Exposições individuais
2024
Reds
Espace_L, Geneva, Switzerland .
2019
Reds
Espace_L, Geneva, Switzerland .
2016
iTa LíTica Barroca, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil. With the screening of the film NháNhá, the artist's first medium-length film.
2014
Around the light, Oi Futuro Belo Horizonte | Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Launch of the film NháNhá, the artist's first medium-length film, Curated by Alberto Saraiva and Aïcha Barat.
2011/12
Fluids and Fixtures Project - Água Viva, Galeria [Gallery] Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It included the performed paintings Balm & poison - short film in stop motion - and Infiltration.
Le Sacré et le Profane, Espace_L, Geneva, Switzerland. Curated by Adon Péres.
2010
Fluids and Fixeds Project - Água Viva, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil. It included the performed painting Vestige - super-8.
2009
Fluids and Fixtures Project - Água Viva, Graça Brandão Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
2007
Lusco-Fusco, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil.
2006
Reflexa Project, Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It included the performance Balm and poison and the performed painting Bálsamo e veneno - short film. Pre-curated by Rodrigo Moura and post-curated by Janaina Melo and Marconi Drummond.
2005
Transformers, Manoel Macedo Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Includes Painting with rain - urban interference.
Infiltrations, Galeria Arte 21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
IN_OUT Translucent, video installation, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2004
À Vida - Reflexo Poema Painting, Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mobile Mirror - urban interference, MAP - Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Curated by Vanda Klabin and Rodrigo Moura.
Mirror Mobile - ReTurner at the Encounter with Art, Casa Cor, Belo Horizonte and [and] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Vanda Klabin.
2003
Mobile Mirror Project - urban interference, Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mobile Mirror Project - photographs. Sérgio Porto Cultural Space, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mobile Mirror Project - paintings. Laura Marsiaj Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Sabará-Mangueira Project. It included the performance À Língua and the video and performed painting À Língua. Unstable Zone Project, Stables of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002
1st SP Arte. Dry. OCA, Brasil Connects, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil.
2001
Translucent-Sabarás Project, Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It included the installation / painting He passed - Meteor powder paintings - and the work The outside. Curated by Fernando Cocchiarale.
Translucent-Sabarás Project, Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
1999
Doors, Palace of Arts, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1998
Private - Aurora, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil. Aurora, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1997
... Upside down ..., Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
... Upside ..., Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil.
1996
See and Not See .., Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ENTER, Gesto Grafico Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1993
Interstitials, Millan Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
1992
Niura Bellavinha, Fernando Pedro Art Office, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Immersed Human Project - radiographs, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Sônia Salzstein and José Leonilson.
1991
Immersed Human Project - radiographs. Subdistrict Comercial de Arte Gallery, São Paulo and Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.
1990
Immersed Human Project - radiographs. Exhibition Hall, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Main Collective Shows
2019
Reds
Espace_L, Geneva, Switzerland
Inaugural show
BRISA Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
Eternal Moderns
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Este Arte, Punta Del Este, Uruguay
2017
Espace_L, Geneva, Switzerland
2016
MAR anniversary collective - Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro
2014
Guignard and the Orient between Rio and Minas, MAR - Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by [Curated by] Paulo Herkenhoff, Priscila Freire and Marcelo Campos.
Melting Pot, Espace_L, Geneva, Switzerland.
2013
Video Brazil - inaugural show, Oi Futuro Ipanema and Oi Futuro Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Curated by Alberto Saraiva.
Video Brazil, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Alberto Saraiva.
2012
Seismograph, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Beans with Rice. Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Studio Trendy, Miami, United States. Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti.
2011
The Dream Collector, Figueiredo Ferraz Institute, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Curated by Agnaldo Farias.
2010
Biwako Biennale, Omihachiman, Japan. Curated by Yoko Nakata.
10th Mercosul Biennial, Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial Foundation. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Collective, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Lenora de Barros and Artur Lescher.
Entre Salões, MAP - Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Pará Art, Pará State Museum, Lauro Sodré Palace, Belém, Brazil. Curator Paulo Herkenhoff
Paralela, Lyceum of Arts and Crafts, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Paulo Reis.
2008
Projeto Brasil na ARCO'08, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Paulo Sérgio Duarte.
2007
80/90 Modern, Post-modern, Etc. Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Agnaldo Farias.
Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói, Brazil. Curated by Guilherme Bueno.
2006
Geração da Virada, 10 + 1: The Recent Years of Brazilian Art, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Agnaldo Farias and Moacir dos Anjos.
Parallel to the São Paulo Biennial, PRODAN, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Daniela Bousso.
A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
It's Today - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Santander Cultural Space, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Curated by Fernando Cocchiarale.
2005
5th Mercosul Biennial, Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial Foundation. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
El Sutil Vértigo de la Imagen, Spanish Cultural Center of Rosario, Argentina. Curated by Cláudia Laudanno
Occupation, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Daniela Bousso.
Parallel, It included the ReTurner series, from 2004, Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Moacir dos Anjos.
2004
Paralela, Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Moacir dos Anjos.
Painting and Drawing 90/00, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói, Brazil. Curated by Guilherme Bueno.
ARCO'04, Madrid, Spain.
Besieged image, Sesc Copacana - itinerant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Armando Mattos
2002
Paralela, Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.
New Acquisitions - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Art Chicago, United States.
2001
Marked Plan, Cândido Mendes Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Paulo Sérgio Duarte.
Art Chicago, United States.
2000
The House, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Van Van Seiler and Paulo Sérgio Duarte.
1999
Brazil in the Century of Art - The MAC / USP Collection, SESI Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
Identity Trips, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by José Roberto Aguilar.
Mirror of the Bienal, Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói, Brazil.
1998
Mirror of the Bienal, Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói, Brazil.
So seen from Alto Mais It looks like a Heaven on the Floor, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reference show parallel to the 16th National Salon of Plastic Arts. Curated by Agnaldo Farias.
Collective Brazil, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain.
1997
1st Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Curator Frederico de Moraes.
Inaugural exhibition at MAC Niterói, Brazil.
New Talent Project, Planalto Palace, Brasilia, Brazil. Curated by Ronaldo Brito.
1996
Three Brazilian Artists, Galeria Cynthia Bourne Gallery, London.
1995
4th Cuenca Painting Biennial, Ecuador.
On the way to Niterói, São Paulo Cultural Center, Brazil.
Extremes, Cine Imaginário, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
10 Years of Subdistrict, Millan Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
Reinaugural Exhibition of the Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Curated by Sônia Salzstein and Cristina Ávila.
1994
24th São Paulo International Biennial, Brazil. Curated by Aguilar.
Bienal Brasil 20th Century, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1993
Meetings and Trends, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Agnaldo Farias and co-curated by Ricardo Resende.
National Contemporary Art Salon - Acquisition Award, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Collection, MAP - Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1992
Annual Exhibition of the Centro Cultural São Paulo - invited artist, Ibirapuera Pavilion, Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Sônia Salzstein and commissioned by José Leonilson.
Environment, Sub-District Commercial Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by João Manoel Sattamini
The Proof of the Nine, CEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Curated by Angelo Oswaldo.
1991
12th National Salon of Contemporary Art - Acquisition Award, Brasília, Brazil.
National Salon of Fine Arts IBAC / Funarte - Acquisition Award, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1990
22nd National Exhibition of Plastic Arts IBAC / Funarte - Grand Prize, MAP - Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
8th Salão Paulista / Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.
1985
18th São Paulo International Biennial - performance, Grupo Pagu. Brazil.
Main Awards and Participations
1991
Acquisition Award, IBAC / Funarte National Fine Arts Salon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Acquisition Award, National Salon of Fine Arts, Brasília.
1990
Grand Prize 22nd National Exhibition of Plastic Arts IBAC / Funarte.
MAP - Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte.
Main Collections
Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro - MAR, Brazil.
Itaú Cultural Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil.
Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro - MAM, Brazil.
Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói - MAC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Newton Paiva Foundation and University, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Padre Anchieta Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Brasilia, Brazil.
Chemical Bank, London, England.
Museum of Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo - MAC / USP, Brazil.
Usiminas, Belo Horizonte Brazil, Brazil.
Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Roquete Pinto Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil.
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
IBAC / Funart, Brazil.
Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil.
Clóvis Salgado Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Main Collections
AM Gallery, Belo Horizonte.
Anita Schwartz Gallery, Rio de Janeiro.
Luciana Brito Gallery, São Paulo.
Celma Albuquerque Gallery, Belo Horizonte.
Espace_L, Geneva Switzerland.
Graça Brandão Gallery, Lisbon Portugal.
Numerous private collections in Brazil and abroad.
Main Publications, Articles and Interviews
HERKENHOFF, Paulo Mulheres do Presente, clarity in the Shadows, 2016
HERKENHOFF, Paulo (artistic director MAR - Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro). NIURA BELLAVINHA, Rio de Janeiro, 2014/2015. Book. Publisher COBOGÓ
RUBIN, Nani (critic). About the individual In Torno da Luz, at Oi Futuro Flamengo, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro.
SARAIVA, Alberto (curator of Oi Futuro Flamengo). Niura Bellavinha, Rio de Janeiro, 2014. Book. Publisher NAU
LOPES, Fernanda (curator). Fluids and fixed - Água viva, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, 2010. Exhibition catalog.
DUARTE, Luiza (curator and art critic). Lusco-fusco, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, 2006. Folder of the exhibition.
MOURA, Rodrigo (curator of the Pampulha Art Museum). “Two lenses”, on the individual show Transformadores, at Galeria Manoel Macedo, Belo Horizonte, 2006. Catalog of the exhibition.
ASSIS, Júlio (critic). "Resonances of the world", about the individual show Transformadores, at Manoel Macedo Art Gallery, O Tempo, Belo Horizonte, 2005.
ARRUDA, Victor (visual artist). Interview about the individual show Infiltrations, at Galeria Arte 21, Rio de Janeiro, 2005. Catalog of the show.
CANONGIA, Lígia (curator and art critic). “The real as a painting”, about the performed painting À Linguagem - The measure of the impossible, in the Stables of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage; the Sabará-Mangueira exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, 2003; and the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, 2005.
FARIAS, Agnaldo (critic and curator). “Lights over painting”, about the individual IN OUT Translúcido, Paço das Artes, São Paulo; À Vida, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo; shows and urban interference Mirror Mobile, Museum and Lagoa da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, 2005.
SEBASTIÃO, Walter (curator and art critic). About the individual In Torno da Luz, Oi Futuro BH, State of Minas, Belo Horizonte, 2005.
SEBASTIÃO, Walter (curator and critic). “The prose of painting”, about the individual show Transformadores, Manoel Macedo Art Gallery, State of Minas, Belo Horizonte, 2005.
KLABIN, Vanda (curator of Encontro com Arte 2004). “Color as poetics of construction”, on Urban Interference and Mirror Mobile exhibitions, 2004.
ARAGÃO, Helena (journalist), “Water painted in the landscape”, about the exhibitions Urban Interference and Mobile Mirror, at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas and at Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
HIRSZMAN, Maria (critic). About the individual Sabará-Mangueira, at the Stables of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, State of São Paulo, São Paulo, 2003.
HIRSZMAN, Maria (critic). “Niura Bellavinha's sensory dive”, about the individual A Seco, Oca, at Galeria Nara Roesler, State of São Paulo, São Paulo, 2003.
NAMI, Daniela (critic). “Niura transforms architecture into painting”, about the individual exhibition Sabará-Mangueira, at the Stables of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
OSÓRIO, Camilo (curator and critic). “Niura Machado Bellavinha”, about the individual painting exhibition at Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea and the photo and video exhibition at Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
SILVA, Beatriz Coelho (critic and journalist). “Niura dyes Parque Lage red”, about the individual show Sabará-Mangueiram, at the Stables of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
FARIAS, Agnaldo (critic and curator), “Atelier in motion”, about the individual exhibition Sabará-Mangueira, at the Cavalariças of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Projeto Zona Instável, Rio de Janeiro.
HERKENHOFF, Paulo (artistic director MAR - Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro). “Painting with blood of stars”, about the individual Translúcidos-Sabarás, National Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, 2001.
MARTINS, Alexandra (journalist). “Niura Machado Bellavinha in double dose”, about the individual show Translúcidos-Sabarás, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, 2001.
SEBASTIÃO, Walter (curator and critic). “Articulated poems”, about the book of poems CLIPS, by Laís Corrêa de Araújo in partnership with Niura Machado Bellavinha, State of Minas, Belo Horizonte, 2000.
OLIVA, Fernando (critic). “Bellavinha reveals plenty of colors”, about the individual exhibition Particular, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, 1998.
WEISS, Ana (journalist). “Niura digs the paint to paint”, about the individual exhibition Particular, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, 1998.
ÁVILA, Cristina (historian). “The footsteps of passion in the eyes of Niura Bellavinha ou Noturno”, on the work Noturno [on the work Noturno], for the 1st Mercosul Biennial, and the individual ones… On the other hand…, Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, and Private, Millan Gallery, São Paulo, 1997/1998.
ÁVILA, Cristina (historian). “The eternal return of creativity”, about Niura Bellavinha's participation in the 1st Mercosul Biennial, O Tempo, Belo Horizonte, 1997.
EVALDO, Mokarzel (journalist). “Niura works the fragmentation of the end of the century”, about the artist's production and projects, State of São Paulo, São Paulo, 1997.
MILLEN, Manya (critic). “Canvas and silk bathed in red”, on the exhibition… On the other hand…, Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
RUBIN, Nani (critic). “The urgency of the red”, about the exhibition… On the upside…, Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
SEBASTIÃO, Walter (curator and critic). “Essays of the pictorial language”, about the individual… Ao Revés…, Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer, Estado de Minas, Belo Horizonte, 1997.
CUNHA, Alécio (critic). “Niura's flight”, about the individual See and Not See…, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the exhibition Treis Artistas Brasileiros, Cynthia Bourne Gallery, London, England, 1996.
FARIAS, Agnaldo (critic and curator). “Niura Bellavinha”, about the individual Ver e Não Ver…, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, 1996.
MAMMI, Lorenzo (critic). “Questions of painting”, about the series of paintings presented at the 22nd São Paulo International Biennial, Guia das Artes, São Paulo, 1994.
SALZSTEIN, Sônia (critic and art historian). “The vulnerability of form”, about the series of paintings presented at the 22nd São Paulo International Biennial, 1994. Catalog and book of the exhibition.
DUPRAT, Camila (critic and curator). “Niura Bellavinha”, about the individual Humano Imerso, Galeria Subdistrito Comercial de Arte, São Paulo, 1991.
GIANNINI, Sílvio (journalist). “Good, beautiful and cheap”, about the individual Humano Imerso, Galeria Subdistrito Comercial de Arte, São Paulo, 1991.
GUIMARÃES, Cao. “Humano Imerso”, about individual exhibitions at Galeria Subdistrito Comercial de Arte, São Paulo, and Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, 1990/1991.
FARIAS, Agnaldo (critic and curator). “Niura Sala Corpo”, about the Human Immersed exhibition, Sala Corpo de Exposições, Belo Horizonte, 1990.
OSWALDO, Angelo. “Despintura”, about the individual exhibition Humano Imerso, Sala Corpo de Exposições, Belo Horizonte, 1990.