Felipe Rezende

Salvador, Brasil, 1994
He lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Felipe Rezende, a visual artist, dedicates his practice to the intersection of drawing, painting, and their contemporary expansions. He builds his artistic trajectory by exploring everyday life and its constituent elements, with a particular focus on the relationships involving manual labor. His creations, predominantly made on truck tarps, pieces of tires, and objects found in urban environments, exhibit an aesthetic that combines accumulated narratives with the dense materiality of these supports, resulting in compositions that navigate between the documentary and the poetic. As both a painter and draftsman, he directly engages with the implicit histories embedded in his materials, adding depth to his works.

The Brazilian artist’s research delves into the imaginaries of labor, connecting tools, spaces, and memories associated with manual work. These elements are woven into creations that challenge the boundaries between fiction and reality while constructing visual arrangements that evoke both the dreamlike and the testimonial. Rezende incorporates extrinsic elements to explore narratives of Brazilian daily life, presenting them in a visually striking manner. In doing so, he reveals and reflects on the complex social and material interactions that shape everyday existence, solidifying his position as a visual interpreter of contemporary dynamics.

Explore Felipe Rezende’s work in the Viewroom of Galeria Leme.

EXPOSIÇÕES

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Salvador, Brasil, 1994. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Education

2020 Bachelor’s in Visual Arts, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Arena (curated by Amanda Tavares), Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2024 Lonjuras, 33º Programa de Exposições do Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2023 O último buritizeiro (curated by Tiago Sant’Ana), Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2022 Sonho, queda livre, RV Cultura e Arte, Salvador, Brazil

2022 Long is the Road, Jack Bell Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2019 Ladeira da Fonte, Mouraria 53, Salvador, Brazil

Group Exhibitions

2025 Quem viaja arrisca, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

2025 Afro-brasilidade, uma homenagem a dois Valentins e a um Emanoel (curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and João Victor Guimarães), FGV Arte Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2025 Estalo – 14ª Bienal do Mercosul (curated by Raphael Fonseca), Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Viamão, Brazil and Centro Cultural Vila Flores, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2024 31ª MAJ – Mostra de Arte da Juventude (curated by Camila Fontenele e Tiago Gualberto), Sesc Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto/SP, Brazil

2024 28º Salão Anapolino (curated by Paulo Henrique Silva), Galeria Antônio Sibasolly, Anápolis/GO, Brazil

2024 66º Salões de Artes Visuais da Bahia, Casa Amarela, Barreiras/BA, Brazil

2024 Quase Árido (curated by Uriel Bezerra), RV Cultura e Arte, Salvador/BA, Brazil

2024 Arte Imprópria (curated by Gabriel Ferreira Zacarias), Biblioteca de Obras Raras Fausto Castilho, Campinas/SP, Brazil

2024 Último lote (curated by Daniel Rangel), Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia, Salvador/BA, Brazil

2024 O diálogo criativo das materialidades (curated by Gabriela Sá e Cecília Ribeiro), Magalhães e Gouvêa Escritório de Arte, São Paulo/SP, Brazil

2024 Polissemia Política (curated by Curadoria de Danillo Villa e Michelle Sommer), Divisão de Artes Plásticas da Universidade Estadual de Londrina/PR, Brazil

2024 Prefiro não (organized by João Livra e Silvio De Camilis), Quase Espaço, São Paulo/SP, Brazil

2024 Salón ACME No. 11, Proyectos Públicos, Mexico City, Mexico

2023 Memórias para Dona Antônia, Acervo da Laje, Salvador, Brazil

2023 Essas pessoas na sala de jantar (curated by Raphael Fonseca), Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2023 48º SARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

2023 Los gestos del trabajo (curated by Benedetta Casini and Clarisa Appendino), BienalSur, Espacio Ente de Cultura, Sala Lola Mora, Argentina

2023 Figura Insólita (curated by Uriel Bezerra), RV Cultura e Arte, Bahia, Brazil

2023 Intelecto Agente (curated by Pedro Vaz), Grêmio Operário de Coimbra, Portugal

2022 64ª Salão de Artes Visuais da Bahia, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

