Marcone Moreira Lives and works in Maraba (Brazil), b. 1982

Born in Pio XII, Maranhão, Brazil, 1982

Lives and works in Marabá, Pará

Marcone began experimenting with art at the end of the 1990s and has since taken part in various exhibitions throughout the country and abroad. His work encompasses various languages, including paintings, sculptures, videos, objects, photographs and installations.

 Marcone's work is related to the memory of worn materials impregnated with culturally constructed meanings, developing a working methodology in which the appropriation, displacement and symbolic exchange of materials is of interest.

 He has held the following solo exhibitions: ‘Fraturas’, Galeria Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro (2024) ; ‘Conjunção’ Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo (2020); “Exhaustos”, Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém (2018); ‘Linhas de Força’, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (2017); ‘Marcone Moreira’, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2016); ‘Território líquido’, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2015); ‘Peso à terra’, Galeria Blau Projects, São Paulo (2014); ‘Visualidade ambulante’, Funarte, Belo Horizonte (2012); ‘Banzeiro’, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo (2011); ‘Visualidade ambulante’, Baró Galeria, São Paulo; ‘Superfícies (2010)’, Galeria Lurixs, Rio de Janeiro (2010); ‘Vestígios’, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2006); “Vestígios”, Galeria Virgílio, São Paulo (2005); ‘Tráfego visual’, Galeria Graça Landeira, Belém (2003).

Group exhibitions include: ‘Bienal das Amazônias’, Belém-PA (2023); ‘Tanto Mar’, Espaço Santa Catarina, Lisbon (2020); “VAIVÉM”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (touring São Paulo, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte) (2019); ‘Jogos do Sul’, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro (2016); ‘Singularidades/anotações’ - Rumos Artes Visuais 1998-2013, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2015); ‘Das viagens, dos desejos, dos caminhos’, Vale Museum, Vitória (2014); Curitiba International Biennial (2013); ‘From the Margin to the Edge’, Somerset House, London; ‘Amazônia’ - Cycles of Modernity, CCBB, Rio de Janeiro (2012); ‘Os primeiros 10 anos’, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, both in São Paulo (2011); ‘Nova arte nova’, CCBB, São Paulo (2009); "Nova arte nova; ‘Os trópicos’, both at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and also at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin (2008); ‘Paradoxos Brasil’ - Rumos Visuais, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2006); ‘Desarranjos’, Museu do Marco, Vigo, Spain (2005); Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2003).

Marcone has received the following awards: PREAMAR de Arte e Cultura - Produção e Circulação. Secult-PA (2020); Research and Artistic Experimentation Grant, Casa das Artes, Belém (2018); Artist Residency Programme, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife (2014); Visual Arts Production Stimulus Grant, Funarte (2013); Marcantonio Vilaça Award, CNI/Sesi (2011); Marcantonio Vilaça/Funarte Award (2010); Bolsa de Pesquisa e Experimentação Artística, Instituto de Artes do Pará, Belém (2009); winner of the XV Salão da Bahia, Salvador (2008); Prêmio Projéteis de Arte Contemporânea, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro and winner of the Centro Cultural São Paulo Exhibition Programme (2007); Bolsa Pampulha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha (2005); Grand Prize at the XXII Salão Arte Pará (2003).

His works are in the following public collections: Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - MAM; Museu da Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém; Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia - MAM; Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Belo Horizonte; Centro Cultural São Paulo.