Henrique Oliveira
Ourinhos - SP, Brazil
Lives and works in London-UK and Sao Paulo-Brazil.
Education
Postgraduate
2007 Masters in Visual Poetics - School of Communication and Arts. University of São Paulo.
Graduation
2004 Fine Arts, bachelors in painting - School of Communication and Arts. University of São Paulo.
Solo Shows
2023 Memento Habilis - Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil.
2022 Plumule - Kupfer Project Space, London, UK.
2022 Small Abstractions - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France.
2018 Programa de Exposições (invited artist) - Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
2018 IX Enku Grand Award - Gifu Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan.
2017 Van de Weghe Gallery, New York, USA.
2016 Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil.
2015 McClain Gallery, Houston, USA.
2015 Fissure - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France.
2014 Adenocalcinoma Poliresidual - Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
2014 Transarquitetonica - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014 Projective Eye Gallery - University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA.
2013 Baitogogo - Palais de Tokyo, SAM Art Projects, Paris, France.
2012 Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2012 Realidade Líquida - Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 Ursulinens Prolapse - Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria.
2011 Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France.
2011 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, USA.
2010 Colagens - Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, USA.
2010 Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009 Tapumes - Rice University Art Gallery - Houston, USA.
2009 Flying Circus Gallery - Monterrey, Mexico.
2008 Temporada de Projetos - Paço das Artes - São Paulo, Brazil.
2008 Galeria Baró Cruz - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 11º English Culture Festival - British Council - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Programa de Exposições - FUNARTE - São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 1th Show of Annual Program - Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Baró Cruz Gallery - São Paulo, Brazil.
2005 Tapumes - House of Latin America Culture - Brasília, Brazil.
2000 Drawings and Paintings - FUNARTE (National Art Foundation) - São Paulo, Brazil.
1998 Paintings - University of Londrina - Londrina, Brazil.
Selected Group Shows
2024 Park:Art Walk - Hangar Y - Meudon, France.
2024 Refuge - 4th Lagos Biennial - Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, Nigeria.
2023 Fairy Tales - QAGOMA Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art - Brisbane, Australia.
2023 La Cinquième Saison / Paris + par Art Basel, Jardin des Tuileries, Musée du Louvre - Paris, France.
2023 Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer 7th Edition - Slough, UK.
2023 Amazing Nature - Silkeborg Bad Art Centre - Silkeborg, Denmark.
2022 La Forêt Magique - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.
2022 Les Extatiques - La Seine Musicale, Paris, France.
2022 Pure Morning - Marra/Nosco Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2022 Utopias e Destopias - Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
2022 Collection - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.
2022 Sintetic Organic - Casa Zalszupin, São Paulo, Brazil.
2022 Sartori Collection - Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2021 Natural Successor - Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, EUA.
2021 Bruges Triennale Trauma - Bruges, Belgium.
2021 IJssel Biennale - Deventer, Holland.
2021 Above us Only Sky - NITJA Center for Contemporary Art, Lillistrom, Norway.
2019 Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Italy.
2019 Un Été au Havre - Jardins Suspendus, Le Havre, France.
2019 Jungle Fever - Galerie GP&N Vallois, Paris, France.
2018 Dialética : BGA Collection - Studio OM art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2017 Stage of Being - Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands.
2017 Troposphere: Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art - Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China.
2017 The Other Side: narratives of the unconscious - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
2016 XIII Bienal de Cuenca: Impermanence - Cuenca, Ecuador.
2016 Bizarre Spaces: Attacks, Transformations, Explosions - MARTA Herford Museum, Herford, Germany.
2016 The End of the World - Centro Pecci - Prato, Italy.
2016 The Many and the One: Brazilian Contemporary Art - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
2016 Small Gestures - Mücsarnok Kunsthalle - Budapest, Hungary.
2015 Crafted: Object in Flux - Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, USA.
2015 4th Lubumbashi Biennale - Democratic Republic of Congo.
2015 FIAC Hors les Murs - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
2015 Quando Piso em Folhas Secas - Sala de Arte Santander, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014 Fusion: Art of the 21th Century, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA.
2014 Centre d’Arts et de Nature - Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.
2014 From Valongo to Favela: imaginary and periphery - MAR (Museu de Arte do Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013 Brasiliana: Installations from 1960 to the present - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
2013 La distance juste - Galerie Vallois, Paris, France.
2013 L'Arbre de vie - Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France.
2012 OIR (Outras Idéias para o Rio) - Parque da Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2012 Inside Out and from the Ground Up - Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA.
2012 Sculpture is Everything - Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
2011 Projeto Travessias, Galpão das Artes, Favela da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2011 Art in Brazil (1950 - 2011), Europalia Festival - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium.
2011 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.
2010 IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA - Casa de la Cultura de Puebla, Mexico.
2010 3rd Edition Prize CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art plásticas. Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil.
2010 IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA - Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico.
2010 One of each one - Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010 3rd Edition Prize CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art. Galeria Juvenal Antunes, Rio Branco, Brazil
2009 3rd Edition Prize CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art - Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009 IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA - Centro de las Artes, Monterrey. Mexico.
