Dandara Catete
About
Dandara Catete
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives & works in Rio de Janeiro and Madrid
Graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University. Works with household and other objects of intimacy and daily life, exploring possibilities for poetic readings of the quotidian.
Parallelly, also organizes the arts & music festival Jardim Suspenso, in a favela in Rio.
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Education
2019 | Comunidad de Madrid research group "En los márgenes del arte: Ensayando comunidades" (Madrid)
2011 - 2015 | Wesleyan University (CT-USA)
2009 - 2011 | Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (RJ-Brazil)
Grants & Awards
2015 | Jessup Prize for promise in the field of Visual Arts.
2016 | Favela Criativa - Residência Artística e Mostra de Artes Jardim Suspenso
Exhibitions
2020
Lenta Explosión de una Semilla - OTR Espacio de Arte (Madrid)
2019
Mi barrio de los sueños – Taller educativo, Papelería Librería Pencil (Madrid)
Residencia Tabacalera Cantera – Tabacalera Promoción del Arte (Madrid)
Dandara Catete en #vitrina – marcablanca (Madrid)
VOTOX ¡Que viene la ultraderecha! - Exposición colectiva, ABM Confecciones (Madrid)
NO EXPO XXL – Exposición colectiva, ABM Confecciones (Madrid)
2018
Latin Reconquista: La colonia Contraataca - ABM Confecciones (Madrid)
Lo que permanece oculto - OTR Espacio de Arte (Madrid)
Visual Research Network, University of Manchester
2011-2016
Creative Director - Jardim Suspenso Residency and Festival
(Rio de Janeiro)
2015
Amorfo, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (CT-USA)
2014
Novas Poéticas, UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro)
CALLE+Art, Lavapiés (Madrid)
2013
Where were you? Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (CT-USA)
Overlay, Davison Art Center (CT-USA)
2012
Curral, The Black Square Gallery (Rio de Janeiro)