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Theo Firmo (São Paulo, 1983), graduated in Linguistics and is a Master in Visual Culture by the UAM / Reina Sofia Museum. His work ranges drawing, sculpture, installation pieces, video and painting. In a chronic exercise of poetically analyzing communication processes, Firmo transplants its emmotinal charges to matter, generating a vestige of gestures, dialogues and touch.Responding to a universe plagued with narratives and words, in his work there is a clear choice for formal synthesis and openness of meaning. He lives and works in Madrid.

Solo Shows
2016     "Smoky Black, Ghost White" – CRUCE Arte y Pensamiento Contemporáneo (Madrid)
2015     "Meio Fim" – Galeria Emma Thomas (São Paulo)
             "Desplazarse sin Moverse", with Iñaki Chávarri – Galería Javier Silva (Valladolid)
2013     "Fuga Número 2" – Galería Javier Silva (Valladolid)
             "Eles e Nós" – Galeria Emma Thomas (São Paulo)
2011     "Outros Contos" – Galeria Emma Thomas (São Paulo)
             “A Estoria Hilustrada”, Centro de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid (Madrid)
2010     “Suma Cero”, La Fresh Gallery (Madrid)
2009     “Casa Tomada”, Columpio Drawing Gallery (Madrid)

Projects and Site-specifics
2014     "Silencio" – Función Lenguaje (Madrid)
             "Fondo de Seguridad" – Alimentación30 (Madrid)
             "Car Town Flower Truck" – La Eriza (Madrid)
2013     "Yo Tampoco" – Museo Pátio Herreriano (Valladolid)
             "Una línea" – Frágil (Madrid)
             "A line a year", with Amélie Bouvie – Arte Santander (Santander)
             "Colorbomb" – BOX 27, Casal Solleric (Palma de Mallorca)
2012     “Older Brothers to protect your teeth” – Curated by Columpio to Open Studio (Madrid)
2010     “Storytelling nº3”, installation – XII Tentaciones, part of Estampa Art Fair 2010 (Madrid)
2009     “Mamá”, installation – The Black Pillar (Madrid)

Awards, Bursaries, Residencies, etc.
2019 Residencia MAC Florencio de La Fuente (Huete)
2018   Bibliothek Andreas Züst Stipend (Oberegg, Switzerland)
2017      El Ranchito Filipinas (Manila, Philipines)
2012      II Encontro de Artistas Novos – Cidade da Cultura (Santiago de Compstela)
2011     Selection Visual Arts – INJUVE 2011 (Madrid)
              Casa Tomada – Selected for Artistic Residency (São Paulo)
2010      Casa Falconieri – Residency (Sardinia, Italy)
2008      I Festival of Visual Expression PorLoVisto – Best Animation (Leganés)

Festivals
2011     Jean Genet Centenary Charity Festival (Madrid)
2009     Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece)
             Mid_E (San Sebastian, Spain)
             Typos in the writing wall / SARAI (New Dehli, India)
2008     BAC Festival (Barcelona)
             NETMAGE Live Media Festival (Bologna, Italy)
             PorLoVisto (Leganés)
             International Kansk Video Festival (Kansk, Russia)
             Digital Fringe, The Melbourne Fringe Festival (Melbourne, Australia)
             Movica, Artica Fest (St. Louis, USA)

Selected Publications
2019 "Vale-Tudo" – self-published
2018 "Delikado Peligroso" – self-published
2014     "Familias CA2M" – published by CA2M (Madrid)
             "Trap", with Arantxa Romero – Jano Crítica y Arte
2013     "Colors" – published byRV. PAPERS, Issue # 5
2011     "International Drawing Annual"– Issue # 6
             “FineLine Magazine” – Issue # 3
             “Dienatch” – Issue # 9
2010     “O Amarello” – Issue # 4 "Colonialismo”
             “/5” – Books for La Noche de los Libros Mutantes
             "Covers #02" - Espacio Menosuno
2009     “New Papers” – Issue # 2
2008     "FAKE Magazine" – Issue # 12 (MUSAC, León / FRIEZE Art Fair, UK)
             " WLTF" – Issue # 2