Santídio Pereira
1996, Curral Comprido, Estado do Piauí, Brazil
Born in a small village in the countryside of the state of Piaui, Northeastern of Brazil, since childhood Santídio Pereira has demonstrated the aptitude for the arts, through the socio-educational activities of Instituto Acaia. His interest in woodcutting grew and is currently the main support for his artistic research, whose most important feature is the use of several matrices in the same composition, a technique he calls "incision, cut and fitting", which subverts the function of the multiplicity so characteristic of engraving. In this way, the superimposed prints accumulate thick layers of paint in different colors to recreate elements of his personal memory, such as the fauna, flora, people and objects that were part of his contexts. Among his most emblematic works are the birds of the Piaui caatinga and the bromeliads of the Atlantic Rainforest.
Individual Exhibitions:
2023 Santídio Pereira “Da mata ao morro”, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2022 Santídio Pereira: Botany, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2022 Santídio Pereira: incisions cuts and fittings, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
2020 Hills, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2019 Between two skies, b[x] Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2018 Exhibition Program Show - Black on white, overlapping and nuances, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2018 A look of memory – Santídio Pereira, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2016 Santídio Pereira: Colors in black and white, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Collective Exhibitions:
2023 "Dos Brasis: Arte e pensamento Negro", Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 We Are Fores, Foundation Cartier pour l’art ccontemporian and Triennale Milano, Milan l Italy
2022 Careless, Sesc Quitandinha, Petropolis, RJ, Brazil
2022 Arrows and Tourmaline, Casa do Parque, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2022 Modernismo Desde Aqui, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
2022 Various 22, Galeria de Arte 123, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2022 If you put your feet on the ground: relationships between humans and plants, Museu de Arte Paranaense (MUPA), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
2021 Burle Marx | Santídio Pereira, Bortolami Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2021 - 2022 Xylograohically, SESI São José?do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Xylograohically, SESI Campinas Amoreiras, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Xylograohically, SESI São José?dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Xylograohically, SESI Itapetininga, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Trees, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2020 Pretatitude, Insurgencies, Emergencies and Affirmations in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Art, Sesc, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
2019 Printing: Body e Landscape, Sesc Guarulhos, Guarulhos, SP, Brazil
2019 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Hinterland, MAM, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2019 Trees, Foundation Cartier pour l’art ccontemporian, Paris, France
2019 – 2020 Pretatitude, Insurgencies, Emergencies and Affirmations in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Art, Sesc, Santos, SP, Brazil
2019 - 2020 Printing: Body e Landscape, Sesc, Pinheiros, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2018 - 2019 New Wood, Sesc, Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2018 5th International Print Biennial Livio Abramo, Araraquara, SP, Brazil
Public Collection:
Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Colecci Cisneros, Miami, USA
Acervo Sesc de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Awards, Scholarships, and Residencies:
2023 Caatinga Artistic Residency, Piauí, Brazil
2021 Piza Prize, Paris, France
2020 Pantanal Now Project, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
2019 Kaaysá Artistic Residency, Boiçucanga Beach, São Sebastião, Brazil
2019 AnnexB Artistic Residency, New York, United States
Selected Publications:
2023 Siamo Foresta, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain and Triennale di Milano, Nava Press, Milan, IT
2022 Santídio Pereira: Botany, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2022 Santídio Pereira: incisions cuts and fittings, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
2019 Trees, Foundation Cartier pour l’art ccontemporian and Power Station, publishing company People’s Fine Arts, China
2019 "Printing: Body e Landscape", Claudio Mubarac, SESC, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2019 "Bom crioulo", Adolfo Caminha, Editora Todavia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2019 "Trees" Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, EBS, Verona, Italy
2019 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Hinterland, MAM, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2018 Book "Brazilian Popular Art: contemporary looks", Vilma Eid and Germana Monte-Mor, WMF Martins Fontes, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2018 Santídio Pereira- A look from memory, Vilma Eid and Luisa Duarte, Lis Grafica, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2016 Santídio, Rodrigo Naves, Lis Gr?fica, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
