Born 1982 in Brasília, Brazil
Lives and works in Goiânia, Brazil
Vitόria da Conceição, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
Xica Manicongo, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
Vitόria da Conceição, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
João Mulunga, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
Maria, 2022
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
Installation view, La Biennale di Venezia, 60th International Art Exhibition: Foreigners Everywhere, Venice, Italy, 2024
Installation view, Brazilian Portraits at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil in 2022
Installation view, Brazilian Portraits at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil in 2022
Installation view, Dalton Paula: Rota do algodã at Pinacoteca de Sāo Paulo, Brazil in 2022
Installation view, Critical Fabulations (Collection 1980s–Present) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view Fall 2021–Winter 2023
Installation view, Histórias Afro-Atlânticas (Afro-Atlantic Histories) at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in 2018
Exhibition traveled from MASP and Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Dallas Museum of Art in the US
Liberata, 2020
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Maria Felipa, 2020
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 ¾ inches
Malunguinho, 2020
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
Chica da Silva, 2020
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 ¾ inches
Study for Ventura Mina 17, 2019
Pen and brown and green inks and translucent and opaque watercolors on brown wove paper
12 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
Study for Ventura Mina 18, 2019
Pen and brown ink and translucent and opaque watercolors on brown wove paper
12 13/16 × 9 7/8 inches
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
O Anhanguera, 2019
Installation, A-side
Oil on lamps
22 x 36 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches
Bamburrô (to make a fortune), 2019
Installation
Oil and gold leaf on 40 bateias [conical pans for the washing of gold] and 5 gamelas [trays used in gold-digging to carry gravel], both of wood and metal
3 x 7 meters
Zeferina, 2018
Oil on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
João de Deus Nascimento, 2018
Oil on canvas in two parts
24 x 16 1⁄4 inches
As plantas curam, 2017
Oil on book
12 1/4 x 63 inches
Vassourinha, 2017
Oil and silver leaf on canvas
51 1/8 x 116 1/2 inches
Cabra e cadeira, 2017
Oil on canvas
15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
Ex-votos D, 2016
Oil on canvas
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Untitled, 2014
Oil on canvas
55 1/8 x 141 3/4 inches
A promessa B, 2012 (detail)
Photography
23 5/8 x 106 1/4 inches