Raul Mourão

Raul Mourão, 1967, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New York, USA.
Raul Mourão is an artist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1967. He studied at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage and nowadays lives and works in New York and Rio. He presents his work in solo and group exhibitions since 1991. His works, build with diverse materials, develop a plastic vocabulary with elements of the urban visuality dislocated from their usual context. Among them there are references to sport, architecture, bars and public works signs.
In 2010 he started his kinetic sculpture series that were exhibited in the following solo exhibitions: Tração Animal, at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Homenagem ao Cubo, at Lurixs Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro; Processo, at Studio X, Rio de Janeiro; Toque Devagar, at Praça Tiradentes, Rio de Janeiro; Balanço Geral, at Atelier Subterrânea, Porto Alegre; Cuidado Quente, at Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo; and Chão, Parede e Gente, at Galeria Lurixs, Rio de Janeiro. And also at the group exhibitions Projetos (in)Provados, at Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro; Ponto de Equilíbrio, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; Mostra Paralela 2010, at Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, São Paulo; Travessias, at Centro de Arte Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro; and From the Margin to The Edge, Sommerset House, London. As a curator and producer he organized solo exhibitions of Fernanda Gomes, Cabelo, Tatiana Grinberg, Brigida Baltar and João Modé, among others, and the group exhibitions Travessias 2 (Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro), Love’s House (Hotel Love’s House, Rio de Janeiro) and Outra Coisa (Museu da Vale, Vila Velha). He served as editor of the art magazines O Carioca and Item. He was also the general coordinator of the multimedia show FreeZone, which reunited artists of many fields under the curatorship of the poet Chacal, in Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Porto Alegre and São Paulo. Along with Eduardo Coimbra, Luiza Mello and Ricardo Basbaum he created and directed the gallery and film production studio AGORA, which operated in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, between 2000 and 2002. There are works of his at the following collections: Itaú Cultural – São Paulo, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Museu de Arte do Rio, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, ASU Art Museum and Brazil Golden Art. In 2005 Raul published the book ARTBRA by Casa da Palavra Editions and in 2011 the book MOV by Automatica Editions.