Ana Prata
Biography
Ana Prata (Sete Lagoas, BR, 1980) developed her career in São Paulo, where the 1980s painting scene had been predominantly dominated by male painters who favoured a neo-expressionist, transavantgarde style. After a hiatus in the 1990s, when conceptual art took over the circuit, Prata’s was the first generation to fully embrace painting and bring it to the forefront in the new millennium - among her peers are renowned artists like Lucas Arruda, Marina Rheingantz, and others. In her work, the artist freely borrows a myriad of disparate references from art historical genres and movements, combining genuine reverence for the masters of the past with a tongue-in-cheek approach that gives rise, above all, to an ongoing inquiry about the nature and the possibilities of painting in the present. Over the past couple of years, Prata has been consistently exploring the still life genre, embracing a wide vocabulary of pictorial references ranging from naif art, abstraction, amateur Sunday painting, and many more, thus conflating binary categories such as high and low/erudite and outsider/ major and minor in works characterised by their exceptional use of colour and composition.
Exhibitions
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Textured
2 Jul - 5 Sep 2025 LAMBHeidi Bucher, Giorgio Griffa, Sheila Hicks, Omar Mendoza, Tiago Mestre, Alek O, Ana Prata, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Camile Sproesser LAMB is pleased to present Textured , a group exhibition spanning...Read more -
Off The Grid curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli
Anderson Borba | Alexandre Canonico | Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe | Merve Iseri | Ana Prata | Daniel Rios Rodriguez 18 Nov - 15 Dec 2021 LAMBLAMB is pleased to present Off The Grid, a group exhibition featuring works by six artists who approach painting in unconventional ways. Departing from modern and contemporary pictorial traditions, they all create a unique visual language that originates from their own engagement with different cosmologies, art histories, procedures, and techniques. Therefore, what binds together this heterogeneous group of artists is both the idea of painting (understood as ‘in the expanded field’) and the singular way in which the works sit uncomfortably in relation to the so-called established Western art canons.Read more