Biography

Mr Vianna was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a photographer and graphic designer. He began his studies in photography with Rachel Hirsch, photographer of the Haaretz newspaper and the Habima National Theater, at the Jewish Culture Center in São Paulo, in 2007. In 2008, he participated in a workshop with theItalian director and film set photographer Mimmo Cattarinich. With the French sculptor and photographer Alain Laboile, Vianna held a workshop at the Leica Gallery in São Paulo in 2018. He studied with Gal Oppido at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo in 2011 and, since 2017, Vianna participates in a study group in Oppido’s studio. He authored the 2018 photographic book Desmemórias in partnership with Inês Till, released in Brazil and Portugal.

Vianna is the co-author of the 2019 photographic book Identicidade, which was directed by Gal Oppido. For two decades, he has been developing electronic animations in partnership with the artist Guto Lacaz. With Lacaz, Vianna also created and developed the Santos Dumont Virtual Museum.

With Kaluana Graphic Projects, he recorded several humanizing lectures with Cláudio Thebas in several states of Brazil. For Gal Oppido, Vianna edited the books Pequeno dicionário erótico ilustrado japonês português japonês and Intoxicações poéticas da carne.

Exhibitions:
2022 – Collective Exhibition 21|20, Odisseia Casa de Cultura, SP
2022 – Collective Exhibition  Respira SP, Odisseia Casa de Cultura, SP
2021 – Collective Exhibition  O eu é um outro, Galeria Lume, SP
2020 – Collective Exhibition  Leituras fotográficas, Clube Paulistano, SP
2019 – Collective Exhibition  Identicidade, Galeria Lume, SP
2019 – Collective Exhibition  Respira SP, Casa das Rosas, SP
2018 – Collective Exhibition , Espaço 74, Santo André, SP
2018 – Individual Exhibition Desmemórias, Mai Será o Benedito, São Luiz do Paraitinga, SP
2018 – Collective Exhibition  Respira SP, Conjunto Nacional, SP
2016 – Collective Exhibition  Entreatos, Teatro Augusta, SP
2005 – Collective Exhibition  Meu Brasil é com S, Instituto Europeu de Design, Barcelona, Spain

Published Books:
2020 – 21/20 – Anos Sessenta – Author’s edition
2019 – Identicidade – Editora Origem
2018 – Desmemórias – Author’s edition

Scenography:
2005 – Cosi Fan Tutte, Teatro São Pedro, SP

Awards:
2020 – Galeria Lume, isolados, mas nunca sozinhos, in partnership with Fábio Zerbini, Karen Caetano e Felipe Ferrara
2015 – Jabuti – Children’s Literature for the book A roupa nova do arco-da-velha by Flávia Savary
2005 – Meu Brasil é com S, Istituto Europeo di Design, Barcelona, Spain

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