Alexandre da Cunha
Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1969
Lives and works in London, England and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Education
MA Chelsea College of Art, London, England, 2000
Royal College of Art, London, England, 1999
Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1996
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Broken, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Quebrada, auroras, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2021
Duplex, Brighton CCA, Brighton, England
2020
Arena, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
Portal, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2017
Boom, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
Mornings, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Free Fall, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2015
CRG Gallery, New York NY
MCA Chicago Plaza Project, Chicago IL
Real, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
Contratempo, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Alexandre da Cunha, Frieze New York, New York NY
2012
Alexandre da Cunha, Curated by Zoe Gray, Le Grand Café Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
Full Catastrophe, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Kentucky Pied de Poule, CRG Gallery, New York NY
2011
Duble, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Monolith, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Fair Trade, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
Laissez-Faire, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2008
Vilma Gold, London, England
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Club Sandwich, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
2007
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California CA
Alexandre da Cunha – Damien Roach, NAK, Aachen, Germany
2006
Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005
Alexandre da Cunha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Colorama, Vilma Gold, London, England
2004
Carro Novo, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002
Alexandre da Cunha & Brian Griffiths, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
Alexandre da Cunha, Projeto Macunaima Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Two-Person Exhibitions
2018
Alexandre da Cunha, Phillip King: Duologue, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England
Alexandre da Cunha & E’wao Kagoshima, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Alexandre da Cunha & Neil Campbell, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2024
Each now, is the time, the space, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland
2023
Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2022
Obscure Light, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
On Jupiter: Selections from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem VA
2021
A máquina do mundo: Arte e indústria no Brasil 1901 – 2021, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2020
MECARÕ. Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier, France
Plymouth Box, Plymouth, England
2019
A View in General, Mata Gallery at Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Form and Volume, Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Lisbon, Portugal
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer III, Fulmer, England
Environmental: Art and Movements, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Volume and Space: Ways of Doing, Casa do Parque, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2018
Garden of delight with final judgement, Horse Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
Everyday Poetics, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
Histórias da Sexualidade, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ready Made in Brazil, Centro Cultural Fiesp, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Neither, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades, The Warehouse, Dallas TX
2016
Tudo Joia, Bergamin & Gomide, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Soft Light, ICA Boston, Boston MA
Haptic, Alexander Gray Assosciates, New York NY
Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
British Art Show 8, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Brasil, Beleza?! Contemporary Brazilian Sculpture, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, Holland, Netherlands
The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London, England
Camera of Wonders, MAMM - Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Columbia DC
2015
Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
British Art Show 8, Leeds, England, England
Pangaea II, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Fiber: Sculpture, 1960-Present, ICA Boston, Boston MA
2014
Permission to be Global/ Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Cruzamentos Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH
Deslize, Museu de Arte do Rio MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arroz sem Sal, Galeria Sylvia Cintra + Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
Decorum, Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville, Paris, France
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL
COLLECTION, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Basse – Normandie, Caen, France
Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B.Wurtz, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
On The Passage of a Few, Simon Preston Gallery, New York NY
The World Turned Upside Down - Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd, Warwick Art Centre, Coventry, England
2012
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA
BLOCK, PILLAR, SLAB, BEAM, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
British Modern Remade, Arts Council Collection, Park Hill Estate, Sheffield, England
Garden of Reason, curated by Tessa Fitzjohn, Ham House, London, England
Economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ
2011
Making Is Thinking, Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Extension, Vilma Gold, London, England
Caos e Efeito, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Into the Green, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
As ruas e as bobagens, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Myhtologies, Cité des Arts, Paris, France
Nova Escultura Brasileira, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vestigios de Brasilidade, Santander Cultural Recife, Recife, Brazil
Government Art Collection selected by Cornelia Parker: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
2010
Inaugural Show, CRG, New York NY
First and Last, Notes on the Monument, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Billdertausch 2: A New Presentation of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
Panamerica, Kurimanzuto Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
The Big Ripoff, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
A Very Very Long Cat, Wallspace, New York NY
Los Impoliticos, Curated by Laura Bardier, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
2009
2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico
Revolution of the Ordinary, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Pete and Repeat: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Sniper, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
IV Bienal de Jafre, Girona, Spain
China Series, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2008
An Unruly History of the Readymade, Ecatepac de Morelos, Mexico
Procedente, MAP Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Inhotim new acquisitions, Inhotim Centro de arte Contemporanea, Brazil
Transformational Grammars, Galeria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
This is not a void, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
Chambres à part II - FIAC 2008, La Réserve – Paris, Paris, France
De perto e de Longe – Paralela, curated by Rodrigo Moura, Liceu de Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nova Arte Nova, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pendre la Cremaillere, Sommer and Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Group show curated by Avo Samuellian, Andre Schlechtriem, New York NY
2007
Fortunate Objects, CIFO, Miami FL
Eurovision - Jahresgaben 2007, NAK, Aachen, Germany
Close to me, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Bildertausch 2, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
CTRL_C + CTRL_V, Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California CA
2006
Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA/South London Gallery, London, England
Wrong, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Contrabando, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Geracao da Virada, Instituto Tomie Otake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paralela, Pavilhao Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
2004
Fragmentos e Souvenirs Paulistanos Vol. 1, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paralela, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Imagine Limerick, EV+A 2004, Limerick, Ireland
Produciendo Realidad, Prometeo Associazione Culturale, Lucca, Italy
Sneeze Project 80 x 80, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, Greece
2003
50th Venice Biennale, The Structure of Survival, Venice, Italy
The Virgin Show, The Wrong Gallery, New York NY
The Lost Collection of An Invisible Man, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England
PoT, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
Materia Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba, Brazil
2001
Brighton Icons, St Batholomew Church, Brighton, England
Desenhistas e Coloristas, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
13 Videobrasil, Sesc SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Arco das Rosas, Casa das Rosas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000
PICAF, Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Busan, Korea
EV+A Biennial (Friends and Neighbors), Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
1999
Herancas Contemporaneas, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
Projecto Macunima, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1997
Suspended Instants, Art in General Gallery, New York NY
European Media Art Festival Osnabruck, Germany
Commissions
2021
Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset, Art on the Underground, Battersea Power Station London Underground station, London, England
2017
Plaza (Arcade), Samuels & Associates, Boston MA
2016
Mix II, Rochaverá Corporate Towers, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012
Mix, Monsoon Accessorize, London, England
Curation
Sol, curated by Alexandre da Cunha, Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Voyage, curated by Alexandre da Cunha, Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Grants/Residencies
2010
Artist in Residence, Headland Center for the Arts, Marin CA
2009
Camden Arts Centre’s Artists’ Studio, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2008
Guilbaud Residency, Martinique, France
2002
Visiting Artist Programme, Gasworks, London, England
International Artist-in-Residence Programme, Guernsey College of Art, Guernsey
2001
Welcome Trust Artist-in-Residency Award, Welcome Trust, London, England
1998
CAPES, Brazilian Sponsorship for the Arts, Brazil
Public collections
Centro de Arte Contempoarnea de Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
CIFO – Cisneros Collection, Miami FL
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal
Frac Basse Normandie, Caen, France
Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
Institute of Contemporary Art., Boston MA
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis MI
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL
Pierce Boston Collection, Boston MA
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville KN
Tate Collection, London, England
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
