Richard Brandão

Richard Brandão (b. 1980, Montes Claros, Brazil) is a Brazilian visual artist whose practice investigates the tensions between presence, interruption, and the instability of the image. Working across a wide range of materials — watercolor, acrylic, oil, gouache, colored pencils, and pastels — Brandão approaches each medium not as a stylistic shift but as a conceptual strategy to question how images emerge, dissolve, and negotiate space.

His work moves fluidly between abstraction, geometry, figuration, and portraiture, yet all his series share a common core: revealing what usually remains hidden in visual structures — noise, gaps, interruptions, and fractures. Whether through layered chromatic fields, rhythmic linear constructions, or portraits marked by psychological tension, Brandão examines how identity and visual perception are built, obscured, or destabilized.

Self-taught since the age of twelve, he later deepened his research with an MBA in Art History, expanding his engagement with contemporary theory and curatorial discourse. He has participated in several editions of the Luxembourg Art Prize, receiving nominations and international recognition.

Brandão's work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Fortaleza (Ceará) and...

Universidade de São Paulo
Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Prizes

2017
Talentos Fenae - Nominated- Minas Gerais, Brazil
2016
Talentos Fenae - Second prize- Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Solo exhibitions

2018
Preview / Ceará - Fortaleza, Brazil
2017
Vivacidade / São Paulo - Santos, Brazil
2017
Galeria Eykones / São Paulo - Santos, Brazil