Artur Rios

Since his childhood, he has been involved in art, deciding to become a professional after graduating from university. Focuses on painting on canvas, his poetics coming from his experience with the fauna where he grew up in the interior of Bahia, his collection of images of wild animals that he admired, and his quest for self-knowledge, so that he currently contextualizes his work with terms Jungians influenced by his graduate degree in Art Therapy. His usual work essentially dialogues about the instinctual condition, questions about environmental invasion, the human place, animal symbolism and an ode to life. The artist's subliminal intention is that the viewer makes the perception of the painting significantly human and that the term “inhuman” loses its bad connotation.

In 2009, Artur Rios was chosen to the contest ‘’Ed, o tal’’, for your individual exhibition ‘’Partículas Subatômicas’’ in the Theatro XVIII, in Salvador (BA). Participated in many collective exhibitions, among them two editions of Salões de Artes Visuais da Bahia de 2014: Camaçari and Paulo Afonso, being awarded in this last one, and posteriorly participated of the award winners of the Salões de Artes Visuais da Bahia in MAM, in Salvador (BA). He was organizer, curator e exhibitor of the collective exhibiton “Almotolia’’, in 2014, in BAHVNA, Salvador (BA). In 2015, he participated in the contest Circuito das artes with two artworks. Participated in an individual exhibiton “Zoomorfismo” in Sobrado, Teresina – PI, in 2017. In 2018, he made his individual exhibition “Pulsões à deriva” in Sesc Caixeiral, in Parnaíba – PI. In 2020, he made an individual exhibiton in the cinema Sala de Arte da UFBA in Salvador - BA. In 2021, his work “Epidermal flirting” was selected to the SEAF (Seattle Erotic Art Festival) in USA.