Fernanda Galvão

Fernanda Galvão's first artistic investigations started with an attentive look at the biology and repertoire of the body itself, such as entrails, cells, constituent tissues or even strangers to this body. To this set of references, notions of internal and external landscapes were soon added and, in this sense, the study and observation of nature, science fiction literature and cinematography, are fundamental.

Her artistic research focuses on painting, but also includes films, installations and sculptures. Despite the language used in her works, the artist builds atmospheres that propose a universe with its own rules, spatialities and temporalities. Thus, unique landscapes and ecosystems of the pictorial world emerge, as they are informed by nature, but from it unique and fictional landscapes are born, eventually inappropriate for human life, but conducive to so many other forms of life.

Text taken from the exhibition “Por muito tempo acreditei ter sonhado que era livre” at Instituto Tomie Ohtake curated by Priscyla Gomes and carried out in collaboration with curator Diego Mauro

Fernanda Galvão [born in 1994, São Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in Paris, France]. Has a bachelor degree in Visual Art from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil. Selected solo exhibitions: As colinas murmuravam e sonhavam em cair no mar, curated by Luana Fontes, at Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil [2023]; Oyster Dream, at Foundry Seoul, Seoul, South Korea [2023], Papila Sobremesa Tutti-Frutti, part of the simultaneous exhibition program of the Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil [2021]; Selected group exhibitions: Ópera Citoplasmática, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil [2022]; The Open Palm of Desire: Gary Komarin and Fernanda Galvão, Trisivrikos, London, England [2022]; Por muito tempo acreditei ter sonhado que era livre, curated by Pryscila Gomes, part of Arte Atual program, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil [2022]; Form der unruhe, curated by Luisa Telles, La Dons Gallery, Hamburg, Germany [2022]; Metamorphoses, curated by Dimitrios Tsivrikos, Neon Gallery, London, England [2021]; Re-rooting: Daisy Murphy Youth Dance, curated by Olivia Bright, Folkestone, England [2021]; Mythologies, curated by Dimitrios Tsivrikos, Neon Gallery, London, England [2021]; E nesse ano a noite preta prega a porta, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil [2018]. Art salons: 17º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Guarulhos, Guarulhos, Brazil [2021]; 17º Salão Ubatuba de Artes Visuais, Ubatuba, Brazil [2021]; 49º Salão de Arte Contemporânea Luiz Sacilotto; Paço Municipal, Santo André, Brazil [2021]; 44º Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil [2019], in which she received the Acquisition Award; 47º Salão de Arte Contemporânea Luiz Sacilotto, Paço Municipal, Santo André, Brazil [2019], in which she also received the Acquisition Award; 28º Mostra de Arte da Juventude, Sesc Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil [2017]. Recently, in June 2023, she participated in the Joshua Tree Highlands Art Residency in the Mojave Desert in California, United States.