Biography
NICOLAS ROBBIO (1975)
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Nicolás Robbio (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1975)
graduated from the Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales Martin A.
Malharro in 1999 and has lived and worked in São Paulo, Brazil
since 2001. In 2006 he was awarded the Rumos prize for
contemporary visual art for an installation of drawings and
objects entitled As boas intenções não são sempre as melhores
(Good intentions are not always the best). This year
he was selected by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen to
participate in the current 28th Bienal de São Paulo -
and he is also taking part in two other significant group shows
running concurrently with that event: Paralela 2008: De Perto
e De Longe (From Near And Far) curated by Rodrigo Moura, and
I/Legítimo: Dentro e Fora Do Circuito (I/Legitimate:
Inside and Outside the Circuit) curated by Fernando Oliva for
São Paulo’s MIS (Museum of Image and Sound).
His solo exhibitions include:
Por Puntos (By Points), Galeria
Nuevochenta, Bogota, 2008; Porque Junio no tiene 31 dias
(Because June does not have 31 days), Ruth Benzacar, Buenos
Aires, 2007; Quase como Ontem (Almost like Yesterday),
Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2007; Avalanche,
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2007 and Only Icebergs Travel
Adrift, 2005, first site, Colchester, UK). Working
individually and in collaboration with other artists, his
practice extends to the production of artists books and
editions, with recent commissions including a print for the
Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo and a book for the forthcoming
Trienal Poli/Gráfica in San Juan. His work has been shown in
several important group exhibitions including Geração da
Virada – 10 + 1: os anos recentes da arte brasileira, 2006,
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; Subversiones Diarias,
2005, MALBA, Buenos Aires and A Nova Geometria, Fortes
Vilaça, São Paulo 2001. His work is in public collections in
Argentina, Brazil and the UK. .
