Born 1982 in Brasília, Brazil
Lives and works in Goiânia, Brazil
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Vitόria da Conceição, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
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Xica Manicongo, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
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Vitόria da Conceição, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
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João Mulunga, 2023
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
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Maria, 2022
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
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Installation view, La Biennale di Venezia, 60th International Art Exhibition: Foreigners Everywhere, Venice, Italy, 2024
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Installation view, Brazilian Portraits at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil in 2022
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Installation view, Brazilian Portraits at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil in 2022
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Installation view, Dalton Paula: Rota do algodã at Pinacoteca de Sāo Paulo, Brazil in 2022
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Installation view, Critical Fabulations (Collection 1980s–Present) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view Fall 2021–Winter 2023
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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
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Maria Felipa, 2020
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 ¾ inches
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Malunguinho, 2020
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
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Chica da Silva, 2020
Oil and gold leaf on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 ¾ inches
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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
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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
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O Anhanguera, 2019
Installation, A-side
Oil on lamps
22 x 36 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches
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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
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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
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Zeferina, 2018
Oil on canvas in two parts
24 x 17 3⁄4 inches
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João de Deus Nascimento, 2018
Oil on canvas in two parts
24 x 16 1⁄4 inches
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As plantas curam, 2017
Oil on book
12 1/4 x 63 inches
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Vassourinha, 2017
Oil and silver leaf on canvas
51 1/8 x 116 1/2 inches
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Cabra e cadeira, 2017
Oil on canvas
15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
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Ex-votos D, 2016
Oil on canvas
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
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Untitled, 2014
Oil on canvas
55 1/8 x 141 3/4 inches
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A promessa B, 2012 (detail)
Photography
23 5/8 x 106 1/4 inches