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

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Her work articulates artistic practice and critical investigation around landscape, displacement, and the poetics of space. De Bonis' holds a PhD in Arts from São Paulo State University (UNESP), where her thesis developed a hybrid methodology combining travel writing, photography, site-specific observation, and theoretical reflection. Her research situates contemporary artistic practice in dialogue with Land Art, phenomenology, and the historical construction of landscape, examining how movement, monumentality, and territory operate as both aesthetic and epistemological structures.

 

Professionally active as a visual artist, her production unfolds through notebooks, drawings, sound recordings, photographs and paintings, that emerge from processes of walking and geographic displacement.  She explores transformation, absence, and the passage of time, often focusing on fragile and transitional states (such as the decay of flowers) as a way to reflect on human perception, memory, and ecological awareness. She investigates how art can mirror the cycles of growth and loss present in nature.

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Bridging academic rigor and artistic experimentation, her trajectory is marked by the integration of theory and practice, positioning travel and attentive observation as critical tools for rethinking landscape as lived experience, symbolic construction, and artistic field.

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below a list of places I've 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)