artistic residencies
2019
. Bethany Arts Community, New York/USA.
solo exhibitions
2022
. AS* PAPANGUS - our carnival, our body, our fight, Oyoun Kultur NeuDenken gUG, Berlin/DE. Curator: Dami Choi.
. Ninguém pediu para eu fazer isso [No one asked me to do that], Bananal Arte e Cultura Contemporânea, São Paulo/SP. Curator: Julia Lima.
group exhibitions
2022
. 19º Programa Exposições, MARP, Ribeirão Preto/SP. Selection commission: Nilton Campos e Sylvia Furegatti.
2021
. Escapamentos, Bananal Arte e Cultura Contemporânea, São Paulo/SP. Organization: Clarissa Ximenes.
. MITA: Cosmologias da Diversidade, São Paulo/SP. Curators: Felippe Moraes and Ana Carla Soler.
. 46º SARP- Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto nacional-contemporâneo, Ribeirão Preto/SP. Selection commission: Claudinei Roberto e Samantha Moreira.
. Ninguém vai tombar nossa bandeira, São Paulo/SP. Curator: Julia Lima.
2019
. Tempo Fim, Sesc Ipiranga, São Paulo/SP.
. A noite não adormecerá jamais nos olhos nossos, Baró Galeria, São Paulo/ SP. Curator: Carollina Lauriano.
. Baile da Aurora Sincera, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro/RJ. Curator: Bernardo Mosqueira.
2018
. Unidos da Barra Funda, Olhão Arte, São Paulo/SP.
. LAVAGEM/ABLUTION, Bouge B Festival, Antwerp/BE. Curator: Amanda Piña.
. Open Process Performance Lavagem, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo/SP.
2017
. Coreografias de Paisagem, Instituto de Artes da UNESP, São Paulo/SP.
Bruna Amaro [São Paulo, 1988] is a visual artist, performer, and researcher. Master in Aesthetics and Art History from USP and graduated in Visual Arts from UNESP, she presents in her works a combination of academic research and themes related to the carnival, religiosity, and gender violence. From there, her production has been reflecting on the idea of painting and reproducing images using materialities and carnival crafts.
Among her main exhibitions are the group shows “19º Programa de Exposições” and the “46º SARP - Salão de Artes Nacional e Contemporâneo de Ribeirão Preto",MARP, Ribeirão Preto/SP; “ESCAPAMENTOS/ESCAPEMENTS”,São Paulo/SP (2021); “MITA: Cosmologias da Diversidade/MITA: Cosmologies of Diversity”, São Paulo/SP (2021) “Ninguém vai tombar nossa bandeira/Nobody's going to drop our flag”, São Paulo/SP, 2021; “A noite não adormecerá jamais nos olhos nossos/The night will never fall asleep in our eyes”, Baró Galeria, São Paulo/SP, 2019; “Baile da Aurora Sincera”, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2019; the performance and installation “Lavagem/Ablution” held at Bouge B Festival, Antwerp/BE, 2018; and the solo exhibition “Maneater” held at Bethany Arts Community, Ossining/USA, in 2019.
other projects
2020
. TUDO QUE É BATUQUE [ALL THAT IS DRUM], Sesc Vila Mariana, São Paulo/SP. Ambience for the carnival.
2019
. MANEATER, Bethany Arts Community, New York/USA.
2018
. COM QUANTOS NÓS SE FAZ UMA REDE? Ato 1, Casa Aberta, São Paulo/SP.
2017
. Consultant for the exhibition Death Center for the Living, by visual artist Daniel Lie in Vienna Festwochen, Austria.
academic education
2021
. Project discussion at the Clínica Geral, Ateliê 397, guided by Carollina Lauriano and Raphael Escobar.
2020
. Artistic accompaniment at the Center for discussion and construction in Visual Arts, OFICINAS, guided by Julia Lima and Bruno Novaes.
2015 - 2018
. Master in Aesthetics and Art History by PGEHA USP with CAPES Master’s Scholarship.
2008 - 2014
. Graduation in Visual Arts by the Institute of Arts at UNESP, Bachelor and Licentiate.
2013 - 2020
. Member of the Center for the Study of Contemporary Religiosity and Black Cultures, CERNe - USP.
2013
. Scientific Initiation Scholarship FAPESP
2012
. Historia del Arte Argentino y Americano at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. University exchange with Grupo Montevideo Scholarship.