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, 33rd Exhibition Program at 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, Bahia, Brazil

Long is the Road, Jack Bell Gallery, United Kingdom

2019

Ladeira da Fonte, Mouraria 53, Bahia, Brazil

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

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

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

Estalo – 14th Mercosul Biennial (curated by Raphael Fonseca), Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Viamão and Centro Cultural Vila Flores, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

2024

31st MAJ – Youth Art Exhibition (curated by Camila Fontenele and Tiago Gualberto), Sesc Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto/SP, Brazil

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

66th Bahia Visual Arts Salon, Casa Amarela, Barreiras/BA, Brazil

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salón ACME No. 11, Proyectos Públicos, Mexico City/DF, Mexico

2023

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

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

48th SARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

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

O corpo invisível da memória (curated by Tainá Azeredo and Valquíria Prates), Museu da Inconfidência, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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

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

2022

64th Bahia Visual Arts Salon, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

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

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

7th EDP Arts Award, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

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

2019

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

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

RASGO – Residency/Exhibition, Galeria Cañizares, Bahia, Brazil

Ficción de lo Cotidiano, Centro Cultural Brasil México, Mexico

2018

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

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

MARÉ: Muestra Artistica Releituras Estéticas (curated by Juci Reis and José Vázquez), Centro Cultural Brasil México, Mexico

2017

3rd Graphic Exhibition (curated by Evandro Sybine and Raoni Gondim), Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

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

Mostra Linha, Centro Cultural Brasil México, Mexico

S/Título, ICBA Goethe Institut Salvador, Bahia

2015

MESA/FLOTAR, Palacete das Artes, Bahia, Brazil

AWARDS

2024

66th Bahia Visual Arts Salon, Casa Amarela, Barreiras, Brazil

2020

7th EDP Arts Award, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

RESIDENCIES

2025

Black Rock, Dakar, Senegal

2023

Proyecto URRA, Argentina

2022

Pivô Pesquisa, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil

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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