Laercio Redondo

Visual Artist

Summer 2017-2018

Laercio Redondo is a visual artist based in Rio de Janeiro and Stockholm. He received his MFA from the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, in Stockholm. He is the recipient of various grants, among them the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship in Stuttgart and the IASPIS residency program in Stockholm. In his artistic research Redondo engages extensively with collective memory and its erasure in society. He has exhibited widely in museums of modern and contemporary art, with solo shows in 2016 at Dallas Contemporary and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. At the Clark, he will develop the project of a forthcoming exhibition of his work in collaboration with Birger Lipinski, Fernanda Pitta, Kaira M. Cabañas and Valéria Piccoli, in connection with Pitta’s project on narrative models for long-term exhibitions of historical art collections.