Education: MFA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, U.K., 2006-2008
School of Visual Arts, Parque Lage, Brazil, 2004- 2005
Margaret Mee Botanical Artist Scholar, Royal Botanic Garden Kew, UK, 1998-1999
Bachelor of Industrial Design, P. U. C. University, Rio Janeiro, Brazil, 1990-1994
Honors/ Awards:
Acquisition Prize, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil, 2007
Artist-in-Residence, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ., USA, 2001
Margaret Mee Botanical Artist Scholar, Royal Botanic Garden Kew, UK, 1998-1999
Several others from 1981 to 1988 including a Gold, a Silver and two Bronze medals
Collections:
Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil
Museum of Natural History – London, UK
National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian, USA
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, USA
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, USA
Dr. Sergio Fadel, Brazil
Dr. Shirley Sherwood, UK
The Zoological Society of London, UK
Le Meridien Hotel, Brazil
And numerous private collections in Brazil, USA, UK, Portugal, Switzerland, Canada and Australia
One-Person Exhibition(s):
BCN Bank Cultural Room, Rio de Janeiro, 2002H. Stern Cultural Room, Rio de Janeiro, 2000Herbarium and Cambridge Cottage Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Kew, 1999Le Meridien Hotel, Rio de Janeiro,1994
Recent Major Group Exhibition(s):
Goldsmiths MFA Show, London, UK, 2008
Museum of Modern Art Bahia, Bahia, Brazil, 2007
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London, UK, 2007
Celeste Art Prize, London, UK, 2007
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2006
New York State Museum, Albany, N.Y., USA, 1998, 2002 and 2004
The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, Connecticut, USA, 2004
Interview for TV:
Sergio Allevato, Almanaque 25 minutes’s Program, Globo News – Cable Channel 40,Brazil 2002