Jonathas de Andrade

Recife, Brazil, 1982

Jonathas de Andrade makes videos, photographs and installations based on the production of images and texts, using strategies that set fiction alongside reality. Starting from the artist’s interest in social issues, his works cross the fields of language and anthropology as aspects that question notions of truth, power, desire and the social imaginary. His solo exhibitions include Eye-Spark, MAAT, Lisbon (2023); CRAC Alsace, France (2022); Pounce and Bounce, Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023); One to One, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019); The Fish, New Museum, New York (2017); The Power Plant, Toronto (2017); and Visiones del Nordeste, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2017). He has taken part in group exhibitions such as the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019); Artapes, MAXXI, Rome (2018); the 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016); Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, MoMA (2015); and Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014). In 2022 he presented a solo project for the Brazilian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.