Maria do Carmo Carvalho Biography
Jacarei, Brazil, 1945
Education
Learned and practiced various art techniques in Brazilian artists’ studios in São Paulo such as those of Waldemar da Costa, Sérgio Fingermann, Branca de Oliveira, Nazareth Pacheco (MUBE – Brazilian Museum of Sculpture) and Servulo Esmeraldo (SESC POMPÉIA). Artist in residence at Tristan Barbará’s studio (Mirós and Tápies’ printer), Bracelona in 1995.
Main exhibitions:
2000 Museu do Trabalho (Museum of Labor) Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Museu da Gravura Brasileira (Museum of Brazilian Print) Bagé (Brazil)
Museu de Artes Visuais Ruth Schneider- Passo Fundo (Brazil)
2002 Gravura Brasileira, São Paulo ( Brazil).
2003 Museum Solar do Barão – Curitiba (Brazil).
2004 Museum de Florianópolis (Brazil).
2006 Centro Cultural dos Correios – Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2006 Gravura Brasileira – São Paulo (Brazil)
2006 Brazilian Printmaking – group show, New York, USA – Goloborotko´s Studio 2007 “A Gravura Brasileira na Coleção Mônica e George Kornis” group show at Espaço Cultural da Caixa, Rio de Janeiro.
2007 Brazilian Printmaking – group show, New York, USA – Pratt Institute e Goloborotko´s Studio
2008 “A Gravura Brasileira na Coleção Mônica e George Kornis” group show at Espaço Cultural da Caixa, Sao Paulo, Salvador and Brasilia.
“Brazilian Contemporary Printmakers”, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, EUA
“Gravadores Brasileiros Contemporâneos” in Oaxaca, Mexico City, Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
“MARP 15 Anos” group show at Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, SP.
2009 “Maria do Carmo Carvalho” a book edited by the artist and written by Brazilian art critic Enock Sacramento
2011 Solo show at Galeria Gravura Brasileira, Sao Paulo. SP.
2019 “Brancos plenos, pretos abismais”, solo show at the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul (MARGS),
Galeria Ibere Camargo
Works
in collections:
Casa da Gravura, Curitiba (Brazil)
Centro Wilfredo Lam, Habana (Cuba)
Instituto per la Cultura e l’arte, Catania (Italy)
International Museum of Maastricht (Netherlands)
Masc – Museum de Arte de Sta Catarina (Brazil )
Centro Cultural dos Correios – Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Collection of George EM Kornis (Brazil)
