Gravura Brasileira

Debora  Ando

Sao Paulo, Brazil
Currently lives and works in Dublin

Member and etching tutor of Black Church Print Studio.        



Education

MA Visual Arts,replica watches IADT, Ireland, ongoing
BA Fine Arts with specialization in Fine Print, School of Communication and Arts, Universidade  of São Paulo (ECA/USP), 2002;


     
Grants/Bursary/Fellowships/Residencies

Culture Ireland Grant for the Exchange Print Project between Ireland and Colombia, 2010;
CAMAC Centre D’Art Marnay Sur Seine Residency, France, October/November, 2008;
Travel and Training Award, Arts Council Ireland, 2008;
‘Where Borders Meet’, residency, Gorlice, Poland, September 2008;
Residency, talk and presentation of works, The Regional Print Centre, Yale University, Wales, 2003;
CNPq Bursary, Project “Engraving as Process”, Dr.Jorge Carvajal, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2000;
Coseas Bursary, Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo, MAC/SP, Laboratory of Art Research, 1997;
Yázigi Scholarship of English studies for the work displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sao Paulo, 1992;









Exhibitions               


2010                                 Print Exchange Show, Ireland and Colombia, Original Print Gallery and
                                         studio La Estampa, Dublin and Medellin
                                         Where Borders Meet - The Response, Graphic Studio Dublin, Dublin 
                                         Yeats and the Golden Age of Print, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland

2009                                 Northern Print Biennale, Newcastle, England
                                         - selected by Gill Sauders, senior curator (prints) V&A; featuring in the 
                                         show: Louise Bourgeois, Michael Craig Martin, Jim Dine, among others
                                       
                                        Tomorrow is Today, Original Print Gallery, Dublin
                                         Box id, Original Print Gallery, Dublin
                                         Symmetry, Original Print Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
                                         Where Borders Meet – The Response, Gorale and Krakow, Poland 
                                                                    
2008                                 CAMAC Centre D’Art Marnay, Open Studio show, France
                                         Where Borders Meet, Gorlice Municipal Museum, Poland
2005                                 5º Biennale International d’Ile-de-France, Versailles, France
                                         Print Zero Exchange, Blue Door Gallery, Seattle, USA                                       
2004                                 Memorial Gallery Annual Exhibition, Wrexham, Wales, UK

2003                                 Geracoes - Homenagem a Tomie Ohtake, Espaço Unicid, São Paulo

2002                                 Doze, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo
                                       
                                         Debora Ando, solo show, Centro Cultural São Paulo
                                      
                                         Annual Exhibition Programme, Centro Cultural São Paulo
                                       
                                         Debora Ando, Historic and Pedagogic Museum Cerqueira César, São 
                                         Carlos
                                     
2001                                 I Print Biennale, Paço Municipal de Santo André, Santo André

                                         Edictal of Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Campinas

                                         The 20th Century’s Concerns - Debora Ando’s e Carlos Eduardo  
                                         Riccioppo’s prints, Faculty of Law São Francisco/ USP                       

2000                                 XXV SARP, Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto

                                         3º Young Talents Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Americana
     
1999                                 Mostra Rio Gravura, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro

                                         2º Young Talents Prize, MAC/ Americana


1997                                 Poéticas, Empório Cultural Paulista, São Paulo                    
          
                                         Espaço, Associação Atlética do Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo

1992                                 Art with Condoms, Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, MAC/USP




Bibliography


Printmaking Today, magazine – England, Interview with Debora Ando, September, 2004;

`Grapheion Review.  European review of modern prints, book and paper art` magazine, nº 11-12, issue 3-4/1999, Czech Republic, Grapheion Magazine/`Images replica audemars piguet and Places`, written by Walter Jules, Canada;
Newspaper
Folha de São Paulo: Ilustrada, September 2002; Caderno Mais, Guia da Folha, September 2002; Os Dez +, September 2002
O Estado de São Paulo: Caderno 2, September 2002; October 2003;
São Paulo Shimbum - September 2002; October 2003;
Jornal do Nikkey - September 2002; October 2003;