Marcia de Moraes

São Carlos, Brazil, 1981.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Márcia de Moraes, a Brazilian visual artist, stands out for her exploration of the language of drawing. The work of the São Paulo-based artist delves into the interactions between color and form, establishing a dialogue with the Brazilian abstract tradition. With a degree in Visual Arts, she moves between technical precision and expressive spontaneity, creating dynamic and sensory compositions. Moreover, her creations evoke psychic rhythms and visual narratives that transcend the two-dimensional plane, adding depth and intensity to her production.

Márcia de Moraes’ artistic practice is primarily focused on drawing, making expressive use of colored pencils on paper. Her diptychs and polyptychs, as well as her collages, break the conventional boundaries of the medium, establishing unexpected visual connections. While her contours flow organically, chromatic contrasts structure the composition, resulting in a balance between movement and solidity. In many of her works, she cuts and reconfigures the paper, creating fragmentations that enhance the relationship between figure and background. With solo exhibitions held at renowned institutions in Brazil and abroad, the talented artist reaffirms her relevance in the contemporary art scene.

EXPOSIÇÕES

Marcia de Moraes has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as: Ponto de Osso, Instituto Artium, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Matriz, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); A Terceira, CCBB, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Círculos Abertos, SESI Tiradentes – Centro Cultural Yves Alves, Tiradentes, Brazil (2018); História do Olho, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil; O Sopro, Centro de Arte Contemporânea W, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2018); Banquete, Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2017); Os fósseis ou as laranjas, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); Atos Falhos, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); Elaine Arruda e Marcia de Moraes: Cheio de Vazio, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2014); El Extraño, Fundación Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013); Um Corpo que Cai, Museu de Arte de Goiânia, Goiânia, Brazil (2012); À Deriva no Azul, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon, Portugal; Saint Clair Cemin et Marcia de Moraes: Correspondance Brasilienne, VL Contemporary, Paris, France (2011), among others.

Take a Virtual Tour of the solo exhibition “Matriz”, 2022, featuring a text by Ana Carolina Ralston at Galeria Leme.

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Education

  • 2006 – Master in Arts, Instituto de Artes da UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
  • 2003 – Bachelor in Fine Arts, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024 – Ponto de osso, Instituto Artium, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2022 – Matriz, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2021 – A Terceira, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2018 – Círculos Abertos (curated by Flávia Azevedo), SESI Tiradentes – Centro Cultural Yves Alves, Tiradentes, Brazil
  • Story of the Eye, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
  • O Sopro (curated by Josué Mattos), CAC W – Centro de Arte Contemporânea W, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
  • 2017 – Banquete, Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2016 – Os fósseis ou as laranjas, Marcia de Moraes (curated by Julia Lima), Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2015 – Atos Falhos, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2014 – Elaine Arruda e Marcia de Moraes: Cheio de Vazio, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2013 – El Extraño, Fundación Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2012 – Corpo Duplo, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Um corpo que cai, Museu de Arte de Goiânia, Goiânia, Brazil
  • 2011 – À Deriva no Azul, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Saint Clair Cemin et Marcia de Moraes: Correspondance Brasilienne, VL Contemporary, Paris, France
  • 2010 – Personne, Studio, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2009 – Centro Universitário Maria Antônia, USP, São Paulo, Brazil

Group Exhibitions

  • 2020 – O pequeno colecionador, Carbono Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2019 – Studiolo XXI – desenho e afinidades (curated by Maria de Fátima Lambert), Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
  • 2018 – Intercâmbios / Tempos Cruzados (curated by Marisa Flórido), SESC Quitandinha, Petrópolis, Brazil
  • MARP Collection – Recent Acquisitions. MARP 25 Years, MARP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
  • 2017 – Carpe Diem Editions: The story so far (curated by Eva Zbogo), TAF Theartfoundation, Athens, Greece
  • Library of Love, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
  • Kogan Gallery Expose La Collection de Carpe Diem, Kogan Gallery, Paris, France
  • 2015 – Carpe Diem Limited Editions International Tour, Open House, New York, USA; E/L Studio, Washington DC, USA; Bureau N, Berlin, Germany; Ybakatu Espaço de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil; Galerie Martine Ehmer, Brussels, Belgium; Kunsthalle São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Espaço XXVinte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Paris, France; Palácio das Artes, Porto, Portugal
  • 2013 – Azimute, Projeto Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2012 – 37th SARP – Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional-Contemporâneo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
  • …(I call silence the language-that-is-no-longer-an-organ-of-anything)…, Quase Galeria, Porto, Portugal
  • Soma: Carla Chaim, Julia Kater, Marcia de Moraes, VL Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Independência ou Morte, Projeto Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2011 – Um de Três: Carla Chaim, Julia Kater, Marcia de Moraes, FUNARTE Contemporary Art Prize, Galeria Flávio de Carvalho, Funarte, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Nous vivons, déplaçons ensemble, La Cour Dieu, La Roche en Brenil, France
  • Boîte Invalidem, Galerie Invaliden 1, Berlin, Germany
  • Mostra Amarello 2, Escritório Amarello, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2010 – A Contemplação do Mundo, 5th Paralela, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Ateliê Fidalga no Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Poéticas em Construção, 12th Salão Nacional de Artes de Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil
  • Em Obras, Consolação Underpass, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Photofidalga, Modern Art Center Kulanshi, Astana, Kazakhstan
  • 2009 – Desenho Ocupado, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
  • MARP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
  • Obra Menor, Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Ateliê Fidalga, Zoon, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Em torno de, Funarte Cultural Complex, São Paulo, Brazil

Awards

  • 2016 – Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
  • 2013 – Grant-Residency awarded by the Ministry of Culture and the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2011 – FUNARTE Contemporary Art Prize, São Paulo, Brazil

Residencies

  • 2013 – Fundación Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2011 – Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2010 – La Cour Dieu, La Roche-en-Brenil, France

Collections

  • Art at Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Permanent Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brasília, Brazil
  • MARP – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

 

Exhibition Catalog "A Terceira" | 2021
Artforum | 2012
ILOVE Journal 2024 MARCIA
Veja São Paulo | 2021
Veja São Paulo | 2022

  • The vergito of writing one’s body into the abyss of the world | Bianca Coutinho Dias | 2021

    “A Terceira” [The Third] explores issues related to the fields of art and psychoanalysis, centering around the instinctual body, or the body of drives: teeth, breasts, leaves, spines, tree trunks and so on – vibrations and disruptive features leap from their original environments, only to re-emerge visually in the artist’s works. Through her drawings, the […]

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  • Failed Acts by Olivia Ardui | 2015

    The set of works showcased in Failed Acts suggests an ongoing movement interrupted and renewed in each drawing. The works vibrate with an internal pulse, to the rhythm of an eternal mismatch between areas filled with colour and the emptiness of zones left white. As two immiscible liquids, this ambiguous game of repulsion or attraction […]

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