Born in 1983 in Brasília, Federal District. Lives and works in Brasília. Undergraduate degree in Visual Arts from the Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes (FADM), 2010. Has worked for over a decade as a visual artist, and since 2012 he has been a teacher in the Taguatinga public schools in the Federal District. He is represented by the Mendes Wood DM Gallery. Solo shows include: Antonio Obá, Galeria Mendes Wood DM, 2017, São Paulo; Carnagem, Galeria de Arte XXX, Brasília, 2016; Cultura Afro em Alta, Espaço Cultura Inglesa, Brasília, 2013. Group shows he has participated in include: South-South: Let me Begin again, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2017; My body cage, Galeria Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro, 2016; ENTRE, Casa da América Latina, Brasília, 2016. Certain themes run throughout his work, such as the relationship between religiosity, Christian iconography, the mixing of races, memory, body and ritual, which appear in works such as: Iconografia para uma missa preta, 2016; Pregação, 2016; or Atos da transfiguração – desaparição ou receita para fazer um santo, 2015 (performance).
Antônio Obá


Malungo, 2016, Antônio Obá, Negros Indícios Exhibition. Photo: Miguel Pinheiro
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Exhibitions
Paulo Nazareth: Nosotros los otros
Mendes Wood DM
New York, United States
06 May - 10 June 2022


Exhibitions
Magliani
Fundação Iberê Camargo
Porto Alegre, Brazil
19 March - 31 July 2022


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Água Banta
Memorial Municipal Getúlio Vargas
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
07 May - 19 June 2022


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Un lugar secreto, sombras en el bosque
Museo de Arte Afroamericano Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
19 March - 22 May 2022


Exhibitions
Aquí me quedo / Here I Stay
Institute for Contemporary Art
Richmond (VA), United States
06 May - 19 June 2022


Talks / Workshops
Negras imagens
Instituto Moreira Salles (online)
São Paulo, Brazil
17 May - 07 June 2022


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Encantadas
Schwules Museum
Berlin, Germany
11 March - 18 July 2022


Exhibitions
Espiral para sueños compartidos
Museo Universitario del Chopo
Ciudad de México, Mexico
29 January - 26 June 2022


Exhibitions
Primer junte de mujeres artistas afrodescendientes en Carolina
Museo Casa Escuté
Carolina, Puerto Rico
30 April - 14 May 2022


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Eu sei por que o pássaro canta na gaiola
Simões de Assis
São Paulo, Brazil
31 March - 21 May 2022


Exhibitions
Ayrson Heráclito: Yorùbáiano
Pinacoteca de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
02 April - 22 August 2022


Festivals
FLAWA: Festival of Latin American Women in the Arts
London, United Kingdom
05 May - 14 May 2022
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Installation View
Mercosul Biennial
The 11th edition of the Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial focuses on the Atlantic Triangle.



Inside the Library
The Black Library, Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico
A look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer and often forgotten publications. Featured this time: The Black Library in Mexico



“Manglaria: raíces y sujeciones”
Reimagining the Colombian Pacific
The exhibition brings together diverse perspectives on the territory and the Afro and indigenous representations in Colombia.


Installation View
The Jumbee Sea
The exhibition The Jumbee Sea contests colonial histories by reconfiguring collective memories from Saint Martin Island and the West Indies.


Make Techno Black Again
The Exhibition TECHNO Reveals Institutional Blind Spots
Art historian Jamila Moroder argues that an exhibition in Bolzano, Italy, disconnects techno from its Black heritage, and suggests we take a more complex view.


In Conversation with Tiago Sant'Ana
"The Naturalization of Whiteness as a Life Parameter"
Artist and researcher uses materials such as sugar to discuss the naturalization and erasure of a colonial past.


The Politics of Textile Art
The Unexpected Power of Threads
Two recent books focus on artists using textiles as a way of traversing politics and creating meaning.


Paulo Nazareth at the ICA Miami
Dismantling colonial power
The Brazilian artist offers a journey to understand the oppressive, exploitative nature of colonial history in his country.


Exhibition
Take Me to the River
A multimedia exhibition by the Goethe-Institut and the Prince Claus Fund Art and culture responds to the climate crisis.