Artist

Rodrigo Braga

Rodrigo Braga
Born in Manaus in 1976, he soon moved to Recife, where he graduated in Fine Arts
from UFPE (2002). He currently lives between Rio de Janeiro and Paris.
Working with performative actions or manual constructions directly in natural
landscapes or even finding his interest around nature in urban spaces, his
body intervenes in its surroundings or sometimes is also part of the images. Existential and conflictive relations
between man and his environment are subjects of his production. He is interested
in material elements and their broad symbolic meanings, addressing the difficult ethics
between humanity and its controversial ways of creating systems of extraction, modification and
induction of nature.
Exhibiting since 1999, in 2012 he participated in the 30th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo; a year
later he exhibited the work Tônus at MoMA PS1 Cinema in New York, in 2016 he held
solo at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He has received some of the highest awards for contemporary
art in Brazil, such as the PIPA Award 2012 and the MASP Talent Award
Emerging 2013. He has works in private and institutional collections in Brazil and abroad,
such as MAM-SP, MAM-RJ and Maison Européenne de La Photographie - Paris.