about

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.

By subverting some of the ways the images are disseminated such as newspapers and billboards, Zini drives us to re-consider these ephemeral objects. By painting on newspapers, by erasing figures and faces, by rescuing some empty billboards, she seems to be telling us « the party is over ».

STATEMENT

Zini's research has to do with the poetics of absence, the human disrepaired landscapes, the empty spaces. She erases figures and informations, removes the visible and identity, overlap, to question and subvert the way the images are disseminated and the ways of looking at the world. Her aim is to drive the viewer to re-consider some ephemeral objects, ongoing ruins of our world, generating reflection on the images produced by mass culture.

By painting on the newspapers, by erasing figures and faces, by rescuing some empty billboards, 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…

CURRICULUM VITAE

Myriam Zini [Morocco, 1971]

Profiles : FAC Collective / Archivo X Uruguay / uncoolartist

[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 – Zipper Gallery – Sao Paulo, Brazil

[Group exhibitions]
2023
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
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, Sancovsky gallery, Zipper              gallery, Orlando Lemos gallery, Sao Paulo/Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013    Alvos Móveis, Contempo gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013    Selection for the1st Salon d’Automne of Latin America, Alliance Française, Sao              Paulo, Brazil
2012    Selection for the 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    Selection for the Xth Recôncavo Bienal, Centro Cultural Dannemann, Bahia, Brazil

[Awards]
2012 3° award in contemporary art –28° National Salon of Plastic Arts, Embu das Artes
Sao Paulo, Brazil

[Art education & selected extracurricular courses]
2021-24      participant of the Uncool artist International Lab for Art Practices
2021-22     sculpture classes with Federico Arnaud
2016-24       contemporary art classes and art production orientation with Fernando                       Lopez Lage
2011-17      workshops and artistic orientation at atelier A Pipa, atelier 2E1/ atelier 397                        and with Bruno Dunley and - 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]
2024            art history classes - Manolo Lima Fundation (Punta del Este, Uruguay)
                    creation of Red__espacios with the organization of exhibitions in the Hyatt                     Centric de Montevideo
2023           creation of Art Experience Uruguay y Montevideo Côté Art
                    coordination of the project for the 100 years of the Alliance française
2021-24     history classes and workshops in french at the Alliance française - Montevideo
2016-24 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

Contact: : myriamziniart@gmail.com - Web: www.myriamzini.com Instagram: @myriamzini