Artist Talk: Ana Elisa Egreja in Conversation with Jennifer Inacio @ Jessica Silverman
On the occasion of Ana Elisa Egreja‘s first U.S. solo exhibition, presented by Jessica Silverman, we invite you to join the artist in conversation with Jennifer Inacio, Curator at Pérez Art Museum (PAMM). Together, Egreja and Inacio will discuss the artist’s richly layered paintings, exploring the intersections of memory, material culture, and the domestic interior.
Ana Elisa Egreja (b. 1983, São Paulo, Brazil) received her BFA from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo. Egreja has previously enjoyed institutional solo exhibitions at Direktorenhaus, Berlin; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; and Sesc Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; The Bomb Factory, London; Palazzo Coardi di Carpeneto, Turin; Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Somerset House, London; and Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, among many others. Her work is held in the collections of Deji Art Museum, China; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy; Franks-Suss Collection, UK; Kistefos Museum, Norway; Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia; Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Brazil; and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Egreja lives and works in São Paulo and is represented by Almeida & Dale.
Jennifer Inacio is a Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she has organized numerous exhibitions including Woody De Othello: coming forth by day; Worlds Apart; Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM’s Collection; One Becomes Many;Marcela Cantuária: The South American Dream; Simone Leigh: Trophallaxis; Hélio Oiticica:Penetrável Macaléia; MY BODY, MY RULES; Sid Grossman: Photography, Politics, and the Ethical Image, among others. She also curated PAMM’s first augmented reality project, Felice Grodin: Invasive Species, and more recently developed the exhibitions ZELO and The Days that Build Us for the museum’s digital platform PAMMTV. Forthcoming projects include Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove and a major exhibition of Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão. At PAMM, Inacio has significantly expanded the museum’s holdings of Brazilian art, doubling the number of works by Brazilian artists and deepening the institution’s engagement with Latin American art histories. Her curatorial practice foregrounds questions of identity, collective memory, and social change, with research interests spanning feminist theory, diasporic practices, and contemporary art of the Americas. Inacio holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Practice and Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, and a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London.