Brazilian-born multimedia artist
Josely Carvalho lives and works in New York City and Rio
de Janeiro. Her works range from paintings, sculptures and
book art to printmaking, video and sound installations and
most recently the Internet. Her installations incorporate
varied technology in the construction of both digital and
physical environments, while her provocative web concept, Book
of Roofs (http://www.book-of-roofs.net), weaves
sound, text, and images into interactive virtual perspectives
on "shelter." Josely has exhibited extensively
internationally and nationally at renowned venues such as
Art in General (New York); Octógono Site-specific
projet, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Museu de
Arte de Sao Paulo; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sao
Paulo; Tyler School of Art Gallery, Philadelphia; Kenyon
College, Ohio; Casa de Las Americas, Cuba; Casa del Lago,
Mexico City; Miami Dade Community College Gallery North,
Florida; Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museo de Bellas
Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, among others.
Among her public art works, a permanent installation “Memorial
Armênia” a memorial to the Armenian Genocide of
1915 at a subway station in São Paulo (1995).
Josely Carvalho has recently been awarded prestigious grants
including Creative Capital Foundation (2000); Rockefeller Foundation's
Bellagio International Conference and Research Center residency
in Italy (Jan-Feb 2000); New York Foundation for the Arts (1987
e 2000); New York State Council for the Arts, individual artist,
2001; Franz Masereel Print Center, Belgium (2008); Wildwood
Press, St. Louis, Missouri (2002 e 2006); NEA Visual Artist
Fellowship (1995-96) among others.
Her work can be found in public collections
such as: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro;
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Museu de Bellas
Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Museum of Modern Art (MOMA),
New York; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São
Paulo; Seguros Sociales, Mexico; Casa de Las Americas,
Havana, Cuba.
She is represented by Valu Oria Galeria in
São Paulo, Brazil. A bi-lingual full color 256 pages
book on her art work, Diary of Images, will be published
by Contra Capa Editora, Rio de Janeiro in 2009.
Grants, Awards and Residences
2010-11
Casarão, Viana, Espirito Santo, Brazil residence
2008
Franz Masereel Printing Center, residence,
Kasterlee, Belgium
2006 & 2002
Wildwood Press, residence, St. Louis Missouri
2001-02
New York State Council for the Arts
(NYSCA) Individual Artist (film/video/media)
2001
Harvestworks, artist-in-residence, New
York City
2000
Creative Capital Foundation Grant (Emerging
Field)
2000
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio International
Study & Conference Center, residence, Jan-Feb, Bellagio,
Italy
1999-00
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
Individual Artist grant, (performance/multimedia)
1995-96
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),
Individual artist's grant/(new genre)
1993 & 1992
Art Matters Inc., distribution catalogue “Dia
Mater” and installation Art in General, New York
1992
Artist's Book Residency, New York State
Council for the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester,
NY
1991
N.E.A. “My Body is my Country”,
Installation, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.
1988
Creative Time, New York City – installation
at Museum del Barrio, NYC
1986-87
New York Foundation for the Arts, Individual
Artist grant (printmaking)
1978-82
New York State Council for the Arts,
Artist-in-Residence, The Silkscreen Project, St. Mark’s
Church in-the-Bowery
1975-76
National Endowment for the Arts grant,
Community Artist-in- Residence, Pilot Project, Arlington,
VA
1974-75
Virginia Commission for the Arts, Artists-in-Schools,
Arlington Public Schools
1966-67
Washington University, Fellowship, St.
Louis, MO.
1964-66
Organization of American States fellowship
Public Art
2000-present
Book of Roofs, a bookart webwork
project. (http://www.book-of-roofs.net)
1985
Turtle News 2 (Noticiário
da Tartaruga), Eletromidia, electronic board, 2 months throughout
Brazil
1995
Memorial Armenia, Subway System
of São Paulo, Estação Armênia:
permanent installation: clay, etched glass, text, water
and landscape
1988
Turtle News 1, Times Square,
Spectacolor board computer animation, Public Art Fund, New
York City
Individual Exhibits
2011
URU-KU as disciplinas esquecidas, Casarão Galeria, Viana, Espirito Santo, Brazil
2010
Nidus Vitreo, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architectando: Elias Nest, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
0001.Tracajá, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2008
Territórios Brancos,Galeria
Valu Oria, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
2007.Desencantando Salmu, Pinacoteca
de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
Entretelhas, Centro Cultural
Banco do Nordeste, Juazeiro, Ceará, Brazil
2006
1816.Maskharah, Galerie Bretenoux,
France
2005
A Multiplicação das
Telhas, Centro Cultural da Caixa, Brasilia, Brazil
2003
0001.Tracajá, Museu
de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, São
Paulo, Brazil
2002
0144.Xetá, ISEA, Tokyo,
Japan
2002
Book of Roofs prints, Des Lee
Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2000
Book of Roofs/Livro das Telhas, Museu
de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
1998
0144.Xetá, Tyler School
of the Arts, Philadelphia, PN
1997
Codex: Dos SemTeto, Paço
das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
1996
Quarta Ciranda, Gallery North,
Miami Dade Community College, Miami
1995
In the Name of the Birds, the Fishes
and the Holy Turtle, Olin Gallery, Kenyon College,
Ohio
1994
Terceira Ciranda, Instituto de
Arte, Universidade de Brasilia Segunda Ciranda Museu
de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo (MAC)
1993
Primeira Ciranda, Intar
