- Source: Camila Oliveira Fairclough
Camila Oliveira Fairclough (born 1979) is a Brazilian and British artist who lives in Paris.
Early life
Camila Oliveira Fairclough was born in 1979 at Rio de Janeiro. She studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro) with Nelson Leirner and at the Beaux-arts de Paris with Jean-Marc Bustamente, Sylvie Fanchon and Bernard Piffaretti.
Work
Her artistic practice includes painting, artist's book, performance, with the creation of works that mixes language, popart and abstraction. Oliveira Fairclough has exhibited internationally at museums such as the Minus Space (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Mudam (Luxembourg), NortArt, Büdelsdorf, and galleries such as Urs von Unger Gallery (Saanen), Emmanuel Hervé, Luis Adelantado, Laurent Godin.
In 2022 she curated the exhibition Chocolate Fresa Vainilla at the Galería Luis Adelantado in Valencia, bringing together the works of Armando Andrade Tudela, Allison Blumenthal, Claude Closky, Anne Colomes, Oriane Déchery, Olivier Filippi, Robbin Heyker, David Hominal, Jan Kiefer, Colombe Marcasiano, Jean François Maurige, Ana Mazzei, Rasmus Nilausen, Marielle Paul, Hugo Pernet, Simon Rayssac, Alain Séchas, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Sarah Tritz, Emmanuel Van der Meulen, Elsa Werth, Concha Ybarra among others, and with Sylvie Fanchon the exhibition Aoulioulé at the MRAC in Sérignan with a selection of works around and about language from Martine Aballéa, Anne-Lise Coste, Jessica Diamond, Joseph Kosuth, Muriel Leray, Raffaella della Olga, Walter Swennen, Júlio Villani, Virginie Yassef, Rémy Zaugg and others.
Collections
Her work is present in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Fonds National d'art Contemporain (Paris), the Fonds régional d'art contemporain Normandie Rouen, Alsace, Bretagne, Iles-de-France, BPS22 (Charleroi) among others.
Selected bibliography
Camila Oliveira Fairclough : Marble Memo, Montbeliard: Le 19, Centre d'Art Contemporain, 2010 ISBN 978-2-350750668
Armer les toboggans : Robert Breer, Pierre Labat, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Quimper: Le Quartier Editions, 2013 ISBN 978-2-908939590
Jérôme Dupeyrat, Entretiens : perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d'artistes, Saint-Senoux: Incertain sens, 2018 ISBN 978-2-914291781
Forsythia, lilac and geranium, with Raffaella della Olga and Elsa Werth, Saint-Senoux: Incertain sens, 2021, ISBN 978-2-914291-95-8
References
External links
Official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Camila Oliveira Fairclough
- List of contemporary artists
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- MUDAM
- List of Brazilian women artists
- List of 21st-century women artists
- Laurent Godin
- David Rosenberg (curator)
- FRAC des Pays de la Loire
