Stenio Oliveira: Morphologies, Cosmogenesis and Expanded Painting

Stenio Oliveira is a Brazilian visual artist whose practice investigates the fantastic, erotic and spiritual through a language that moves between the pictorial and the sculptural. Holding a degree in Visual Arts from PUC-Campinas and a Master's in Architecture and Lighting from Instituto IPOG in partnership with the Politecnico di Milano, the artist develops a singular research into cosmogenesis, chromatism and organic morphologies.

A Practice Between the Pictorial and the Sculptural

His creations — sculptures, object-paintings and expanded paintings using multiple materials — resemble organic morphologies and explore the idea of visceral amalgams. Stenio's work resists classification; it is better understood as inhabiting multiple themes and contexts simultaneously, revealing and guiding the viewer toward an existential subterranean world, often hidden or dormant.

BACTÉRIAS — Expanded Painting. Stenio Oliveira.

International Presence

With solo and group exhibitions in São Paulo, Campinas, Barcelona, Miami and Lisbon, Stenio Oliveira's work is held in the collections of Fundação Marcos Amaro, Galerie Bruno Van Caelenberg (Belgium) and Museu Olho Latino. In 2021, he participated in Art Basel Week in Miami with an exhibition at the Red Dot Fair. In 2022, his work was featured in the book

Gramática de Resistencia by critic and curator Andrés Isaac Santana, published by Spanish publisher Aduana Vieja and launched in Madrid with the presence of Tayana Pimentel (Director of Museo MARCO, Monterrey) and León de la Barra (Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao).

Representation & Collections

• The House of Arts — Miami (represented by Jade Matarazzo)

• Galeria MAD Marvilla — Lisbon

• Galerie Bruno Van Caelenberg — Aalst, Belgium

• Fundação Marcos Amaro / Museu FAMA — Itu, Brazil

• Museu Olho Latino — Itatiba, Brazil

For information on acquisitions, exhibitions and institutional partnerships, contact: art@steniooliveira.com