MANOEL VEIGA
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Lives and works in São Paulo
Education
Graduates as an Electronic Engineer from the Federal University of Pernambuco (1989), having
been a grantee at the Physics Department for three years. Works at a factory until he
discontinues his technical career to devote himself to the Visual Arts (1994). Attends Escolinha
de Arte do Recife, a private school of arts for beginners (1994-95), and works under the
supervision of Gil Vicente (1995-97). Studies at the French National School of Higher Education
in Fine Arts and at the School of the Louvre in Paris, France (1997). Attends and participates in
a workshop in New York (1998). In São Paulo, he studies Art History with Rodrigo Naves (1999),
Leon Kossovitch (2000/01), and has been engaged in theoretical studies, both with Carlos
Fajardo (1999-2002) and with Nuno Ramos (2000).
Grants
2005 Thénot Foudation France
Awards
2010 Prêmio “Mostras de Artistas no Exterior” (Fundação Bienal de São Paulo / Ministério da
Cultura do Brasil)
Prêmio Jabuti (Children’s Book Illustration)
2006 Menção Especial (Bienal do recôncavo)
Flamboyant Prize (Salão Nacional de Arte de Goiás)
Artist in Residence Programs
2005 Marnay Art Center Marnay-Sur-Seine France
2002 “Faxinal das Artes” Faxinal do Céu Paraná Brazil
Freie Kunstschule Berlin Berlin Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
2011 D’Est et D’Ouest Gallery Paris France
2010 Dengler Und Dengler Gallery Stuttgart Germany
Nara Roesler Gallery São Paulo SP
2009 Contemporary Art Museum of Paraná Curitiba PR
Centro Cultural do Gasômetro Porto Alegre RS
Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
2007 Murillo La Greca Museum Recife PE
2006 Ateliêaberto Campinas SP
2005 Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
Virgílio Art Gallery São Paulo SP
2004 ARCO Florianópolis SC
2003 Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
Paço das Artes São Paulo SP
2002 Espaço Virgílio São Paulo SP
2001 Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
Centro Cultural de São Francisco João Pessoa PB
2000 Joaquim Nabuco Foundation Recife PE
Group Exhibitions
2012 “2012: propositions about the future” Museum of Contemporary Art of Curitiba
Curitiba PR
“Figure, Landscape and Still-life” Galeria de Artes SESC Petrolina PE
“Intriscidades” Galeria Quarta Parede São Paulo SP
São Paulo Art Fair (SP Arte) São Paulo SP
“Schwarz” Dengler Und Dengler Art Gallery Stuttgart Germany
2011 “Hunting Territory” Zipper Art Gallery São Paulo SP
“Coletiva +” Galeria de Babel São Paulo SP
ART.FAIR 21 Koln Germany
“Figure, Landscape and Still-life” SESC Casa Amarela Art Gallery Recife PE
“Eflúvios artificiais para mulheres abstratas – Daniel Santiago” Museum of Modern Art
Aloísio Magalhães Recife PE
Cult Art Gallery Recife PE
“Desenho de Monstro” Atelier b5 Florianópolis SC
“Blue Connection” Museum of Contemporary Art of Sorocaba Sorocaba SP
“Blue Connection” Espaço Líbero Badaró São Paulo SP
São Paulo Art Fair (SP Arte) São Paulo SP
Karlsruhe Art Fair Karlsruhe Germany
“Small Formats 2011” Atelier Subterrânea Porto Alegre RS
“Hermes” Atelier Carla Chaim São Paulo SP
2010 ART.FAIR 21 Koln Germany
“Autoportrait Alfredo Andersen Museum Curitiba PR
“Blue Connection” Familie Montez Kunstverein Frankfurt Germany
Motor Gallery Shirley Paes Leme Studio São Paulo SP
“Recortes Afetivos” Adalice Araújo Gallery-UTP Curitiba PR
São Paulo Art Fair (SP Arte) São Paulo SP
Karlsruhe Art Fair Karlsruhe Germany
2009 “Graphias – se assim somos, que assim sejamos” Memorial da América Latina São Paulo
SP
Zurich Contemporary Art Fair Zurich Switzerland
“Action Painting Today” Dengler und Dengler Art Gallery Stuttgart Germany
