João Carlos Galvão (1941)
João Carlos Galvão is a painter and visual artist. He began his artistic training in Rio de Janeiro, at the age of ten, with painting classes. Between 1964 and 1966, he studied at the National School of Fine Arts of the University of Brazil. He lived in Paris from 1967 to 1969, where he studied artistic sociology with Jean Cassou at the Sorbonne and attended studios by artists such as Sergio de Camargo, Victor Vasarely and Ivaral. He participated in the São Paulo Biennial in 1967, 1973 and 1975. Since 2004, he regularly integrates the “Réalité Nouvelle”, in Paris. At Art to Design Gallery, in Bologna, and at Dan Galeria, in São Paulo, in 2008, his works are part of museum collections such as the Cultural Center of L'Arsenal (France), the Satoru Sato Museum (Japan), the Mobil Madi Museum (Hungary), in addition to Brazilian institutions such as MAM-RJ, MNBA, MAC from Niterói and MAM-SP.
Individual exhibitions
2011 ESPACE MEYER ZAFRA, Paris
2009 Galería Marita Segovia, Madrid
2009 Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro
2008 Art to Design Gallery, Bologna
2008 Dan Gallery, São Paulo 2007 Galerie Brasilia, Paris
2007 Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte
2005 Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro
2004 Galerie Syrus, Paris
2004 MUBE - Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo
2003 Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro
2001 Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro
1999 GB Art, Rio de Janeiro
1996 GB Art, Rio de Janeiro
1988 Fluminense Federal University Art Gallery, Niterói
1985 Brazilian Center Gallery, London
1985 Gallery of Art Centro Cultural Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro
1982 Aktuell, Rio de Janeiro1980 Galeria Praxis, Buenos Aires
1982 Galeria Paulo Klabin, Rio de Janeiro
1976 Galeria Luiz Buarque de Holanda and Paulo Bittencourt, Rio de Janeiro
1974 Galeria Art Global, São Paulo
1974 Galeria Bonino, Rio de Janeiro
1972 Galeria Bonino, Rio de Janeiro
Exhibitions Collectives
2011 Art Paris - Grand Palais, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
2011 Art Madrid - Marita Segovia Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011 Sparte - Márcia Barrozo Amaral Art Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011 Madi International - Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay - Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Exposition Collective - Marita Segovia Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011 Grand Exposition International a Cholet - Musée Dart et Histoire, Cholet, France
2011 Noir et Blanc Madi - Kamalidarte, Brescia, Italy
2011 Carmelo Arden Quin à Madi Contemporain - Center International Dart Contemporain by cars, Nice, France
2010 Blanco y Negro - Marita Segovia Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2010 Sparte - Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 PDGB - Exposition Art Construit International, Paris, France
2010 XVII Biennial of Panamericana Architecture - A.C.I., Quito, Ecuador
2010 Art Madrid - Marita Segovia Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2010 Masterarte, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 Dialogue of Forms - Palácio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brazil
2009 Bichrome Madi - Montigny - Bretonneux, France
2009 Salon Comparaison - 2009, Paris, France
2009 Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
2009 Geometric In-Forma - Civic Museum di Castelnuovo, Napoli, Italy
2009 by Geometrie van Madi, Gorinchem, Netherlands
2009 Inter Madi Expositie Rond Carmelo Arden Quin - Galerie de Vierde DiMense, Holanda
2009 Sparte - Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Galeria de Arte and Dan Galeria, São Paulo
2009 Epítészet és Müvészet - Kéves Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Groupe Constructivisme, Rehau, Germany
2009 Galerie Emilia Suciu 20 Jahre - 20 years - 20 years, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
2008 Salon Comparaisons - Grandpalais, Paris, France
2008 MOUVEMMENT MADIINTERNATIONAL - Maison de Lamérique Latine, Paris, France
2008 Color and form - Simões de Assis Art Gallery, Curitiba - Paraná
2008 Internazionale Madi Averona - Spazio Arte Pisanello, Verona, Italy
2008 Art in Motion. Espaco Eliana Benchimol, Rio de Janeiro
2008 LE THEORIE DEL MADI. Scoglio di Quarto, Milan, Italy
2008 Madi International. Museo Macla, La Plata, Argentina
2007 Design Expo - Galerie Brasilia, Paris, France
2007 Art and Antiquity Salon. Murilo Castro Gallery, São Paulo
2007 Broome Street Gallery (Vanguard Art), New York, USA.
2007 ESPACE MADI. Galerie des Wantiers-Valenciennes, France
2007 Modern art in context. ABN Amro Real, São Paulo and Curitiba
2007 Built Art Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Collection of collections, Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte
2007 Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Emilia Suciu, Germany
2007 SP Art, São Paulo International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Art Gallery, RJ and Galeria Murilo Castro, BH.
2007 Noir ET Blanc, Galerie Orion / Madi, Paris.
2007 Réalités Nouvelles, 61e Salon, Paris.
2007 Inaugural exhibition, Satoru Sato Museum, Tome, Japan.
2006/07 MADI-MONOCHROM, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
2006 Monochrome, Galerie Orion / Madi, Paris.
2006 op-art Galerie, Joyce, Paris.
2006 Réalités Nouvelles, 60e Salon, Paris.
2006 Art Madi, Galerie Orion / Madi, Paris.
2006 Galvão and Jaildo Marinho, Galerie Orion / Madi, Paris. Pinakotheke Cultural, RJ. Paulo.
2006 General Archive, Márcia Barrozo do Amaral, Art Gallery, Hélio Oiticica Art Center, Rio de Janeiro. 2006 Supremadisme, Cultural Institute of Hungary, Republic of Bratislava, Slovakia.
2006 Móbile Madi, Budapest Art Museum, Hungary.
2005 SP Art, International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art of São Paulo, Dan Galeria.
2005 Arte Madi, Galeria Multiarte, Fortaleza, Ceará. RJ and Dan Galeria S.P.
2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Madi Museum, Sobral, Ceará.
2005 Réalités Nouvelles, 59e Salon, Paris.
2005 GALVÃO et Jaildo Marinho, Hotel Bristol (Syrus Galerie), Paris.
2005 Chroma, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.
2004 Christmas with Art, Márcia Barrozo do Amaral Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro January.
2004 Réalités Nouvelles, 58e Salon, 2004, Paris
2003 Neuhoff Gallery, New York City
2004 International Designer Showhouse
2004 Architecture of Cristiana Mascarenhas, New York City
2004 Forma / Support, Sattamini Collection
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói
2004 Collection Dan Galeria, São Paulo
2004 Brazilian Contemporary Art on Paper
2004 Brazilian Studies Center - CEB, Suriname
2001 Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre
2001 Galerie Janus Avivson, Paris
2001 Summer Group Show
2001 Galerie Janus Avivson, Paris
2000 Exposition Collective
2000 Galerie Claude Dorval, Paris
2000 A Blank Work
2000 Gallery Graphics Gesture, Belo Horizonte
1999 Art Construit, Art Cinétique d Ameriqué Latine
1999 Galerie Denise René, Paris
1999 Natal, GB Arte, Rio de Janeiro
1999 Una Visión del Arte en Brasil
1999 Galeria del Parque Reduto, Lima, Peru
1999 Commemorative 3 years
1999 Anita Schwartz Galeria, Rio de Janeiro
1998 Contemporary Art, the last 30 years
1998 Palácio dos Bandeirantes, São Paulo
1998 SANDROS GALLERY, Harare, Zimbabwe
1997 Art of Brazil in Beirut
1997 Sarsock Beirut Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
1997 Construction and deconstruction
1997 Museum of Art Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
1996 Brazilian Art 70's
1996 National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro
1993 Geometrists
1993 National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro
1992 16th Carioca Salon of Art, MAM, Rio de Janeiro
1988 Contemporary Collection
1988 Galeria da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói
1987 between two centuries. Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection
1987 Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro
1985 Collection of the Gallery of the Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro
1984 Day of the plastic artist, Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro
Source: artist's website
