Marcelo Guimaraes Lima

Marcelo Guimarães Lima, PhD, MFA,is a visual artist (drawing, painting, printmaking), writer and teacher. He directs the Núcleo de Artes do Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Armando de Oliveira Souza (São Paulo). He taught History of Art and Studio Art at the University of Illinois (USA), Goddard College (USA), American University in Dubai (UAE); and, as visiting faculty at, among other institutions, the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), Universidad Internacional de Andalucia (Huelva, Spain), Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), DePaul University (USA), Canadian University of Dubai (UAE).
As a Fulbright recipient he worked at the art studios of the University of New Mexico. He was a visiting artist/scholar at Stanford University and at Rutgers University. He has published articles and essays in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish on themes related to contemporary art, the history of art, art education and public art, philosophy and psychology of art. He has directed community based art projects (drawing, mural painting) with native groups, youth and minorities in Brazil, Spain and the US.
His works can be seen in private collections in Brazil, the US, Spain, France and the UAE; and in public collections such as the Museu de Arte...

PhD History of Art, University of New Mexico, USA; MFA, University of New Mexico, USA; Bachelor, Department of Philosophy, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Post-Doctoral degree, Department of Philosophy, UNiversity of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Selected exhibitions
2012 On Paper: Dale Chihuly, Alex de Fluvia, Marcelo Guimarães Lima and Samer Taba,
Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2011 The Imagination of Disaster, Total Arts Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2010 Marcelo Lima, Drawing Space, Metasenta, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2010 MIND - Made in Dubai, DUCTAC, Dubai, UAE
2009 That Fleeting Moment DUCTAC, Dubai, UAE
2008 Here and Elsewhere, Rewak Art Gallery, University of Sharjah, UAE
Villa 111, Creek Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
1995 Arte Latino in Chicago, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Gary, IN, USA
Urban Art / Arte Urbana, Courtyard Gallery, Chicago Theological Union, USA
Marcelo Lima, Prints and Monotipes, Brazilian American Cultural Institute,
Washington, DC, USA
1994 Taller Mexicano de Grabado, Chicago, Las Artes, Omaha, NK, USA
Symposium on Human Rights in Guatemala, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Marcelo Lima and John Weber, SSU Gallery, Springfield, Illinois, EUA
1992 Representations, SSU Gallery, Springfield, Illinois, USA
Marcelo Lima: Prints and Drawings, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1990 Bienal de Amadora, Amadora, Portugal
1989 De Bonnard a Basel...