“4 Paintings” Centro Cultural Arquipélago Florianópolis SC
Buenos Aires Contemporary Art Fair (ArteBA) Buenos Aires Argentina
2008 “Tangências” Casa do Olhar Santo André SP
“Recife Photo Show” State Museum of Pernambuco Recife PE
“Garanhuns Shows Photo” Winter Festival of Garanhuns Garanhuns PE
“Lado B – Arrudeia” Murillo La Greca Museum Recife PE
“Arte Pela Amazonia” Fundação Bienal de São Paulo São Paulo SP
“Lightness and Roughness of the Line” Nara Roesler Gallery São Paulo SP
2007 “Contemporary Painting or ut pictura diversitas” Memorial da América Latina São Paulo
SP
“The Moebius strip or the limits of painting” Centro Cultural Parque de Espanha Rosario
Argentina
“Languages” Torre Malakoff Recife PE
Buenos Aires Contemporary art fair (ArteBA) Buenos Aires Argentina
"Cellebration of the SIM! Magazin number 50" Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
2006 Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
“Urban Intervenções – Garanhuns Winter Festival” Garanhuns PE
“VIII Bienal do Recôncavo” Centro Cultural Dannemann São Félix BA
“Turning point Generation – 10+1: the recent years of brazilian art” Tomie Ohtake
Institute São Paulo SP
“Mars is here” São Paulo SP
“4” Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
Salão Nacional de Arte de Goiás Goiânia GO
“BO at the park” Recife PE
2005 “BR 2005” Virgílio Art Gallery São Paulo SP
Marnay Art Center Marnay-Sur-Seine França
“Árvore Show” São Paulo SP
2004 “BR 2004” Virgílio Art Gallery São Paulo SP
“Narratives” Centro Cultural de São Francisco João Pessoa PB
“Title of a painting” AteliêAberto Campinas SP
“New acquisitions” Museum of Modern Art Aloísio Magalhães Recife PE
“Painting vs. Photography” Paço das Artes São Paulo SP
“Lord Palace Hotel” São Paulo SP
“Another place” Galeria Virgílio São Paulo SP
“Home with no walls” Bombaim India
“More then 3” Metropolitan Museum of Curitiba PR
“São Paulo 450 years” SESC Pompéia São Paulo SP
2003 “Salão Arte Pará” Rômulo Maiorana Foudatiom Belém PA
“XI Salão Municipal de Artes Plásticas” João Pessoa PB
Dumaresq Art Gallery Recife PE
“Between Black and White” House of Latin American Culture Brasília DF
“Plurality in Brazilian art” Art and research Gallery/UFES Vitória ES
2002 “Coletiva de Reis” Kolams Art Gallery Belo Horizonte MG
“28 (+) Painting” Espaço Virgílio São Paulo SP
“Faxinal das Artes” Museum of Contemporary Art of Curitiba Curitiba PR
Atelier Coletivo Olinda PE
Freie Kunstschule Berlin Berlim Alemanha
1999 Rumos Visuais Project (Itaú Cultural), Selected to be part of a virtual data base of new
Brazilian talents
American Chamber of Commerce Gallery São Paulo SP
“Arte nas Galerias Project” Bairro do Recife Recife PE
1998 “IV Salão UNAMA de Pequenos Formatos” Art Gallery of the University of Amazônia
(UNAMA) Belém PA
“Intrudo V” Espaço Cultural Bandepe Recife PE
“VIII Salão Municipal de Artes Plásticas” Centro Cultural São Francisco João Pessoa PB
1997 “VIII Salão Municipal dos Novos” Museu Nacional do Mar São Francisco do Sul SC
“O Papel da Arte V” Espaço Cultural Bandepe Recife PE
Espaço Cultural Sobrado Olinda PE
1996 Sobrado Art Gallery Olinda PE
1994 “20o Salão de Artes Plásticas de Jacarezinho” Banco do Brasil Jacarezinho PR
“1o Salão de Arte dos Novos” State Museum of Pernambuco Recife PE
Works in Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art Aloísio Magalhães (MAMAM), Recife PE Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Curitiba PR Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Goiânia GO Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sorocaba SP Brazil
Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife PE Brazil
SESC, Recife Pernambuco Brazil