About Davis Lisboa
Davis Lisboa was born in São Paulo, Brazil (1965), and moved to Barcelona in 1987. In 1989 he opened his own painting and illustration studio and in 2005 he began to hold exhibitions in art galleries, cultural centers and museums. Davis Lisboa has studied Visual Communication at the ETE Carlos de Campos (São Paulo), Painting at the Center d'Art i Disseny Escola Massana (Barcelona) and has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona. In 2009, he created the Davis Museum | The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, a work of art and cultural entity recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya, now expanding his activity towards cultural management.
He has participated in several exhibitions, including Museum Show at Arnolfini (Bristol, England), Eleven: The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) 10 Year Retrospective at The Harn Museum of Art (Gainesville, USA) and at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery (Fort Myers, USA), Remix - 10 years in the mix at the Spor Klübü (Berlin, Germany), Small, Unusual and Specialist Museums Survey at the CRATE Studio and Project Space (Margate, England), Aquí y Ahora 6 - "Power, corruption & lies" at the Galería Blanca Soto (Madrid, Spain), VI Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea di Firenze (Italy), Holland Art Fair (The Hague), among others. His works are in the Artists Space (New York, USA), Biblioteca de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), The Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) Machynlleth (Wales), MuBE, Museu Brasileiro de Escultura e Ecologia (São Paulo, Brazil), Museo de Arte do Parlamento de São Paulo (Brazil), SAL Art Gallery, CW Post Campus of Long Island University (Brookville, USA), The Yellowstone Club (Big Sky, USA), among others.
Since finishing his studies he has focused on investigating the concept of museums created by artists, a narrative that has as precedents Marcel Duchamp (La Boîte-en-valise), Robert Filliou (Galerie Légitime) and Marcel Broodthaers (Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles).
Events:
Artists Space, New York, USA.
Biblioteca de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
FluxMuseum, Texas, USA.
Fundação Cultural Badesc, Florianópolis, Brazil.
Galeria Transparente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Galerii Epicentrum, Miejskiego Osrodka Kultury Sportu i Rekreacji w Chelmku, Chelmek, Poland.
Harddiskmuseum, Valencia, Spain.
John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA), Gainesville, USA.
LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, USA.
La Erreria (House of Bent), Xátiva, Spain.
MACC, Museo de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas, Brazil.
MoFAI, Museum of Failed and Abandoned Ideas, Bratislava, Slovakia.
MOMA Wales, Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales.
MuBE, Museu Brasileiro de Escultura e Ecologia, (São Paulo, Brazil)
Museo Microcollection, Busto Arsizio, Italy.
Museu de Arte do Parlamento de São Paulo, Brazil.
Museum of the Sub-conscious, Okandukaseibe, Namibia; Tel Aviv, Israel; La Candelaria, Argentina, Houston, USA; Wiesbaden, Germany.
SAL Art Gallery, CW Post Campus of Long Island University, New York, USA.
The Alejandro Vásquez Herrero Collection, Viladecans, Spain.
The Francesc Torres Collection, Barcelona, Spain.
The Geert De Kegel Collection, Zele, Belgium.
The Yellowstone Club Collection, Big Sky, Montana, USA.
Walpole Bay Hotel Museum and Napery, Margate, England.
Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
2017
La galerie légitime 2.0. Curated by Manuel Minch, Internet Moon Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
2015
Should museums celebrate elections? Curated by Francesca Brusa & Costanza Sartoris, Archive Box Museum. Zurich, Switzerland.
2011
The Aesthetic of Charge, MKAC, Museo Karura Art Centre. Second Life.
2009
Hybrid-visiolibri. La Cova de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain.
Hybrid-farrago. Sala de Arte Alteroutlet, Barcelona, Spain.
Davis Museum: Exhibition of the permanent collection of contemporary art by Davis Museum, MKAC, Museo Karura Art Centre. Second Life.
Què hem de fer amb l'art dels nou vinguts? Centre Cívic Josep M. Trias i Peitx. Barcelona, Spain.
