Over more than two decades of work, Gustavo Prado's production has investigated our presence in the world, especially in the relationships established based on different conceptions of space and image. Using a variety of media over the years, such as video, photography, objects, installations and, more recently, major interventions, his works make use of technical resources and industrial materials – part of a modular vocabulary shared internationally by civil construction and security companies. These are elements such as mirrors, metallic structures and presence sensors, which are placed in contrast with the phenomenological look and in dialogue with issues of Brazilian constructive heritage, which are configured not only based on the works in the exhibition space or outside it, but also the starting from the relationship with the viewer and their image. Thus, Gustavo Prado ends up revealing in his propositions the interest in contamination in different collective configurations, at the same time that he guarantees a kind of silence of the individual experience.
Gustavo Prado was born in São Paulo (1981), and grew up in Rio de Janeiro. He studied Philosophy (2001) and Industrial Design (2009), but it was at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (1998-2002), in Rio de Janeiro, where much of his training as an artist took place.
Among his main solo exhibitions are: 2019 - Assembly (Galerie Richard - New York, USA); 2018 - Collision Collusion Collision (Galeria Nara Roesler - São Paulo, Brazil); 2017 - The Opposition (Gitler Gallery - New York, USA), among others.
In 2017, with the work Lamp Beside The Golden Door at the Coachella music festival, held in California (USA), the artist began a series of large-scale works. In 2018, the permanent public installation Trincheiras was opened at Casa Firjan (RJ); in 2022 he was part of the Urban Art group of the Mercosul Biennial with O Morador, and in 2023 he carried out his first project in Asia, installing Gathering Place in the Chinese city of Chongging.
Among his main group exhibitions are: 2023 - What is music in you (Galeria Athena - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); 2022 - Echoes Are Visible (The Boiler - New York, USA) 2021 - O Morador (Mercosul Biennial - Porto Alegre, Brazil) 2017 - Bronx Calling: AIM Bronx Museum Biennial (New York, USA) 2007 - New Acquisitions in the Gilberto Collection Chateaubriand (Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); 2005 - Projectiles d'Art Contemporain in Espace Brésil - Funarte, Year of Brazil in France (Paris, France); 2006 - Rumos Artes Visuais (Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil), among others.
Gustavo Prado has participated in several artistic residencies, among the most recent: Further on Air (2020 - New York, USA); Bric Residency (2019 - New York, USA) and AIM Bronx Museum (2017 - New York, USA). Among the awards received by the artist are: Art Prize 10 (2018 - Public Art Grant Calder Plaza - Michigan, USA) and Contemporary Art Prize – Projéteis (Funarte - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
1981. São Paulo, Brazil.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Assembly - Galerie Richard - New York, USA
2018
Colisão Conluio Colisão - Galeria Nara Roesler - São Paulo, Brazil
Colisão Conluio Colisão - Lurixs - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
The Opposition - Gitler Gallery - New York, USA
2014
Polysemy - Java Gallery - New York, USA
2006
Furta-Cor - Espaço Sergio Porto - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002
Programa 10 de 2002 - EAV Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2023
O que há de música em você - Galeria Athena - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
O pequeno colecionador 2023 - Carbono Galeria - São Paulo, Brazil
2022
Horizonte de Eventos - Largo das Artes - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Echoes Are Visible - The Boiler - New York, USA
2020
Drawing on Likeness - Art and Cuture Center - Miami, USA
2019
O que emana da água - Carbono Galeria - São Paulo, Brazil
She wore blue velvet - Y2K Gallery - New York, USA
Bric Biennial Volume III - Bric Arts and Media - New York, USA
The Bryant - Standard Arts - New York, USA.
Entre Espaços - Kura Arte - São Paulo, Brazil
The spectre whitin - 5-50 Gallery - New York, USA
2018
Pequenos Formatos e Múltiplos - Lurixs - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Positions Matter - Galerie Richard, New York, USA
Practice: In Progress - Nars Foundation - New York, USA
Trio Biennial - Jardim Botânico - Rio Janeiro, Brazil
Land + Body= Scape - Nars Foundation - New York, USA
Reflector - Galeria Luciana Brito - New York, USA
2017
Monumental - Marina da Glória - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fragmento - In Process - Annex B Art Space - New York, USA
Identity Document - Bergen Gallery - New Jersey, USA
In Between - Auroras - São Paulo, Brazil
Intervenções Urbanas - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Em Casa - Lurixs - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bronx Calling - AIM Bronx Museum Biennial - New York, USA
Summer Night Wishes - Elizabeth St. Garden - New York, USA
Drake Devonshire Residency - Toronto, Canada
Procession - Foley Gallery - New York, USA
2016
Beneath Our Feet on the Surface of Things - Residency Unlimited - New York, USA
In Stride - Art In Buildings Program - New York, USA
Heliotrope - Geary Contemporary Gallery - New York, USA
Drake Devonshire Residency - Toronto, Canada
SVA Sculpture Installation and New Medias Residency - New York, USA
Harlem 149th - 601 West Harlem 149th Street - New York, USA
Transplantados - Casa Samambaia - São Paulo, Brazil
On Going - FB Gallery - New York, USA
Entre-Vistas - EAV Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
Kaixa Preta - Espaço Apis - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Novas Aquisições na Coleção Gilberto Chateubriand - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007
Novas Aquisições na Coleção Gilberto Chateubriand • Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006
Paradoxos Rumos Artes Visuais - Itaú Cultural - São Paulo, Brazil
Paradoxos Rumos Artes Visuais - Casa das Onze Janelas - Belém, Brazil
Paradoxos Rumos Artes Visuais - Paço Imperial - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Projéteis: Prêmio de Arte Contemporânea - Funarte - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005
Projectiles d'Art Contemporain in Espace Brésil - The Year of Brasil in France - Paris, France
2004
Salão Nacional de Goiás - Flamboyant Prize - Brasília, Brazil
Posição 2004 - EAV Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Novíssimos - IBEU - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Universidarte Prize - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003
Projéteis - Funarte - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
8:7 [oito horas para sete artistas] - EAV Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Universidarte - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Grande Orlândia - Casas da Rua Bela - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In Classificados - Esp. Cult. Bananeiras - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Projects
2023
Gathering Place - Chongqing IFS - Chongqing, China
2022
Doorway - Robot Heart, Wollman Rink, Central Park - New York, USA
Manifesto Coletivo - Festival Rock The Mountain - Itaipava, Brazil
2021
Gateway - Art With Me - Miami, USA
O Morador - Bienal do Mercosul - Porto Alegre, Brazil
2020
The Hours - ArtRio - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Undercurrent - Miami Beach Botanical Garden - Miami, USA
2019
Pixel Garden - 200/5th Av. Installation (Standard Arts) - New York, USA
2018
Stream - Art Prize 10 - Calder Plaza (Public Art Grant) - Michigan, USA
Trincheiras - Casa Firjan - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
Lamp Beside the Golden Door - Coachella Music Festival - California, USA
Vem a Pé - Lurixs - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil