Priscila De Carvalho (born 1975) is a Brazilian-born American contemporary artist who is known for paintings, sculptures,

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, site-specific

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, and permanent

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Early life and career

De Carvalho was born in

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in 1975. At the age of nine years old, she started composing small photo-realistic drawings influenced by cartoons, comics and fashion magazines. De Carvalho moved to

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in the 1990s. She has traveled extensively and lived in different cities including Tokyo, Berlin, and

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, where she has been active as an artist since 2004. During this time, De Carvalho has been engaged in her

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practice and involved in several exhibitions throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Among many professional accomplishments are her

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Award, Sculpture Space residency, Aljira Emerge 10 fellowship, Lower East Side Printshop exhibit, the

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' Artist in the Marketplace, and Workspace Artist residency at the Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning Gallery. She made her first

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debut with ''Passageways'' in the

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, opening March 19, 2009.

Work

A recurring

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in De Carvalho's work is the passage of time and its effect on cultures. She compares the

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and human

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in a way to make viewers question their relationship with both and thus, define what they expect from their culture and themselves. De Carvalho mixes influences of Pop Art and Spanish

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to create works that draw attention to the strange beauty of unbridled urbanization and pay reverence to architecture as an art form. Her

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and murals often include paintings with augmented surfaces, which encourage the spectator to engage with the art as a three-dimensional subject, sometimes by expanding the images into interactive

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. De Carvalho's work has been exhibited by the

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(New York, USA), The Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York, USA),

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(New York, USA), the Basque Museum-Center of Contemporary Art (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain), Deutsche Bank (New York, USA), the

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(Paris, France), the Nepal Art Council in (Kathmandu, Nepal), The

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(New York, USA), and The

(Jersey City, USA). She was also a celebrated participant in El Museo's Sixth Biennial in New York City, The First AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and The Kathmandu International Triennial in Nepal, where she represented her native nation of Brazil. She has been commissioned for large-scale permanent public art projects by the

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and the department of education in New York. In collaboration with School Construction Authority, in 2019 De Carvalho began creating permanent public artwork for the SBS Woodhaven median stations commissioned by New York City's department of cultural affairs’ "Percent for Arts Program" as well as her largest and most ambitious sculptural work to date for the Valley Metro Rail System in

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Publications

Book chapters and articles related to De Carvalho: * New York's Underground Art Museum MTA Arts and Design, Written by Sandra Bloodworth, William Ayres, foreword by Stanley Tucci, Preface by Thomas F. Prendergast by The Monacelli Press, 2014 * 2013 Info En Punto: Nueva obra de Priscila de Carvalho para el programa Grey Flag de Artium, May 7, 2014 * El Pais: Un paisaje urbano de Priscila de Carvalho sobre la fachada, May 7, 2013 * Tsering, Dolker. Nepali Times. Koloring Kathmandu. Page # 650 April 5, 2013 * The Katmandu Post. January at Sattya January 1, 2013 * Hallie, Sekoff. The Huffington Post ArtRio 2012. “The Second Annual Fair Reflects Brazil's Growing Presence In The Contemporary Art World”, September 4, 2012 * Kurchi, Dasgupta. Hyperallergic. “Painting is Alive and Kicking at the Kathmandu International Art Festival", December 20, 2012 * Jessica, Allen. CBS New York, 5 NYC Street Art Murals To See Right Now, July 2, 2012 * Jaime, Rojo. The Huffington Post: "What's New in Bushwick: A Quick Street Art Survey", June 6, 2012 * Holland, Cotter. “The New York Times: Artists Whose Vitality Flows From the Streets”, June 16, 2011 * Amir, H. Fallah. Beautiful Decay Magazine: ”Priscila's Majestic Brazil”, October 28, 2011 * Eduardo, Graça. O GLOBO: ”Crise econômica e política chamam a atenção em retrospectiva de artistas contemporâneos no Museo del Barrio, em Nova York", Rio de Janeiro, June 24, 2011 * Allison, Meier. Hyperallergic: Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, Review, July 18, 2011 * Gisele, Regatao. Culture WNYC: "Pickles, Turntables and Graffiti at El Museo del Barrio's 'Bienal' of Latino Art”, June 14, 2011 * Marisol, Nieves. Catalogue. “Taking AIM!: The Business of Being an Artist Today", Page 285, October 3, 2011 * Art Paris, Catalogue "Out of Nothing", Paris, France, March 5, 2010 * Priscila De Carvalho at Praxis. Remezcla. New York, NY, February, 2010 * Benjamin, Genocchio. The New York Times: "A Decade of Emergence", Review, August 28, 2009 * Art Forum, Pollock and Krasner Grant Foundation Grants for 2009/2008 announced, September 25, 2009 * Deutsche Bank Art Mag, "Making It", New York, NY, 2009

Selected exhibitions

* “Before Now”
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
New York, 2017 * “Bronx: Heart, Homeland�

Castle Hill, subway station, NY, 2015 * "Grey Flag

Vitoria, Spain, 2013 * “Earth, Body, Mind” Nepal Art Council, Secon
Kathmandu International Festival
2012 * "Vista
Socrates Sculpture Park
Long Island City, NY, 2011 * “The (S) Files”, El Barrio Museum Biennial

New York, NY, 2011 * AIM, Bronx Museum Biennial
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY, 2011 * "Ain't I a woman” Mocada
Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts
Brooklyn, NY, 2010 * ”Art Paris" The Grand Palais Art Fair
64bs Gallerie
Paris, France, 2010 * “Making It
Deutsche Bank Gallery
New York, NY, 2009

References

External links

The Pollock and Krasner Foundation

www.prisciladecarvalho.com
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