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JONATHAS DE ANDRADE
BIOGRAPHY
1982
Born Maceió, Brazil
The artist lives and works in Recife, Brazil.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2013
2011
2009
Francophile Prize, Lyon Biennale
Hiwar Residency, Darat al Funun, Amman
Premio PIPA Prize
Gasworks International Residency Program, London
The Exchange Iberê Camargo Grant, Fundação Iberê Camargo
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
47th Salon of Plastic Arts of Pernambuco
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014-2015
2014
2013
2010
2009-10
2007-08
Jonathas de Andrade, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Museu do Homem do Nordeste, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro
Jonathas de Andrade: 40 Nego Bom é um real, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Looking for Jesus, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
Jonathas de Andrade, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Museum of the Man of the Northeast, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Posters for the Museum of the Man of the Northeast, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon
Nostalgia, sentimento de classe, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
4,000 Shots, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal
Programa de Exposições, Centro Cultural São Paulo
Tropical Hangover, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; Instituto Cultural Banco Real, Recife
Love and Happiness in Marriage, Instituto Furnas Cultural, Rio de Janeiro; Fundação
Joaquim Nabuco, Recife; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015-16
2015
2014-16
2014
So-Called Utopias, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
Imagine Brazil, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; DHC/ART Foundation, Montreal
Performa 15, New York
Jonathas de Andrade, Matthew Benedict, Fernando Bryce, Willie Cole,
Mona Hatoum, Robert Kinmont, Stefan Kürten, Jorge Macchi,
Alexander and Bonin, New York
Confrontation, Observatório, São Paulo
3rd Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York; Museo Jumex, Mexico City
The 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Unerasable Memories: A Historic Look at the Videobrasil Collection, SESC
Pompeia, São Paulo
Corpo Caboclo, Galeria Multiarte, Fortaleza
10 Years of Prêmio Aquisição, Sala Tarsila do Amaral, Centro Cultural São Paulo
(CCSP)
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2013-14
2013
2012-13
2012
DAK'ART: the 11th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar
Atopia: Migration, Heritage, and Placelessness. Works from the ThyssenBornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Museo de Arte de Zapopan,
Guadalajara
Dogs Without Feathers, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife
Brazil, voices in the crowd: Assef, De Andrade, Morais, Bienal de Fotografia de Lima
2014
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
A tara por livros ou a tara de papel, Galeria Bergamin, São Paulo
ICA@50 Pleasing Artists and Public since 1963, Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia
Duplo Olhar: Sergio Carvalho Collection, São Paulo University, Paço das Artes
Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
140 caracteres, The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP)
Project 35 Volume 2, Independent Curators International, various venues.
Imagine Brazil, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
HIWAR - Conversations in Amman, Darat al Funun, Amman
EXPO 1: Rio, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
Love and Hate to Lygia Clark, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
Artist’s Film Club, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
XVII Unifor Plastic, Unifor Cultural Space, Fortaleza
Mijn Derde Land (My Third Land), Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam
Entre-Temps... brusquement, et ensuite,12e Biennale de Lyon
Mythologies by Proxy, The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP)
Avante Brasil: Young Art from Brasil, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
LA BIENAL 2013: Here is Where We Jump!, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Blind Field, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East
Lansing
Future Generation Art Prize, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice
Moving: Norman Foster on Art, Carré d’Art – Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art,
Nîmes
The Right to the City, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Better Homes, SculptureCenter, Long Island City
Plaisance, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
The Insides are on the Outside / O interior está no exterior, Casa de Vidro and SESC
Pompéia, São Paulo
Blind Field, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign
CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça Prize for Fine Arts (Confederação Nacional da
Indústria/ Serviço Social da Indústria), Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte;
Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto; Palácio do Comércio, Maceió;
Fortaleza São José de Macapá, Macapá; Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá; Centro
Cultural Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre; Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Tropikalizmy, Gdańsk City Gallery
Future Generation Art Prize 2012 [21 Shortlisted Artists], PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Art, San Francisco
New Brazil/Bolívia Now, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo
Salvajes: Digesting Europe Piece by Piece, Traneudstillingen Exhibition Space,
Copenhagen
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2011
2010
2009
2008
2006-08
The Crowd Behind Us, King Hussein Street at Abdali Station, Amman
The Ungovernables: New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York
En Obras: Art and Architecture in the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, Tenerife
Espacio de las Artes
Os Primeiros Dez Anos, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
Against the Wall, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Mythologies, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Panoramas do Sul: 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC
Videobrasil, São Paulo
Chaos and Effect, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
IPA 2011(Prêmio Investidor Profissional de Arte), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de
Janeiro
32nd Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP)
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul
Contemporary Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo
Another Place, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro
Arte for life/ Arte for living, Lab'Bel at Swab Art Fair and Mies van der Rohe Pavillion,
Barcelona
Geração 00: The New Brazilian Photography, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo
Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah
A casa como convêm, Schunck Museum, Herleen
Cerveira Biennial, Cerveira
New Year, Galeria Silvia Cintra, Rio de Janeiro
What do I know? Vera Cortês, Art Agency, Lisbon
Fictions, Galeria Lunara, Porto Alegre
29th São Paulo Biennial: Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar
[itinerâncias], Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte
Horizonte Vazado: artistas iberoamericanos en el filo, Espaço Cultural Instituto
Cervantes, São Paulo
29th São Paulo Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Parque do
Ibirapuera, São Paulo
En Obras: Art and Architecture in the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, Tenerife
Espacio de las Artes, Ilhas Canárias
First and Last, Galeria Luiza Strina, São Paulo
Imagined Cities, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo
7th Biennial of Visual Arts of MERCOSUL, Porto Alegre
Rose of the Winds, Galeria Fayga Ostrower, Funarte, Brasília
Garanhuns Winter Festival [Portrait of the Previous Winter], Garanhuns
SPA das Artes, Recife
Essays in Books and Catalogues
2015
Lange, Jennifer, Bill Horrigan, and Paulo Venancio Filho. Cruzamentos: Contemporary
Art in Brazil. Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Reviews and Articles
2015
Richard, Leslie. “Jonathas de Andrade.” ArtNexus (June-August, 2015): 107-108
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2014
2013
2012
Köchling, Carolin. “Shooting a Movie/Cleaning a Tunnel: Jonathas de Andrade
and Alexandre Orion’s Interventions in Recife and São Paulo,
Brazil.”Seismopolite (April 30, 2015)
Schilaro, Tatiane. “Jonathas de Andrade: Subverting Cheap Labor and Racism in Brazil.”
