CLAUDIA VIEIRA
Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1964
Represented by Praxis Gallery, New York City
Current studio in Litte Haiti, Miami, FL
Vieira has pursued drawing in a way that directly interferes in the landscape, both natural and constructed, creating immersive drawn environments in which the action of drawing is as important as the final form of the work. In a manner that is subtle and yet intense her site-specific installations share with the public the actual reality of each lived moment. Time is experienced as a dimension of space and consciousness. For the past twenty years, she has been exploring how our sense of space and time can be transformed through the tracing of one continuos line that appears constantly in her work, defining her entire practice. Each project is just a section of an ongoing trajectory integrating visual form, experience and architecture. Ultimately, Vieira is interested in exploring, blurring and exploiting the old dialectical separations between reality and imagination, visible and invisible, inside and outside, and particularly, self and other.
Claudia Vieira lives and works in Miami. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidade Federal, Brazil, New York Studio School, The International School of Art, Italy and holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, NY. The artist's projects has been exhibited in the US, Europe, South America and Asia in venues including the Queens Museum of Art, the Rotunda Gallery and El Museo del Barrio, in NYC; the Kuntlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art, in Brazil and the Kyoto Arts Center, in Japan. She has received various awards including the XlV Salão da Bahia from the Museum of Modern Art, in Brazil; the Projecteils Contemporary Art Prize, from FUNARTE/the Brazilian Ministry of Culture as well as the Urban Artists Initiative from NYFA/ New York Foundation for the Arts, in the U.S.A.
EDUCATION
MFA Pratt Institute, Sculpture and New Forms, NY, 2002
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture NY
B.F.A. Studio Art Instituto de Artes Universidade Federal RS, Brazil
B. A. Social Communications Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brazil
SITE SPECIFIC PROJECTS/EXHIBITIONS [selected]
What’s My Line?: Drawing as Exploration (Upcoming), curated by Dimitry Saïd Chamy, Miami Beach Regional Library, Miami, FL, 2026
Atlas, curated by Carla Chaim, Collaboration The55Project Art Foundation and Hermes Artes Visuais, Canteiro Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, 2025
The Things We Carried, curated by Liana Rivas, Emporium B Gallery, Miami, FL, 2025
Abraço Coletivo, curated by Paula Borghi, Lanchonete Art Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025
Spring Fling: Space Oddity, Benefit Group Exhibition, Silent Art Auction, Locust Projects, Miami, FL, April 2025
Untitled (bushwickLINE), Bax Spaces, New York, NY, 2022
Drawing Spaces, Live Drawing Performance, Molteni & C, Miami Design Week, Art Basel, Miami, FL, November 2022
The Body is The House, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
Double Trace, Solo Exhibition Live Drawing Performance, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, 2021
Black and White, and Re(a)d All Over: Part III, Galleria Huuto, Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, Finland, 2018
LREI Art Auction, Pace Gallery with Paddle8, New York, 2018
SP-Arte, Galeria Arvore Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil, 2018
SCOPE New York, ArtHelix Gallery, New York, NY, 2018
Snap To Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
Aqua Art Miami, Art in Public Space/Special Project, ArtHelix Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017
Landscapes, curated by Marino Cinat, SHIM/ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Immersive Art Experience, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
stairwayLINE_W25NY, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, 2016 - 2017
SNAP! INSTA! POP!, 40.6928°N. 73.9903°W, curated by Lauren Elise Hirshfield, SHIM/Art Helix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
GI408B_LINE, Governors Island, Governors Island Art Fair, NY, 2016
Context NY, Relational Abstractions, El Museo, New York, NY, 2016
ATRIUM 408B, Governors Island, GIAF, 2015
One / Connecting Thread / Hilo, Christie’s New York, NY, 2015
Bailado do Deus Morto, Galeria Lourdina Jean Rabieh, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013
Double Trace, Brooklyn Zen Center, New York, NY, 2011
waterLINE: Porto Alegre-New York, site specif drawing, curated by Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum of Art, NY, 2010-2011
Other, Other…High Visibility, curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz Nathan Cummings Foundation/Bronx Arts Council, New York, NY, 2009
INFINITE LINE Contemporary Drawing in Time and Space, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY, 2008
underLINE, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador, Brazil, 2008 (catalogue)
waterLINE: Rio, Funarte’s Gallery, Ministry of Culture, RJ, Brazil, 2007 (catalogue)
VERBO, Galeria Vermelho, International Performance Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, 2006
underLINE [Kyoto] Screening, curated by Torbjörn Limé, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, 2005
Translations (in collaboration with Jenny Perlin), Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, 2005
Night&Day, curated by Helen Cooper, Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University Art Museum Fairfield, CT, 2005 (catalogue)
The Diagram and Scrible Arquive, Stony Brook University, NY, 2004
Contemporary Women Artists: New York, curated by Judy Collishan, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 2005
underLINE: KYOTO, Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Drawing Conclusions, curated by Keith Miller, Islip Art Museum, NY, 2004 (catalogue)
waterLINE: Brooklyn-Utica, Sculpture Space Inc. Utica, NY, 2004
IIII Site Specific Public Project, curated by Monica Montagut, Queens Theater, Flushing-Meadows Corona Park, New York, 2003
Koan, Triangle Studios, DUMBO Arts Festival, 2003
TIMEslice, Triangle Studios, New York, NY, 2003
The Armory Show, Galleria Jakob Karpio, New York, NY, 2003
The Outlaw Series, curated by Lisa Kirk, New York, NY, 2003
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cardenas, Diana. waterLINE @, ArtNexus, Queens Museum of Art, Volume 78, 2010
Sculpture Space [the Book], Brodock Press, New York, 2007
Takeshita, Akiko. Art 51, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Okano, Ken. underLINE in Kyoto – a documentary, Independent Television Documentary, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Petroschat, Katrin. Kansai Area Art. Independent Video Documentary, Kyoto, 2004
Architectural Topographies Project, METRÓPOLIS, TV Cultura São Paulo, Brazil, 2004
Montagut, Monica. Alli estan: Claudia Vieira y Karlos Karcamo, El Diario/La Prensa, July, 2004
Vargas, Diana. Aqui Estoy HOY, July, 2004
Ammirati, Domenick. The Outlaw Series, ArtUS, April 2004
McGuinnes, Liz. Architectural Topographies Project, Woodfish Choghye Internacional Zen Center of New York, Issue 21, June 2003
La Rocco, Ben. Architectural Topographies, The Prattlet Issue, 4 March 2003
Ohana, Yael. 9/11: Brooklyn Artists Reflect and Transform, NY Arts Magazine, April 2002
GRANTS/AWARDS
2016 The FID PRIZE international drawing (8th edition), selected nominee from the Jury; Brett Littman, Andrew Solomon among others
2010 Queens Museum of Art/ Artist in residence Jan-May 2010
2009 NYFA/ Urban Artists Initiative: New York, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
2008 Conexões Artes Visuais Prize, FUNARTE, Ministry of Culture, Brazil
2007 Projéteis Arte Contemporânea Prize, FUNARTE, Ministry of Culture, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006 Triangle International Arts Association, Workshop Fellowship, NY
2005 A.I.R Gallery Fellowship, NY
2004 KAC/Kyoto Arts Center, Artist in Residence, Kyoto, Japan and Sculpture Space, Artist in Residence, Utica, NY
2003 Triangle International Arts Association, Artist in Residence, NY
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2025 - 2026 (Current): Dimensions Variable Artist Membership, Miami, FL
2025: Hermes Artes Visuais – Project Mentorship with Carla Chaim, Online, São Paulo, Brazil
2025: The55Project Art Foundation and Hermes Artes Visuais - Mentorship
2024: Projeto Lomba Art Residency, Vale Verde, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Essex County College, Adjunct Faculty, Newark, NJ, USA
Experimental drawing Workshop, Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, Japan
Stony Brook University, Graduate Seminar/Visiting Artist, NY, USA
Pratt institute, Utica, Graduate Seminar/Visiting Artist, NY, USA
Munsor WIlliams Proctor Institute, Lecture/Visiting Artist
Goethe Institute, Visiting Artist, POA, Brazil
UFRGS, Art Institute, Guest Artist, POA, Brazil
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art - MAM, Salvador, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, MAM-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu Bispo do Rosário, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ellen and Joop Teepe, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lina and Enrique Goldberg, Costa Rica
Silvanna Fachinni, Bern, Switzerland
Yaely Ohana, Sydney, Australia
CONTACT ME
clau.r.vieira@gmail.com workclaudiavieira@gmail.com
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