Vitor Sugimoto

The impermanence is the core of my artistic practice. During walks in the city I collect discarded, leftovers and lost items – something in which established rules, symbology, function or connotations are already gone. I try to manipulate them and transform their function to unveil new ways of seeing them. I believe the function and context that circles those items suggest an atrophication of seeing and, in these new visual manifestos, they can open new dialogues.

Vitor Sugimoto (b.1986) holds a BFA from Unicentro Belas Artes de São Paulo and earned a MA in art theory and critic from Universidade de São Paulo in São Paulo in 2015. He lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

2007 – BFA, Unicentro Belas Artes de São Paulo, São Paulo – Brazil
2015 – MA, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo – Brazil

Solo Exhibitions
2016 – Short Lives, Centro de Cultura Raul de Leoni, Petropolis – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Group Exhibitions
2019 – 47th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon, Paço Municipal, Santo André, São Paulo
2018 – Em torno da arte – acervo de Andrés Hernández, Campinas – SP
2016 – 15th Guarulhos Contemporary Art Salon, Guarulhos, São Paulo
2014 – London Calling 014, Factory-Art Projects, London

Awards
2019 – Artwork Acquisition Award. 47th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon. Paço Municipal, Santo André, SP. Jury panel: Cauê Alves (curator), Claudio Cretti (artist) and Laura Belém (artist).

Collections
Collection of Santo André Town Hall, Santo André - SP