Marina Perez Simão

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b. 1980, Vitória, Brazil

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Marina Perez Simão has developed a working process rooted in the accumulation and juxtaposition of memories and images.

Combining personal experiences with multiple references, which she filters through pictorial means that defy predefined language, Simão integrates thematic density with delicate treatment in a practice that encompasses painting, watercolor, textiles, and drawing.

Embracing “painting where words fail,” the artist produces works alive with movement, color, and light. She merges interior and exterior landscapes, composing visual journeys that traverse the abstract and the nebulous as well as visions and memories. Simão often draws from natural and geographical phenomena, using layers of paint to capture the shifting light over land and seascapes as well as sources of metaphysical light rooted in place, memory, and process. Beginning with sketches, which she develops into watercolors, the artist slowly builds up the structures that form the basis of her paintings. Each series is loosely interconnected, with the works existing both independently and as part of a larger network.

Important one-artist exhibitions of Simão’s work include Marina Perez Simão: Our dog-eyes, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2018); Marina Perez Simão: Éveils Maritimes, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2020–2021); Marina Perez Simão: Observatory, Sifang Museum, Nanjing, China (2021–2022); Marina Perez Simão: 5 Paintings, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022); Marina Perez Simão: Onda, Pace Gallery, London (2022); Marina Perez Simão: Watercolors, Cahiers d’Art, Paris (2022–2023); Marina Perez Simão, Villa Era, Vigliano Biellese, Italy (2023); Marina Perez Simão: Solanaceae, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); and Marina Perez Simão: ZWIELICHT, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany (2024–2025).

Simão’s work is held in numerous public collections worldwide, including Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Long Museum, Shanghai; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, France; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; and Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Untitled/Sem título by Marina Perez Simão — Marina Perez Simão, *Untitled/Sem título*, 2023, oil on linen, 200 cm × 246 cm (78-3/4" × 8' 7/8") © Marina Perez Simão

Untitled by Marina Perez Simão — Marina Perez Simão, *Untitled*, 2024, oil on linen 19-11/16" × 15-3/4" (50 cm × 40 cm) © Marina Perez Simão

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One-Artist Exhibitions

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Born 1980, Vitória, Brazil

Lives and works in São Paulo

Education

MFA, École Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle, Paris
BFA, École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris (ENSBA)

2024

Marina Perez Simão: Diffusion, Mendes Wood DM Paris, October 14–November 23, 2024.

Marina Perez Simão: ZWIELICHT, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany, September 27, 2024–March 2, 2025.

Marina Perez Simão: Solanaceae, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, January 20–March 2, 2024. (Catalogue)

2022

Marina Perez Simão: Watercolors, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, December 7, 2022–February 7, 2023.

Marina Perez Simão: Onda, Pace Gallery, London, September 7–October 1, 2022.

Marina Perez-Simão: 5 Paintings, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, April 2–May 29, 2022.

2021

Marina Perez Simao: Observatory, Sifang Museum, Nanjing, China, November 6, 2021–February 28, 2022.

Marina Perez Simão: Tudo é e não é, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, April 2–24, 2021.

2020

Marina Perez Simão: Éveils Maritimes, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, October 10, 2020–January 16, 2021.

2018

Marina Perez Simão: Our dog-eyes, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, February 23–March 25, 2018.

2016

Miniature - Disegni di Marina Perez Simão, Galleria Cândido Portinari, Embassy of Brazil, Rome, July 7–29, 2016.

2015

Marina Perez Simão: travel journal of uncataloged landscapes. location/date 3006AHK/200 years before 200 years later, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, February 28–March 28, 2015.

2012

Marina Perez Simão: Holzweg, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, March 3–31, 2012.

2010

Marina Perez Simão: If it’s dream make it real. If it’s real make it dream, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, June 12–July 20, 2010.

2009

Marina Perez Simão: black birds, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, France, September 19, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Catalogue)

Marina Perez Simão: Drawings, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, January 16–March 14, 2009.

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Group Exhibitions

Marina Perez-Simao Group Exhibitions

2024

Art Week Tokyo Focus: Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, November 7–10, 2024.

Alchemists, Pond Society, Shanghai, November 7–December 17, 2024.

Pace Tokyo: Special Preview, Pace Gallery, Tokyo, July 6–August 9, 2024.

2023

PRESENT '23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, June 8, 2023–Spring 2024.

Tropic of Cancer, Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, February 9–March 12, 2023.

Bonna: The Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 3–11, 2023.

2022

Multiple Sights: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, November 13, 2022–February 5, 2023.

Calor Universal, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, July 2–17, 2022.

Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction, Part I: The Gestural, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York, March 3–April 9, 2022.

2021

Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious of Body Work, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, September 10–October 23, 2021.

Silence, Pace Gallery, Geneva, September 3–October 30, 2021.

2020

Sonia Gomes / Marina Perez Simão, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, September 3–27, 2020.

EnormousBalls, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium, June 13–July 18, 2020.

Landscapes of the South, Mendes Wood DM, New York, January 30–April 30, 2020.

2019

Veredas, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil, November 23, 2019–January 24, 2020.

2013

Voir est une Fable - Chambres à part VIII, La Réserve, Paris, October 22–27, 2013.

2012

23°33’42′′_46°40’09′′, Galerie TORRI, Paris, January 14–February 18, 2012.

2010

Father, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil, September 11–December 18, 2010.

Promenade Project, Galleria delle Colonne, Parma, Italy, June 24–August 8, 2010.

2009

Fragile - Lands of Empathy, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, France, May 16–August 16, 2009. Traveled to: L'Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome, October 2009, and Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea, December 22, 2009–March 21, 2010. (Catalog)

2008

Drawings, New Moment Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2008.

Offerings, Mendes Wood DM Projects, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2008.

Meditations Biennale of Poznań, Poland, October 3–30, 2008.

2007

Micro Narratives. Tentations des Petites Réalités. Temptation of Small Realities., Museum of History Yugoslava, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007. Traveled to: Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France, May 7–September 21, 2008. (Catalogue)

2006

Artskool Goz South, Galerie Artcore, Paris, 2006. Traveled to: Galeria do Palacio (Palacio do Cristal), Musée de la Ville de Porto, Portugal, April 22-May 22, 2006.

Marina Perez Simão
Public Collections

Marina Perez Simão Public Collections

The Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Balanz Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Blenheim Art Foundation, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, United Kingdom

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China

The Ekard Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Fosun Art Foundation, Shanghai, China

Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida

K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong

Longlati Foundation, Shangai

Long Museum, Shanghai

The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

MARe – Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, Romania

MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, France

Olivia Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island

Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sifang Museum, Nanjing, China

Marina Perez Simão
Books

Marina Perez Simão Bibliography: Books

2024

Marina Perez Simão: Solanaceae (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Kimberly Drew and Brittany Richmond. New York: Pace Publishing, 2024.

2022

Marina Perez Simão. Texts by Diana Campbell, Osman Can Yerebakan. New York and São Paulo: Circle Books; Mendes Wood DM, 2022.

2009

Marina Perez Simão: Black Birds (exhibition catalogue). Milan and Saint-Étienne: Silvana Editoriale and Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, 2009.

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Periodicals

Marina Simao Perez Periodical Bibliography

2024

Armstrong, Annie. “Splurge on a Marina Perez Simåo Painting, or Invest in a Patrick Eugène and Pocket the Difference? An Advisor Weighs In” (Pace Gallery and Mariane Ibrahim exhibition reviews). Artnet News, 24 January 2024. https://news.artnet.com/market/marina-perez-simao-patrick-eugene-sarah-calodney-2421680.

Bush, Annie. “Marina Perez Simåo | Destructive Limitations of the Know” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Flaunt, 29 January 2024. https://www.flaunt.com/post/marina-perez-simao-destructive-limitations-of-the-known.

Carollo, Elisa. “A Mix of Emerging and Established Work Is Leading Phillips’ Summer Auctions in London.” Observer, 20 June 2024. https://observer.com/2024/06/phillips-summer-auctions-london-modern-contemporary/

Carollo, Elisa. “Observer’s Guide to the Must-See Shows During Paris Art Week” (Mendes Wood DM exhibition review). Observer, 15 October 2024. https://observer.com/2024/10/must-see-museum-gallery-shows-during-paris-art-week/

Halperin, Julia. “Marina Perez Simão's Paintings Won't Stop Growing in Size” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Cultured Magazine, 6 February 2024. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/02/06/marina-perez-simao-pace-gallery-show.

“Marina Perez Simão: Solanaceae” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Arte Realizzata, 5 February 2024. https://www.arterealizzata.com/exhibition-showcase/marina-perez-simo-solanaceae.

Mejía, Paula. “The Biggest Gallery Shows to See in LA during Frieze Week” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). ARTnews, 26 February 2024. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/biggest-gallery-shows-2024-frieze-la-1234697567/nora-turato-at-spruth-magers/.

“Pace opens an exhibition of immersive paintings by Marina Perez Simão” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). ArtDaily, 26 January 2024. https://artdaily.com/news/166015/Pace-opens-an-exhibition-of-immersive-paintings-by-Marina-Perez-Sim-atilde-o

2023

Basciano, Oliver. “Brazilian painter Marina Perez Simão's bold and beguiling worlds.” Art Basel, 22 May 2023. https://www.artbasel.com/stories/marina-perez-simao-art-for-the-future-clientearth-gallery-climate-coalition?lang=en

Kazakina, Katya. “High-Flying Charity Auctions Help the Causes the Art World Supports. But Who Do They Actually Benefit?” Artnet News, 10 February 2023. https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/high-flying-charity-auctions-help-the-causes-the-art-world-supports-but-who-do-they-actually-benefit-2251133

2022

Angeleti, Gabriella, Chinma Johnson-Nwosu, José da Silva and Osman Can Yerebakan. “The must-see exhibitions celebrating Brazilian art on the country's bicentennial” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Art Newspaper, 6 September 2022. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/06/must-see-brazilian-art-exhibitions-bicentennial

Judah, Hettie. “Marina Perez Simaño: Onda at Pace London” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Studio International, 22 September 2022. https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/marina-perez-simao-onda-review-pace-london

Luo, Shuyin. “The first Frieze Seoul VIP opens a new international channel for the Asian art market.” Artron, 3 September 2022. https://m-news.artron.net/news/20220903/n1980689.html

“Meet Art in Countryside, Art Tour in the Hamptons, New York.” Lotte Hotel Magazine, 2 May 2022. https://www.lottehotelmagazine.com/en/art_culture_detail?no=548

Piejko, Jennifer. “What Is It About Brazilian Artist Marina Perez Simão’s Dreamlike Landscapes That Is Driving Collectors Bananas Right Now?” Artnet News, 21 March 2022. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marina-perez-simao-profile-2085643

Simão, Marina Perez. “In the Studio with Marina Perez Simão" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Interview with Sofia Hallström. Émergent Magazine, 14 September 2022. https://www.emergentmag.com/interviews/marina-perez-simao

Simão, Marina Perez. “Marina Perez Simão: ‘I Never Work When I’m Sad’” Interview with Emily Steer. Elephant, 5 September 2022. https://elephant.art/marina-perez-simao-i-never-work-when-im-sad-05092022/

Yerebakan, Osman Can. “What Sold at Frieze Seoul 2022.” Artsy, 6 September 2022. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-sold-frieze-seoul-2022.

Yunqi, Huang. “Basel in Hong Kong under the global transition shows the new changes in the art market.” The Art Newspaper, 26 May 2022. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5f600Hrklvad40S_uV3I6Q

2021

D’Souza, Aruna. “Galleries, 'Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious Body of Work'” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 1 October 2021: C15. Web version: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/design/art-gallery-shows-to-see-right-now.html

D’Souza, Aruna. “Galleries” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 30 September 2021: C15. Web version: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/design/art-gallery-shows-to-see-right-now.html

Durón, Maximilíano. “10 Works That Sold at This Year’s Frieze London.” ARTnews, 14 October 2021. https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-news/photos/frieze-london-2021-sales-highlights-1234606937/

Felsberg, Kaylie and Beatrice Sapsford. “10 In-Demand Works on Artsy This Week: August 12, 2021.” Artsy, 12 August 2021. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-in-demand-works-artsy-week-08-12-21

Fontaine, Pearl. “Marina Perez Simão Captures the Ambiguous Nature of Life” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Whitewall, 5 April 2021. https://whitewall.art/art/marina-perez-simao-captures-the-ambiguous-nature-of-life/

Gerlis, Melanie. “The Art Market: AR art appeals; Foundation warns of Josef Albers forgeries; war-torn artists at Sotheby’s; Pace signs Brazilian painter.” Financial Times, 14 January 2021. https://www.ft.com/content/68fcb0fb-63f7-46a3-b66d-e432b16e12da

Glimcher, Marc and Youngjoo Lee. "Pace Gallery.” Interview with Editors. Noblesse Korea, June 2021: 49–55, illustrated.

Hodkin, Jeremy. “How Marina Perez Simão Achieved Global Success in a Pandemic Year.” Artsy, 7 April 2021. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-marina-perez-simao-achieved-global-success-pandemic-year/

Howie, Jamie. “7 Must-See Gallery Exhibitions in New York This September” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Galerie, 17 September 2021. https://galeriemagazine.com/must-see-gallery-shows-september-2021/

Mitchell, Rory. “artmonte-carlo: Art Fair Highlights: Marina Perez Simão and Sonia Gomes.” Ocula, 14 July 2021. https://ocula.com/advisory/perspectives/artmonte-carlo-art-fair-highlights/

Morales, Carolina. “Quem é Marina Perez Simão, a brasileira que expõe em Nova York na pandemia” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Folha De S.Paulo, 28 March 2021. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2021/03/quem-e-marina-perez-simao-a-brasileira-que-expoe-em-nova-york-na-pandemia.shtml

Ologundudu, Folasade. “Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results Are Refreshing” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artnet News, 9 September 2021. https://news.artnet.com/opinion/christiana-ine-kimba-boyle-2006877

“Pace Gallery Announces Global 2021 Spring and Summer Program.” Art & Object, 9 February 2021. https://www.artandobject.com/press-release/pace-gallery-announces-global-2021-spring-and-summer-program

Rees, Lucy. "Marina Perez Simão’s Fantastical Landscapes Cause a Stir at Pace" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Galerie Magazine, 15 April 2021. https://www.galeriemagazine.com/marina-perez-simao/

"Sifang Art Museum: Marina Perez Simão 'Observatory'" (Sifang Art Museum exhibition preview). World Art Foundation, November 2021. https://www.worldartfoundations.com/sifang-art-museum-marina-perez-simao-observatory/?v=7516fd43adaa

Simão, Marina Perez. "It is not a boat, it is just a mountain… In the end who cares?" Interview with Borderless. Borderless, 2021. https://www.border-l-e-s-s.com/it-is-not-a-boat-it-is-just-a-mountain

Solomon, Tessa and Alex Greenberger, Claire Selvin, Maximiliano Duron. “ARTnews in Brief: Pace Gallery Now Represents Marina Perez Simão—and More from January 14, 2021.” ARTnews, 11 January 2021. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news-january-2021-week-2-1234581168/

The Canvas. "How Marina Perez Simão Achieved Global Success in a Pandemic Year" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artsy, 7 April 2021. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-marina-perez-simao-achieved-global-success-pandemic-year

Villa, Angelica. “15 Works That Sold at This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach.” ARTnews, 1 December 2021. https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-news/photos/sales-highlights-2021-art-basel-miami-beach-1234611676/

Volchkova, Valentina. “6 Questions: Valentina Volchkova, Head of Pace Gallery, Geneva.” Interview with LUX. LUX, August 2021. https://www.lux-mag.com/6-questions-valentina-volchkova-pace-gallery/

2020

Bittencourt, Ela. “In Sonia Gomes’s Hands, Textiles Evoke Resilience” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 2 September 2020. https://hyperallergic.com/585578/sonia-gomes-new-york-debut-pace-gallery/

Langlois, Jill. “Fabrics with Powerful Stories to Tell” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 28 August 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/arts/design/sonia-gomes-brazil-art.html

Mazzucchelli, Kiki. “April is the Cruellest Month.” [Originally written as press release for Mendes Wood show that was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic], April 2020.

Mitchell, Rory. “Spotlight: Sonia Gomes’s Alchemical Sculpture” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Ocula, 15 September 2020. https://ocula.com/magazine/insights/spotlight-sonia-gomes/

Palumbo, Jacqui. “Sonia Gomes Crafts Bold Textile Works from Strangers’ Treasures” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artsy, 26 November 2020. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-sonia-gomes-crafts-bold-textile-works-strangers-treasures

Segal, Mark. "The Art Scene 09.03.20: Brazilian Artists at Pace" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). East Hampton Star, 3 September 2020. https://www.easthamptonstar.com/arts/202093/art-scene-090320

Terrebonne, Jacqueline. "Next Big Things: Marina Perez Simão." Galerie Magazine, 18 December 2020. https://galeriemagazine.com/next-big-things-marina-perez-simao/

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