Ana Miguel
1962, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
e-mail [email protected]
Background
Took part in the Ingá Engraving Workshops, where she learned from the main printmakers in Rio de Janeiro,
from 1979 to 1985. Studied engraving and painting at the Visual Arts School of Lage Park and at the Rio de
Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, as well as Art History, with Alair Gomes, from 1981 to 1982. Simultaneously, she studied Contemporary Philosophy and Anthropology at the Fluminense Federal University and at the
University of Brasilia. She lived in Barcelona from 1991 to 94, where she studied at the graduate ateliers in
Montesquiu. At the Arteleku, San Sebastian, she attended the seminars coordinated by Francisco Jarauta in
1993, 1994 and 1995.
Selected Exhibitions
2005 O Corpo na Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo-SP.
2004 Para Conter um Labirinto: Narrativas. Solo, Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
A/MAZE, La Tréfilerie, Brussels, Belgium.
2003 Gentle Reversion at Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
Vice-Versa: Eixo Brasilia, ECCO Gallery, Brasilia-DF and Messe Frankfurt, Germany.
2002 25th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo-SP
I MISS YOU, solo exhibition, Gallery 32, London, UK.
Kunstilieche Liebe, Kulturzentrum Kammgarm, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
2001 Flowers Also Become Unstable and Can Hurt, solo exhibition, ECCO Gallery, Brasília-DF.
Love Affair, solo exhibition, Le Corbusier Cultural Centre, Brasília-DF.
Gentle Reversion, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Centre, Brasília-DF.
Expanded Territory III, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo-SP.
Tell me no lies, Museum of the Republic, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
Per-Versus, Obra Aberta Gallery, Porto Alegre-RS.
2000 Little Flowers, solo exhibition, São Paulo Gallery, São Paulo-SP.
Brasil, Plural y Singular, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Argentina.
Dear Flowers, In The Theatre of Installation, Museum of Installation, London, UK.
The Century of Women, A Few Artists, Petrópolis House- Culture Institute, Petrópolis-RJ.
1999 With Cold Hands, solo, invited artist, Pocket Gallery, Latin America Culture House, Brasília-DF.
The Object/60s –90s, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro-RJ and Itaú Cultural, São Paulo-SP.
II Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre-RS.
1998 Oysters, solo exhibition, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
a posteriori, Athos Bulcão Gallery, Brasília-DF.
Panorama of the Visual Arts, Athos Bulcão Gallery and Itaú Gallery, Brasília-DF.
Lighter Than Air, works from the MABʼs collection, Athos Bulcão Gallery, Brasília-DF.
1997 Cegueses, Girona Museum of Art, Catalonia, Spain.
Collective Exhibition, São Paulo Gallery, São Paulo-SP.
Brazil – Reflexion 97, MUMA, Curitiba-PR.
1996 Interiors, Rio Biennial, Chateaubriand Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
New Art, Majestic Hotel, with van der Voort Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
1995 Circulación, solo, 10é Cicle dʼArt Contemporani a Gràcia, Barcelona, Spain.
Perverse Childhood, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro and Museum of Art, Bahia-BA.
Figurative Romance, National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
En el otro lado de las cosas, Tecla Room, LʼHospitallet, Barcelona, and CAZ la
Galería, Zaragoza, Spain.
1994 De com les ostres produeixen les seves perles, Fortuny Room, solo, Reus, Spain.
Allò que es llegeix on no es llegeix, solo exhibition, Escola Taller dʼArt, Reus, Spain.
Macunaíma project, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
Prizes and Scholarships
2000 International Prize at the 2nd ARTEBA Mercosul Engraving Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998 Prize at the 5th Bahia Salon.
Candango Culture Prize in Visual Arts for her exhibition a posteriori, Brasília-DF.
1996 Scholarship recipient from the «Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca»,
Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
1993 Finalista at Vals Biennial, Spain.
Special prize at the Premio Nacional de Grabado, Calcografia Nacional,
Madrid, Spain, as well as the following National Prizes in Plastic Arts in
Reus, Catalonia, Spain.
1990 Brasília Arts Prize, Brasília-DF.
1985 Rio de Janeiro Engraving Prize, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
1984 Mini Print international Prize, Cadaqués, Spain.
1983 Prize of the Parana Salon, Curitiba-PR.
1981 Rio de Janeiro Engraving Prize, Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
1981 Funarte Prize, Fluminense Federal University Salon-RJ.
Took part in collaborations in theater, invited by the directors Adriano and Fernando Guimarães, producing,
between 1998 and 2002, the costumes for Happy Days, and other plays by Samuel Beckett. In 1999, invited
by the same directors, she prepared the costumes for A Falecida (The Deceased) by Nelson Rodrigues.
Her works are in public and private collections, among them:
Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Cândido Mendes Collection,
RJ; Museum of Modern Art, Bahia; Museum of Art of Brasília;
Centre de Lectura, Reus, Catalonia ; Contemporary Engraving Section of the National Library of Madrid,
Spain; ARTEBA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Selected Bibliography
De Oliveira, Nicolas, Exchange and Interaction. In: Installation Art in the new millennium: the empire of the
senses; London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Farias, Agnaldo, The Hotel of Stars. In: 25th Sao Paulo Biennial; Sao Paulo: Fundação Bienal de Sao Paulo,
2002.
Cocchiarale, Fernando, As flores também ficam instáveis e podem ferir. In: Ana Miguel, exhibition catalogue
at the ECCO Gallery, Brasília, 2001.
Panitz, Marília, O riso da aranhA. In : Gentil Reversão, exhibition catalogue at Centro Cultural Banco do
Brasil, Brasília, 2001.
Panitz, Marília, A dupla vida dos objetos: esqueleto e roupagem. In: Caso de amor, exhibition catalogue at
Le Corbusier Cultural Center, French Embassy, Brasília, 2001.
Resende, Ricardo, Os Desdobramentos da Gravura Contemporânea. In: Gravura Brasileira; São Paulo: Cosac & Naify/ Itaú Cultural, 2000.
Tortosa, Alina, O juízo em suspenso no jardim de Ana Miguel. In: Florezinhas, exhibition catalogue at the
São Paulo Gallery, 2000.
Taricco, Clelia, Brasil. Plural y Singular. Museu de Arte Moderna de Buenos Aires, 2000.
Lozano, Amparo, Nota. In: ana miguel, personal catalogue for the II Mercosul Biennial, 1999.
Salles, Evandro, Descarnamento dos Sentidos. In: a posteriori, exhibition catalogue at the Athos Bulcão
Gallery at the Claudio Santoro National Theatre, Brasília, 1998.
Lozano, Amparo, Propalaciones y poesis. In: En el outro lado de las cosas, exhibition catalogue at Tecla
Sala, Barcelona, 1995.