1982 Born Maceió, Brazil The artist lives and works in Recife, Brazil. AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2013 Francophile Prize, Lyon Biennale
Hiwar Residency, Darat al Funun, Amman 2011 Premio PIPA Prize
Gasworks International Residency Program, London
The Exchange Iberê Camargo Grant, Fundação Iberê Camargo Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2009 47th Salon of Plastic Arts of Pernambuco ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Jonathas de Andrade: Eu, mestiço, Alexander and Bonin, New York 2017-18 Jonathas de Andrade: Eu, mestiço, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
2017 Jonathas de Andrade: O espirito das águas/The water spirits, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Visões do Nordeste, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Jonathas de Andrade: O Peixe, The New Museum, New York O Caseiro, Alexander and Bonin, New York
On Fishes, Horses and Man, The Power Plant, Toronto
2016-2017 Jonathas de Andrade, Convocatória para um Mobilário Brasileiro, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
2015 Jonathas de Andrade, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2014-2015 Museu do Homem do Nordeste, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro 2014 Jonathas de Andrade: 40 Nego Bom é um real, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Looking for Jesus, Museo Marino Marini, Florence Jonathas de Andrade, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
2013 Museum of the Man of the Northeast, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Posters for the Museum of the Man of the Northeast, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon Nostalgia, sentimento de classe, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
4,000 Shots, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal 2010 Programa de Exposições, Centro Cultural São Paulo
2009-2010 Tropical Hangover, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; Instituto Cultural Banco Real, Recife 2007-2008 Love and Happiness in Marriage, Instituto Furnas Cultural, Rio de Janeiro; Fundação
Joaquim Nabuco, Recife; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 This is Not a Prop, David Zwirner, New York
Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
2017-2018 Learning from Latin America: Art, Architecture, and Visions of Modernism, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2017 Prometheus Unbound, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria Corpo a corpo, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo Atopía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima
Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2016-2017 Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2016 Live Uncertainty, XXXII Bienal de São Paulo
Soft Power. Arte Brasil., Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands Mediacity Seoul 2016, SeMA Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York
SITElines.2016: Much Wider Than a Line, SITE Santa Fe So-Called Utopias, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
Imagine Brazil, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; DHC/ART Foundation, Montreal 2015 Performa 15, New York
Jonathas de Andrade, Matthew Benedict, Fernando Bryce, Willie Cole, Mona Hatoum, Robert Kinmont, Stefan Kürten, Jorge Macchi, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Confrontation, Observatório, São Paulo
3rd Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014-2016 Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; South London Gallery; London
2014 The 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House, Gwangju, Republic of Korea Unerasable Memories: A Historic Look at the Videobrasil Collection, SESC
Pompeia, São Paulo
Corpo Caboclo, Galeria Multiarte, Fortaleza
10 Years of Prêmio Aquisição, Sala Tarsila do Amaral, Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP)
DAK'ART: the 11th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar
Atopia: Migration, Heritage, and Placelessness. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara
Dogs Without Feathers, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife
Brazil, voices in the crowd: Assef, De Andrade, Morais, Bienal de Fotografia de Lima 2014
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin A tara por livros ou a tara de papel, Galeria Bergamin, São Paulo
ICA@50 Pleasing Artists and Public since 1963, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Duplo Olhar: Sergio Carvalho Collection, São Paulo University, Paço das Artes Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus 140 caracteres, The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP)
2013-2014 Project 35 Volume 2, Independent Curators International, various venues.
