Tatiana Blass Lives and works in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo (Brazil), b. 1979

Tatiana Blass, 1979 - São Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo, Brazil

Graduated in Fine Arts from Universidade Estadual Paulista. Tatiana Blass makes paintings, videos, sculptures and installations. She began to develop her work in 1998, when she began to participate regularly in salons, studio shows, group and solo exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. Blass took part in the 29th São Paulo International Biennial. She was a finalist for the Nam June Paik Award in Germany. She was awarded the ‘Grants & Commissions’ programme by the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami. In 2011, she won the PIPA Prize by popular vote and jury vote for her work as a whole. As part of the prize, she took up an artistic residency at Gasworks in London. In 2013, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in the USA commissioned ‘Electrical Room’, a new video installation. In 2014, she was invited by the 3.14 Stiftelsen Foundation in Bergen to take part in an artist's residency in Norway.

Since 2007, she has had four solo exhibitions at Galeria Millan, as well as at the Johannes Vogt Gallery in New York, with which she has participated in solo projects at the ArtBo fairs in Bogotá, Zona Maco in Mexico City and Arco Madrid. Her solo exhibitions include: in 2011, ‘Penélope’, an installation at the Morumbi Chapel in São Paulo, and the installation ‘Fim de partida’, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Centre in Rio de Janeiro. ‘Cão cego’ (2009), at the Bahia Museum of Modern Art; ‘Zona Morta’ (2007), at the Maria Antonia University Centre, in São Paulo; in 2003, III Mostra do Programa de Exposições, at the São Paulo Cultural Centre and an exhibition at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, in Recife.

Group exhibitions include: "Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil‘ (2014), at the Wexner Centre in Columbus, Ohio; ’Avante Brasil‘ (2013), at Kunst im Tunnel in Dusseldorf, Germany; ’Terceira Metade" (2011), at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and the 17th Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil; 14th Bahia Salon‘ (2007), at the Bahia Museum of Modern Art, where it received the acquisition prize; ’Geração da Virada‘ (2006), at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo; ’Paradoxos Brasil - Rumos Artes Visuais 2006‘, held at Itaú Cultural in São Paulo; ’Vitrine_Algodão" (2018), at the Celma Albuquerque Gallery in Belo Horizonte. ‘Mais dia, menos noite’, Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte (2022). ‘Nó’, SESC Palladium, Belo Horizonte (2023)