Sheila Ortega

Sheila Ortega develops poetic research from the interest in incorporating elements of domestic environments with affective memories to create narratives. Painting, ceramics and installations are the main supports used, and she also explores the combination of textures and different patterns formed by the accumulations and arrangements assembled to compose the works. 

The investigation is based on still life and the study of composition in the tradition of painting. The unfolding that comes from it aims to reflect on the space that objects occupy in the world, both from the point of view of architecture and spatiality (its material character) and subjectivity, memory, and time (immaterial).

SHEILA ORTEGA was Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1980. She lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS [SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS]

2022 Domesticados, virtual online exhibition, Smith Galeria.

2019 Exhibition Program - MARP – Ribeirão Preto Art Museum.

2017 Survival Manual - GAIA - Instituto de Artes Gallery – UNICAMP, Campinas, SP.

2016 Survival Manual, Centro Cultural Adamastor , Guarulhos, SP.

2016 Survival Manual, Badesc Cultural Foundation, Fernando Beck Space, Florianópolis, SC.

2015 Collect the world, Alpharrabio, Santo André, SP.

2013 Of things that do not move, Museu de Arte de Goiânia – MAG, Goiânia, GO.

2013 Collect the world, MUNA, Uberlândia, MG.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS [SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS]

2021 AR - Acervo Rotativo - Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade - São Paulo - SP.

2021 Donations from the Museum - BIENAL DE CERVEIRA – Fundação Bienal de Cerveira – Portugal

2020 XXI INTERNATIONAL ART BIENNIAL OF CERVEIRA – Fundação Bienal de Cerveira – Portugal

2018 Free Theme – Fidalga Project – São Paulo – SP

2017 The place of the other place – Elefante Cultural Center – Brasília - DF.

2017 The place of the other place - Coletivo 2e1 - São Paulo, SP.

2016 About what can be familiar - Arte Londrina 4, DAP, Londrina, PR.

2015 47° SAC - Contemporary Art Salon of Piracicaba, Municipal Pinacoteca “Miguel Dutra", Piracicaba, SP.

2014 5th Artistas Sem Galeria Salon, Zipper Galeria, Casa da Xiclet, São Paulo, SP.

2014 ABRE ALAS 10, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

2014 42nd Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon, Santo André, SP.

2013 4th Belvedere Paraty Award for Contemporary Art, Paraty, RJ.

2013 Post-landscape - Art Londrina, DAP, Londrina, PR.

2012 Ritos Baldios, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, SP.

AWARDS / PUBLIC COLLECTIONS [AWARDS / PUBLIC COLLECTIONS]

2021 Cerveira Biennial Foundation – Portugal [Work in Collection]

2021 AR - Acervo Rotativo - Brazil [Work in Collection] - No. // Ar-0241/A, No. // Ar-0241/B

2020 FUNARTE - Visual Arts - Breathe

2016 BADESC Cultural Foundation, 2016 Exhibition Notice.

2016 14th Contemporary Art Salon of Guarulhos.

2015 47° SAC - Contemporary Art Salon of Piracicaba.

2013 Museu de Arte de Goiânia - MAG, [Work in Collection]

PROJECTS [PROJECTS]

2018 Free theme, collective exhibition and box with works by artists participating in the study group at Ateliê Fidalga (SP, Brazil), at the invitation of the project's creator: Sandra Cinto (35 copies).

2016 O Lugar do Outros Lugar, work/box with 14 postcards and a libretto developed from the works of the artists participating in the study group of the

Coletivo 2e1, at the invitation of the project's creator: Carolina Paz. [80 copies].

EDUCATION

2002 - 2004 – Master in Visual Arts – Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) - Institute of Arts.

1998 - 2001 – Bachelor of Fine Arts – São Paulo State University (UNESP) - Institute of Arts

SELECTED EXTRACURRICULAR COURSES [SELECT EXTRACURRICULAR COURSES]

2021 Casa Tato 5 - Program for artists - Galeria Tato.

2021 - 2018 Ateliê Fidalga – Study Group – Sandra Cinto and Albano Afonso.

2013 - 2017 Ateliê Coletivo 2e1 - Monitoring of projects and processes – Carolina Paz, José Bento Ferreira, Douglas de Freitas, Bruno Mendonça, Monica Rizzolli, Daniel Caballero.

2012 – 2011 Study Group in Contemporary Art Production – Paulo Miyada and Pedro França, Instituto Tomie Ohtake.