Ícaro Lira by Icaro December 01, 2021 0 Portfolios

Ícaro Lira
Fortaleza, Brazil, 1986
Lives and works between São Paulo and Fortaleza, Brasil.

In recent years, Lira has been analyzing the implications and consequences of political acts in Brazilian history through a body of work that is documental, archivist, archaeological and fictional. His exhibitions present structures similar to small museums, where he presents together different fragments, producing a system of objects that articulate artistic and non-artistic materials, as well as a set of actions not necessarily confined to an artistic object, but dispersed in exhibitions, books, workshops, debates and walks.

In 2013 he received the Honor and Merit Art and Heritage Award from IPHAN, National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute. In 2014 he was invited to the 3rd Bahia Biennial. In 2016 he participated in Rumos Itaú Cultural as part of project “Catastrophe expedition: for an archeology of ignorance” and, in 2017, he was selected for the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil at SESC Pompéia in São Paulo-SP.

He also held individual exhibitions at Paço das Artes (SP), Galeria IBEU (RJ), Banco do Nordeste Cultural Center (CE), Galeria Jaqueline Martins (SP) and Galeria Salle Principale (Paris, France) and recently participated in group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan, Italy), MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rome, Italy), Biennale Jogja (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), CPG, Center Photographie Genéve (Geneva, Switzerland ), Bs.As Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, SP). He participated in art residencies in Brazil, Latin America and Europe, including Capacete (RJ), Instituto Sacatar (BA), La Ene (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Associazione Culturale Maria Thereza. Alves and Jimmie Durham (Naples, Italy), Cité internationale des arts (Paris, France) and Delfina Foundation (London, UK).

Represented by Galeria Jaqueline Martins (Brazil) and Galerie Salle Principale (France).