Lucia Nogueira (1950–1998) was a Brazilian artist specialising in sculptures and installations, video works and drawings. Her work often alluded to the body and was concerned with the relationship between objects and language.

Biography

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Nogueira was born in

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in central Brazil and was the eldest of five children. She studied Journalism and Communications in Brazil, and studied photography in the US before traveling to London in 1975. Planning to stay for just two weeks to visit her brother, she ended up staying for the rest of her life. In London, she studied painting at the

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from 1976 to 1979, then at the

Central School of Art and Design The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Cr ...

from 1979 to 1980.

Work

Nogueira’s first solo exhibition was at the Carlile Gallery in London in 1988 and other shows soon followed at the

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and the Chisenhale Gallery in London; the

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in Birmingham and at the

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, London. A retrospective exhibition was staged at the Museu Serralves gallery in Porto in 2007. A focused presentation of her work was featured in the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo - ''Affective Affinities'' exhibition in Brazil in 2018. Her work is in the collection of the

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, The

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, The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Museu Serralves and other international collections. Nogueira was awarded a residency at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 1993 and a

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Award for Visual Artists in 1996.

"My way of thinking is very much from Brazil: My way of picking up objects comes from there too. It is something connected with childhood and also with the Brazilian psyche. Our way of thinking is not as linear as it is in Europe ... In art you obviously have a background in art history. We don't have that in Brazil at all. I think the way we developed our visual sense is different from the European model. I didn't have that. We just do everything in a very empirical way, even art."Mischief: Lucia Nogueira, 15 January - 13 March 2011, Kettle's Yard, Teachers Support Notes

She died of cancer aged 48 and is buried in

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in north London.

References

External links

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Michael Landy Michael Landy (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation '' Break Down'' (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the ''Art Bin'' project (2010) at the ...

, Lucia Nogueira,

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), 1993 * https://issuu.com/annelyjuda/docs/nogueira Annely Juda Fine Art, 2016 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nogueira, Lucia 1950 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Brazilian women artists Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts Brazilian expatriates in the United Kingdom Burials at Highgate Cemetery Deaths from cancer in England People from Goiânia