Paulo Nazareth (b. 1977) is a Brazilian contemporary artist based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. [1] Nazareth has achieved notable acclaim for his distinctive approach to contemporary art, exemplified by multimedia, performance-based works, international exhibitions, and prestigious awards such as the PIPA Prize, solidifying his status as an influential figure in the global art scene. [2]
Paulo Nazareth was born in 1977, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and is of Afro-Brazilian descent. Nazareth builds relationships with the diverse individuals he meets while traveling for his art—often long distances by foot—and these people often become the inspiration for his works of art. [3] [ failed verification ]
In March 2011, he walked from Minas Gerais, Brazil to New York in the United States. This solo journey took him 5 months as he traveled by foot thousands of miles north, never washing his bare feet, refraining only until he was able to ritualistically wash them in eastern New York's Hudson River. [4] The trip served as a form of performance, as he gauged the reactions of the people he interacted with as he passed through their towns and cities, receiving their feelings about himself, specifically his racial identity and appearance. [5] [6]
Nazareth's work is included in the permanent collections of museums in his home country of Brazil and abroad in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida. [7]
In 1990, Paulo Nazareth studied under Mestre Orlando, a folk artist from Bahia who had moved to Belo Horizonte, where he taught Nazareth the art of carving carrancas. [8]
Paulo Nazareth earned his BFA in 2005, and his MFA in 2006, both from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. In 2010, he returned to the university to study Linguistics. [9]
Paulo Nazareth's ethnic heritage and cultural background are major aspects in his works. [10] Through his art, he intends to bring awareness to global issues such as globalization, immigration, ethnicization, and the effects of capitalism in his home country of Brazil, and Latin America as a whole. [11] He primarily works in performance art, painting, and installation. [12] [13]
One of the artist's most notable performance pieces is perhaps his 2011 work titled Banana Market, also known as Art Market, in which he initially attempted to carry a sack of bananas with him on foot from Latin America to an exhibition Art Basel in Miami, but the work was thwarted when there would be complications with bringing fruit across international borders. [14] Paulo then decided to display one ton of bananas (along with photos, drawings, and placards) in a Volkswagen bus at the exhibition in lieu of the performance. [15]
Nazareth's works often address decoloniality and the reemergence of subjugated forms of knowledge and memory. One recent example of such work is the "Tree of Forgetting," in which Nazareth walks backward and counter-clockwise around a tree in Benin in a reversal of the ritual in which captives of the Atlantic slave trade were forced to circle endlessly around particular trees in the hopes that they would forget their origins, culture, and history. [16]
As a part of his PIPA Prize awards in 2016, of which he won the two main categories (PIPA and Popular Vote Exhibition) Paulo Nazareth made another journey on foot from Belo Horizonte to New York to receive his award, then stayed in the state for the next three months for a residency at Residency Unlimited as part of his PIPA Prize award.
Paulo Nazareth's most recent solo and group exhibitions are Paulo Nazareth, Melee, ICA Miami, Miami (2019) and Lingua Solta, Museu da lingua Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil (2021). [18] [19]
| Exhibition | Organization | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nosotros los otros [20] | Mendes Wood DM | New York, New York | 2022 |
| Melee | ICA Miami | Miami, Florida | 2019 |
| A LA FLEUR DE LA PEAU | Mendes Wood DM | Brussels, Belgium | 2019 |
| PHAMBI KWENDLOVU | Stevenson Gallery | Cape Town, South Africa | 2019 |
| Faca Cega | Museu de Arte da Pampulha | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 2018 |
| INNOMINATE | Mendes Wood DM | New York, New York | 2017 |
| Old Hope | Mendes Wood DM | São Paulo, Brazil | 2017 |
| Genocide in Americas | Meyer Riegger | Berlin, Germany | 2015 |
| The Journal | Institute for Contemporary Arts | London, United Kingdom | 2014 |
| Banderas Rotas | Galleria Franco Noero | Turin, Italy | 2014 |
| Veneza Neves | Veneza, Riberão das Neves | Minas Gerais, Brazil | 2013 |
| Premium Bananas | Museu de Arte de São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 2012 |
| News from Americas | Mendes Wood DM | São Paulo, Brazil | 2012 |
| Na impossibilidade de nomear | Museu de Uberlândia | Uberlândia, Brazil | 2010 |
| Paulo Nazareth | LTDA [21] | Porto Alegre, Brazil | 2008 |
| Untitled | Museu de Arte de Pampulha | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 2007 |
| Gambiarreiro | SESI-MINAS | Minas Gerais, Brazil | 2004 |
| Exhibition | Organization | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Língua Solta | Museu da lingua Portuguesa | São Paulo, Brazil | 2021 |
| Global(e) Resistance | Centre Pompidou | Paris, France | 2020 |
| Our Selfie | MO Museum | Vilnius, Lithuania | 2019 |
| EXTREME. NOMADS | MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst | Frankfurt am Main, | 2018 |
| Field Gate | Remai Modern | Sasktoon, Canada | 2017 |
| Much wider than a line | SITE Santa Fe | Santa Fe, USA | 2016 |
| Here There (Huna Hunak) | QM Gallery Al Riwaq | Doha, Qatar | 2015 |
| Imagine Brazil | Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon | Lyon, France | 2014 |
| The Encyclopedic Palace | 55 Biennale di Venezia | Venice, Italy | 2013 |
| Il va se passer quelque chose | Maison de l’Amérique Latine | Paris, France | 2012 |
| MYTHOLOGIES | Cité Internationale des Arts | Paris, France | 2011 |
| Por aqui forma tornam-se atitudes | SESC Vila Mariana | São Paulo, Brazil | 2010 |
| Pesta Seni Performa | CCCL | Surabaya, Indonesia | 2009 |
| Sobremesa de Queijos | Museu Mineiro | Minas Gerais, Brazil | 2008 |
| Multiparidade | Palácio das Artes | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 2007 |
| Untitled | International Video-Performance Art Festival | Tallinn, Estonia | 2005 |
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