Alice Lent

Alice Quaresma was born in Brazil in 1985 and currently lives in New York. Alice has in her curriculum the awards of Aperture Foundation Summer Open (2019), Houston Center for Photography (2019), Caixa Cultural São Paulo's edict (2018), Foam Talent (2014) and PS122 (2009). In 2019 Alice released her first artist book "Playground" with French publisher Editions Bessard and the artist had her first institutional solo exhibition in 2018 at Caixa Cultural São Paulo. Alice obtained her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2009 and has participated in exhibitions and residency programs in the US, Europe and South America since 2006. Part of her artistic practice includes special projects for GU-Global, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Red Bull, Samsung, Hermès, Première Vision, Unseen and Music from Memory. Her work has been published in Foam magazine (Amsterdam), Extra Fotographie in Context (Antwerp ), Edicola (Milan), Il Post (Italy), Lens Culture, De Tijd (Brussels), Unseen (Amsterdam), Volkskrant (Amsterdam), Artspace, IMA (Tokyo) and Serafina (São Paulo).

 

Alice Quaresma has been experimenting with materials that allow her photographs to be sensorial and playful, expanding the limits of the image. Her work explores the physical aspects of photography, at the same time, the artist continues to use images from her personal photo archive to question the idea of displacement and identity. Alice leaves the flat plane of photographic paper with the use of ink, pencil and tape (among others) on the image. The Brazilian artistic group "Neoconcrete" has been one of the consistent sources of inspiration. Over time Alice has advanced with the production of her work so that marks have gained more presence and photographs have gained space, in installations and street murals. The interest in the use of geometry and lines within the photographic spectrum is to bring out suggestive qualities. The geometry suggests reading possibilities in an inviting way.

 

Training

2012 Postbaccalaureate History of Photography, Columbia University, New York, United States

2009 Master of Fine Arts (With Distinction), Pratt Institute, New York, United States

2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, England

 

Individual Exhibitions

2020 "Fragmented Truth", Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, England

2018 "Horizonte", curated by Fernanda Lopes, Caixa Cultural, São Paulo

2018 "Things of Life", Casa Nova Arte e Contemporânea, São Paulo

2017 "Passage", Pablo's Birthday gallery, New York, United States

2017 "Escape", Le Magazyn, Los Angeles, United States, 2017

2017 "Puzzle", curated by Gisela Gueiros, Lazy Susan gallery, New York, United States.

2016 "Threaded", curated by Keren Moscovitch, Flatiron Project Space, New York, United States.

2015 "Beyond", curated by Mario Gioia, Fauna Gallery, São Paulo

2014 "Nest", Window Space, curated by Gisela Gueiros, Brooklyn, United States

2013 "Bichos", curated by João Guarantani, gallery Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro

2013 "Roots", Raphael Fonseca, Barracão Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro

2011 "Two People without (One Hundred) Places", curated by Guilherme Bueno, gallery Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro

2010 "American House", PS122 Gallery, New York, United States

2009 "American House", Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, United States

 

Group Exhibitions

2019 "Barraco Bom", 55SP art project space, São Paulo, Brazil

2019 "Between the Legible and the Opaque", curated by Adler Guerrier, Bakerhouse Art Complex, Miami, USA.

2019 "A Meeting with Erna Schilling", Pablo's Birthday gallery, New York, USA

2019 "Delirious Cities", Aperture Foundation, curated by Matthew Leifheit, New York, USA

2019 "Profound Movement", Houston Center for Photography, curated by Shane Lavalette, Texas, USA.

2019 "Tropical Gardens", curated by Julie Dumont, Felix Frachon gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2019 "Paraiso", Gericke + Praffrath gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2018, Alibi, Emerging Talents Festival, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy

2018 "Nothing In Isolation", curated by Gisela Gueiros, Pablo's Birthday gallery, New York, USA.

2018 "Gute Bekannte", Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, England.

2018 "LAND+BODY= Escape", curated by Tatiane Schilaro, NARS, Brooklyn, United States.

2017 "Image as Object", Sotheby's Institute, New York, United States

2017 "The Banal Silence and the Pause", Laura Alvim Cultural Centre, Rio de Janeiro

2017 "Library of Love", curated by Sandra Cinto, CAC, Cincinnati, United States

2017 "Another Gesture", curated by Cynthia Cruz and Tatiane Rosa, AIR Gallery, New York, USA

2017 "Displacement", curated by Gabriela Davies, Jacaranda, Rio de Janeiro

2017 "Displacement", Curated by Gabriela Davies, Ugly Duck's Off Quay, London, England.

