Fatima Tosca

Fatima Tosca, Salvador, BA, 1960.

Painter, illustrator.

Self-taught, she began his artistic activities in 1976 with drawing and watercolor, illustrating books, diaries and magazines. In 1979, she entered the Visual Arts course at the Catholic University of Salvador-UCSA, but abandoned it in favor of the Law course at the Federal University of Bahia-UFBA. 

In the 1980s, she was trained at the Instituto Mauá in Salvador, working with artisanal and materials research, and was selected by the OAS for the Inter-American Course in Artisanal Design. She also exhibits in a series of group shows in Bahia and other states. In the 1990s, she started a series of solo exhibitions, in addition to presenting her works in Madrid (Spain) and Frankfurt (Germany). She is awarded by the Mokiti Okada M. O. A. Foundation in 1990 and at the 1st Bienal do Recôncavo Baiano, among others.

Solo Exhibitions

2019 – “Fatima Tosca" – Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery – São Paulo, SP

2018 – “Water" – MCR Art Gallery – Salvador, BA

2014 – “João, Chicas e Jocas, Todos que Chegarem" – Smith Galeria - São Paulo, SP 

2013 – “The Park, One Circus and Many Gardens" MCR Galeria - Salvador – BA 

2011 – Barra Mulher Award, Shopping Barra – Salvador – BA 

2009 – “Watercolors", Fábio Pena Cal Galeria – Salvador – BA 

2009 – “Da Cor à Cor", MCR Art Gallery – Salvador – BA 

2007 – “Retrospective", Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Brasília – DF 

2006 – “Pretexts " MCR Art Gallery, Salvador - BA 

2004 – “Water and Oil", MCR Art Gallery – Salvador - BA

2003 – “Fátima Tosca", Visual Gallery - Brasilia - DF

2002 - "Paintings", MCR Galeria - Salvador - BA

2002 - "Between Forests, Oceans and Continents", Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery - Costa do Sauípe - BA

2000 - Cover and illustration of the book "Jubiabá" - Jorge Amado (Ed. Correio da Bahia special) Salvador - BA

1997 – Fátima Tosca “Paintings", ATRIVM Gallery – Salvador - BA

1996 - Fátima Tosca - Paintings. Solo, Gallery of the Xunta de Galicia - Madrid - Spain

1994- "Searches and Enthusiasms. Individual, Documenta Gallery - São Paulo - SP

1993 - BRAZIL - "Small Formats, Few Words", Documenta Gallery - São Paulo – SP

1992 – Fátima Tosca “Paintings", Performance Art Gallery – Brasília – DF

1992 – Fátima Tosca “Pinturas", Mokiti Okada Foundation – São Paulo – SP

1991 – “The color of white", Anarte Gallery – Salvador - BA

Collective Exhibitions

2011 - Overture, Smith Galeria, Sao Paulo, SP

2005 - Fátima Tosca and Leonel Mattos "in 11 Words", Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery - Salvador.

2004 – Fátima Tosca and Valdeck de Garanhuns, Derweltkulturen Frankfur Museum – A.M

2004 - "Janelas", collective, Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery - Costa do Sauípe - BA

2002- Chapel Art Show, Collective - São Paulo – SP

2000 - Exhibition and launch of the book "100 Plastic Artists from Bahia" Museum of Modern Art

2001 - Chapel Art Show, Collective - São Paulo – SP

1999 – Arte Salvador 450 years, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia – Salvador – BA

1997 – Galerie 37, Museum fur Volkerkunde – FrankFurt – Germany

Awards

1992 – Mokiti Okada Foundation award – São Paulo – SP

1990 – award of the VI Salão Curitiba art – São Paulo – SP

1979 – Drawing category award, I salon MEC – Funarte – ECSal – Salvador - BA