Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961. US and Brazilian.

Studied Architecture at Santa Ursula’s University (BA graduated in 1983) and, from 1978 to 1983, studied sculpture at the Museu de Arte Moderna and Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage, all in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Received her Master Degree in Industrial Design from Central Saint Martins in London, UK, in 2012.

Frida lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paris, Berlin, New York, London and Miami.

Currently lives in Cascais, Portugal. She has studios in Rio de Janeiro and Manique.

2019 Recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants
2018 Women Who Make History”, The 14th Smithsonian Museum Day, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL.
2016-2019 Studio Residency at The Deering Estate, Miami, FL
1993 Studio Residency for 1 year at Cité des Arts, Paris, France.
1992 Fulbright International Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance and the United States Information Agency, USA
Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça, Brazil
Blanton Art Museum, Austin, Texas, USA
Fundación Cisneros – Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, USA; Caracas, Venezuela
Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Island Press, St. Louis, USA
LEF Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Loumeier Foundation, St. Louis, USA
Ministère de la Culture – Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), France
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, South Korea
Washington University Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
2019 “Liminaridade/Liminality”- Gabinete de arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2017 Untitled Art Fair, Miami, USA (Galeria Mercedes Viegas arte Contemporanea, RJ.)
2014 “Game Change”/ “Mudança de Jogo”-Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Heike Moras Art, London, UK
2013 Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
H.A.P. Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
2006 Galerie am Trakalhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2004 H.A.P. Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999 La Maison du Brésil, Brussels, Belgium
1996 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
1993 Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
1990 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
1988 Galeria Sergio Millet, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1985 Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021 “A maquina do mundo: Arte e Industria no Brasil 1901-2021”. Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil.
“Doutrina das Cores”, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“On View”, Tanya Brillembourg -Art, Key Biscayne, USA.
2019 7th Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu de Arte Brasileira da FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil.
“Vai – Vem”, CCBB São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte. Brazil
“Da Linha ao Fio”- BNDS. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Festival de Esculturas, Museu de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2018 “Women Weavers: The Warp of Memory”,TBBOX Art – Ideobox, Miami, USA.
“Deconstruction: Reordering of Life, Politics and Art”, Frost Museum of Art, FIU, Miami, USA.
2017 “Territories” – Collins Park, Public Sector, Art Basel Miami, USA.
2016 “Monumental”, Marina da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Rosa”, Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013 Universo Bordallo Pinheiro – 20 Bordallianos. Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 Central Saint Martins Degree Show. London, England
Obras do Acervo. Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 Mostra de Esculturas Em Aço. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010 Grandes artistas, grandes formatos. Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Transição: from now on… Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
2009 Transparências. Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
2008 Arte contemporânea: aquisições recentes. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
2005 Reflections. Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin, Germany
Discover Brasil. Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
2004 Voces y visiones. Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
Happy art for a sad world. Spike Gallery, New York, USA
Arte contemporânea: uma história em aberto. Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Arquivo Geral. H.A.P. Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Invenção de mundos – Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça. Museu Vale, Vila Velha,
Onde está você Geração 80?. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003 All about me. Spike Gallery, New York, USA
O sal da terra. Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Brazil
2002 Island Press: Multiple Innovations. Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, USA Charity Auction. Spike Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Continental Shift. Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1999 Vivre Paris. Espace Electra, Paris, France
América Latina: Das Vanguardas ao Fim do Milênio. Centro Cultural Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1998 As dimensões da arte contemporânea – Coleção João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz. Museu de Arte Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Doações recentes: arte brasileira no acervo do MAM. Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
1997 Tridimensionalidade. Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
1996 Arte Contemporânea Brasileira: Doações Recentes. Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
1995 Biennale de Sculpture. Monte Carlo, Monaco
Maison d’Amerique Latine, Paris, France
Entre o Desenho e a Escultura. Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
Anos 80: Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand. Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1994 In Khan Gallery, New York, USA
Bienal Brasil Século XX. Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
1993 Lateinamerikanische Kunst. Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
Ultramodern: The Art of Contemporary Brasil. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Latin American Artists of the XX Century. Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York, USA
1992 Latin American Artists of the XX Century. Estacion Plaza de Armas, Sevilha, Spain; Hotel des Arts, Paris, France
Casa das Rosas, São Paulo, Brazil
1991 Metropolis. International Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
Viva Brasil Viva. Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Brasil: La Nueva Generacion. Fundación Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1990 Aperto 90, na XLIV Biennale Internazionale di Venezia. Veneza, Italy
Galeria Sala 1, Rome, Italy
1989 20ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil
A Ordem Desfeita. 110 Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1988 Panorama da Arte Atual Brasileira/Escultura. Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brasil
1987 Nova Escultura. Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1984 Como Vai Você Geração 80?. Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PROJECTS

Collaboration with fashion designer

Using metal rods and wire as a pencil, Frida photographed and composed in 1994, “themes” which became the fabric designs for Gerald Watelet’s Spring Haut-Couture collection in Paris. Each fabric was printed individually by an exclusive printer following the instructions of the fashion designer. It was a very exciting and successful collaboration.

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Como vai você geração 80?

“As per her experimentation with materials, Frida Baranek’s curiosity led her to appropriate certain elements from nature and human artifacts in some of her works: trees, islands, swimming pools, domes. They are created in specific locations using specific objects, like the buoy installed on a rocky island in Rio’s Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in 1984, later transferred to Parque Lage, which hosted the exhibition.”
Text by R.C.

Performance at Barra’s beach, 1982

“In this experiment, Frida uses her own body to interact with other elements, both in their natural and altered states. The vital flow of energy between human and materials, objects, the world itself, flows to and fro through a current of rather strange games – continents versus content.”
Text by R. C.

Installation on the sidewalk

A gigantic sling made out of a block of stone black rubber and a tree on the pavement in front of the Petite Galerie, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1985.