2007
BMW by Davis. BMW Ibérica, Madrid, Spain.
BMW by Davis.BMW Cano Catalunya. Sant Cugat, Spain.
BMW by Davis. Performance and exhibition. BMW Cano Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
2006
Locus quod Filiolus. Galería San Vicente 31, Seville, Spain.
Locus quod Filiolus. Sala per a exposicions, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. Spain.
2003
12 Autoretrats. Sala per a exposicions, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. Spain.
1984
Firasse. Galeria Art Brut. São Paulo, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Aquí y Ahora, “Power, Corruptions & Lies”, (6th edition), with María Alcaide, Pablo Bellot, Clément Carat, Alvaro Chior, Jennifer Custodio, Julio Falagán, Urtzi Ibargüen, Davís Lisboa, Céleste Rogosin, Estela Sanchís, Amélie Scotta y Valcárcel Medina. Galería Blanca Soto, Madrid, Spain.
Espacio f. Collective Mail Art exhibition, CentroCentro,. Madrid, Spain.
For Real. Petra Varl and Elisa Bollazi, participation in The Microcollection Archive. ArtHelix Art Gallery, New York, USA.
2016
Dendrogram Tree-Kit | Davis Museum | Laboratori Social Metropolità. With Catarina Leitão, Davis Lisboa and curated by Anna Recasens. La Nau Sud, NauEstruch. Sabadell, Spain.
Galeria Transparente: Showroom. Curated by Frederico Dalton, Galeria do 2º Andar, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2014
Beyond Limits: Postglobal Mediations. In collaboration with Miho Shimizu & Øyvind Renberg (Danger Museum). Curated by Ginger Shulick and Denise Carvalho, San Diego Art Institute. California, USA.
Eleven: The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) 10 Year Retrospective. Curated by Sean Miller, with Sergio Vega, Saya Moriyasu, Arnold Mesches, Galen Olmsted, Tea Makipaa, Chip Lord, Gregory Green, Ben Patterson, Yoko Ono, Closed Gallery, Brendan Jamison, Davis Lisboa. The Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Encapsulados (Wunderkammer). Curated by Juan Cuéllar Costa, Casa Sotoa.. Málaga, Spain.
Eleven: The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) 10 Year Retrospective. Curated by Sean Miller. With Art Guys, Oliver Herring, Chip Lord, and Tea Mäkipää, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Gregory Green, Jim Drain, Andrea Robbins, Max Becher, Sergio Vega, Arnold Mesches, John Feodorov, Kristin Lucas, Connie Hwang, Davis Lisboa, Brendan Jamison, Kevin B. Chen, Saya Moriyasu, Derrick Buisch, Bethany Taylor, John Kieltyka, Kim Anderson, Kelly Cobb, Aideen Doran, Galen Olmsted, Cyriaco Lopes, Miguel Martin, Craig Miller, Deirdre Power, Paraic Leahy, LuLu LoLo, and others. Bob Rauschenberg Gallery. Florida, USA.
2013
Incubarte, Festival Internacional de Arte. Curated by Javier Marisco, Centro del Carmen. Cultura Contemporània. Valencia, Spain.
The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, Homeostasis Lab Pavilion. Curated by Julia Borges & Guilherme Brandão. São Paulo, Brazil.
Remix – 10 years in the mix. Davis Museum and Danger Museum, Spor Klübü. Berlin, Germany.
Small, Unusual and Specialist Museums Survey. Curated by Sacha Waldron. With Bill Burns, Andy Warhol, Lenka Clayton, Matthew de Pulford, Paul Hazelton, Betts Robinson, Victoria Adam, Bridgette Ashton, Nicole Ward, Benedict Drew (Courtesy of the artist and Matts Gallery, London), Michael Crowe and Anna Clawson. CRATE Studio and Project Space. Margate, England.
Fast Film "Here and gone in 60 seconds. Participation in the Sean Miller's exhibition. Davis Museum LACDA, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Los An
