Stenio Oliveira (Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, 1986) is a Brazilian visual artist. He lives and works between Campinas and São Paulo.

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Oliveira's practice investigates how the invisible processes that shape human experience can assume material form. Working across expanded painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, he develops a multidisciplinary body of work that brings together the body, the unconscious, memory, eroticism, spirituality, psychoanalysis, and cosmological thought. Through this approach, textiles, pigments, resins, organic materials, and found objects cease to function as mere supports and instead become a language in themselves.

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Conceiving matter as a living and responsive organism, his work seeks to render perceptible the forces, affects, and symbolic systems that traverse existence. Occupying a hybrid territory between the pictorial and the sculptural, Oliveira creates organic landscapes and poetic organisms that investigate transformation, perception, and lived experience, inviting viewers into encounters where the artwork no longer represents the invisible but materializes it.

Oliveira holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUC-Campinas) and a Master's degree in Architecture and Lighting Design from the Consorzio Politecnico di Milano. His career has developed across Brazil, Europe, and the United States.

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His major solo exhibitions include Primitividade (Primitivity, São Paulo, 2018); Morfologias Sensórias (Sensory Morphologies, Casa de Vidro, Campinas, 2020), curated by Andrés I. M. Hernández; and O Erótico do Azul (The Eroticism of Blue, ATAL Gallery, Campinas, 2024), curated by Cecília Stelini. In the latter exhibition, his research reaches a significant synthesis by bringing together body, matter, desire, and spirituality, approaching eroticism as both a vital force and a symbolic dimension of human experience.

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His work has been exhibited in Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and the United States, including presentations at the Barcelona International Awards Gallery, Feira PARTE, the Mostra Museu project in partnership with the Covid Art Museum, the Red Dot Miami Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Week, and the exhibition Find Your Emotions in Lisbon.

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His practice was examined by critic and curator Andrés Isaac Santana in the book Gramática de Resistencia (Aduana Vieja, Madrid, 2022), featuring essays by Tayana Pimentel (MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey) and León de la Barra (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao).

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Oliveira's work is held in public and private collections, including the Fundação Marcos Amaro (FAMA Museum), Galerie Van Caelenberg (Belgium), the Museu Olho Latino, the Centro Campineiro de Artes e Folclore, the Department of Culture of Americana, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Campinas.