderstanding at the Heart of What Is”, HEDAH, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2013
-Siart Selection IIIV, Foundation Simón I. Patiño, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
-18th Internationl Festival of Contemporary Art Sesc, Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Territorios inestables”, curated by Sandra De Berduccy and José Bedoya, IIIV International Biennial Siart, La Paz, Bolivia.
-“Deus Não Surfa”, curated by Marta Mestre and Santiago Garcia Navarro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Convite à Viagem – Rumos Artes Visuais”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Boletim”, curated by Paulo Miyada, Gallery Millan, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012
-“Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition (Episodes 1 and 2)”, curated by RAQs Media Collective, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India.
-“À Deriva – Rumos Artes Visuais”, curated by Felipe Scovino, Sanzia Pinheiro, and Júlio Martins, MAH, Joinville, Brazil.
-“É preciso confrontar as imagens vagas com os gestos claros”, curated by Paulo Miyada, Oficina Cultural Oswaldo de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Cinema Aterrado”, JA.CA Art and Technology Center, Jardim Canadá, Brazil.
-“A Casa Visita”, curated by Galciani Neves, Intermeios – house of art and books, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Tormentaa”, Plano B, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Convite à Viagem – Rumos Artes Visuais”, curated by Agnaldo Farias, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-“Brev(e)”, curated by Marina Noronha, Casa Ramalhete, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-“Konstfack Vårutställning”, curated by Gustaf Nordenskiöld, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Arts, Stockholm, Sweden.
-“Unfinished Analogies”, curated by Jacquelyn Davis, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden.
-“Convivências”, curated by Jailton Moreira, Foundation Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“Latidos Urbanos”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, Chile.
2010
-“Scratch”, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India.
-“Ovdje Se Slovom Nitko Ne Bavi”, AKC Medika, Zagreb, Croatia.
-“Abre Alas 6”, curated by Beatriz Lemos, Felipe Scovino, and Guga Ferraz. A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009
-“Moment as Monument”, Travancore Palace, New Delhi, India.
-“Trajetórias em Processo”, curated by Guilherme Bueno, Gallery Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Back, Forth and Round About”, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA.
2008
-“Zoation Painting”, National Museum of Art, La Paz, Bolivia.
2007
-V International Biennial Siart, La Paz, Bolivia.
Grants and Residencies
2015
-KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria.
2014
-Norrköping Air, Norrköping, Sweden.
2013
-Travel grant, Program of Exchange and Cultural Diffusion, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia, Brazil.
-Curatorial School, Jelena Vesić, 54o October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia.
2012
-A.CA Art and Technology Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2011
-Rumos Artes Visuais, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Program of Exchange and Cultural Diffusion, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia, Brazil.
-DAAR Stockholm Architectural Rehab Camp – IASPIS, Väddö, Sweden.
2010
-ACK Medika Art Residency, Zagreb, Croatia.
2008
-Iberê Camargo Foundation Grant, residency at Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA.
-Kashi Art Residency, Kochi, India.
2007
-Latin Union Award, V International Biennial Siart, La Paz, Bolivia.
2006
Kanoria Centre for Arts, Residency, Ahmedabad, India.
Lectures and Workshops
2014
-Torsdagsseminariet, ISAK; Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Linköping University, Sweden.
-Sessão 6, Apt 557, organized by Tobi Maier, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Artist talk, Cultural Centre Paschoal Carlos Magno, Niterói, Brazil.
-Transdisciplinary dialogues with artist Gustavo Speridião, Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2012
-Workshop Casa da Ivete, JA.CA Jardim Canadá Centre of Art and Technology, EAUFMG and DESEJA.CA, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Rumos Artes Visuais 2011-2013, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-Artist Talk, Creative Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
-Lecture: “Emerging Artists and Artistic Expression in Brazil”, the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
-Art Fix: “Meaning of Time”, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA.
-Workshop of Photography and Design, National Museum of Arts, La Paz, Bolivia.
2007
-Lecture: “Arte Contemporânea: A Busca por um ‘novo olhar’”, XI ENEART, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bibliography
2015
–Artista relaciona crise europeia e ditadura no país em mostra no Rio, Silas Martí, A Folha, São Paulo. Link: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2015/01/1574388-artista-relaciona-crise-europeia-e-ditadura-no-pais-em-mostra-no-rio.shtml.
2014
–Liberation Through Laziness: Chronopolitical remarks, Sven Lutticken.
–À Deriva, Felipe Scovino. “Convite à Viagem”, Rumos Itaú Cultural, Catalog.
2013
-Hemant Sareen, “Two grand pianos and their stools”, Art India Magazine, Vol. XVII, Issue IV, New Delhi, India.
-Elisa Maia, “Garimpo”, Revista Dasartes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
–A Conversation About Sculpture, ed. Diana Campbell, Frieze Blog, February. Link: http://blog.frieze.com/a-conversation-about-sculpture/.
2012
-Maya Kóvskaya, “Traversing Thresholds — A Showcase of Contemporary Art from Across Asia”, Positions Asia Critique, Vol. 20.1, Winter, Duke Press, USA.
2011
-Maya Kóvskaya, “Infinite Possibility in Vijai Patchineelam’s ‘Small Mistakes’ and ‘Little Accidents’”, Art Etc., Vol. 2 No. 3, New Delhi, India.
–Convivências: Dez anos da Bolsa Iberê Camargo, catalog, Foundation Iberê Camargo. Porto Alegre,
Brazil.
2010
-Evelyn Pyschek, Leidenschaft, Die Kunst Schafft, Art Investor Magazine, Issue 01, Germany.
-Evelyn Pyschek, Annual Art Magazine, 8th edition, France.
2009
-Zehra Jumabhoy, “Once in a Blue Moon”, Art India Magazine, Vol. XIV, Issue I, New Delhi, India.
-David Rothenberg, ”Back, Forth and Round About”, Evil Monito Magazine, March, USA. Link: http://evilmonito.com/2009/03/02/back-forth-and-round-about/.
-Claire Ruud, “Interview: On Residencies: Sterling Allen, Harrell Fletcher & Vijai Patchineelam”, …might be good, September, Austin, USA. Link: http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/interview/index/129/57.
2008
-Kanitra Fletcher, “Vijai Patchineelam: A Work in Process”, Portal, LLILAS, Issue 4, 2008-2009, the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Link: http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/llilas/portal/portal099/vijai.pdf.
-Claire Ruud, “Project Space: Vijai Patchineelam”, …might be good, November, Austin, USA. Link: http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/artistsspace/index/111.
-Eva Menezes, “Art Turns Trash”, ABC.com on Campus, December, USA. Link: http://abcnews.go.com/OnCampus/story?id=6464931&page=1.
Lectures and Teaching Experience
2012
-Workshop Casa da Ivete, JA.CA Jardim Canadá Centre of Art and Technology, EAUFMG e DESEJA.CA. Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Rumos Artes Visuais 2011-2013, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-Artist Talk, Creative Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
-“Emerging Artists and Artistic Expression in Brazil”, the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
-Art Fix: “Meaning of Time”, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA.
-Workshop of Photography and Design, National Museum of Arts, La Paz, Bolivia.
2007
“Arte Contemporânea: A Busca por um ‘novo olhar'”, XI ENEART, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Publications
2014
-Photo essay, The Living Archive: Curating Feminist Knowledge, 54th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia.
-“If you don’t know the city you dreamed of”, co-written with Adrijana Gvozdenovic, WAYWO, Stockholm, Sweden.
-“Classifieds”, co-written with Adrijana Gvozdenovic, Revista Plataforma, New York, USA.
-“Souvenirs, About Space”. Filip van Dingenen. A series of artist’s interviews.
2012
-“Design and the Politics of Fear: an auto-ethnography on design education”, co-written with Mahmoud Keshavarz, Zoontechnica: The Journal of Redirective Design, Issue 2, June. Link:
http://www.zoontechnica.com/occ_web/issue_02/issue_02_essay.Design_and_the_Politics_of_Fear.html#pg_issue_02_essay.Design_and_the_Politics_of_Fear.html.
