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Born in São Paulo, SP (1960), where she lives and works, Renata Amaral has a degree in advertising and since 2010, curious and self-taught, she has explored ceramics as an artistic modality. Deepen and enrich your artistic processes on trips, symposiums, workshops and artistic residencies. Remarkable experiences with Doug Casebeer and Peter Beasecker, in Curaumilla, Chile and work with the Japanese master Sensei Kenjiro Ikoma, who mainly influences his firing process and artistic expression within the wabi sabi concept, centered on simplicity, transience and beauty of imperfection .
Renata's artistic research is aimed at exploring and building, based on the potential of materials and processes, such as clay, different firing process, works of art that travel across different territories and dialogue with current concepts. The contemporary look at ceramics allows you to break barriers and explore new artistic research. Their cocoons, flowers immortalized in porcelain and refugees carry, in themselves, the archetype of crossing and transience: from one “place” to another, from one “state” to another. Such works encapsulate, at the same time, fragility and hope for the future. They express the promise of renewal.
My search for expression through clay is an ongoing investigation of its malleability and potential. I explore its roughest texture by mixing stones and sand, as well as liquid porcelain when I seek fluidity and delicacy.
The need to establish human connections is the essence of my work in the search to provoke deep reflections, transcending the material to explore the core of the human experience. This manifests itself both in the sculptural representation of refugees, highlighting their pain and challenges, and in silent protests for the preservation of nature by immortalizing flowers and fruits with liquid porcelain.
Main Participations in Events
2025
The Feminine in Art - Oposta Inventive Space, Limeira - Sao Paulo, Brazil
2024
Touching the Earth Exhibition - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo Brazil
III Black Biennial - Correios Cultural Center - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Decolonizing - Galeria Casa Odisseia - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Unraveling Oceans - Pinacoteca de Botucatu, SP, Brazil
Totem of Colors - Socorro - SP, Brazil
SP Ocean Week - Memorial da América Latina, SP, Brazil
2023
Overflow - Decade of the Oceans - Frontaria Azulejada, Santos - SP, Brazil
Ceramics in Love - Castellamonte - Italy
International Ceramic Art and Culture Exchange, Zibo, China
XVI International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics of Aveiro - Portugal
2022
5th International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina, Buenos Aires
Matres Festival Internazionale della Ceramica Femminile, Cava di Tirreni, Italy
Ceramists from Brazil — virtual exhibition https://issuu.com/cibelenakamura/docs/catalogovirtual_ceramistasbrasil
2021
VI Ceramic Universe, Online Exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2020
Dressing Ceramics 2, Galeria Espaço Arte, Cultura e Design, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Underground Art Laboratory, Campinas - SP -Brazil
Capullo International Exhibition - Cocoon Habitat Transformer online, Italy
1000 Vases, Galerie Joseph, Paris
Art Resistance Exhibition at CasaExpo Gallery, São Paulo
2019
Metamorphosis Exhibition at the Pinacoteca de São Bernardo do Campo SP, Brazil
1st Ceramic Symposium, Sheki, Azerbaijan
Main Awards
2024
Installation Award 2024 MITC Totem das Cores International Exhibition in Socorro, SP, Brazil
2022
1st place V International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina, Buenos Aires
3rd place Ceramists of Brazil
2021
2nd place at the VI Ceramic Universe Exhibition, SP, Brazil
2018
2nd place in the III Ceramic Universe Exhibition, SP, Brazil
2017
Honorable Mention II Ceramic Universe Exhibition, SP, Brazil
Honorable Mention XXXI Art of Life Exhibition – British Cultural Center, SP, Brazil
Works in Collections
São Bernardo do Campo art gallery, Brazil
Private Collections of Maria Bonomi and Yaskara Jaeger
Li Zi Yuan Art Center, Zibo, China
Publications
Ceramic Transgressions Book, 2021 (ISBN: 978-65-99396-0-0)
Portfolio
Contact Info
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Emailrfamaral1@gmail.com
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Phone+5511982573717
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