Artist

Cassio Vasconcellos

São Paulo, 1965 | Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

He started his trajectory in photography in the 1980s and since then he has participated in about two hundred exhibitions in different countries. He carries out personal projects, which are presented in exhibitions and publications, but has also worked as a photojournalist for the Folha de São Paulo. Cities are the focus of his images and are often captured from above, as in the series "Aerials". Among his most recent exhibitions are: Collectives, at Today Art Museum (Beijing), Itinerant Languages of Photography, at Princeton University Art Museum, The Praise of Vertigo: Itaú Collection of Photography, at Maison Européenne de La Photographie (Paris). The artist has published books such as Aéreas do Brasil (2014), Panorâmicas (2012), Aéreas (2010) and Noturnos São Paulo (2002). He has won several awards such as the Conrado Wessel de Arte (2011), the Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Arte (APCA - 2002), the Porto Seguro Photography Award, (2001), the National Art Foundation (Funarte) (1995). In addition, his images are part of several collections in Brazil and abroad, such as the Museum of Art of São Paulo, the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston).