Emerging Artist Award
Maria Noujaim (b. 1986) is a Brazilian artist, graduated in Dance from the Angel Vianna School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and holds a Ph.D. in Social History of Culture from Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work starts from movements conformed between sculpture and language, with researches about form and poetry. From a practice that arises in the body, it carries its own spatiality through the use of materials and drawings.
She is been recently expanding her practice through pedagogical exercises and the work with interpreters, who carry out the performances from reading a score system. She held the solo show “Restarts: four beginnings” at Jaqueline Martins Gallery (São Paulo) and has participated in group shows in independent and institutional spaces, such as Observatório (São Paulo), Change-Change (Budapest), Casa França-Brasil (Rio de Janeiro), SESC 24 de maio (São Paulo) among others. In 2018 and 2019, she was nominated for the PIPA Prize (Brazil).
Photo courtesy of the artist.
A Look Inside:
Born │
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1986. Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
Education│
Ph.D. in Social History of Culture, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2020) | Masters in Art History, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014) | Technical Degree in Contemporary Dance, Angel Vianna Dance School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2012)
Selected Exhibitions│
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Restarts: four beginnings”, Jaqueline Martins Gallery. São Paulo, Brazil (2018).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Poetical/Political Body”, Portas Vilaseca Gallery. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2020) | “Festival Novas Frequências”, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019) | “Deslocal", Olhão Space. São Paulo, Brazil (2019) | “Beginning of the century”, Jaqueline Martins Gallery. São Paulo, Brazil (2019) | “Comigo ninguém pode”, Jaqueline Martins Gallery. São Paulo, Brazil (2019) | “The Unstable Hour”, Bruno Murias Gallery. Lisboa, Portugal (2019) | “Performance Laboratory”, Social Service of Commerce (SESC) 24 de Maio. São Paulo, Brazil (2018) | “Lá Fora”, Casa França-Brasil. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016).
