CLAUDIA VIEIRA
Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Claudia Vieira lives and works in New York City. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidade Federal, Brazil, New York Studio School, The International School of Art, Italy and holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, NY.
The artist's projects has been exhibited in the US, Europe, South America and Asia in venues including the Queens Museum of Art, the Rotunda Gallery and El Museo del Barrio, in NYC; the Kuntlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art, in Brazil and the Kyoto Arts Center, in Japan. She has received various awards including the XlV Salão da Bahia from the Museum of Modern Art, in Brazil; the Projecteils Contemporary Art Prize, from FUNARTE/the Brazilian Ministry of Culture as well as the Urban Artists Initiative from NYFA/ New York Foundation for the Arts, in the U.S.
Vieira has pursued drawing in a way that directly interferes in the landscape, both natural and constructed, creating immersive drawn environments in which the action of drawing is as important as the final form of the work. In a manner that is subtle and yet intense her site-specific installations share with the public the actual reality of each lived moment. Time is experienced as a dimension of space and consciousness.
For the past twenty years, she has been exploring how our sense of space and time can be transformed through the tracing of one continuos line that appears constantly in her work, defining her entire practice. Each project is just a section of an ongoing trajectory integrating visual form, experience and architecture.
Ultimately, Vieira is interested in exploring, blurring and exploiting the old dialectical separations between reality and imagination, visible and invisible, inside and outside, and particularly, self and other.
EDUCATION
MFA Pratt Institute, Sculpture and New Forms, NY, 2002
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture NY
B.F.A. Studio Art Instituto de Artes Universidade Federal RS, Brazil
B. A. Social Communications Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brazil
SITE SPECIFIC PROJECTS/EXHIBITIONS [selected]
DRAWING SPACES, Live Drawing Performance, Molteni&C | Miami Design Week | Art Basel, Miami, FL, November 2022
SOLO EXHIBITION, Live Drawing Performance, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, 2020
DOUBLE TRACE, Live Drawing Performance, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, 2020
THE BODY IS THE HOUSE, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, 2018
BLACK AND WHITE, AND RE(A)D ALL OVER: PART III, Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, May 2018
LREI Art Auction, Pace Gallery with Paddle8, New York, April 2018
SP-Arte, Galeria Arvore Contemporanea, Sao Paulo BR, April 2018
SCOPE New York, ArtHelix Gallery, New York, NY, March 2018
SNAP TO GRID, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
Aqua Art Miami, Art in Public Space/Special Project, ArtHelix Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017
Landscapes, curated by Marino Cinat, SHIM/ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Immersive Art Experience, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
stairwayLINE_W25NY, Praxis, New York, NY, Sept 2016 - March 2017
SNAP! INSTA! POP!, 40.6928°N. 73.9903°W. bushwickLINE, curated by Lauren Elise Hirshfield, SHIM/Art Helix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
GI408B_LINE, Govenors Island, Govenors Island Art Fair, NY, 2016
Context NY, Relational Abstractions, El Museo, New York, NY, 2016
ATRIUM 408B, Governors Island, GIAF, 2015
One / Connecting Thread / Hilo, Christies, March 2015
Bailado do Deus Morto, Galeria Lourdina Jean Rabieh, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2013
Double Trace, Brooklyn Zen Center, New York, 2011
waterLINE:Porto Alegre-New York, QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART, 2010-2011. site specific drawing, curated by Hitomi Iwasaki [february 2010-February 2011]
Other, Other…High Visibility, Nathan Cummings Foundation/Bronx Arts Council, NY, 2009, curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
