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Bio
Moved from France to Brazil in 2007. Lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay since 2016.
Zini's main media is painting but she also works with drawings, photography and installations. She is a member of the Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo (FAC) collective. Graduated in Visual Arts from the Escola Panamericana de Arte in Brazil, where she lived for 10 years. Also member of the Uncool artist International Lab for Art Practices - ILAP since 2021. Zini's work has been exhibited in Brazil, Uruguay and USA.
Statement
Zini's research has to do with the poetics of absence, the human disrepaired landscapes, the empty spaces. Subverting some of the ways the images are disseminated, she drives the viewer to re-consider some ephemeral objects such as newspapers and billboards, as ongoing ruins of our world, generating reflection on the images produced by mass culture.
By erasing faces and informations, by her intensely chromatic uneven paintings, she seems to be telling us « the party is over ».Her technique is often a kind of visual edition, absorbing elements of the reality like the grids and the fractured spaces, different layers but covering, censoring, erasing, abstracting, making opaque, in order to reinforce them. The color palette in a kind of "dirty colors" gives also this sensation of deterioration, collapsing, failure…
CV
Myriam Zini
[Morocco 1971] Lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay
[Solo exhibitions]
2024 Forsaken – Cultural Obra, Montevideo, Uruguay
2023 Zone(s) de contact – Alliance Française, Montevideo, Uruguay
2022 Impactos – Vinbutik, Montevideo, Uruguay
2019 Cada perfecto día/Such a perfect day – Alliance Française, Montevideo, Uruguay
2015 The Superbad Project – Atelier 2E1, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013 Lacrimogêneo/Teargas – Zip’Up Space, Zipper Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[Group exhibitions]
2025 Diderot Art Uruguay – Dalarna, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2024 Campo Art Fest / CAF 8 – Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay
Habitar un paisaje – Hyatt Centric, Montevideo, Uruguay
Launching Diderot Art Uruguay – El Globo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Ser en Escena – Espacio Verdi, Sala Verdi, Montevideo, Uruguay
61° Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales Cleber Lara – Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo/EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay
2022 Territorio – Hiperespacio, Montevideo, Uruguay
Do write (right) to me! – Uncool Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2021 Do write (right) to me! – Uncool Artist, Miami, USA
2020 Zoco gallery – Punta del Este, Uruguay
2020 Utopias e Distopias Atmosféricas – Uncool Artist, online
2018 PopUp#3 – Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo/FAC, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2017 PopUp#1 (Espacio El Cibils) & PopUp#2 (Mercado Ferrando) – Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo/FAC, Montevideo, Uruguay
2016 Eixo Arte gallery – Brazil, online
2016 O lugar do otro lugar – Atelier 2E1, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015 Selection for the 6th Salon of the artists without gallery – Zipper, Sancovsky and Orlando Lemos galleries, Sao Paulo/Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013 Alvos Móveis – Contempo gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013 1st Salon d’Automne of Latin America, Alliance Française, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 1° Salon de Arte of Londrina, "Estratégias Pictóricas" – Casa de Cultura DAP Londrina, Brazil
2012 Cotidiano – André gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 28° National Salon of Plastic Arts – Embu das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 Xth Recôncavo Bienal – Centro Cultural Dannemann, Bahia, Brazil
[Awards]
2024 Julio Alpuy Painting Prize from the selection for the 61th National Prize of Visual Arts Cleber Lara - Montevideo, Uruguay
2012 3rd Prize in Contemporary Art –28° National Salon of Plastic Arts, Embu das Artes - Sao Paulo, Brazil
[Art education & selected extracurricular courses]
2021-25 participant of the Uncool artist International Lab for Art Practices
2016-25 art classes and art clinic with Fernando Lopez Lage
2021-22 sculpture classes with Federico Arnaud
2011-17 workshops and artistic orientation at atelier A Pipa, atelier 2E1/ atelier 397 and with Bruno Dunley - Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012-13 art study group with Lais Myrrha- Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007-09 BA in Visual Arts - Panamericana School of Art and Design - Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003-05 art classes at ENSBA / Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts - Paris, France
[Art practice activities]
2021-25 history classes and workshops in french at the Alliance française - Montevideo
2024 art history classes - Manolo Lima Fundation (Punta del Este, Uruguay)
creation of Red__espacios
2023 creation of Art Experience Uruguay y Montevideo Côté Art
coordination of the project for the 100 years of the Alliance française
2016-25 art & architecture guided tours in english and french - Montevideo, Uruguay
2023/2018 fixer for the french TV channel Arte « Invitation au voyage » docu
2016-18 artistic workshops in the art supplies A casa do artista - Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014 founder of Le Petit Atelier, for kids from 3 to 12 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013-24 certified Golden Colors Artist Educator
1997-2007 founder-director of advertising agency Principe Actif - Paris, France
Profiles : FAC Collective / Archivo X Uruguay / uncoolartist
Contact: myriamziniart@gmail.com - Web: www.myriamzini.com Instagram: @myriamzini