alice shintani / portfolio

Is there room for imagination nowadays? Could we invent (or rescue) more ludic, poetic, silent or even amateur approaches to share sensitive dissonances with people at large? What would political reinvention mean from the perspective(s) of art? Living in a land where inequality reigns in all aspects of life, wish (perhaps utopic) is to commune such imagination with a broader public not so focused to contemporary art trends, being in mind the rich, diverse and emancipated spectators we all are, regardless of education background, social class or cultural identity. Life is broader. So is art. Alice Shintani Sao Paulo, Brazil (under coup d etat), 2018.

tuiuiú, 2017 / intervention on public space in collaboration with sem título s.d. curatorial collective, são paulo / handpainted flags inspired on modernist artist athos bulcão who fixed shape-pattern tiles on parliament and other federal government buildings during the high military dictatorship period in brazil / around 300 flags were now installed inline among mario de andrade public library + dom josé gaspar square + aber (brazilian association of binding and restoration) and shared for free with pedestrian public. the intervention were not negotiated with local military police officers.

tuiuiú, 2017 / shop window, handpainted flags and fan / intervention view at brazilian association of binding and restoration, são paulo.

there were about fifty homeless people living in the square, but we did not want to go on a sort of assistentialist art, neither falling into escapist aesthetics to deny the reality of that place. We wanted to get out of that dichotomy and try other relationships, even though we know that the ethic and aesthetic limits of art are always very tenuous. tuiuiú, 2017 / intervention on public space in collaboration with sem título s.d. curatorial collective, são paulo, brazil.

tuiuiú re-installation at delfina foundation residency program, autumn 2017, london, uk. Link to profile and documentation video: https://vimeo.com/247484438

menas, 2013-17 / installation at home studio, sao paulo gouache and embroidery on folded paper on neighborhood warehouse cardboxes

menas, 2013-17 / installation at galeria marcelo guarnieri, são paulo / 300 pieces of gouache and embroidery on folded paper on warehouse cardboxes.

menas, 2013-17 / gouache and embroidery on folded paper on warehouse cardboxes on sp-arte fair.

zika, 2015-2016 / gouache on paper series inspired on theosophist annie besant s thought forms.

zika, 2015-2016 / gouache on paper series.

óia brigadeiro!, 2014-16 / daily street vending of homemade candies at são paulo city.

oluap oãs, 2013-2015 / video series / derives through sao paulo city: http://aliceshintani.info/projects/oluap-oas

bakemono, 2011 / acrylic paintings on canvas on uber commercial gallery / casa triângulo, são paulo.

bakemono, 2011 / project of intervention / casa triângulo, são paulo.

ether, 2009 / immersive installation / masonry and acrylic painting / galeria virgilio, são paulo, brazil.

ether, 2009 / making-of immersive installation / masonry and acrylic painting / galeria virgilio, são paulo, brazil.

domino, 2008 / acrylic paint on mobile exhibition panels / faculty of medicine of university of são paulo, ribeirão preto, brazil.

parking, 2008 / acrylic paint on exhibition panels and floor / 1600 cm x 700 cm x 300 cm / ccsp, são paulo, brazil

ramen, 2008 / acrylic paint on exhibition panels mounted in cube / paço das artes, são paulo, brazil

atari series, 2008-2009 / acrylic on canvas / variable dimensions

chimera, 2007 / acrylic paint on walls on commercial gallery / galeria virgilio, são paulo, brazil

aproximações, 2005-2010 / household acrylic paintings on canvas

alice shintani São Paulo, Brazil, 1971. Lives and works in São Paulo. Graduated in computer engineering at University of Campinas in 1993, Alice works from an expanded idea of painting as starting point to imagine forms of approaching to the emancipated other and to reflect on the possibilities of aesthetic experience today: where, whom and how we can access it in order to dislocate something. Defending the idea that such experience exists beyond the established art system, Shintani transits between different contexts from art gallery to the warehouse of neighbourhood market, from the home kitchen to the sidewalk of a public square interested in diminishing the distances and meanings between poetic and political gestures. residencies, lectures and workshops 2018 Hablar En Arte / Curators Network, Sweet Home residency, Madrid. 2017 Delfina Foundation residency program (Autumn season), London; Guest artist lecture and studio visits for Valand Academy, Gotenburg; Art Matters: Contemporary art practices in post-migrant societies workshop series, Robert Bosh Foundation, Berlin. solo exhibitions 2017 Tuiuiú, Brazilian Association of Binding and Restoration + Dom Jose Gaspar public square, Sao Paulo; Menas, Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, Sao Paulo. 2013 The Raw and The Cooked, Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, Ribeirão Preto. 2012 Hanafuda, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro. 2011 Bakemono, Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo. 2010 Sinopse, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro. 2009 Ether, Galeria Virgilio, Sao Paulo. 2008 Alice Shintani, Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, Ribeirão Preto. 2007 Quimera, Galeria Virgilio, Sao Paulo; ; Estações, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo; Aproximações, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo. selected group exhibitions 2017 Autumn Residents, Delfina Foundation, London; Shadowns and Monsters, Gasworks/Studio 7, London; OSSO - Exposição-Apelo ao Amplo Direito de Defesa de Rafael Braga, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo. 2016 Olhar incomum, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba. 2014 Survival Adaptations, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland. 2013 Utropic, Centre of Contemporary Art, Poznan; II Itamaraty Prize, Federal Government, Brasília. 2012 Técnicas de Desaparecimento, Guantanamo. 2009 Rumos Artes Visuais, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro. 2008 Nova Arte Nova, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. 2006 25o Arte Pará, Belem. 2004 VIII Bienal do Recôncavo, Sao Felix. 2003 Salão Bunkyo, Sao Paulo. selected publications 2014 100 Painters of Tomorrow Catalogue. Thames and Hudson, London. 2009. Revista Lugares, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre. 2008. Under Angst Und Isolation. GEE Magazine (july-august), Berlin. + http://aliceshintani.info + http://instagram.com/aliceshintani + http://fb.com/aliceshintani