Gallery, New York City Dia Mater I, Art in General, New York City Dia Mater II, Museu de Arte de São
Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil
1992
Smell of Fish, Mary Dana Women
Artists Series, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ
1991
It's Still Time to Mourn, Hillwood
Museum, Brookville, NY My Body is My Country, Real Art Ways, Hartford,
CT On the Road, Galeria Bass, Caracas, Venezuela
1988
Smell of Fish, Marymount College,
New York City Diary of Images, Franklin and Marshall College,
Lancaster, PA She is Visited by Birds and Turtles, Terne
Gallery, NYC
1986
Olor a Pescado, Casa de Las Americas,
Havana, Cuba Cheiro de Peixe, Paço das Artes, São
Paulo, Brazil
1985
Smell of Fish, Central Hall
Gallery, New York City
1983
Memories, Yvonne Seguy Gallery,
New York City
1982
In the Shape of a Woman, Central
Hall Gallery, New York
1981
Museum of Modern Art, Bahia, Brazil
1978
Diário Serigráfico, Galeria
Portal, São Paulo, Brazil
1976
Potter's House Gallery, Washington, DC
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC
1975
Casa del Lago, Mexico City
Selected Group
Exhibits
Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; ISEA/2002,
Nagoya, Japan; VIPER International Festival of Film/ Video
and New Media, Basel, Switzerland; Chelsea Art Museum; 3LeggedDog,
New York; Parasolka Floats at the Silk Mill, Union City, New
Jersey; Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria; Galerie Rachel Haferkamp,
Cologne, Germany; Tesla, Berlin, Germany; Dock4, Kassel Germany;
John Michel Kohler Center, Wisconsin; Korean American Museum,
Los Angeles, CA; Studio Museum of Harlem, NYC; Monmouth Museum,
NJ; Hostos Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; Eugenia Cucalon Gallery,
NYC; Center for Book Arts, NY; Joseloff Gallery, University
of Hartford, CT; Museo del Barrio, NYC; Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, MD; The Drawing Center, NYC; Mexican
Museum, San Francisco, CA; Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Pa,
Brazil; Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA; Museo del Banco
Central del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Museo de la Casa de
Cultura, Quito, Ecuador; New Langston Center, San Francisco,
CA; II Bienal de Pintura,Cuenca, Ecuador; Anne Plumb Gallery,
NYC; Southeastern Massachusetts University, New Bedford, MA;
Galerie D’Art Lavelin, Montreal, Canada; Museo de Bellas
Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; II Bienal de Habana, Cuba, Museum
of Modern Art (MOMA), New York.
Selected Book arts,
Publications, Essays and Photo Essays:
Diário de Imagens/Diary of
Images, a bilingual book about Josely Carvalho’s
work with 256 pages, 200 color illustrations and critical
texts will be published in 2011 by Contra Capa Editora,
Rio de Janeiro
Entre os Lençóis/Between
the Sheets, bookart, 34 pgs. A book of photography
and poetry. Printed at www.blurb.com.
It’s Still Time to Mourn,
bookart, 64 pages, ed. 800. Printed in offset at the
Visual Studies Workshop, 1992.
My Body is my Country, bookart,
silkscreen and offset. Ed: 1000. Printed at the artist’s
studio with text by the artist and Lucy Lippard, 1991.
The Meal, bookart, bi-lingual,
hand silkscreen printed on Rives paper by the artist,
accordion format 12 pgs. Ed: 25.
Burning in Hell, original bookart,
Xerox, two colors, commissioned by Franklin Furnace.
Collection of MOMA, New York
Connections Project/Conexus, bookart.
Ed. 600. Xerox with silkscreen cover in collaboration
with Sabra Moore.
My Body is my Country, Heresies,
Latina Issue, 1994.
Does Culture have Color?, Meaning,
An anthology of artist’s writings, Theory and Criticism.
Edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor, Duke University Press,
2000
Making it happen, with Sabra
Moore, in AND Journal of Art and Art Education, #18/19,
London, England, p.34-35. 1989
The Meal, a portfolio of poetry
and images, Ikon, #7, Feb 1987. Cover and pp.101-107
Story of Elza, a visual
short story, Heresies, Spring 1986, pp 64-65
"Solidarity Art By Mail",
with Fatima Bercht, Flue: Franklin Furnace, NYC, Winter,
p. 41. 1984
In the Name of the Birds, the Fishes
and the Holy Turtle; video, 5 min. 1994
Cirandas, video, 10 min. 1993
Projections for the opera Fata Morgana
by Jocy de Oliveira, Opera House (Teatro Municipal)
São Paulo, Brazil, 1990; the Museum of Modern
Art of Rio de Janeiro, November 13-16 and December 11-14,
1987
Diary of Images, performance/lecture,
Albright College, Reading, PA Nov 1989
Projection installation, New Music America
festival, Miami Planetarium, 1988
The Meal, color video, 4.30
min, 1985 (Portuguese and English versions).
Make a Silkscreen from a Score:
Make a Score from a Silkscreen, color video, 17
min. 1976.
Smell of Fish, performance;
Casa de Las Americas, Havana, Cuba; Women's Caucus for
Art, Cooper Union, NYC, 1986; Paço das Artes,
São Paulo, Brazil, 1985; Central Hall Gallery,
NYC,; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, 1985
Diary of Images, poetry reading,
St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, NYC, January & Franklin
Furnace, NYC, 1984
St. Mark's in 1905, color silkscreen
poster, edition of 275, commissioned by The Friends of
St. Mark's, NYC, 1978
Ginkana, an event designed
to increase awareness of one's living space, played with
the public in general during 36 hours in the city of
Curitiba, Brazil, 1974 & National University
of Mexico, School of Architecture, with 1500 students
and professors throughout Mexico City, 1972
50 original silkscreens commissioned
by the Mexican government to be displayed in public
buildings throughout the country, 1972
Selected Public Collections:
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City
Museum of Modern Art,(MOMA) New York City
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Seguros Sociales, Mexico
Museo de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Brazil
Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP),
São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC),
São Paulo, Brazil
