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About the Artist
Brief Curriculum
Fernanda Eva was born in Brazil, where she became a visual artist after studying oil painting at the traditional "Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo" for four years, until 1996. She pursued a two-year specialization in "Art History" at the Armando Alvares Penteado College and, in 2010, she earned a Master's degree in "Visual Poetics" from ECA - University of São Paulo. In her master's thesis, the artist discusses her production of works with a Paradise theme, always painting landscapes, sometimes based on photos she took herself, and other times not, which are reinvented on the canvas with very colorful paints. She also exhibits various portraits of people with animals, "The Animals of Art," another of her passions.
In 2015 and 2016, she did an artistic residency in Porto, Portugal, where she developed the theme of Portuguese tiles with her animals, monuments, characters, and typical landscapes. She obtained Portuguese citizenship by ancestry.
Having traveled to many environmental conservation areas in Brazil and recognizing the danger of extinction facing various animal species, and after doing an artistic residency in the Porca Preta Gallery in Monchique, Algarve, one of the regions devastated by wildfires in Portugal in 2018, she started creating paintings with an environmental preservation theme, expressing this through the portrayal of fauna and flora to raise public awareness. After enjoying the series of tiles, the artist began the series "Cataloging of 21st Century Animals" as a way to leave a record for the future of animals in danger or not in danger of extinction. In this exhibition at the Porca Preta Gallery in Malhada Quente, Monchique, from October 21 onwards, the artist presents 5 tile canvases in a playful tone and 17 canvases depicting birds from this "Cataloging of 21st Century Animals" series. All of them are new. Her encounter with nature in the Monchique mountains was so intense that she abandoned life in the bustling metropolis of São Paulo some time ago and now lives in Monchique.
She has exhibited her work in various countries such as France, Chile, Cuba, Portugal, Brazil, Denmark, etc., and her works are part of several collections.
Main Exhibitions:
(2023) Caos on Canvas – MIS - São Paulo; Art Expo Algarve – Portimão; Coletiva Galeria Casino Estoril - Estoril – Portugal; Curto-Circuito – Espaço Mina – Bragança - Portugal; Caos on Canvas – Museu Fama – Itu - Brazil; Amor e Erotismo – Galeria Canto & Serra – Portimão; Exposição Anual de arte do Mosteiro de Grijó – Portugal; Exposição Museu das Caves Sta Marta
(2022) Espaço Cultural Cristal – São Paulo; Clube Atlético Paulistano - São Paulo; 19 Território das Artes de Araraquara – Araraquara - Brazil; Coletiva Museu das Caves de Sta Marta - Portugal; Coletiva Galeria Art Inspirada - Portugal; Grupo Circular - Vila Real - Portugal; XI Mosteiro de Grijó - Portugal; Coletiva Galeria Porca Preta - Portugal; "Caos on Canvas" Casa das Rosas – São Paulo - Brazil; Grupo circular - Bragança
(2021) 4th International Art Biennial of Gaia (Lever and Alfandega da Fé poles) – Portugal; Individual at Gallery 2.8 in Brazil; Coletiva at Mosteiro de Grijó - Portugal; Coletiva at Museu Caves de Santa Marta - Portugal
(2020) Mãos múltiplas – Auditório Municipal de Gondomar – Portugal; Coletiva at Mosteiro de Grijó - Portugal; Mural in the Morro do Querosene community - Brazil
(2019) Individual at Galeria Porca Preta – Monchique - Portugal; Artists and photographers in interaction – Institute of Douro and Porto Wines; Mural at Caves de Santa Marta; 3rd International Art Biennial of Gaia; Coletiva Caves de Santa Marta; Coletiva Mosteiro de Grijo; Portugal; Urban Art, 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a Better World - São Paulo; Borges and Mario de Andrade – Memorial da América Latina - São Paulo
(2018) Museum of Causes Agostinho Santos Collections - Casa do Gramido Gondomar - Portugal; House of Mercy of Cinfães - Portugal; Cultural Center Alfandega da Fé, photography award - Portugal; Caritas Christi Urget Nos - Mosteiro de Grijó - Portugal; Paulista Art Space - São Paulo; Expo 1806 – Usina Quartoze Art Collective - São Jose dos Campos SP; Urban Art: Elephant Parade Brazil; Urban Art: Football Parade Brazil; Urban Art: Happy Art Parade
(2017) 2nd International Art Biennial of Gaia; Coletiva at Mosteiro de Grijó; Nature Art - MAC USP; Coletiva at Parque Jockey SP; Coletiva at Espaço Yucca SP; Urban Art: Cowparade Brazil
(2016) Individual at Centro Cultural Solar dos Condes de Vinhais - Portugal; Order of Physicians Northern Region Porto - Portugal; Coletiva Mosteiro de Grijó - Portugal; Museum of Caves de Santa Marta - Portugal; Cultural Center Alfandega da Fé - Portugal; Individual Esporte Clube Pinheiros - Brazil
(2015) Coletiva Mosteiro de Grijó; 1st International Biennial of Art in Gaia, Anos das Artes Contínua - CCA - Alfândega da Fé - Portugal, A'parte Gallery in Porto;
(2014) FilaAc Memorial da América Latina, Solar dos meninos de Luz (RJ)
(2013) PARTE Fair – São Paulo, Individual at Museu Paulo Setúbal – Tatuí, São Paulo, Casa do México in Havana – Cuba, Traveling exhibition throughout Brazil about the poet Leminski - Oscar Niemeyer Museum – Curitiba – Brasília; Ruido Abobora collective exhibition – Matilha Cultural
(2012) Arts and Crafts (for everyone) São Paulo, Individual at MARP Ribeirão Preto, Individual at PUC-SP, Year of the Arts – Ap'Arte Gallery – Porto – Portugal
(2011) Individual at MAC Ibirapuera in São Paulo (2010) Salon des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Off Bienal SP, Ch.aco in Chile
(2009) Individual at Centro Cultural São Paulo
(2008) Contemporary Art Salon at MAM in Bahia, Forte de São Francisco in Portugal, Chapel Art Show, Cowparade São Paulo, and Brazilian Sculpture Museum.
