Eliana Minillo

Of Italian descent, she was born in Brazil, in Sao Paulo and began painting at the age of 15. Student at the Faculty of Plastic Arts in São Paulo (FAAP) from 1980 to 1985. Along with her degree in Art, she was an assistant in the course of engraving this same faculty.

From 1984 to 1989 she worked in several advertising agencies, taking the function of artistic director from 1986. She was responsible for the creation of catalogs and promotional materials. At the same time, she works as a freelance illustrating magazines and other publications.

From 1986, she was entrusted with several projects of scenographic decors and installations for companies and events, among which we can cite the interactive space project "Academie" at the headquarters of the ACCOR group in São Paulo In December 1990, she is invited to coordinate the design office of the São Paulo Cultural Center.

At the same time, she follows the Stylism and Models course at SENAC. She partially moved away from the artistic sphere from 1990 to 2003, during which time she founded a workshop for the creation and development of printed fabrics for fashion and decoration. Since the 1980s, she has participated in numerous exhibitions, among which in 2005 we can cite the individual exhibition “Sens and Nonsens” in which she draws a plastic parallel between her works and the literary work of Lewis Carroll.

In May 2007, she made a solo exhibition in the Cultural Reserve Space of Sao Paulo. Entitled "Imaginary Cities" his object of research and plastic work has as interrogation and support the waste of wood, metal and recycled paper, among others, by applying to them a new visual concept which provokes a questioning on the urban environment.

Along with her plastic work, she was invited in 2006 by Claude Martin Vaskou, French cultural promoter to coordinate the rehabilitation project of the surrealist painter Walter Lewy (1905-1995) on the Brazilian artistic scene. She is co-author of the film "Walter Lewy, painter of silence" produced by Claude Martin Vaskou position outside Brazil, presenting at the prestigious and historic Salon d'Automne in Paris a work where she presents a rereading of "The Bride" by Marcel Duchamp. This work obtains the first price of painting of this living room; event which only occurred for a Brazilian artist in 1923 when Victor Brecheret won the sculpture prize.

This distinction enabled her to participate in the French delegation in the 1st Cairo Biennial of Art and Literature where she received an honorary diploma for the two works presented: “What we see is the image. of our desire ”and“ Between the search to find oneself and the pleasure of losing oneself ”. This prize was awarded to 10 artists out of the 120 participants. Because of this distinction, she was invited once again to participate in the Semaine Du Salon d'Automne de Paris which took place in May 2010, in Ryiad (Saudi Arabia).

On this occasion, she received a diploma of honor and merit from the Minister of Culture for her two works: "The poet of the desert" and "The hunter of memories The only Brazilian representative invited in the special section" Europe - America " at the Salon d'Automne in Paris 2010 she was distinguished by the Painting Prize "Giant of the Arts Selected by the Russian committee to participate, within the framework of the Year of France in Russia, in the commemorative edition of the Salon d 'Autumn in Moscow, she is the sole representative of Brazil, alongside other young talents but also close to works of Impressionists and French Fauves acquired during the Salons d'Automne in Paris by Russian collectors . Works that today belong to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and to the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg.

In 2011, she was invited by the Al Jazeera TV channel, along with 14 other internationally renowned artists, to participate in the Freedom Symposium. She is the only artist to represent South America. The two works that she produced on this occasion received an honorary diploma and were acquired by the Qatari television channel. Founding member of the França-Brasil Salon d'Automne, she is part of the Board of Directors of this Institution. She is also one of the seven members of its Artistic Council.

Currently her work is based on her studies and research where, not only does she continue to question herself, mainly through drawing and painting, but where she deconstructs and fragments the human body, while looking for a new symbolism which has for foundation of the Modern Archetypes of Salomé and Narcisse His work is present in private collections in Brazil, France, England, Italy and Qatar.