Beth Jobim Lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), b. 1957

Elizabeth Jobim, 1957, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

 Lives and Works in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Elizabeth Jobim was born in 1957 in Rio de Janeiro, where she studied drawing and painting with Anna Bella Geiger, Aluísio Carvão and Eduardo Sued. She graduated Visual Communication in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in 1981.  She then specialized in Brazilian art and architecture history from 1988 to 1989. And from 1990 to 1992, she studied for a Master´s degree in plastic arts in the New-York Visual Arts School.  She taught at the Lage Parc’s School of visual arts’ Drawing and painting Workshop in Rio de Janeiro, between 1994 and 2010. Among her many exhibits the most notable are: The National Plastic Arts Room, at the Modern Art Museum (Rio de Janeiro, 1982/1983); Como vai você Geração 80? (How are you doing Generation 80s?) , at the Lage Park (Rio de Janeiro, 1984); Rio hoje (Rio today), at the Modern Art Museum (Rio de Janeiro, 1989); Panorama da arte atual brasileira (Panorama on current Brazilian art), at the Modern Art Museum (São Paulo, 1990); Selections from the MFA Program and Range, at the Visual Arts Gallery (Nova York, 1992); Influência poética: dez desenhistas contemporâneos (Poetic Influence: ten contemporary drawers), Amilcar de Castro and Mira Schendel, in the Imperial Palace (Rio de Janeiro, 1996); Brasil arte contemporânea brasileira  (Brazil contemporary brazilian art), in the National Fine Art’s Gallery  (Beijing, China, 2001); O espírito de nossa época (The spirit of our Time): Dulce e João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz’s collection, at the Modern Art Museum (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 2001); Caminhos do contemporâneo (Pathways of the Contemporary) – 1952/2002, in the Imperial Palace (Rio de Janeiro, 2002) and the 5th Mercosul Bienal (Porto Alegre, 2005); Aberturas (Oppenings), in the Imperial Palace (Rio de Janeiro, 2006);  Endless lines, at the Lehman College Art Gallery (Nova York, 2008) exihibit simultaneous with the installation: Sem fim (Endless), at the Lurixs Contemporary Art (Rio de Janeiro); Voluminous, at the Frederico Sève Gallery, (New-York, 2009); Em azul (In Blue), at the Estação Pinacoteca, (São Paulo, 2010); Art in Brasil 1950-2011 - Europalia 2011, at the  Palais des Beaux-Arts, (Brussels, 2011); Mineral, at the Lurixs Contemporary Art (Rio de Janeiro, 2012); e Forma e Presença (Form and Presence), at the Simões Assis Art Gallery (Curitiba, 2013), Aproximações Contemporâneas (Contemporary Approximation),  at the Roberto Alban Art Gallery (Salvador, 2013); Blocos (Blocks), In Rio de Janeiro’s Modern Art Museum and in the Art Gallery Celma Albuquerque (Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, 2013). Blocos, at the Modern Art Museum (Rio de Janeiro, 2013); Bloco B, no Oi Futuro (Rio de Janeiro, 2015); Arranjo (Arrangement), at the Raquel Arnaud Gallery (São Paulo, 2016); In This Place, Henrique Faria Fine Art (New-York, 2017). She has artworks in public collections such as the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro, MAM São Paulo, São Paulo’s State Pinacoteca and the Bronx Museum of the Arts.