2016 "Mutable Archives", curated by Gabriela Davies, Gallery 32, London, England.

2016 "The Wall: Revising the Course", Central Gallery, São Paulo

2015 "Collections 10", curated by Nessia Pope, gallery Luisa Strina, São Paulo

2014 "20", curated by Daniela Name, gallery Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro

2014 Collective, Fred Giampietro gallery, New Haven, United States

2014 Unseen Photo Fair Billboards, special project, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014 Foam Talent Collective, Dutch Embassy, Paris, France

2014 "Eat the Food, not its name", Clemente Soto Velez Center, New York, United States

2013 "New Collectors Project", Orlando Lemos Gallery, Minas Gerais

2012 Mid-America College Art Association, national juried exhibition, Michigan, United States

2009 "Some Place Like Home", Daniel Cooney Gallery, New York, United States

 

Awards and Residencies

2019 Pablo's Birthday Residence Verbier, Switzerland

2019 Aperture Foundation, Summer Open, New York

2019 Houston Center for Photography, Center Annual Prize, Texas

2018 Caixa Cultural Edict, São Paulo

2017 AnnexB Residence, Brooklyn, United States

2017 Tappan Atelier Residency, Los Angeles, United States

2016 Displacement Project, London

2016 Finalist for the Unlimited residency (exclusive call for artists in NY), Brooklyn, US

2014 Foam Talent Award, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014 Hermes Garden Residence, São Paulo

2013 Barracão Maravilha Residence, Rio de Janeiro

2012 SVA Residency, New York, United States

2012 Honourable Mention in the Camera Club of New York contest, United States

2012 Mid-America College Art Association, Michigan, United States

2010 Garimpo Competition (finalist), Dasartes magazine, Rio de Janeiro

2009 PS122 Award, New York, United States

 

Special Projects

2019 "Wassermusik: Black Atlantic Revisited", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.

2019 curatorial project, SPRING/BREAK, New York

2018 "Le Goût de l'Iode", Air France, France
2018 "Ocean Line", Hermès, France

2017 "Mental Object", TAPPAN for PST LA/LA, Los Angeles, United States

2017 "Rhythm", Superior Elevation, Brooklyn, United States

2017 "Palm Tree", Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2017 "Outsider", ArtLima, Lima, Peru

2017 "Another Time", Red Bull Music Academy, Brazil

2017 "Another Time", Music From Memory (Record Label), Worldwide

 

Collections

Fidelity Investments, Boston, United States  

Calmon-Stock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

NYU (New York University), New York, United States

Curitiba Museum of photography, Brazil

           Coleção Charles Dee Mitchell, Texas, Estados Unidos

 

Book

2019 artist's book published by Editions Bessard, title Playground

 

Publications

2020 Exit Magazine, Archipelago project published in the portfolio session

2019 Editions La Martinière, work published in the Première Vision book, Inspiring Fashion: Textile Revolutions

2019 iD Books, catalogue of the collection of the Museum of Photography, City of Curitiba

2019 Foam Magazine, "Mental Object" series published in the portfolio session with text by Cat Lachowskyj

2019 Harper's Magazine, article "No Reservations"
2019 Foam Magazine, featured in the article "What's New?"

2018 Extra Fotografie in context, published by FOMU and Fw:Books

2018 "flower, home, yellow, sound, landscape", Edicola, nss factory publishing house

2018 LensCulture, interview by Cat Lachowskyj

2018 Another magazine, story "Five Things to See at Amsterdam's Most Exciting Photography Fair"

2018 Unseen magazine, interview by George King

2018 SABATO magazine from De Tijd newspaper, Knokke edition, article "Zee Van Tranen"

2017 Volkskrant newspaper, publication of "Red

2017 Artspace website, interview for the article "9 artists to Watch in August"

2016 Young Space website , interview with Kate Mothes

2016 Foam magazine, my work "Borderless 1" published in the article "What's New?"

2016 Yuca magazine, publication of my "Roots" series

2016 IMA magazine, work "Uncertain Utopia" published in the article "New Vision: Reflecting The World".

2016 Serafina magazine, Folha de São Paulo, article about a group of eight Brazilian artists talking about Infinity

2016 Artspace website, interview for Dylan Kerr

2015 Ilustrada, Folha de São Paulo newspaper, article about my exhibition "Além", "In show, artist deconstructs photographs"

2015 The Huffington Post, story "31 photographs that will show you the future of photography"

2014 Foam magazine, article on the "Roots" seire

2014 Artsy website, article "From ArtRio to the São Paulo Biennial, Here Are 9 Brazilian "Artists Under 35 You Need to Know".

 

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