David Almeida

David Almeida’s research is developed around pictorial experimentation in various media and supports such as canvas, linen, wood, ceramics and engraving. His production has as its main focus the issues of space and the body on the move, exploring the visuality of intimate territory, the city and the Brazilian regional landscape. In the pictorial space, he investigates the limits between the landscape of the countryside and the imaginary, at times emphasizing the density of materials in figurative works or tending toward abstraction, at times displacing natural elements in canvases with a metaphysical and spiritual tone. Almeida engenders the concepts of memory, body, phantasmagoria, and optical perception, creating canvases in which the intimacy of a culture or people is subtly manifested in the landscape. In his work, places and sensations dialogue with his method and procedure of representation, in which the density of a painted night is intimately related to the oblique process of constructing it in the image.

David Almeida has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Brasília. Among his main solo shows are: Vigil, Millan, São Paulo (2024); Arriba do Chão, Millan, São Paulo (2022); A task of wonders, during his residency at Espronceda Art Center, in Barcelona, Spain (2020); Lindeza, Referência Galeria de Arte, Brasília (2019); Encalço, Mult.i.plo Espaço Arte, Rio de Janeiro; Paradeiro, Zipper Galeria, São Paulo (2018) and Asseidade da Fenda, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília (2016).

Nominated to PIPA Prize in 2022, awarded in 2015 and 2013 by the Jataí Art Salon, in 2014 at the 20th Anapolino Art Salon and first place at the I Vera Brant Contemporary Art Award in 2016. He has participated in group shows such as Funil, Casa SP–Arte, São Paulo (2024); Paisagem interior, Casa Zalszupin, São Paulo (2023); Stranger than Fiction, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (2023); Contramemória, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo; In Residency, Residency Unlimited, Nova York, EUA (2022); Postcards, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden, Um lugar nenhum: Segunda Naturaleza, Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain (2020); Triangular – Arte desse século, Casa Niemeyer, Brasília (2019); Scapeland – Território de Transito Livre, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo (2018); UNS, Library of Love, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, USA (2017); Salão Transborda Brasília 2016, Caixa Cultural Brasilia (2016), among others.