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Maria Lynch Rio de Janeiro born 1981 is a Brazilian artist
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Maria Lynch Rio de Janeiro born 1981 is a Brazilian artist
In 2008, she earned an MA and a Post-Graduate Diploma from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.
Maria Lynch works with a variety of media, including painting, sculpture / installations, performance and videos, in works which address excess in dealing with the female figure and the world of play. She creates a language that unfurls from fragments of memory and the abstraction of reality. [1]
Among her main collective exhibitions are "The Jerwood Drawing Prize" London, 2008; "Nova Arte Nova" at CCBB, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 2008. In 2009 she was invited to the "Salão Paranaense", Curitiba and presented the performance "Incorporáveis" at Oi Futuro and SESC 24 Horas, Pier Maua, Rio de Janeiro. In 2010, she was invited to the collective exhibition "] entre [" in the Galeria IBEU and won the Marcantônio Vilaça Prize, Funarte with exhibition at the MAC Niteroi. In the same year she was invited to the 6th Biennial of Curitiba, VentoSul. Maria also participated in the exhibition at the Barbican "Creative Cities" London Olympics, 2012 and also the exhibition "Bordalianos do Brasil" at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal.
Among her most recent solo exhibitions are "Ocupação Macia" at the New Museum in 2015, which Maria had previously shown in an individual at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro in 2012. "Aforismas, Rizomas e Selvageria", Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2015. "Janela Provisória", O grande Campo - Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2015. "Time is Never Past Nor Present", curated by Sarah Crown at Spazio522, New York, USA 2014 and "Becomings" - Bathroom Project, Rooster Gallery, New York, USA 2014.
In 2014 was commissioned to the artist to do a work for the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in the new building of Oscar Niemeyer. In that year she released her book by Cosac Naif, entitled "Drawings". In 2014 she did an artistic residence at Residency Unlimited in New York. In the same year she won an award from the Brazilian Consulate in the US for the solo exhibition, "Ocupação Macia" who took place at the Ideas City Festival in New Museum, New York. She also presented a solo exhibition in the gallery Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, titled "Aforismas, Rizomas e Selvageria". In the year 2016 she did a solo exhibition called "Spaces and Spectacles" at Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles. Maria Lynch began the year 2017 by opening her first solo exhibition at an institution in Brazil, titled "Máquina Devir" at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The artist has works in important collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói, Brazil; Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Fine Arts Olympic Committee, London, United Kingdom; Gilberto Chateubriand Collection, Brazil / MAM-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Itamaraty Palace, DF, Brazil and Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions
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