LENORA DE BARROS

BORN 1953, São Paulo, Brazil
LIVES&WORKS São Paulo, Brazil

The Brazilian artist makes visual poetry, a language whose origin dates back to the Brazilian Concrete Poetry movement in the 1950s. Words and images are essential in her art, and the exploration of language takes place in diverse media such as video, performance, photography, and sound installation, as in Deve Haver Nada a Ver, which in 2001 earned her an award at the first RioArte exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.

SIGNS

  • Samba in the Dark, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA, 2020
  • Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, 2017
  • 17th, 24th and 30th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, 1983, 1998 and 2013
MAGAZINE
The Bag 2022