2009 7th Bienal do Mercosul "Grito e Escuta"- Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2009 Nova Arte Nova - Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil.
2009 Gabinete - Museu Vítor Meireles - Florianópolis, Brazil.
2008 Nova Arte Nova - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2008 Seja marginal, Seja Herói - Galerie Vallois e Galerie Seroussi, Paris, France.
2008 Something from Nothing - Contemporary Arts Center - New Orleans, USA.
2008 Summer Show - Silvia Cintra/ Box4 Gallery - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2008 Studio Project - Baró Cruz Gallery - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Future of the Present - Instituto Itaú Cultural - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 CTRL _ C + CTRL_V/ Cut and Paste - Sesc Pompéia - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 The Moebius Spiral or the Llimits of Painting - Centro Cultural Parque de España - Rosário, Argentina.
2007 Ut pictura diversitas, Galeria Marta Traba, Memorial da América Latina - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Itaú Contemporary - Art in Brazil 1981-2006, Instituto Itaú Cultural - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Arte BA (Open Space) - Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2006 13th Bahia Salon - Salvador, Brazil.
2006 Fiat Mostra Brasil - Porão das Artes, Pavilhão da Bienal - São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Paralela 2006 - Parque do Ibirapuera - São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Collective Show of Annual Programe - Centro Cultural São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Viva! - alive culture of brazilian people - A look at brazilian contemporary art - Museu Afro Brasil, Parque do Ibirapuera - São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Projéteis Prize FUNARTE for contemporary art - Palácio da Cultura Gustavo Capanema - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2005 Projectiles d'Art Contemporain in Espace Brésil / FUNARTE / Year of Brazil in France - Paris.
2005 5th Flamboyant Prize/ National Art Salon of Goiás - Goiânia, Brazil.
2005 Visualidade Nascente - University Center Maria Antonia - São Paulo, Brazil.
2005 In Transit - graduated artists from ECA/USP - Olido Gallery - São Paulo, Brazil.
2004 Projéteis FUNARTE - Palácio da Cultura Gustavo Capanema - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2004 9th Biennial of Visual Arts of Santos - Santos, Brazil.
2004 Annual Program - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
2003 Art of the New Millennium - Guimarães Rosa Art Center- Jundiaí, Brazil.
2003 Interiors - FUNARTE - São Paulo, Brazil.
2002 5th Show Revelation Prize - Contemporary Art Museum of Americana - Americana, Brazil.
2002 Group Show Espaço Miolo - São Paulo, Brazil.
2002 Miolo - FUNARTE - São Paulo, Brazil.
1999 31th Art Salon of Piracicaba - Piracicaba, Brazil.
Prizes and Awards
2018 Enku Grand Award - Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan.
2016 Prix Pierre Cardin (sculpture) - Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
2013 SAM Art Projects - Paris, France.
2011 Prize APCA (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte) - Destaque do Ano, São Paulo, Brazil.
2009 Prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art, Brazil
2007 Prize - 11th English Culture Festival - British Council - São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Water Tower Trophy - 11th English Culture Festival - São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Acquisition Prize - Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Prêmio Projéteis FUNARTE - Nacional Prize - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2006 Fiat Mostra Brasil - National Prize - São Paulo, Brazil.
2005 Prize - Visualidade Nascente - Centro Universitário Maria Antonia - São Paulo, Brazil.
Fellowships and residencies
2015 Pioneer Works - New York, USA.
2010 The Fountainhead Residency - Miami, USA.
2009 Artist Research Fellowship - Smithsonian Institution - Washington DC, USA.
2008 Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris, France.
2005 FAPESP (São Paulo State Foundation for Research Support) - grant for Masters Project - São Paulo, Brazil.
2005 Atelier Amarelo - studio residence - São Paulo, Brazil.
2004 FAPESP (São Paulo State Foundation for Research Support) - grant for graduating students - São Paulo, Brazil.
Public Collections
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Paris, France.
VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - Virginia, USA.
QAGOMA Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art - Brisbane, Australia.
Museum Voorlinden - Wassenaar, Netherlands.
Centro per L'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci - Prato, Italy.
Arte Sella - Borso Valsugana, Italy.
City of Houston Civic Art Program, William P. Hobby Airport - Houston, USA.
City of Le Havre - Jardins Suspendus, Le Havre, France
MGM Resorts Art Collection, Park MGM - Las Vegas, USA.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Museu de Arte Moderna - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Museu Afro-Brasil - São Paulo, Brazil.
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil.
Fundação Edson Queiroz - Fortaleza, Brazil.
Centro Cultural São Paulo, Coleção de Arte da Cidade de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil.
Coleção Centro Cultural da Universidade Federal de Goiás - Goiânia, Brazil.
Villa Aymoré - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Instituto Itaú Cultural - São Paulo, Brazil.
Coleção Metrópolis / TV Cultura - São Paulo, Brazil.