Ricardo Ab Pereira

Born in 1961, in Recife, Pernambuco - Brazil, Ricardo A. B. Pereira graduated in Painting from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EBA-UFRJ). At the same university he did his master's and doctorate in Visual Arts (History and Art Criticism). As a professor of painting at EBA-UFRJ, he has diversified work in the fields of painting, woodcuts and ceramics, having held over 25 individual exhibitions and numerous collectives. He has works in private collections in Brazil and abroad, having received several awards throughout his career. Her favorite themes are directly related to Afro-Brazilian culture, ancestral arts, myths, fantasy, folklore and Brazilian popular culture, but lately she has been working on transcendental themes related to planetary changes and contacts with extraplanetary civilizations and other spatiotemporal dimensions. He works with several techniques in his paintings, highlighting the combination of oil paint with wax paste and traditional encaustic. In engraving, his favorite technique is woodcutting. In ceramics he produced vases, plates and sculptures, coloring his pieces with engobes and sometimes enamelling them. His art has its own identity, recognizable in its various creati...

SUMMARIZED CURRICULUM
Ricardo A. B. Pereira - Plastic Artist - Born in Recife - PE - Brazil, in 1961.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
Bachelor of Painting - School of Fine Arts (EBA) - UFRJ - 1991; Woodcut Workshop - EBA / UFRJ; Ceramics Workshop - EBA / UFRJ; Stamping Workshop - EBA / UFRJ; Lithography Workshop - EBA / UFRJ; Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art - EBA / UFRJ; National Seminar on Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art - IEPHA - Ouro Preto - MG, III National Seminar on Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art - ABRACOR / FUNDARP - OLINDA - EP - 1986; 180 EBA Seminar - Graduation EBA / UFRJ - National Museum of Fine Arts / RJ - 1996.

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES: Doctor in Visual Arts - History and Art Criticism (completed in July 2021); Master in Visual Arts - History and Art Criticism (completed in August 2012).

MAIN INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2019 - "Dream Tropical" - Cultural Space Pintor M. D. Gotlib – Copacabana – RJ.
2017 – “Tropical Reveries” – Calouste Gulbenkian Arts Center – RJ.
2015 – “Exhibition-Head” – Cultural Space Pintor M. D. Gotlib – Copacabana – RJ.
2014 - “Afro-Brazilian People” – Federal Justice Cultural Center – RJ.
2012 - “O Sentido da Terra” - Solar Jambeiro - Niterói - RJ.
2009...