Paulo Nimer Pjota
Paulo Nimer Pjota (born 1988) is a mixed media Brazilian artist. Pjota prefers to work on large surfaces. He uses canvas, sacks and scrap metal plates, mostly found in junkyards, as supports. Biography. Paulo Nimer Pjota was born in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil in 1988. He studied at the University Center of Fine Arts of São Paulo earning his Bachelor of Visual Arts. Pjota now lives and works in São Paulo. He is an artist of many mediums and prefers to work on large surfaces. Work. Pjota's art consists of many colliding components that  are neither literal or direct but rather suggestive and at times curious. “His works highlight the clichés of figurative and landscape painting”.(Artuner) Each canvas is treated as a sketchbook of sorts in where you find a collection of images with no particular placement but each image intentionally. Pjota suggests an open narrative in no particular order but the order in which the viewer's imagination takes. His work confronts the viewer with a string of juxtapositions. The archeological artifacts are compared with soda cans, still lifes overshadowed by war and popular culture meets what once was. "Synthesis Of Contradictory Ideas  and the Plurality of the Object as Image Part 2", Maureen Paley, London Exhibitions. Solo. "Synthesis of Contradictory Ideas and the Plurality of the Object as Image", Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo Relational System project Season - Palace of Arts São Paulo, São Paulo Paulo Nimer Pjota, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil 1 shows the exhibition program Centro Cultural São Paulo 2012, São Paulo, Walking in the White solo exhibit Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA "A Luz Que Vela O Corpo É A Mesma Que Revela a Tela, Caixa". Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "New Shamans  / Novos Xamãs: Brazilian Artists", Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA Group (selected). "Soft Power. Arte Brasil.", Kunsthal in Amersfoort, The Netherlands "The World is Made of Stories", Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway "City Uneasy", SESC Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil "Imagine Brazil", DHC / Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada "Ce Monde Fabuleux Moderne MAC-Lyon", Lyon, France "Imagine Brazil", Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo, Brazil "19 Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil" - Southern Panoramas, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil "Nourishing", OCA, São Paulo, Brazil "Nourishing Expo Milan", Milan, Italy "Boiling Point, gallery PSM", Berlin, Germany "Here There (Huna  Hunak)", QM Al Riwaq Gallery, Doha, Qatar "Peace among animals", Rumors Fine Arts, São Paulo, Brazil "The part que does not belong to you", Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden, Germany "The First And Last Freedom", MOT international gallery, London, UK "Made by ... done by Brazilians", matarazzo city, São Paulo, Brazil "Imagine Brazil", Mac-Lyon, Lyon, France. "Nourishing", MAM-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "10 years of the prize acquisition", Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo "Chambers à Part, Edition VIII", La Réseve Paris, Paris, France "Imagine Brazil", Astrup Feranley Museet, Oslo, Norway "Entre-temps ... Brusquement", et ensuite 12e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France  Itinerancy SESC_Videobrasil, SESC, São José do Rio Preto, Campinas and Santos, Brazil Landscape of Invention, Yes Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil "Southern Panoramas", the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival "SESC_Videobrasil", SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo "Without Limits", Yes Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil "Untitled # 1-After-Death Experiences", Oscar Cruz Galeria, São Paulo "Transfer of Cultures Museum Pavilion Brazilian", São Paulo, Brazil "Paperview", John Jones Limited_Project Space, London, England "Fresh Produce" Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, USA "Pliable", Contemporary Art Museum of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil "Illegitimate Paco das Artes", São Paulo, Brazil "1 Hall Arts São José do Rio Preto", São José do Rio Preto , Brazil "39th Salon of Arts Piracicaba", Piracicaba, Brazil