Beto Shwafaty

Solo and Duo Shows

2020 Silent Catastrophe, Dresden Kunstverein, Dresden, Germany (duo show)
2019 Beyond Archive, Care Of/Casa Blue Olivetti, Ivrea, Italy (duo show)
2019 Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing, Luisa Strina gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 Functional Park, Contemporary Art Museum, Niteroi, Brasil
2017 Functional Park, Funarte, Brasília, Brasil
2016 Positions, Art Basel Miami, USA
2016 Hablemos de Reparaciones, Prometeogallery, Milan, Italy
2015 Contract of Risk, Luisa Strina gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Foundations of the Design Substance: Cultural Metaphors to design a new future, City Museum of São Paulo – Oca Ibirapuera, Brasil
2014 Remediations, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 El Museo Imposible de las Cosas Vivas, PArC Lima, Peru
2011 Unpredictable Signs of Revolt, Lampione, Frankfurt, Germany
2011 The Impossible Museum of Living Things, The Office, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 CCSP anual program of exhibitions, São Paulo, Brasil
2006 Crossed references, Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
2004 What occupied the body, Ateliê Aberto, Campinas, Brasil

Group Shows

2023 Twopointzero, CasaNova Arte / C.A.M.A., São Paulo, Brasil
2023 From Ruins to Rebound, PINO/Casa Amelia, São Paulo, Brasil
2023 Here I am – Body, Landscape & Politics, National Museum of Republic, Brasília 
2022 Parade 7 – Art in Resistance, Helio Oiticia Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2022 50th Luis Sacilloto art show, Santo André, Brasil
2018 Territorio Común: Nuevas incorporaciones en la Colección MAMM, Colômbia
2018 Live Works festival, Centrale Fies, Ro, Italy
2018 38a EVA International, Limerick, Ireland
2018 Action Reaction – Arte Contemporáneo Brasileño, Brasil house, Madri, Spain
2017 We live in the best city in South America, Iberê Camargo Found., Porto Alegre, Brasil
2017 Memory and Moment, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brasil
2017 35th Panorama of Brazilian Art, Moderna Art Museum, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 Condemned to Be Modern, LAMAG, Los Angeles, USA
2017 So different so attractive, Carbono gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 Intermitent Topographies, Casa Nova Arte, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 66th Annual Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Curitiba, Brasil
2017 Permission to speak, Athena Contemporânea gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2017 Intermitent Topographies, Hilo Galeria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 MAC International prize, Belfast, North Ireland
2016 Homo Ludens, Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2016 Soft Power – Art Brasil, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2015 Mundo tal como es y el Mundo como podría ser, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 Colonial Enterpreise, Caixa Cultural, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 I was once lonelyness, Blain|Southern Gallery, Berlim, Alemanha
2015 Internacional Photo Festival,  Belo Horizonte, Brasil
2015 19th Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 1 (ONE), BFA Boatos, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 CFB: 25 years, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2015 Collection in Movement III, National Museum of Brasília, Brasil
2015 5th Sesi Marcantônio Vilaça Prize, MAC USP/Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 Crossings, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2014 Our Voice, Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Situações Brasília, Museu Nacional de Brasília, Brasil
2014 Autorship, Curatorship and Counter Reform, Estudio Razuk, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Permanent Playfulness, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Taipa Tapume, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Art and Heritage, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2014 The Artsit as…, Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Advertisers, Latitude digital platform, revista Select / ABACT, Brasil
2013 Conversation Pieces, NBK, Berlim, Germany
2013 Love and Hate to Lygia Clark, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013 33th Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
2013 9th Mercosul Biennial, Wheather Permiting, Porto Alegre, Brasil
2013 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, CCSP – Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brasil
2013 Mythologies by Proxy, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brasil
2012 Counter Bartering,Belo Horizonte and Recife, Brasil
2011 Mythologies, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2011 Strategies for Public Occupation, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Nova York, EUA
2011 Instant: Experience/Event, SESC Campinas, Brasil
2011 When in Rome, Malta Contemporary, Valleta, Malta
2011 OPEN 3, Sale Docks, Venice, Italy
2010 Comvideo, Apexart, New York, USA
2010 Shadowed by The Future, Cervantes Institute, São Paulo, Brasil
2010 Evasive, Penteado Gallery, Campinas, Brasil
2010 Urbaniform, Squat. Depot, Istambul, Turquia
2010 Urbaniform, Squat. Museum of the Brazilian House, São Paulo, Brasil
2009 3rd Utrecht Manifest, Social Design Biennial, Netherlands
2009 4a Bienal de Arquitetura de Rotterdam, urbaniform section, online
2009 Bookmarks, Magazine del Sale, Venice, Italy
2009 Public Turbulence, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
2009 Auf Wiesersehen Berlin! E-flux Building, Berlim, Germany
2009 Beauty, Bispo do Rosário Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2009 79>09, Contemporary Art Museum, Campinas, Brasil
2007 MARP 15 years, Art Museum de Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
2007 Contemporary Brazilian Printmaking, Pratt Institute, Nova York, EUA
2006 9th Havana Biennial, São Paulo territory: coletives of art, Havana, Cuba
2006 Rumos Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis, Brasil
2006 6th Goiás Art Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Goiânia, Brasil
2006 31th Annual Show, Museum of Art, Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
2006 Art Moviment, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2005 Mercosul Printmaking, Fundacion Caja Granada, Granada, Spain
2004 9th Santos Bienal, Santos, Brasil
2003 Printmaking goes well, thanks, Virgilio Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2003 35th Annual show, Piracicaba City Museum, Piracicaba, Brasil
2003 Printmaking goes well, thanks, Virgilio Gallery, 
São Paulo, Brasil
2002 Annual show, MACC – Campinas Contamporary Art Museum, Brasil

Education

2001 BFA Unicamp, Campinas 
2010 MA Curatorial Studies and Visual Arts NABA, Milano 
2011 Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2012 PIESP, São Paulo

Residencies

2018 Villa Vasilief, Paris, France
2017 Gasworks, London, UK
2016 Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colômbia
2015 Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2013 JA.CA residency, Nova Lima, Brasil
2012 RES-Ò: Eco & Narciso, Torino, Italy
2011 Other Possible Worlds, Casino Luxembourg

Prizes & Grants

2023 Museum is the World Prize, Brasil
2021 Kinoscope  (curatorial project), cultural relief aid, Brazilian Government (online)
2021 Silent Catastrophe, cultural relief aid, Brazilian Government (online)
2016 BMW Art Joruney (Nomination), Art Basel Miami Beach, USA
2015 ICCo/Sp-Arte Prize
2015 Foco Bradesco Art Rio Prize
2015 Functional Park, Contemporary Art prize Funarte
2014 Situations Brasília Prize, National Museum of Republic, Brasília, Brasil
2013 JA.CA Art and Technology Center, residency program grant, Nova Lima, Brasil
2013 Art and Heritage, IPHAN – Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2013 Graham Foundation exhibition grant, Chicago, EUA
2013 Artist book grant, PROAC/SP, São Paulo, Brasil
2013 The Artist as… ,10th Rede Nacional Funarte (curatorial project)
2012 Counter Bartering, 9th Rede Nacional Funarte, Brasil (curatorial project)
2012 II Mario Pedrosa Prize for essays in art, FUNDAJ, Recife
2011 Photo book grant, PROAC/SP, São Paulo, Brasil
2011 Procultura MinC
2010 Cultural Ministry of Brazil travel grant
2008 MA Scholarship, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milão
2006 Acquisition prize at 31st Annual Art Exhibition, Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
2003 Acquisition prize at 35th Annual Art Exhibition, Piracicaba Art Museum, Brasil
2002 Acquisition prize at Annual Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Campinas, Brasil

Lectures, Collaborations & others

2017 / 2023 New City Brasil, reviews for online magazine
2017 Flash art, reviews for online magazine
2016 School is Factory, Educational T-shirt, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2015 Recibo∆ Posters, editorial project developed by Traplev, Recife, Brasil
2013 The artsit as… (Curatorial Project), Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brasil
2012 Counter Bartering, (Curatorial Project), Belo Horizonte and Recife, Brasil
2011 Studio Visits blog (innitiated by Stefani Hessler) Goethe Institute, São Paulo, Brasil
2010 Silent City publication (a Diagram for a Possible Productive Resistance) London, UK
2010 Answering Machine (29th Sao Paulo Biennial), Capacete, São Paulo
2010 1st Curatorial Meeting (forumpermanente.org), São Paulo, Brasil
2010 Radical Intention, lecture on urban action in sao Paulo, Milan, Italy
2009 Utopia for Sale, collaboration with Archive Kabinnet, abc-def fair, Berlim, Germany
2009 Cosa sucede a…, talk on collaborative practices, Sestier house, Venice, Italy
2009 Jeux sans Frontier, curatorial project Other Discourses, CareOf, Milan, Italy
2008 Urban alterations (visual essay at making do magazine), London, UK
2009 Crossed References (visual essay), Itch  magazine, Johannesburgo, South Africa 
2009 Milanopoli, Collective Curatorial Project, NABAsite, Milan, Italy 

Collections

Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Kadist, San Francisco / Paris 
Kaviar Factory, Norway
MAMM Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia
National Museum of Republic, Brasília, Brasil
MACC Contemporary Art Museum of Campinas, Brasil
MAC Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói, Brasil
MARP Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
MAR Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
IPHAN Paço Imperial Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Casa de Las Américas, Havana, Cuba
Estampería Quinteña, Quito, Equador

Institutional Support

MINC Brasil / Funarte Brasil
PROAC São Paulo
RES-O Torino
Rumos Itau Cultural
Graham Foundation Chicago
City Museum of São Paulo
Mercosul Biennial
MAM São Paulo
Gasworks London
Pernord Riccard Foundation Paris
Lugar a Dudas Cali
ICCO SP Art
Foco Bradesco Art Rio