Henrique Oliveira
1973
Born in Ourinhos, Brazil
Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Education
2007 Masters in Visual Poetics, School of Communication and Arts, University of Sao
Paulo
2004 Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting, School of Communication and Arts, University of
Sao Paulo
Awards
2011 Prize APCA (Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte) – Destaque do Ano, Sao
Paulo, Brazil
2009 Prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaca for Arts
2007 Prize English Culture Festival, Sao Paulo
Troph “Water Tower” visual arts category, Festival de Cultura Inglesa, Sao Paulo
2006 Acquisition Prize, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo
Prize Projecteis FUNARTE de Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro
Prize Fiat Mostra Brazil
2005 Prize Visualidade Nascente, Centro Universitario Maria Antonia
Grants and Residencies
2010 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2009 Artist Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
2008 Cite Internaionale des Arts, studio-residence, Paris, France
2005 FAPESP, research grant for MA
Atelier Amarelo, studio-residence, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 FAPESP, research grant for graduating students, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Henrique Oliveira: Transarquitetônica, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2014 Henrique Oliveira, Projective Eye Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
2013 Baitogogo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012 Realidade Líquida, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Ursulinens Prolapse, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
2011 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
2010 Colagens, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, Florida
Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Jainero, Brazil
2009 Tapumes, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Flying Circus Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2008 Temporada de Projetos, Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Baro Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007 11th English Culture Festival, British Council, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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2006
2005
2000
1998
Programa de Exposições, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
1st Show of Annual Program, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil
Baro Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tapumes, House of Latin American Culture, Brasilia, Brazil
Drawings and Paintings, FUNARTE, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paintings, University of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2012 Inside Out and From the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland,
Cleveland, Ohio
Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
Projeto Travessias, Favela da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2011 Art in Brazil (1950 - 2011), Europalia Festival, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bozar,
Brussels, Belgium
Artists in Dialogue 2: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira, Smithsonian National
Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2010 29ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Casa de la Cultura de Puebla, Mexico
3rd Edition Prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for arts, Museu de Arte Moderna,
Salvador, Brazil
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
3rd Edition Prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for arts, Museu de Arte Moderna,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
3rd Edition Prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for arts, Museu de Arte
Contemporanea Sao Paulo, Brazil.
3rd Edition Prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for arts, Galeria Juvenal Antunes
Rio Branco, Brazil!
1 de cada 1 - Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009 IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Centro de Las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
7a Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Nova Arte Nova, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008 Nova Arte Nova, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Seja marginal, Seja Heroi”, Galerie Vallois e Galerie Seroussi, Paris, France
Something from Nothing, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Summer Show, Silvia Cintra/ Box4 Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Studio Project, Baro Cruz Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007 Future of the Present, Instituto Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CTRL_C+CTRL_V/ Cut and Paste, Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Moebius Spiral of the limits of painting, Centro Cultural Parque de Espana,
Rosario, Argentina
Ut pictura diversitas, Marta Traba Gallery, Memorial da America Latina, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Itau Contemporary – Art in Brazil 1981-2006, Instituto Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Arte BA (Open Space), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 13th Bahia Salon, Salvador, Brazil
Fiat Mostra Brazil, Porao das Artes, Bienal Pavillion, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005
2004
2003
2002
1999
Paralela 2006, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Collective Show of Annual Programe, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil
Viva! – alive culture of brazilian people – A look at brazilian contemporary art, Museu
Afro Brazil, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Projeteis Prize FUNARTE for contemporary art, Palacio da Cultura Gustavo
Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Projecteis d’Art Contemporain in Espace Bresil, FUNARTE / Year of Brazil in France,
Paris
5th Flamboyant Prize, National Art Salon of Goias, Goiania, Brazil
Visualidade Nascente, University Center Maria Antonia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
In Transit, graduated artists from ECA/USP, Olido Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Projeteis FUNARTE, Palacio da Cultura Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9th Biennial of Visual Arts of Santos, Santos, Brazil
Annual Program, Museu de Arte de Ribeirao Preto, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
Art of the New Millennium, Guimaraes Rosa Art Center, Jundiai, Brazil
Interiors, FUNARTE, Sao Paulo, Brazil
5th Show Revelation Prize, Contemporary Art Museum of Americana
Group Show, Espaco Miolo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Miolo, FUNARTE, Sao Paulo, Brazil
31st Art Salon of Piracicaba, Piracicaba, Brazil