Alexandra do Carmo
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Born: Portugal
Lives: New York
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Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 2004/2005
Masters of Fine Arts Degree, Pratt Institute, New York, 2003
Project year in Drawing, Ar.Co, Lisbon, Portugal,1999
Advanced Course in Fine Arts, Ar.Co, Center of Art and Visual Communication, Lisbon, Portugal,1998
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Office/Commercial, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon, Set. 2008
O Outro Eco, with the collaboration of Abinadi Meza, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon, 2006
A Willow (Or without Godot), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2006
Wild M5 Sala do Veado, National Natural History Museum, Lisbon, 2004
Micron 005, Lugar Comum-F�brica da P�lvora, Barcarena, Portugal 2004
Uma Sala com Repiti��o de Tudo, Modulo Gallery Lisbon, 2003
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Financial District, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, 2009.
L� Fora, Electricity Museum, Lisbon,2009.
I Certamen de Dibujo Contemporaneo Pilar Y Andres Centenera Jaraba, Guadalajara, Spain, 2008.
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2006
The Steam Shop (or The Painter�s Studio), Lugar Comum, Portugal 2006
Space, Place & Interface, LiveBox Gallery at Ravenswood, Chicago, 2006
E=mc2, Museum of Science and Technology, Coimbra Portugal 2005
Bread Matters III, West Cork Arts Center, Ireland 2005
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program Exhibition, New York, 2005
Draw, Dwight Hackett Projects Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005
Paper and Process, Art Projects International, New York, 2004
Artists in Residence- New Work 2004, Location One, New York, 2004
GO, Liquidacion-Total, Madrid, 2003
Expect the World moinonplus, video screening, K�nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2002
Symposium 2002 Art Values: Public and Private, Pratt Institute, (selections; Janet Koplos)NY
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Articles and Reviews
Anamnese.com
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Inter-Face Arte Contempor�nea
SV Magazine
ALEXANDRA DO CARMO�S PERCEPTIVE FISSURES
David Barro (www.alexandradocarmo.com)
NY Arts Magazine
Animal Gaze, Drawing
Prospective Memory for an artist studio in Brooklyn by Bruno Marques
Looking for Fragments by Luisa Soares de Oliveira,
Publico newspaper, 2004
Interview with Nuno Cunha, e-vai online arts magazine
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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation and the Institute of the Arts (The Steam Shop Project, 2006)
Luso-American Foundation for Development and Institute of the Arts; Location One residence program (Spring 2004)
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation; Fellowship for Foreign Graduate Studies, long term (2001-2003)
Fellowship for Foreign Graduate Studies (short term), Luso-American Foundation (2000)
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IN PROGRESS: Studio Socialis
A team of twoartists and one architect begin by surveying the broadest possible array of
a specific location on their attitudes to contemporary art and the artist studio: seeking to find the special capacities, proper focus, and collective vision of the artist�s studio.
Synthesizing these responses, a new studio model would be proposed, a Studio Socialis, that would architecturally envision how this collective vision(s) might look. The resulting design would be constructed as super large scale model, equiposed between the real and the utopian, with the results from the survey displayed in audio and video form
inside.
OFFICE/COMMERCIAL 2009
Presenting herself as a major commercially successful international artist, Alexandra do Carmo initiates a path through Brooklyn, New York, pretending to rent an art studio, with the company of a false assistant in town.
On each occasion, with a new real estate agent, she is toured through different old manufacturing buildings in the process of conversion to artist studios, collecting video images with the excuse of producing a documentary of her �arrival� in New York for a supposed "major museum exhibition".
She is creating a social and political memory of spaces that are being transformed-- confronting them with a past existence in terms of the activities once present or with the very updating and social presentation of the space in order to accommodate artistic activities.
THE STEAM SHOP (OR THE PAINTER'S STUDIO), july 2006 at Lugar Comum, Portugal.
The project seeks to explore the dialectic between the social and hermetic dimensions of contemporary practice, with Courbet�s Painter�s Studio as active historical precedent.
It is composed of three aspects�a painting, Gustave Courbet�s The Painter�s Studio (1855); a space, the ruined architecture of a gunpowder factory outside Lisbon, Portugal, called Oficinas a Vapor; and a concept, that the occupancy of the ruins of open chambers by artists, continuing the discourse begun the French artist some 150 years ago could provide a vital setting for exploring issues of art practice and social context.
ROGGENBROT, 2006 (in collaboration with Alison Knowles)
Starting from Alison Knowles� piece Bread and Water, I am creating a three video installation that intends to investigate collaborative production in art--taking the viewer through ones practice, a journey into Knowles work. We are baking bread together at Alison Knowles� studio, upstate New York --the journey along the Hudson river between both artists is energized by a series of resonances, their focus of investigation is put through Knowles� concept in this piece, the site of the practice is extended to other domains such as the river and the place of living. Images of the river are incorporated as to create a path in between the studio practice and a collaborative open practice. In Knowles� piece, bread and water are paralleled through images of bread that double as specific topographical profiles of rivers. It is a journey through ones practice
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Books and Catalogues
Alexandra do Carmo, "Steam Shop (or the painter's studio)" exhibition catalog, 2008, 134 pgs. Anamnese Catalog
Platform of Contemporary Art in Portugal 1993-2003
Alexandra do Carmo OFFICE/COMMERCIAL
Edi��o Dardo TU e Galeria Carlos Carvalho,Exhibition Catalogue, 2008
texts by Bruno Marques e David Barro
WILD M5
at the Natural History Museum in Lisbon (Sala do Veado), texts by Jonathan Goodman, Herb Tam
L� FORA (PORTUGUESE ARTISTS ABROAD)
The Square Root of Drawing at Temple Bar Gallery(cd catalogue)
BreadMatters III, West Cort Arts Center
I certamen de dibujo contempor�neo Pilar y Andr�s Centenera Jaraba.
Guadalajara Spain 2008
Jonathan Goodman, 2004--Time�s Archeologist ,2007--The Monkeys Gaze, i.e in www.anamnese.pt. Ilidio Pinho Foundation. Bruno Marques, 2006--The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio)' From the expansion of the Studio to an anthropological view of the site� in http://www.interface-artecontemporanea.org/ensaios_criticos.htm
Robert Knafo, 2004--On the Paleontology-Democracy Continuum- http://www.studiovisit.net, 2005--Dinosaur Drawings i.e. in www.anamnese.pt.
Looking for Fragments in Publico by Luisa Soares de Oliveira, 2004
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