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 |
| MFA Houston, Texas, 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 |
| 2024 | “Deslocamentos/ Displacements” – Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud , Sao Paulo, Brasil “Dentro / Fora” – Hugo França Galeria de Arte, Trancoso, Brasil |
| 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 |
| 2024 | “LE DÉCATHLON D’APOLLON, Château de Montsoreau – musée d’Art contemporain, Montsoreau, France |
| 2024 | “50 Anos Galeria Raquel Arnaud”, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brasil |
| 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.
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.