New York-based Brazilian artist Cyriaco Lopes has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP), El Museo del Barrio in NYC, the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in Paris, Casa Degli Artisti in Milan, among other international venues. He is the winner of the NYC World Studio Foundation Award, the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis Project Award, the São Paulo Phillips Prize of trip to Europe.
His performances with poet Terri Witek have been seen at the Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Salford Museum, in Manchester, England, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL, the Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporanea, in Valencia, Spain, and Oi Futuro Center for Art & Technology, in Rio, Brazil. Their collaboration is represented by The Liminal Gallery, Valencia, Spain.
The artist holds two M.F.A.s and has attended artist’s residencies such as Skowhegan, MassMoca, MacDowell (where Lopes was a 2019 Marian O. Naumburg Photography fellow), etc.
Lopes is an associate professor of art at John Jay College / the City University of New York. He also teaches in the Stetson University M.F.A. of the Americas in Poetry in the Expanded Field.