Artcritical.com (April 28, 2015)
Wouk Almino, Elisa. “As Brazilian Art Trends, the Country’s Racism Comes to the
Fore.” Hyperallergic.com (April 9, 2015)
“Jonathas de Andrade” The New Yorker (April 6, 2015)
Ebony, David. “David Ebony’s Top Ten New York Gallery Shows for March.”
news.artnet.com (March 19, 2015)
Gopnik, Blake. “At Alexander and Bonin, Jonathas de Andrade Spells Out
Brazil’s Troubles.” news.artnet.com (March 9, 2015)
Hinojosa, Lucia. “Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today.” The Brooklyn
Rail (September, 2014): 63
Lamoni, Giulia “cartazes para o museu homem do nordeste by Jonathas de Andrade.”
Manifesta Journal (June 21-August 13, 2013): 70-76
Maloney, Jennifer. “Guggenheim Exhibition Lets Visitors Play Curator” The Wall Street
Journal (June 12, 2014)
Cotter, Holland. “Arriving Late to the Party but Dancing on All the Clichés.” The New
York Times (June 12, 2014): C23
Maloney, Jennifer. “Guggenheim Exhibition Lets Visitors Play Curator.” www.wsj.com
(June 12, 2014)
Josten, Jennifer. “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil” Artforum (June-July, 2014):
361
“Heart of Glass.” www.artforum.com (April 15, 2014)
Joseph, Francesco Bellini. “Brazil’s new generation: names to watch” Financial Times
(March 28, 2014)
Ades, Richard. “Don’t expect to run into ‘The Girl From Ipanema’”
www.columbusfreepress.com (February 6, 2014)
Tigges, Jesse. “Via Brasil!” Columbus Alive (January 30, 2014): 32-35
Shafer, Ellen and Goodman, Matthew Shen. “The Guggenheim’s Latin America” Art in
America (2014)
Pedrosa, Adriano. “HIWAR-Conversations in Amman.” www.universes-inuniverse.org (December 2013)
Rosenberg, Karen. “Home Is Where You Create It” The New York Times (May 3, 2013):
C27
Viveros, Faune-Christian. “Bitter Homes and Gardens.” www.villagevoice.com (May 1,
2013)
Leslie, Richard. “The Ungovernables.” ArtNexus (June-August 2012)
Pope, Nessia. www.newmuseum.tumblr.com (May 18, 2012)
Cotter, Holland. “’The Ungovernables.’” Artforum (May 2012)
Martí, Silas. “Jonathas de Andrade.” Frieze (March 2012)
Cotter, Holland. “A Triennial of Quiet Disobedience.” The New York Times (February 17,
2012): C25
Pulitzer, Sam. “Doom Generational.” www.artforum.com (February 16, 2012)
“Alex Katz and Kara Walker Joined the ‘Ungovernable’ Artists at Their Raucous New
Museum Opening.” www.artinfo.com (February 15, 2012)
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2011
Chayka, Kyle and Chen, Tom “VIDEO: Behind the Scenes With New Museum
Triennial Curator Eungie Joo and Her ‘Ungovernable’ Artists.” www.artinfo.com
(February 14, 2012)
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Feb. 15 The Ungovernables.” www.wmagazine.com (February 2012)
“New Museum 2012 Takes on a Decidedly International Flavor.” www.arttattler.com
Vogel, Carol. “A Rising Generation of Artistic Resistance.” The New York Times
(December 2, 2011): C28
de la Barra, Pablo León. “Somewhere better than this place. Nowhere better than this
place.” www.artealdia.com (November 18, 2011)
Frèrot, Christine. “’Untitled’: 12th Istanbul Biennial 2011” ArtNexus (December 2011 –
February 2012)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte
Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza
Tate Modern, London
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo