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Felipe Cohen

1976, São Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

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Felipe Cohen’s practice develops from the tension between the traditional and contemporary ways of displaying the artistic object and the study and revisiting of recurrent problems in art history in order to reinterpret and update their meanings in the present. This tension occurs through the articulation of noble materials and everyday objects, creating paradoxical forms that are forced to closely interact, as well as new symbolic updates of classic signs and genres in a dialectic process.

Felipe has a degree in Drawing and Sculpture from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil, he has had solo exhibitions at Millan, in 2013, 2016 and 2019; Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo, 2013; at the Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo, 2006, among others.

Among his participations in group shows are Earth and Sky, SMoCA, Scottsdale, USA, in 2023; Tempo Imenso, Casa de Cultura do Parque, São Paulo, in the same year;  Pinacoteca: acervo, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2020; Passado/Futuro/Presente: Arte contemporânea brasileira no acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, MAM, São Paulo, 2019; Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA and Troposphere, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China, both in 2017; Geometria Afetiva, SESC Bom Retiro, São Paulo, 2016; Deserto-Modelo “as above, so below”, Harold St. Gallery, London, England, 2015; Ouro – um fio que costura a arte no Brasil, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, and Imagine Brazil – Artists Books, Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon, France, 2014, and Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, 2013; 8th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, 2011; Nouvelles de São Paulo, L’École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France, 2009.

He was nominated to the PIPA Prize in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2016, he also was a forerunner for the Prêmio CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça, in 2011. He won the Award illy SustainArt, at ARCO, Madri, Spain, in 2016; Atos Visuais – Funarte, Brasília in 2007, and the Fiat Mostra Brasil, São Paulo, in 2006. His works are featured in the collections of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo;  MAM, São Paulo and  MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro.

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