Flavia Bertinato Lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), b. 1980

Flávia Bertinato, 1980, Pouso Alegre, MG, Brasil.

Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.

Flávia Bertinato earned a BA in Fine Arts from IA / UNESP and a Master's in Visual Arts from ECA / USP. The artist currently is a Ph.D. student at UFMG Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte). The artist participated in the FAAP Artistic Residency Programme , São Paulo (2020) and in the Artistic Residency Program/Bolsa Pampulha at the Museu de Arte da Pampulha, MAP, in Belo Horizonte (2013). Flávia Bertinato awarded the Prêmio CCBB Contemporâneo, CCBB, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, in Rio de Janeiro (2015) and was artist nominated to PIPA Prize (2020).In 2020 she participates in the International Residency Program HANGAR Artistic Research Center (Lisbon). 

Her work has been shown in both group and solo exhibitions  in art galleries, museums and institutions, such as Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, CCBB Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, CCSP Centro Cultural São Paulo, MARP Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Pedro Manuel-Gismonti, Celma Albuquerque Galeria de Arte, Museu de Arte da Pampulha and Palácio das Artes (Fundação Clóvis Salgado). 

From a wide range of materiality and transpositions in the symbolic field, Flávia Bertinato has been exploring in her paintings, photographs, installations, and sculptures, matters about ways of social interaction, the boundaries between the notions of public and private spaces, intimacy, anonymity and allegorical constructions that problematizes the female gender.