GABRIEL PESSOTO
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Born in Jundiaí, SP, Brazil. Works and lives in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Gabriel Pessoto (Jundiaí - São Paulo, Brazil, 1993) studied Audiovisual Production. Merging digital technologies and visualities from traditional handicrafts, the artist discusses issues such as the construction of desire from the image, digitization of culture, memory, intimacy, sexuality and gender roles.
In 2015, he began to exhibit works in group shows. Since then, he had already showed his works in different cities, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Lisbon, Porto, Berlin, Tehran, and Louisville. Since 2017, he lives and works in São Paulo, where he attended the Hermes Artes Visuais art project monitoring group. In 2018, he held his first solo exhibition in São Paulo, um pouco por dia já é muito (a little a day is a lot), at the Casa da Luz. In 2020, he was awarded by ArtConnect Magazine for the project trocando figurinhas (swapping stickers) developed in partnership with Nicole Kouts. In 2021, he presented the solo exhibition Ambiente Moderno (Modern Ambience) at the Fundação Ecarta in Porto Alegre. In 2022, he launched his first artist book, Ambiente Moderno, and presented the exhibition Realidade Virtual (Virtual Reality) at Paço das Artes with critical text by Pollyana Quintella, in São Paulo.
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Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Realidade Virtual (Virtual Reality). Temporada de Projetos 2022 - Paço das Artes, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2021 - Ambiente Moderno (Modern Ambiance). Fundação/Galeria Ecarta, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
2018 - um pouco por dia já é muito (a little a day is a lot). Centro Cultural Casa da Luz, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2016 - Trégua (Truce). Espaço Ado Malagoli - Instituto de Artes/UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - Museum. Instituto Artium, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2023 - Entre Linhas. Vitrine CCMQ, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
2023 - Gostoso. Leo Bahia Arte Contemporânea, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2022 - Ópera Citoplasmática. MON - Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
2022 - O paraíso dos marrecos. Residência FONTE, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2022 - &. Galeria da FAV/UFG. Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
2022 - Você consegue me ver?. MARP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
2021 - Entre ossos e sonhos. Casa da Escada Colorida, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
2021 - AC: Acervo Rotativo. Oficina Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2021 - Corrente de Ar. Lisbon, Portugal.
2021 - Temporada de Exposições. MARP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
2020 - Ressetar. Museu da Diversidade Sexual, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2020 - I do not ask any more delight. Quappi Projects, Louisville, USA.
2020 - Corpo Brasileiro. Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany and Mala Voadora, Porto, Portugal.
2020 - Cálamo. Massapê Projetos, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2019 - Tehran-São Paulo. Platform3, Tehran, Iran.
2019 - no dia primeiro, no nono andar. Lamb Arts, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2016 - É vida! AGAPAN 45 anos. MARGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
2016 - Faturas. Memorial dos Direitos Humanos, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
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Art Residencies
2022 - W Residência, ninith edition. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
2020 - Temos Vagas. Ateliê 397, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2020 - Web Residência Olhão, São Paulo, SP , Brazil. Virtual/online program.

2016 - Variações sôbre contato: vistas. Casa 13, Córdoba, Argentina.
Selected Festivals and Online Shows
2022 - 10 desertos de erros. Online project curated by Leo Caobelli through Rumos, Itaú Cultural, Brazil. Link
2022 - Animation Brüt. Close-UP Film Centre, London, England/ Arverne Cinema, New York, USA/ SPACE 1026, Philadelphia, USA..
2022 - Festivau de C4nn3$ - r4ch4dur4. Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
2022 - it's a digital world, but someone's still gotta cook lunch. Online show eveloped by @artes.alheias, @aisthesislab and The Wrong Biennale.
2021 - Objeto Virtual Não Identificado. Online show eveloped by Projeto Datashow and The Wrong Biennale.
2021 - Fortune 501, Online show eveloped by Sit Still Projects.
2021 - Bad Video Art Festival. Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2020 - Canticle of the creatures. Online show curated by Brunno Silva at Open Art Advisory.
2020 - http:// “data-as-symbolic-form/exchange”. Online show developed by http:// hypertransfer-protocol
2020 - I - Festival de videoarte. Online show developed by the collective Deshumanización from Lima, Peru.
2019 - Festivau de C4nn3$ - sem anos de história. Lona Galeria, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2018 - Festivau de C4nn3s. Galeria Aura, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2017 -Tropicália: ontem como hoje. Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

2016 - Cine esquema novo - Arte Audiovisual Brasileira. Cinemateca Capitólio, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Prizes
2020 - ArtConnect Magazine - Open Call Correspondence. Project "trocando figurinhas: operação piloto" (swapping stickers: pilot operation) developed in partnership with Nicole Kouts. Link
Collections open to public
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes - MNBA, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul - MACRS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - MARP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Museu da Diversidade Sexual - MDS, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba - MACS, Sorocaba, Brazil.