Thiago Barbalho

Biography

Born 1984, Natal, Brazil

 

2010

Studied Law, University Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 

2007

MA in History of Metaphysics, University Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

2005

BA Philosophy, University Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil 

Solo Exhibitions
2025

Chants, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London, UK 

2024

Secrets and spells, Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
Cacimba Nova, Casa de Cultura do Jardim do Seridó, Jardim do Seridó, Brazil 

2022

Depois que entra ninguém sai, Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019

Correspondência, Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil

2018

Thiago Barbalho, Kupfer Project Space, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2023

Phantom Dance: Thiago Barbalho and Theodore Ereira Guyer, Elizabeth XI Bauer, London, UK

2022

Mapa da estrada novas obras no acervo da Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2021

Electric Dreams, Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019

Rocambole, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal

2018

AVAF, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Rocambole, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
Hecatombe, Galeria Sancovsky, São Paulo, Brazil 

2017

Voyage, Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo, Brazil
Shadows & Monsters, Gasworks, London, UK 

2016

Casa Plana, São Paulo, Brazil 

Awards & Residencies
2025

Further On Air International Residency, New York, USA

2019

PIPA Prize Nominee

2017

Residency at Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, March – October, São Paulo, Brazil

Collections
BR

Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho

Publications

Dreams in the Sun – Mirages of Art in Latin America (Act Editora, 2024)
Vitamin D3, Today’s best in contemporary drawing (Phaidon, 2021)
Entrevista: Correspondência – a conversation (100 copies with individual hand drawings on each cover, Vira-Lata, 2019. Published specially for the solo show “Correspondence” at Marilia Razuk Gallery, São Paulo, 2019)
Um homem bom – short stories (Iluminuras, 2017)
Clichês ¬– creator of colaborative work together with ten invited artists (Vira-lata, 2015)
Pré-História – poetry and drawing (Vira-lata, 2014)
Doritos – poetry (Vira-lata, 2013) Thiago Barbalho vai para o fundo do poço – novel (Edith, 2012)