Artist

Tchelo

Tchelo was born in the city of São Paulo, where he lives and works. Graduated in Social Communication, in 2000 he took the Post Experience Programme in Visual Arts at the Royal College of Art, in London.

In 2019 he held the solo exhibition São Tantas as formas e regras que importunam para conseguirmos lidar com o mar, at Arteformatto gallery in São Paulo. He exhibited the solo show Breves Encadeamentos Solúveis in 2018 at Galeria Trema, Lisbon. In 2017 he presented the solo show Conditions of Use at Quase Galeria, and the exhibition Altered Collection, at the Soares dos Reis National Museum, both in the city of Porto, Portugal. In 2015 he held the individual Princípia in São Paulo, awarded at the 19th Cultura Inglesa Festival, and won the acquisition prize at the XVIII Bienal de Cerveira.

Group exhibitions in which the artist has participated include: Abre Alas 12, gallery A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (2016); Contraprova, Paço das Artes, São Paulo Brazil (2015); Primeira, WARM Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); In-Sonora VIII - International Biennial Exhibition of Sound Art, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain (2014); The Knowledge within a Line, Pinta London (Earls Court Exhibition Centre), London, England (2014); A Garden at Central, Central Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil (2014); 39th SARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto / MARP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2014).

Works in Collection:

CAC - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; Fundação Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal; MAPA - Anápolis Museum of Fine Arts