Isa Toledo
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17 SEPTEMBER 2021 - 9 NOVEMBER 2021
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Isa Toledo (b. 1990, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice encompasses painting, text-based work, video and performance, with an ongoing interest in found language, domestic objects and the textures of everyday life.
Toledo has been represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, since 2021, with whom she participated in ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon. Her solo exhibitions at the gallery include No Words, Casa Commedia and Pick a Card Any Card.
In Portugal, her work has been presented in various institutional and independent contexts. Her solo and commissioned installations include a project at Mupi Gallery, Porto, a window display at Livraria STET, Lisbon, and a solo public art project in downtown Lisbon.
Her work is part of the Portuguese State Collection.
She has participated in group exhibitions at Galeria Quadrum, Kubik Gallery, and Zaratan, Lisbon. She has also presented performance work at Casa do Comum, Lisbon. Internationally, Toledo has exhibited at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, New York; HVW8 Gallery, Berlin; Fotopub, Slovenia; and Maison de la Poésie, Paris. Between 2020 and 2022, she developed a series of short films for the Smuggler agency and in 2023, she presented the performance Autorretrato at Central 1926, São Paulo, directed by Felipe Hirsch.
Toledo has a degree in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art, London, and a master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She co-founded ButchCamp, a visual archive and project that explores camp aesthetics, featured in publications such as Dazed, i-D, Teen Vogue, and New York Magazine.
Her work is featured in the following collections: Museu do Chiado, Serralves Foundation, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal, EDP Foundation, Coleção António Cachola and also the Coleção Banco Privado. She received the Prémio União Latina prize in 2001.From the principles of assemblage, intervened appropriation and abstract construction, the artist creates objects that appeal to the careful reading of their own processes, surprise and intrinsic nature. Isolated or conceived for dialogues in the space, they have the presence and the tactile appeal of sculpture, but also the resourcefulness of drawing and the intriguing challenge of their latent symbolic reference.
She has participated in group exhibitions at Galeria Quadrum, Kubik Gallery, and Zaratan, Lisbon. She has also presented performance work at Casa do Comum, Lisbon. Internationally, Toledo has exhibited at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, New York; HVW8 Gallery, Berlin; Fotopub, Slovenia; and Maison de la Poésie, Paris. Between 2020 and 2022, she developed a series of short films for the Smuggler agency and in 2023, she presented the performance Autorretrato at Central 1926, São Paulo, directed by Felipe Hirsch.
Toledo has a degree in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art, London, and a master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She co-founded ButchCamp, a visual archive and project that explores camp aesthetics, featured in publications such as Dazed, i-D, Teen Vogue, and New York Magazine.
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
Isa Toledo (b. 1990, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice encompasses painting, text-based work, video and performance, with an ongoing interest in found language, domestic objects and the textures of everyday life.
Toledo has been represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, since 2021, with whom she participated in ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon. Her solo exhibitions at the gallery include No Words, Casa Commedia and Pick a Card Any Card.
In Portugal, her work has been presented in various institutional and independent contexts. Her solo and commissioned installations include a project at Mupi Gallery, Porto, a window display at Livraria STET, Lisbon, and a solo public art project in downtown Lisbon.
Her work is part of the Portuguese State Collection.
Artist Bio
Artist Bio
"My life sometimes feels like one long relay race between obsessive hobbies and so-called ambition. When at first I decided “I’m going to write”, I ended up spending all my time painting, so when I thought “right, I’m going to paint”, I spent all my time making little dub videos, then I thought “ok then, I’ll focus videos”, so naturally I started drawing again…"
Isa Toledo in interview for aupres-aupres.com
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