João Loureiro
Brazil
Bio
João Eduardo Loureiro has a Masters degree in Poéticas Visuais by the School of Arts and Communication at the University of São Paulo – ECA/USP – in 2007 and Major in Artes Plásticas by Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation – FAAP – in 1995. He had solo exhibitions as “Pedra que repete,” at Casa da Imagem (São Paulo, 2013), “Fim da Primeira Parte”, at Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo, 2011), Solo Project na VOLTA 6 (Basel, 2010), “Blue Jeans”, on Projeto Octógono de Arte Contemporânea at Pinacoteca do Estado (São Paulo, 2009), “Reaparição”, at Paço Imperial (Rio de Janeiro, 2008) and “Passagem Secreta”, at Centro Universitário Maria Antônia (São Paulo, 2003).
Loureiro took part in exhibitions such as In Situ – Arte en el Espacio Publico, in Bariloche, Argentina (2012), MAM na OCA: Arte Brasileira no Acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, at OCA (São Paulo, 2006), Panorama da Arte Brasileira, at the Museum of Modern Art São Paulo (2005) and 20 Artistas – 20 Anos, at Centro Cultural São Paulo (2002). He was awarded, in 2004, the Bolsa Vitae for Visual Arts with wich realized the exhibition “Projeto para a Ocupação de uma Casa”, in 2007, was awarded on the Edital Arte e Patrimônio – IPHAN/MINC/Petrobras, realizing the permanent piece “JAZ”, in São Miguel das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul and, in 2010, won the Cultura Inglesa Festival with the installation “Tim Scott, William Tucker e Phillip King, by João Loureiro”, shown at the Centro Britânico Brasileiro (São Paulo, 2010) .
