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

Felipe Rezende’s solo exhibitions have stood out for their national and international scope, further establishing his relevance as one of the most promising artists of his generation. In 2024, his work was celebrated at the Centro Cultural São Paulo with the exhibition Lonjuras, which explored themes of displacement and human connections, reaffirming his ability to address universal issues through local contexts.

In 2023, his artistic production gained significant recognition with the exhibitions O último buritizeiro, presented at Galeria Leme in São Paulo, and Sonho, queda livre, showcased by RV Cultura e Arte in Salvador. Both exhibitions emphasized Rezende’s dialogue with the materiality of his works and his narratives on identity and cultural memory. That same year, the artist was awarded several prestigious prizes, further validating his growing influence in the contemporary art scene.

In 2022, Long is the Road was exhibited at Jack Bell Gallery in London, marking a significant expansion of his career to an international audience. This exhibition introduced a new dimension to his work, incorporating themes of mobility and belonging in a global context. Earlier, in 2019, Ladeira da fonte, presented at Mouraria 53 in Salvador, offered a sensitive perspective on everyday life and the richness of local culture, reinforcing his connection to Brazilian heritage.

Felipe Rezende’s trajectory extends beyond exhibitions, as he has also received important recognitions in the art world. His awards highlight the impact of his work, which seamlessly moves between the regional and the global. Thus, his solo exhibitions have served not only as a platform to present his unique vision but also as a confirmation of his prominent place in the contemporary art scene.

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Education

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

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024 – Lonjuras, 33rd Exhibition Program of 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
  • Long is the Road, Jack Bell Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  • 2019 – Ladeira da Fonte, Mouraria 53, Salvador, Brazil

Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 – Estalo – 14th Mercosul Biennial, Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Viamão, Brazil
  • Estalo – 14th Mercosul Biennial, Centro Cultural Vila Flores, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • 2024 – 31st MAJ – Mostra de Arte da Juventude (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 Salões de Artes Visuais da Bahia, 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, 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, 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
  • 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 Salão de Artes Visuais da Bahia, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
  • Aos pés do Caboclo, Luta (curated by Joyce Delfim and Nathan Gomes), Centro de Cultura Vereador Manuel Querino, 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 nas Artes 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 – Residência/Exposição, Galeria Cañizares, Bahia, Brazil
  • Ficción de lo Cotidiano, Centro Cultural Brasil Mexico, 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 Artística Releituras Estéticas (Juci Reis and José Vázquez), Centro Cultural Brasil México, Mexico
  • 2017 – 3rd Mostra Gráfica (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 Salões de Artes Visuais da Bahia, Casa Amarela, Barreiras, Brazil
  • 2020 – 7th EDP nas Artes Award, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

Residencies

  • 2023 – Proyecto URRA, Argentina
  • 2022 – Pivô Pesquisa, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
  • OFÍCIO, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea de Ouro Preto, Brazil

Collections

  • 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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