Shirley Paes Leme

Shirley Paes Leme

1955, Cachoeira Dourada, Brazil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Inside Out, 1986 | Paper mass, deadfall eucalyptus sticks and wire | 30 sqm | Fiberworks Gallery, Berkeley, USA | Linda Boddy Collection, Vacaville, Califórnia, USA

Shirley Paes Leme | Uno, 1990 | Paper mass, deadfall eucalyptus sticks and wire | 100 sqm | SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil | Aaborg City Hall Collection, Aaborg, Denmark.

Shirley Paes Leme | Uno, 1990 | Paper mass, deadfall eucalyptus sticks and wire | 100 sqm | SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil | Aaborg City Hall Collection, Aaborg, Denmark.

Shirley Paes Leme | Risco ll, from the Appropriated drawings series, 1990 | Deadfall eucalyptus stick | 200 x 100 x 2 cm

Shirley Paes Leme | Fortaleza, 1983/2009 | Deadfall sticks and wire. 1200 x 260 x 120 cm and wildflower pollen on paper, 45 x 33 cm each | Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Dream Tunnel, Formas Lúdicas no Espaço (Playground) project, 1979/1983 | Wood and rope | 200 x 1800 x 1800 cm | Parque Sabiá, Uberlândia, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Dream Tunnel, Formas Lúdicas no Espaço (Playground) project, 1979/1983 | Wood and rope | 200 x 1800 x 1800 cm | Parque Sabiá, Uberlândia, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Formas lúdicas no espaço (Playground) project, general plan, 1979/1983 | 10,000 sqm | Parque Sabiá, Uberlândia, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Tents, Formas lúdicas no espaço (Playground) project, 1979/1983 | Sisal ropes and wood | 180 x 200 x 100 cm each | Parque Sabiá, Uberlândia, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Dreamed tunnel and Escher’s way, Formas lúdicas no espaço (Playground) project, 1979/1983 | Wood and rope | 200 x 1800 x 1800 cm and 600 x 860 x 600 cm | Parque Sabiá, Uberlândia, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Cultura, 1984/2000 | Video, color, sound material, 3’42”, manure, larva and mosquitos, video text and glass | 180 sqm | Bienal de São Paulo 50 anos, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Viva Água Vida, 2017 | Bienal Sur, Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Shirley Paes Leme | Poemas Concreto, 2014, Books | 200 x 276 x 30 cm | Centro Cultural Minas Tênis Clube, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | São, 1984/1998 | Deadfall eucalyptus sticks and wire | 280 x 600 x 1200 cm | Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme | Estado das Coisas ll, from Mapas do acaso series, 2004 | Banana stain on paper | 30 x 40 cm

Shirley Paes Leme | Fluxos ll, from the Taking the risk series, 1996 | Gunpowder and fire on paper, 50 x 70.5 cm

Shirley Paes Leme

1955, Cachoeira Dourada, Brazil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Shirley Paes Leme (1955, Cachoeira Dourada, Brazil). Since the 1970s, the artist has produced works in different media, including installation, video, drawing, painting, sculpture and public works. Over the decades, the artist has been interested in the trail of fleeting and fluid things, such as smoke, light, soot, gunpowder, blood, pollen, fungus and many other organic materials.

After graduating from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil (1975-1978), Paes Leme received a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation and started a master degree at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (1983). She later moved to Berkeley, where started a doctorate program at the John F. Kennedy University (1986). Along with her artistic practice, the artist is also a theorist and a scholar and worked as a teacher at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia and Faculdade Santa Marcelina. Actually she lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Her work has been exhibited extensively in museums and biennials, including: Lausanne Biennial; Poland Biennial; Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Bienal de La Habana, Cuba; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Dragão do Mar Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Brazil; Sesc São Paulo, Brazil; Museu da Vale, Vitória, Brazil among others.

Her work can be found in important collections, such as: MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; MAC-Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; National Museum in Aalborg, Denmark; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Gilberto Chateaubriand, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Ceará, Brazil; Patrícia Cisneiros, New York.