(2010) Fine Arts Salon in Paris, Off Bienal SP, Ch.aco in Chile;
(2009) individual at the São Paulo Cultural Center;
(2008) Contemporary Art Salon at MAM in Bahia, Fort of São Francisco in Portugal, Chapel Art Show, Cowparade São Paulo and Brazilian Museum of Sculpture.
Individual Exhibitions:
2023 Porca Preta Gallery - Monchique - Portugal
2022 Clube Atlético Paulistano - São Paulo - Brazil
2021 Gallery 2.4 – São Paulo - Brazil
2020 Gallery 2.8 - Brazil
2019 Porca Preta Gallery – Monchique – Algarve – Portugal
2017 Esporte Clube Pinheiros – Brazil
2016 Solar dos Condes de Vinhais Cultural Center – Portugal
2013 Individual Historical Museum Paulo Setubal – Tatuí – SP
2012 Individual at the Ribeirão Preto Convention Center – MARP – SP
2012 Individual at the Cultural Space of the Nadir Kfouri Library PUC – SP
2011 Solo at MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo – SP
2009 Solo Cultural Center São Paulo – SP
2008 Individual at Casa da Xiclet – SP
Collective Exhibitions:
2020 Grijo Monastery – Portugal
2019 Porca Preta Gallery – Monchique – Algarve – Portugal
2019 SDGs for a better world – Latin America Memorial
2019 Bienal de Gaia
2019 Grijo Monastery
2018 Cowparade Brazil
2018 Elephant Parade Brazil
2018 Happy Art Parade Brazil
2018 Grijo Monastery – Portugal
2018 Museu Caves Santa Marta
2017 Museum Caves Santa Marta – Portugal
2017 Espaço das Artes Brasil
2016 Esporte Clube Pinheiros – São Paulo – Brazil
2016 Solar dos Condes de Vinhais Cultural Center – Portugal
2016 North Regional Medical Association – Porto – Portugal
2016 Alfandega da Fé Cultural Center – Portugal
2016 Museum of the Caves of Santa Marta – Portugal
2016 Monastery of Grijó – Portugal
2015 I Bienal de Vila Nova de Gaia – Monastery of Grijó – Portugal
2015 Santa Marta Caves Museum – Portugal
2015 Ap'Arte Gallery – Porto – Portugal
2015 Year of the Arts Continues – CCA – Alfândega da Fé – Portugal
2014 FilaAc – Latin America Memorial – SP
2014 Solar dos Meninos – Rio de Janeiro
2013 Individual Historical Museum Paulo Setubal – Tatuí – São Paulo
2013 Carnation Revolution – São Paulo City Council
2013 Casa do México – Havana – Cuba
2013 Leminski Multiple – Oscar Niemeyer Museum – Curitiba
2012 Individual at the Ribeirão Preto Convention Center – MARP – SP
2012 Individual at the Cultural Space of the Nadir Kfouri Library PUC – SP
2012 Year of the Arts – Apart Gallery – Porto – Portugal
2012 La Mínima Gallery – São Paulo
2012 Artes e Oficios 1 – for all – Liceu de Artes in SP
2011 Solo at MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo
2010 Off Bienal – SP
2010 Chapel Art Show – SP
2009 Solo Cultural Center São Paulo – SP
2009 Oxygen Occupation - Buenos Aires Park – SP
2009 Collective at Casa de Portugal – SP
2008 Individual at Casa da Xiclet – SP
2008 XV Bahia Salon at MAM – Salvador
2008 Monica Filgueiras Gallery Exhibition at Daslu – SP
2007 Graffiti Art at Paulista – SP
2007 Panaceas at Parque Lages – Rio de Janeiro
2005 Pagu Cultural Center – Santos
2004 Cowparade – SP
2004 Salão dos Arcos at the Municipal Theater – SP
2003 Chapel Art Show – SP
2003 and 2002 Collective at MUBE – SP