Maria Nepomuceno

Brazilian artist, based in the city of Rio de Janeiro. She dedicates herself to installations, sculptures, drawing and painting, creating organisms in webs that include fabric, necklace beads, rope, straw, clay, ceramics, wood, plants and several other materials. Sometimes also objects of everyday use, and popular handicrafts mainly from Brazil. Based on research and travels, Maria incorporates references from collective works from indigenous communities, weavers and Carnival in her works as a form of dialogue with space, time and cultural diversity. In her sculptural work is very common the mixture of vibrant colors and the balance of volumes as propellants of the anachronism between times, a kind of living mathematics where her forms incorporate an intense poetic and affective reasoning.

In 2023 was part of the exhibition "Maria Nepomuceno & Valentina Liernur Condo São Paulo 2023), at A Gentil Carioca in São Paulo, Brazil. Her recent solo exhibitions include "Dentro e Fora Infinitamente", SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA; "Roda das Encantadas", Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, USA; "Cordão Forte", Lugar Comum, Salvador, Brazil (2022); "Refloresta", The Portico Library, Manchester, UK (2021); "Pelo Amor...", A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; "Vital", Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, USA (2018); "Afetosynteses", Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Noruega (2017). The artist has also participated in the group shows "A Trama da Terra que Treme", A Gentil Carioca, São Paulo, Brazil; "Novos Horizontes - Inside Brazil's Contemporary Art Scene Vol. 1", Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; "Forest: Wake this ground", Arnolfini Arts, Bristol, UK; "Threading the Needle", The Church Sag Harbor, New York, USA (2022); "Bumbum Paticumbum Prugurundum", A Gentil Carioca, São Paulo, Brazil; "Ichihara Art x Mix 2020+", Ichihara, Japan (2021); "My Body, My Rules", Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA; "Já estava assim quando eu cheguei", Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands; "Collection of Catherine Petitgas", Museum of Contemporary Art MOCO, Montpellier, France (2020); among others.

Her works are part of importante collections, such as Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil; Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio; MASP, São Paulo; among others.

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