2022 Aos pés do Caboclo, Luta, Centro de Cultura Vereador Manuel Querino (curated by Joyce Delfim and Nathan Gomes), Bahia, Brazil

2022 Encruzilhada (curated by Ayrson Heráclito and Daniel Rangel), Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

2021 Ocupação do Beco, Beco dos Artistas, Bahia, Brazil

2020 7º Prêmio EDP nas Artes, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

2020 Polissemia Política (curated by Michelle Sommer and Danilo Villa), Arte Londrina 8, Paraná, Brazil

2019 CARVÃO, Museu Nacional da Cultura Afro Brasileira, Bahia, Brazil

2019 Processos em Trânsito [O Livro de Artista], Museu de Arte da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

2019 RASGO – Residência/Exposição, Galeria Cañizares, Bahia, Brazil

2019 Ficción de lo Cotidiano, Centro Cultural Brasil Mexico, Mexico

2018 Incubadora de Publicações Gráficas, RV Cultura e Arte, Bahia, Brazil

2018 Leituras e Feituras: O Livro de Artista 2018, Cooperativa de Actividades Artísticas, Portugal

2018 MARÉ: Muestra Artistica Releituras Estéticas (Juci Reis e José Vázquez), Centro Cultural Brasil México, Mexico

2017 3º Mostra Gráfica (curated by Evandro Sybine and Raoni Gondim), Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

2017 Livro.SSA, Centro de Memória do Instituto do Patrimônio Artístico e Cultural da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

2017 Mostra Linha, Centro Cultural Brasil México, Mexico

2017 S/Título, ICBA Goethe Institut Salvador, Bahia

2015 MESA/FLOTAR, Palacete das Artes, Bahia, Brazil

Awards

2024 66º Salões de Artes Visuais da Bahia, Casa Amarela, Barreiras, Brazil

2020 7º Prêmio EDP nas Artes, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

Residencies

2025 Black Rock, Dakar, Senegal

2023 Proyecto URRA, Argentina

2022 Pivô Pesquisa, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil

2022 OFÍCIO, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea de Ouro Preto, Brazil

Collection

Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia – MAC Bahia, Brazil

Fundação Cultural Do Estado Da Bahia, Brazil

Museu de Artes Plásticas de Anápolis, Brazil

Felipe Rezende - O último buritizeiro

7º Prêmio EDP as Artes

  • A grain of pigment: colour or dirt?, Centro Cultural São Paulo, 2024.

    By Guilherme Texeira A series of billboards reflecting the horizon; the changing of a Fiat Uno tire, one of its tail lights replaced by a red thermos bottle and its hood covered with rocks; a nod to Utopia; a graph between palm trees shading an elderly woman; a man leaning on a hoe, observing the […]

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  • The last buritizeiro, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, 2023

    By Tiago Sant’Ana The Buriti is a plant from the palm family whose leaves spread out in long raffias and sweet fruits pop in clusters that fall from long stems. Wherever you see a buriti, there is water nearby, as they are a kind of oasis indicator, because it’s in the middle of swampy, marshy […]

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  • Texto pela ocasião da exposição Sonho, queda livre, RV Cultura e Arte, Salvador, 2022.

    By Catarina Duncan The issue of work is directly related to the issue of rest – these gestures, as everyday as they are universal, are present in Felipe Rezende’s production. When we look at his works, we see workers, human and non-human, in a state of suspension, their bodies and structures levitating, melting, breaking up […]

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  • Texto pela ocasião do Ciclo III da residência Pivô Pesquisa, São Paulo, 2022.

    By Tiago Sant’ana Felipe Rezende usually creates from drawings and paintings, using as his material the tarps of trucks, pieces of wheels and other objects thrifted through meanderings in urban spaces. By having worked in the mockup of the city of Salvador, in Bahia, and also as an assistant in civil construction, Rezende crosses over […]

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  • 7º Prêmio EDP nas Artes, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2020.

    By Amanda Carneiro Traditionally granted a preliminary role in the production process, the drawing was conceived as a subsidiary to the creation of artworks, many times taken out of sight from the public, and replaced by painting and sculpture. Shifting towards site-specific installations, based on graphic impressions and that do not break away from the […]

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