Imagine Brazil, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo HIWAR - Conversations in Amman, Darat al Funun, Amman
2013 EXPO 1: Rio, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah
Love and Hate to Lygia Clark, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw Artist’s Film Club, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2013 XVII Unifor Plastic, Unifor Cultural Space, Fortaleza
Mijn Derde Land (My Third Land), Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam Entre-Temps... brusquement, et ensuite,12e Biennale de Lyon
Mythologies by Proxy, The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) Avante Brasil: Young Art from Brasil, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
LA BIENAL 2013: Here is Where We Jump!, El Museo del Barrio, New York Blind Field, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East
Lansing
Future Generation Art Prize, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice
Moving: Norman Foster on Art, Carré d’Art – Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art, Nîmes
The Right to the City, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam Better Homes, SculptureCenter, Long Island City
Plaisance, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
The Insides are on the Outside / O interior está no exterior, Casa de Vidro and SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
Blind Field, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2012-2013 CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça Prize for Fine Arts (Confederação Nacional da Indústria/ Serviço Social da Indústria), Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte; Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto; Palácio do Comércio, Maceió; Fortaleza São José de Macapá, Macapá; Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá; Centro Cultural Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre; Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Tropikalizmy, Gdańsk City Gallery
2012 Future Generation Art Prize 2012 [21 Shortlisted Artists], PinchukArtCentre, Kiev When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Art, San Francisco
New Brazil/Bolívia Now, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo
Salvajes: Digesting Europe Piece by Piece, Traneudstillingen Exhibition Space, Copenhagen
The Crowd Behind Us, King Hussein Street at Abdali Station, Amman 2011 The Ungovernables: New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York
En Obras: Art and Architecture in the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Os Primeiros Dez Anos, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo Against the Wall, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Mythologies, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Panoramas do Sul: 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil, São Paulo
Chaos and Effect, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
IPA 2011(Prêmio Investidor Profissional de Arte), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
32nd Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial)
Contemporary Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo Another Place, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro
Arte for life/ Arte for living, Lab'Bel at Swab Art Fair and Mies van der Rohe Pavillion, Barcelona
Geração 00: The New Brazilian Photography, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo Sharjah Biennial 10
2011 A casa como convêm, Schunck Museum, Herleen Cerveira Biennial, Cerveira
New Year, Galeria Silvia Cintra, Rio de Janeiro What do I know? Vera Cortês, Art Agency, Lisbon
Fictions, Galeria Lunara, Porto Alegre
29th São Paulo Biennial: Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar [itinerâncias], Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte
Horizonte Vazado: artistas iberoamericanos en el filo, Espaço Cultural Instituto Cervantes, São Paulo
29th São Paulo Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo
2010 En Obras: Art and Architecture in the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Ilhas Canárias
First and Last, Galeria Luiza Strina, São Paulo
Imagined Cities, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo 2009 7th Biennial of Visual Arts of MERCOSUL, Porto Alegre
Rose of the Winds, Galeria Fayga Ostrower, Funarte, Brasília
2008 Garanhuns Winter Festival [Portrait of the Previous Winter], Garanhuns 2006-2008 SPA das Artes, Recife
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Books and exhibition catalogues
2018 Montgomery, Harper, ed. Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, ex. cat. New York: Hunter College Art Galleries
2017 Jonathas de Andrade: On Fishes, Horses, and Man, ex. cat., with texts by Gaëtane Verna, Carolin Köchling, and Júlia Rebouças. Toronto: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Phillips, Lisa. 40 Years New. New York: New Museum
