Laercio Redondo

Laercio Redondo is a Brazilian-born artist based in Rio de Janeiro and Stockholm. He received his MFA from the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, in Stockholm. He is the recipient of various grants, among them the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship in Stuttgart and the IASPIS residency program in Stockholm. In his artistic research Redondo engages extensively with collective memory and its erasure in society. He has exhibited widely in galleries and museums of modern and contemporary art. His solo exhibitions include O que acaba todos os dias (What ends every day) at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ), Contos sem reis (Tales with no kings), at Casa França-Brasil, and Fachada (Façade) and Lembrança de Brasília (Memory from Brasilia) at the Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4, in Rio de Janeiro. He has also participated in group exhibitions at such international venues as the Zachęta—Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw; Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre; Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach; the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; SESC Pompeia, São Paulo; Kunsthalle Göppingen (Germany); and Galleria Francesca Minini, Milan. His work is featured in the collections of MAM-RJ; Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, and Pinacoteca de São Paulo.