Artist Statement
I often focus on social or personal experiences and try to pervert utilitarian dogmas by dealing with politics and poetry through useless gestures and actions.
My art practice combines heterogeneous materials, from combining digital and analog equipment, using photography, video, text, sound and sculpture to explore how images take on different meanings depending on the ideologies that shape them.
Mini-bio
Received honorable mention for the SESC Marc Ferrez Photography Prize and exhibited at the Free Art Exhibition (MOLA) in Brazil in 2007. Her contributions include a reading public portfolio at the 42nd Contemporary Art Fair of Piracicaba in 2010, participation in the 62nd Salão de Abril of Fortaleza in 2011, a solo show at MIS (São Paulo Image and Sound Museum) for the Nova Fotografia in 2013, solo show at Zipper Galeria in São Paulo in 2014; solo show at the Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto (MARP) in 2014 and group show in Berlin at the gallery Lage Egal in 2017.
She was awarded a prize in the collection of Contemporary Art Itamaraty and her work is part of public and private collections, such as the collection of the Brazilian Golden Art (BGA) and the Figueiredo Ferraz Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Nati Canto
São Paulo, Brazil, 1982. Lives and works in São Paulo.
Education
2020
▶Advanced Post Production for Cinema. Instituto de Cinema. Sao Paulo. Brazil
2019
▶ Accepted for postgraduate studies in Visual Arts - Photography and Media at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB / Leipzig). Professor Tina Bara. Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
2010
▶ Contemporary Ways in Producing Poetic Images. Universidade de Sao Paulo. (ECA/USP). Brazil.
2010
▶Abril Journalism Course Publishing House. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2007
▶Gastronomy. SENAC. Aguas de Sao Pedro. Brazil
2001-2002
▶Social Communication – Journalism. Londrina. Brazil.
Solo Exhibitions
2014
▶The lack we are made of, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo. Brazil
▶The Snow, The Salt, The Rain: Private and Collective Memories: Museu de arte de Ribeirão Preto (MARP), Ribeirao Preto. Brazil
2013
▶ The Snow, The Salt, The Rain: Private and Collective Memories: Nova Fotografia 2013 (New Photography). Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS), Sao Paulo. Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2017
▶ Gross Frictions. Lage Egal. Berlin. Germany.
▶ The Introductions Show. Tête. Berlin. Germany.
2012
▶Imagem Mi(g)rante. Zipper Galeria. Sao Paulo. Brazil
▶Fecho Eclair. Zipper Galeria. Sao Paulo. Brazil
2011
▶18o Salão de Artes Plásticas de Praia Grande. Palácio das Artes. Praia Grande. Brazil
▶Salão de Arte de Mato Grosso do Sul. Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campo Grande. Brazil
▶43o Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Piracicaba. Pinacoteca de Piracicaba. Brazil
▶62o Salão de Abril. Galeria Antonio Bandeira, Fortaleza. Brazil 2010
▶Silêncio. Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo. Brazil
▶42o Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Piracicaba. Pinacoteca Municipal Miguel Dutra, Piracicaba. Brazil
2007
▶Mostra Livre de Artes. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil
Residencies and Prizes
2017
▶Artist-in-residency at Picture Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013
▶Artist-in-residency at Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2012
▶Prize Itamaraty Contemporary Ar. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Brasília DF,
Brazil.
▶Artist-in-residency at Beijing International Artist Platform BIAP, Beijing. China
2010
▶42o Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Piracicaba. Brazil
Prize: Public Reading of Portfolio
2007
▶Blue Media. Prize SESC de Fotografia Marc Ferrez. Brasília, DF, Brazil
Private and Collective Collections
▶ Art Peace Hotel. Shanghai. China.
▶2a Edition of the Art Hall Collection. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
▶MIS – Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS), Sao Paulo, Brazil
▶BGA – Brazil Golden Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
▶Itamaraty – Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Brasília, DF, Brazil
▶Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz. Ribeirao Preto, Brazil