Renata Egreja was born in the city of São Paulo in 1984.
As a child, the artist grew up amid agricultural plantations in the Center-West of São Paulo. From the age of 14, she moved to Sao Paulo city to finish high school, going on to begin studying visual arts at the Armando Alvarez Penteado Foundation. In 2007 she moved to Paris, where she finished her graduation studies. After graduating, she completed a master’s degree at Ecole des Beaux Arts, ENSBA.
Egreja works with different artistic genres, such as sculpture and installation. But the great axis of her work is painting. She has won some awards such as the Itamaraty Contemporary Art Award and FAAP Artistic Residency, Itamaraty Sanskriti Faudation and Trajetórias Artísticas of the Government of São Paulo state Award.
She has also participated in the exhibitions Os Primeiros Dez Anos and Correspondências at Instituto Tomie Othake, new acquisitions MAC Sorocaba, Elas at FAAP, among others.
She has held solo exhibitions in two galleries in São Paulo: Zipper Galeria and Galeria Lume.
Also, she has had her arts exhibited at Curitiba Art Museum, MAG Goiânia and more recently at Pinacoteca Fórum das Artes in Botucatu.
Her art is part of collections such as Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, MAC Sorocaba and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Itamaraty.
Interestingly, she currently lives in the countryside with her husband and two little amazing daughters at the same farm where she spent most of her childhood, in Ipaussu.
São Paulo,1984.
Lives and works in Ipaussu, Brazil.
Academic Education
2007 - Graduation in Fine Arts Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.
2010 - Master in Fine Arts École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
Individual Exhibitions
2021- Prosperidade e abundancia, solo show stand Galeria Lume, ARTERIO.
Em volta do tempo, curatorship of Celia Barros, Pinacoteca Fórum das Artes, Botucatu,
Brazil.
2019 - Certezas transparentes, Galeria Lume, São Paulo, Brazil.
2018 - Já que temos tempo, sejamos felizes. MAG Goiânia, Brazil.
2017 - Projeto entre muros, SESC Piracicaba, Brazil.
2014 - Idilio, Zipper galeria, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013 - Anatã, India International Center, Nova Delhi, India.
2012 - Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil.
A Regra do Jogo, Historical Museum of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
Um traço basta, Museum of Contemporary Art of Curtiba, Brazil.
2011 - A Pintura É Uma Festa, Mas Não se Perca na Purpurina, Museu de Arte de Goiânia.
A Pintura É Uma Festa, Mas Não se Perca na Purpurina, Museu de Arte Contemporânea
de Jataí.
2010 - A Pintura É Uma Festa, Mas Não se Perca na Purpurina. Investart, São Paulo, Brazil
Diplome National Superieure dês Beaux-Arts de Paris. Atelier D. Gauthier, Paris, França
Galerie Droite, Palais des Etudes, Paris, França
2008 - A pintura peregrina. Atelier D. Gauthier, Paris, França.
Collective Exhibitions
2021 - Just Breath, Mana Conteporary and The 55 Projet , curatorship of Felipe Hegg, Miami.
2020 - 45° SARP – Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto National-Contemporary, MARP Museu de Arte
de Ribeirão Preto.
2019 - 51° Contemporary Art Salon of Piracicaba, Pinacoteca Miguel Dutra, Piracicaba, Brazil.
“Desbravando o Acervo” no Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba (MACS).
2018 - Poéticas do feminino, SESC Sorocaba, Brazil.
2016 - Ellas, MAB Faap.
2017 - Olhares e Perspectivas a pintura no acervo, MACS. Sorocaba, Brazil.
2015 - Exposure Novas Aquisições, MACS. Sorocaba, Brazil.
2013 - Residencia artistica, MAB Faap, São Paulo, Brazil.
am Main. Rothamel Galery, Frankfurt, Alemanha.
2014 - 1° Exhibition Result of the Artist residency at Palacete Scarpa MACS, Museu de Arte
Contemporânea de Sorocaba, Brazil.
2011
- Os Primeiros 10 Anos. Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
2010 - Exhibition Program. Museu de Arte de Goiânia, Brazil.
Exhibition Program. Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Jeunes Talents. Paris Dauphine, Paris, France.
2009 - 40° Chapel Art Show. Chapel School, São Paulo.
2008 - Salon D’Art Realites Nouvelles. Parc Floral, Paris, France.
Entretiras. Círculo 3, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007 - 38° Annual Arts of FAAP. Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.
Atelier D. Gauthier. Galerie Gauche, Paris, France.
Awards
2020 - PROAC Expresso Law Aldir Blanc “Award for Archievement History In Visual”
2013 - Artistic Residence, FAAP e Itamaraty for Nova Delhi. Sanskrit Foudation.
2012 - Award Itamaraty of Contemporary Art.
2013 - Acquisition Award Plastic Arts Salon of Praia Grande.
2010 - Jeunes Talents. Paris Dauphine, Paris, Frace.
2007 - 38° Annual Arts of FAAP. Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.
Works in Public Collections
MAC Sorocaba, Brazil.
Itamaraty, Ministério das relações exteriores.
Praia Grande Museum. Brazil.
MAB, Museu de arte Brasileira, FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
MARP, Museu de arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.