INFINITE LINE Contemporary drawing in Time and Space, Rotunda Gallery, NY, 2008, curated by Elizabeth ferrer
underLINE, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador, Brazil, 2008 (catalogue)
LINHAd'agua, Galeria da Funarte, Ministry of Culture, RJ, Brazil, 2007 (catalogue)
VERBO, Galeria Vermelho, International Performance Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2006
underLINE[Kyoto] screening, KUNSTHALLE Malmo/GALLERI ID:I Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Torbjörn Limé, 2005
Translations (in collaboration with Jenny Perlin), ULRICH MUSEUM OF ART, WI, KS, 2005
Night&day, WALSH GALLERY Fairfield, CT, curated by Helen Cooper (catalogue), 2005
The Diagram and Scrible Arquive, Stony Brook University, NY, 2004
Contemporary Women Artists: New York, INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, IN, curated by Judy Collishan, 2005
underLINE: KYOTO, KYOTO ARTS CENTER, Japan, 2004
waterLINE: NYC-Utica, SCULPTURE SPACE Inc., Utica, NY, 2004
Drawing Conclusions, ISLIP ART MUSEUM, NY, curated by Keith Miller (catalogue), 2004
IIII site specific public project @Queens Theater, Flushing-Meadows Corona Park, New York, curated by Monica Montagut, 2003
KOAN TRIANGLE STUDIOS, DUMBO Arts Festival, 2003
TIMEslice, TRIANGLE STUDIOS New York, NY, 2003
THE ARMORY SHOW, Galleria Jakob Karpio New York, NY, 2003
THE OUTLAW SERIES, curated by Lisa Kirk, New York, NY, 2003
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ArtNexus, Diana Cardenas, waterLINE @ Queens Museum of Art, Volume 78, 2010
Sculpture Space [the Book], Brodock Press, New York, 2007
Takeshita, Akiko, Art 51, Kyoto, Japan, 2004.
underLINE in Kyoto – a documentary. Dir, Ken Okano, Independent television documentary, Kyoto, Japan, 2004.
Kansai Area Art. Dir. Katrin Petroschat. Independent video doc., Kyoto, 2004.
Architectural Topographies Project, METROPOLIS, TV Cultura Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2004.
Montagut, Monica, “Alli estan: Claudia Vieira y Karlos Karcamo” El Diario/La Prensa July, 2004.
Vargas, Diana. Aqui Estoy HOY July, 2004.
Ammirati, Domenick. “The Outlaw Series” ArtUS April 2004.
McGuinnes, Liz. “Architectural Topographies Project” Woodfish Choghye Internacional Zen Center of NY Issue 21, June 2003.
La Rocco, Ben. “Architectural Topographies” The Prattlet Issue 4 March 2003.
Ohana, Yael. “9/11: Brooklyn Artists Reflect and Transform” NY arts Magazine April 2002.
GRANTS/AWARDS
2016
The FID PRIZE international drawing (8th edition), selected nominee from the Jury; Brett Littman, Andrew Solomon among others
2010
Queens Museum of Art/ Artist in residence Jan-May 2010
2009
NYFA/ Urban Artists Initiative: New York, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
2008
Conecções Artes Visuais Prize, FUNARTE, Ministry of Culture, Brazil
2007
Projeteis Contemporary Art Prize, FUNARTE, Ministry of Culture, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006
Triangle International Arts Association, Workshop Fellowship, NY
2005
A.I.R Gallery Fellowship, NY
2004
KAC/Kyoto Arts Center Artist in Residence, Kyoto, Japan
Sculpture Space Artist in Residence, Utica, NY
2003
Triangle International Arts Association Artist in Residence, NY
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Essex County College, Adjunct Faculty, Newark, NJ, USA
Experimental drawing Workshop, Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, Japan
Stony Brook University, Graduate Seminar/Visiting Artist, NY, USA
Pratt institute, Utica, Graduate Seminar/Visiting Artist, NY, USA
Munsor WIlliams Proctor Institute, Lecture/Visiting Artist
Goethe Institute, Visiting Artist, PA, Brazil
UFRGS, Art Institute, Guest Artist, PA, Brazil
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art-MAM/Salvador, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, MAM/RJ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu Bispo do Rosario, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ellen and Joop Teepe, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lina and Enrique Goldberg, Costa Rica
Silvanna Fachinni, Bern, Switzerland
Yaely Ohana, Sydney, Australia