Marcelo Monteiro

Graduated in History from the State University of Maringá (UEM-PR), his research focuses on power relations in the heavy industry, where he worked as a laborer before dedicating himself exclusively to fine arts. He has participated in both group and solo exhibitions in major institutions across the country, including in São Paulo, Paraná, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro.

His most recent institutional exhibition, “Sobre Prumos?” (“About Plumb Lines?”), took place in 2023 at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro and was curated by Fernando Cocchiarale, who wrote about it: “In these wood and steel works constructed by Marcelo Monteiro, one can see the traces that today underlie the decisions and choices of much politicized art, divided between class discourses or thematic identities. The knowledge of an artist’s work does not only come from the application of concepts formulated by theories such as criticism, history, philosophy of art, and aesthetics, which are situated outside the context of creation, invention, and poetic experimentation.”

Between 2023 and 2024, he also participated in the group exhibition “The Fourth Constructive Generation” at FGV Arte, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff. Additionally, between 2018 and 2022, he served as an assistant in the History of Art and Theory courses at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, led by Anna Bella Geiger and Fernando Cocchiarale, respectively.