André Ricardo

1985, São Paulo | SP - Brazil

André Ricardo was born in 1985 in the city of São Paulo where he currently lives and works. Graduated in Visual Arts at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo, he held several individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal and Spain. For the modernist tradition and contemporary practices, he works against the most current trends in contemporary art. But this support translates for him into an artistic creation of his own time, in which he seeks to operate a synthesis of the elements of the urban space through color.

His motives emerge from aspects and objects seen on routes around the city: between 2011 and 2012, with his series of buckets and excavators he tried to perceive them as words for the construction of a new painting. It was mainly its shape and color that suggested compositions to him. From them he extracted - as we noticed with his most recent work - the grammar of his works until they resulted in fully abstract forms.

Individual Exhibitions:

2019 CAIACA!. Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2016 Campo a través, Addaya Centre d' Art Contemporany, Alaró / Mallorca, Spain

2015 Elemento Vazado, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2014 Elemento Vazado, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

2012 Caçambas e Escavadeiras, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2012 Annual Exhibitions Program, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Collective Exhibitions:

2020 PretAtitude - Insurgências, emergências e afirmações na arte afro-brasileira contemporânea, SESC, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil

2018/2019 PretAtitude - Insurgências, emergências e afirmações na arte afro-brasileira contemporânea, SESC, Santos, SP, Brazil

2018 Desde o Apego: Memória e Gesto, Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2017 Reactions in Equilibrium, Feira de Arte Contemporânea da Bologna, Italy

2016 in Situ, Casal Son Tugores, Mallorca, Spain

2013 Futuro – National Salon of Visual Arts, Pinacoteca Municipal de Jundiaí, SP, Brazil

2013 Pintura | MARP 20 Anos. Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

2013 É Sempre Bom Estar Bem Acompanhado, W Espaço de Arte, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

2012 28 Nós – art graduates from ECA/USP, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2012 Risco#1 Arte como trabalho, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2011 ADUANA – Antigo Picadeiro do Colégio dos Nobres, MNHNC, Lisboa, Portugal

2011 Espaços da Cor, organized by the Color Research Group from the Department of Visual Arts of the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo,Paço das Artes, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2011 15th Biennale Internationale de La Gravure, Sarcelles, France

2011 Comboio Ferroviário, Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2011 Objeto em Estudo, Fine Arts Museum of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

2011 Aconteceu Dentro Delas,  Espaço Lofté, Porto, Portugal

2009 Programa Anual de Exposições, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

2009 15th Salon of Contemporary Art Graça Landeira, UNAMA, Belém, PA, Brazil

2009 Coletiva Código, Studio OÇO/CINESOL Galeria, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Public Collections: 

Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Museu Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil

Casa da Cultura da América Latina da Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

Selected Publications:

2018 Catálogo da Exposição PretAtitude - Insurgências, emergências e afirmações na arte afro-brasileira contemporânea, SESC-SP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2014 Catálogo da Exposição Elemento Vazado. Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.

2012 Catálogo da Exposição RISCO #1. SESC Belenzinho. São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2011 Catálogo da exposição Espaços da Cor. Paço das Artes. São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2011 Catálogo do 36ª SARP – Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto. Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil