Renata De Bonis is an artist and researcher born in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Her work brings together artistic practice and critical research around landscape, displacement, and the poetics of space. De Bonis holds a PhD in Processes and Procedures of Contemporary Art from São Paulo State University (UNESP), where she developed a methodology combining travel writing, photography, site observation, and theoretical reflection. Her research places contemporary art in dialogue with Land Art, phenomenology, and the historical construction of landscape, exploring how movement, monumentality, and territory shape both perception and knowledge.

 

De Bonis investigates landscapes, plants, sounds, and material traces as living archives. Through walking, listening, field research, and artistic experimentation, her work explores how non-human forms of memory reveal histories of movement, transformation, adaptation, and time that exceed human scales of perception. Her paintings explore transformation, absence, and the passage of time, often focusing on fragile and changing states (such as the decay of flowers, the sun and the moon), to reflect on memory, perception, and ecological awareness. Through painting, she engages with the cycles of growth and loss present in nature.

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Bringing together academic research and artistic practice, her work positions travel and careful observation as ways of rethinking landscape as both lived experience and symbolic construction.

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below a list of places she showed work and showed up to research and produce new work.

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Selected Artist Residencies

• L21 Gallery Residency, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2022)

• B.A.D. Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2019)

• Cultureland, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018)

• In-Ruins Residency, Archaeological Park of Scolacium, Borgia, Italy (2018)

• Cripta 747, Turin, Italy (2017)

• Pivô Arte Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brazil (2016)

• Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop, Germany (2015)

• RedBull Art Residency, São Paulo, Brazil (2014)

• NES – Nordic Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2013)

• JTHAR – Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, California, USA (2009)

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Mirror, Mirror, Lamb Gallery, London, UK (2024)

• Touch, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2023)

• The Time and Place That We Part, Lamb Gallery, London, UK (2022)

• Sono Leve, aurora, São Paulo, Brazil (2021)

• Vento Sul, Galeria Superfície, São Paulo, Brazil (2021)

• Aurora, Giorgio Galotti, Turin, Italy (2017)

• Norte, Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP), São Paulo, Brazil (2014)

• Uma Pedra por Dia, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014)

• Old Country, Paço Municipal de Porto Alegre, Brazil (2010)​

 

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Selected Exhibitions in Museums & Major Institutions

• Identidades: 22&22&22,  Farol Santander, São Paulo, Brazil (2022)

• Conversas em Gondwana, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil, (2019)

• FUTURuins, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy (2018)

• Elements, Neues Kunstahaus, Ahrenshopp, Germany (2018)

• Goethe Institute Weimar Kuntursymposium, Germany (2016)

• 3rd Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay (2016)

• Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapore (2016)

• Arte Atual Festival, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2016)

• Narrativas Poéticas, Museu da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil (2014)

• Os primeiros dez anos, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2011)

• Prêmio EDP – Energias na Arte, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2009)

• Arte e Cinema pelos posters, MIS – Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil (2012)​

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Awards ​

• Penny for your Thoughts, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL (2022) 

• Scholarship award:In-Ruins Residency, Archaeological Park of Scolacium, Borgia, Italy (2018)

• A.R.M. Art Research Map Prize, DAMA, Turin (2018)

• NES / Künstlerhaus Lukas Exchange Fellowship, Ahrenshoop, Germany (2015)

• Acquisition Prize, 35th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon, Brazil (2007)