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Israel Da Costa

Serra da Carnaiba - Pindobacu, Bahia, Brazil

Israel Da Costa Oliveira, (Israel Da Costa) was born on January 24, 1969 in Quijingue, Bahia, Brazil...

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Israel Da Costa

Joined In 2010

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About the artist

Israel Da Costa

Joined In 2010

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(52 Followers)

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Israel Da Costa Oliveira, (Israel Da Costa) was born on January 24, 1969 in Quijingue, Bahia, Brazil.
l989, attended the Art Salon of Anapolis Art Museum, Goias, Brazil.
1989, exhibition in honor of Salvador Dali, Anapolis Art Museum, Goias, Brazil.
l990, a solo exhibition at Itau-Gallery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1990, participated in the XXIV GREMI of Inhumas, Goias, Brazil.
l994, performs a solo exhibition at the Cultural Telemig, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
l996, a solo exhibition at Gallery Frei Confalone in Goiania, Goias, Brazil.
2009, Art Basel Miami Beach. Exhibition of portraits of the Elaine Lancaster | FROM INGNUE TO MUSE. Miami Art Space 244 NW 35th Street, Miami, Florida . USA.

Israel Da Costa, January 24, l969, in the city of Quijingue, Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Today is an artist, Brazilian painter. Born into a family of evangelical Christians, the first son of Valdemar Martins de Oliveira, farmer. Having grandparents José Martins de Oliveira and Alexandrina Maria de Jesus, the mother of the artist Lourivaldo da Costa Oliveira, who was the daughter of Paulo Celestino da Costa, farmer and political Alzenor Celestina de Abreu. He spent the first years of life on a farm of his maternal grandfather Paulo Celestino da Costa, the District of Tatu, the city of Quijingue, Bahia, Brazil. In the mid 70's, the artist's family moved to the small town of Filadelfia, State of Bahia, on the trip saw it and put the images in memory and some time later reproduced in the drawings, were the first works of the future artist . In the early '80s, due to financial difficulties he was facing his father became a dealer in emeralds, influenced by the news of the discovery of a deposit of emeralds in Goias, his family moved to a town in the savannah near a mining emeralds, where his family began to earn a living. In l986, he traveled to Sao Paulo, where he visited the MASP, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, visits to museums were fre...

Israel Da Costa Oliveira, (Israel Da Costa) was born on January 24, 1969 in Quijingue, Bahia, Brazil.
l989, attended the Art Salon of Anapolis Art Museum, Goias, Brazil.
1989, exhibition in honor of Salvador Dali, Anapolis Art Museum, Goias, Brazil.
l990, a solo exhibition at Itau-Gallery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1990, participated in the XXIV GREMI of Inhumas, Goias, Brazil.
l994, performs a solo exhibition at the Cultural Telemig, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
l996, a solo exhibition at Gallery Frei Confalone in Goiania, Goias, Brazil.
2009, Art Basel Miami Beach. Exhibition of portraits of the Elaine Lancaster | FROM INGNUE TO MUSE. Miami Art Space 244 NW 35th Street, Miami, Florida . USA.

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