González, Julia and Fernández, María Emilia. Jonathas de Andrade: Visiones del Nordeste, ex. broch. Mexico City: Museo Jumex
2016 “Jonathas de Andrade.” 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: Live Uncertainty, ex. cat. São Paulo: Bienal São Paulo: 201-203
much wider than a line, ex. cat. Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe much wider than a line, sourcebook. Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe
Edwards, Adrienne. Blackness in Abstraction. New York: Pace Gallery
2015 Lange, Jennifer, Bill Horrigan, and Paulo Venancio Filho. Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil. Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Reviews and Articles
2018 Rina, Amelia. “The Myth of Brazil’s Racial Democracy.” Aperture Online (April 18, 2018)
Breyer, Susan. “Jonathas de Andrade. Alexander and Bonin.” ArtNexus, Vol. 17, No. 108 (March – May, 2018): 104-05
2017 Flom, Verónica. “Jonathas de Andrade. New Museum.” ArtNexus, Vol. 16, No. 105 (June – August, 2017): 106
2017 Zara, Janelle. “Jonathas de Andrade. New Museum.” Artforum.com (February 2017) Farago, Jason. “Predator Hugs His Prey (But There’s a Catch).” The New York Times
(January 27, 2017): C21
2016 Schwendener, Martha. “Uncertainty in Brazil, Vitality in Its Art.” The New York Times (October 11, 2016)
2015 Richard, Leslie. “Jonathas de Andrade.” ArtNexus (June-August, 2015): 107-108 Köchling, Carolin. “Shooting a Movie/Cleaning a Tunnel: Jonathas de Andrade
and Alexandre Orion’s Interventions in Recife and São Paulo, Brazil.”Seismopolite (April 30, 2015)
Schilaro, Tatiane. “Jonathas de Andrade: Subverting Cheap Labor and Racism in Brazil.” Artcritical.com (April 28, 2015)
Wouk Almino, Elisa. “As Brazilian Art Trends, the Country’s Racism Comes to the Fore.” Hyperallergic.com (April 9, 2015)
“Jonathas de Andrade” The New Yorker (April 6, 2015)
Ebony, David. “David Ebony’s Top Ten New York Gallery Shows for March.” news.artnet.com (March 19, 2015)
Gopnik, Blake. “At Alexander and Bonin, Jonathas de Andrade Spells Out Brazil’s Troubles.” news.artnet.com (March 9, 2015)
2014 Hinojosa, Lucia. “Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today.” The Brooklyn Rail (September, 2014): 63
Lamoni, Giulia “cartazes para o museu homem do nordeste by Jonathas de Andrade.” Manifesta Journal (June 21-August 13, 2013): 70-76
Maloney, Jennifer. “Guggenheim Exhibition Lets Visitors Play Curator.” The Wall Street Journal (June 12, 2014)
Cotter, Holland. “Arriving Late to the Party but Dancing on All the Clichés.” The New York Times (June 12, 2014): C23
Maloney, Jennifer. “Guggenheim Exhibition Lets Visitors Play Curator.” www.wsj.com (June 12, 2014)
Josten, Jennifer. “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil.” Artforum (June-July, 2014): 361
“Heart of Glass.” www.artforum.com (April 15, 2014)
Joseph, Francesco Bellini. “Brazil’s new generation: names to watch.” Financial Times (March 28, 2014)
Ades, Richard. “Don’t expect to run into ‘The Girl From Ipanema.’” www.columbusfreepress.com (February 6, 2014)
Tigges, Jesse. “Via Brasil!” Columbus Alive (January 30, 2014): 32-35
Shafer, Ellen and Goodman, Matthew Shen. “The Guggenheim’s Latin America.” Art in America (2014)
2013 Pedrosa, Adriano. “HIWAR-Conversations in Amman.” www.universes-in-universe.org (December 2013)
Rosenberg, Karen. “Home Is Where You Create It.” The New York Times (May 3, 2013): C27
Viveros, Faune-Christian. “Bitter Homes and Gardens.” www.villagevoice.com (May 1, 2013)
2012 Leslie, Richard. “The Ungovernables.” ArtNexus (June-August 2012) Pope, Nessia. www.newmuseum.tumblr.com (May 18, 2012)
Cotter, Holland. “‘The Ungovernables.’” Artforum (May 2012) Martí, Silas. “Jonathas de Andrade.” Frieze (March 2012)
2012 Cotter, Holland. “A Triennial of Quiet Disobedience.” The New York Times (February 17, 2012): C25
Pulitzer, Sam. “Doom Generational.” www.artforum.com (February 16, 2012)
“Alex Katz and Kara Walker Joined the ‘Ungovernable’ Artists at Their Raucous New Museum Opening.” www.artinfo.com (February 15, 2012)
Chayka, Kyle and Chen, Tom “VIDEO: Behind the Scenes With New Museum
Triennial Curator Eungie Joo and Her ‘Ungovernable’ Artists.” www.artinfo.com (February 14, 2012)
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Feb. 15 The Ungovernables.” www.wmagazine.com (February 2012) “New Museum 2012 Takes on a Decidedly International Flavor.” www.arttattler.com 2011 Frèrot, Christine. “’Untitled’: 12th Istanbul Biennial 2011.” ArtNexus (December 2011 –
February 2012)
Vogel, Carol. “A Rising Generation of Artistic Resistance.” The New York Times (December 2, 2011): C28
de la Barra, Pablo León. “Somewhere better than this place. Nowhere better than this place.” www.artealdia.com (November 18, 2011)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza
Tate Modern, London
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Centro Cultural São Paulo Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo
