Simone Barreto is a visual artist and art educator. She is graduated in Visual Arts with an emphasis on her complementary training in drawing and printmaking. She joined the Visual Arts Research Program at the Visual Arts Center of the Culture Department of Fortaleza, Brazil, in 2012. In 2016, she participated in the Visual Arts Laboratory of Porto Iracema das Artes tutored by the artist and researcher Edith Derdyk. As an artist, she participated in several exhibitions, including the solo exhibitions “Ouro Branco – a estrada é escura e arriscada”, 2019, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, and “Ouro Branco”, 2017, at Galeria Sem Título, Fortaleza, Brazil. She also participated in group exhibitions such as 70 Salão de Abril, Fortaleza, Brazil, in 2019, 69 Salão de Abril, in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 2018, 68 Salão de Abril, in 2017, in Fortaleza, 67 Salão de Abril, in 2016, in Fortaleza, “Bângala: Yakã Ayê”, curated by Yuri Firmeza and Uirá dos Reis, at the gallery A Gentil Carioca, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016, from the collective exhibition “A Arte do Desenho” from the Banco do Nordeste collection, curated by Jacqueline Medeiros also in 2016, in Fortaleza. She obtained some prizes such as the Main Prize of the Salão de Abril 2018, Leonilson Prize of the Edital das Artes of the Secretaria de Cultura de Fortaleza in 2012. In 2010, she obtained the Practical Interactions Prize from Funarte. In 2007, she obtained the Research Incentive Award with an emphasis on Contemporary Design from the Secretariat of Culture of Fortaleza, with the project “Mulheres da Bula”. Yet in 2006, she received a residency grant for emerging artists from Salão de Abril – Salão de Artes Visuais de Fortaleza.
Education
– Graduated in Visual Arts in Instituto Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Solo exhibitions
2019
– “Ouro Branco: a estrada é escura e arriscada”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
2017
– “Ouro Branco”, Galeria Sem Título, Fortaleza, Brazil
Group shows
2019
– 700 Salão de Abril, Fortaleza, Brazil
2018
– 690 Salão de Abril, Fortaleza, Brazil
2017
– “Os Pensamentos do Coração”, curated by Ruth Aragão, Sérgio Gurgel and Nádia Sousa, Museu de Arte Sobrado Dr. José Lourenço, Fortaleza, Brazil
– 680 Salão de Abril Sequestrado, Fortaleza, Brazil
2016
– “Bângala: Yakã Ayê”, curated by Yuri Firmeza and Uirá dos Reis, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “A Arte do desenho: coleção Banco do Nordeste”, curated by Jacqueline Medeiros, CCBNB, Fortaleza, Brazil
– 670 Salão de Abril, Fortaleza, Brazil
2015
– Projeto Malote no AT/AL/609 – lugar de investigações artísticas, Campinas, Brazil
– “Publique-se!”, exposição de livros de artistas, curated by Betânia Corrêa de Araújo and Sabrina Carvalho, Museu da Cidade do Recife, Brazil
2012
– “Perambular, experimentar e correr perigo”, CCBNB, Fortaleza, Brazil
2008
– “Livros…”, CCBNB, Fortaleza, Brazil
– “Re-cortes do Eu – Leya Mira Brander, Thula Kawasaki e Simone Barreto”
2007
– “Abre Alas”, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006
– II Bienal Internacional Ceará de Gravura, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
– “Designus/desdobramentos”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
2005
– “A desgraçada lebre”, Alpendre, Fortaleza, Brazil
2004
– “Gravuras”, Galeria Ramos Cotoco, Theatro José de Alencar, Fortaleza, Brazil
Residencies and research programmes
2016
– Laboratório de Artes Visuais, Escola Porto Iracema das Arte, with Edith Derdyk, Fortaleza, Brazil
2012
– Programa de Pesquisa em Artes Visuais, Centro de Artes Visuais da Secretaria de Cultura, Fortaleza, Brazil
2010
– Lugar a Dudas, residency in drawing, Cali, Colombia
– Razão de Dois (FUNARTE), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2006
– Residency by Salão de Abril, Fortaleza, Brazil
Awards
2018
– “O que a vida pede da gente” at 690 Salão de Abril, Fortaleza, Brazil
2017
– Prêmio de Incentivo à Pesquisa com ênfase em Desenho Contemporâneo, with “Mulheres da Bula”, Secretaria de Cultura de Fortaleza, Brazil
2012
– Prêmio Leonilson, Edital das Artes da Secretaria de Cultura, Fortaleza, Brazil
2010
– Prêmio Interações Estéticas, FUNARTE
Curadoria e produção
2014/2015
– Coordenated Cultura Digital do Cuca Jangurussu, Fortaleza, Brazil
2011/2014
– Produced Dança no Andar de Cima, Fortaleza, Brazil
2011
– Project Mulheres do Quinari. Artistic residency at Quinari, Brazil
2010
– Curated “Sala de Estar”, com a participação das artistas Cris Soares, Mariana Smith, Marina de Botas e Waléria Américo, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia
– Curated “Mirador”, at Dança no Andar de Cima, Fortaleza, Brazil
– Curated “Sala de Estar”, SESC Cine São Luiz, Fortaleza, Brazil
2009
– Produced TEMPORADA, with Marina de Botas and Waléria Américo, Fortaleza, Brazil
