Curriculum Vitae of Davis Lisboa: Storyboard Illustrator in Barcelona
Professional Summary: Storyboarding, Illustration, and Contemporary Painting
On this page, I share an overview of my career, which includes my skills, education, personal experiences, and participation in both solo and group exhibitions.
My Main Skills
- Artistic drawing
- Contemporary painting
- High creativity applied to visual projects
- Personal expression in original artworks
- Management of a contemporary art mini-museum
Patents: Art Projects
Davis Museum, The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona -
Museus Catalunya i Centres de Patrimoni Cultural (Museums of Catalonia and Centers of Cultural Heritage)
Education
- 1996-2008 Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Degree in Painting, Spain
- 1987-1990 Escola Massana, Centre d'Art i Disseny, Advanced Studies in Painting, Barcelona, Spain
- 1978-1982 ETEC Carlos de Campos, Technician in Communication Drawing, São Paulo, Brazil
Biography
- 2023 My work Musée d'Art Moderne 11 (André Cadere) was selected to be the cover of the book Grimus, written by Salman Rushdie and published by Éditions Gallimard in Paris, France.
- 2021 Selected artist at the art gallery DCS Contemporary, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- 2020 Instructor of the online course Storyboard Illustration with Procreate on Domestika.
- 2009 Formal recognition of the permanent contemporary art collection of the Davis Museum, The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona by the Museus Catalunya i Centres de Patrimoni Cultural (Museums of Catalonia and Centers of Cultural Heritage), Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya), Barcelona, Spain.
- 2009 Creation of the Davis Museum, The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona
- 1998 Obtained Spanish-Brazilian nationality.
- Since 1989 Opening of own studio for illustration and painting in Barcelona, Spain.
- Since 1987 Residence in Barcelona, Spain.
- 1965 Born in São Paulo, Brazil.
Individual Art Exhibitions
- 2020 Sister Museum, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Genco Gülan, Turkey
- 2019 La Secció de les Pintures del Davis Museum, Casa del Llibre, Barcelona, Spain
- 2017 Galerie Légitime 2.0, curated by Manuel Minch, Internet Moon Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2015 Should museums celebrate elections?, curated by Francesca Brusa and Costanza Sartoris, Archive Box Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2011 The Aesthetic of Charge, MKAC, Karura Art Centre Museum, Second Life
- 2009 Hybrid-Visiolibri, La Cova de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain
- 2009 Hybrid-Farrago, Sala de Arte Alteroutlet, Barcelona, Spain
- 2009 Davis Museum: Exhibition of the permanent collection of contemporary art by Davis Museum, MKAC, Karura Art Centre Museum, Second Life
- 2009 Què hem de fer amb l'art dels nou vinguts?, Centre Cívic Josep M. Trias i Peitx, Barcelona, Spain
- 2007 BMW by Davis, BMW Ibérica, Madrid, Spain
- 2007 BMW by Davis, BMW Cano Catalunya, Sant Cugat, Spain
- 2007 BMW by Davis, Performance and exhibition, BMW Cano Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006 Locus quod Filiolus, Galería San Vicente 31, Seville, Spain
- 2006 Locus quod Filiolus, Sala d’exposicions, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
- 2003 12 Autoretrats, Sala d’exposicions, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
- 1984 Firasse, Galeria Art Brut, São Paulo, Brazil
Collective Art Exhibitions
- 2025 Countersteps: Eco Artists in the Face of the Environmental Crisis, with Graham Bell Tornado and Chiara Sgaramella, curated by Eugenia Rojo, Cultural Center La Nau of the University of Valencia, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Centro Cultural El Cerro, Moraleja de Enmedio, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Sala Martín Chirino, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Centro Cultural Margarita Nelken, Coslada, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Centro Cultural Padre Vallet, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Sala de exposiciones Al Artis, Valdeolmos - Alalpardo, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Centro Socio-Cultural Federico García Lorca, Humanes de Madrid, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Sala de exposiciones Adolfo Suárez, Velilla de San Antonio, Spain
- 2024 [M]UMoCA Exhibition, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, Red Itner, Centro Cultural Federico García Lorca, Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain
- 2023 Exposición [M]UMoCA, by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, curated by Fernando Baena, participating artists: María María Acha-Kutscher, Jaime Aledo, Beatriz Alegre, Carmen Alvar, Eugenio Ampudia, Alfredo Aracil, Fernando Baena, Almudena Baeza, Pepe Buitrago, Tono Carbajo, Casa Lontana, Ana Cedrón, Nieves Correa, Fernando del Cubo, Josechu Dávila, DosJotas, Mareta Espinosa, Tomaz Furlan, Esther G. Urquijo, Félix García, Lydia Garvín, Anna Gimein, María Gimeno, Marisa González, JM. Yes, Kabaret Insolente, Blanca Lemus, Davis Lisboa, Lo Súper, Mateo Maté, Ramón Mateos, Ana Matey, Pepe Medina, Eugenio Merino, Elisa Miravalles, Teresa Moro, Pepe Murciego, Nean, Mar Núñez, Omiste, Javier P. Aranda, Marco Prieto, Prom.run, José Quintanilla, Ben Roberts - EclectikTronik, Antonio de la Rosa, Avelino Sala, Salvaje Selva, Óscar Seco, José Luis Serzo, Son3k, Rafael Suárez, David Trullo, Jaime Vallaure, and Marina Vargas. Cruce Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
- 2023 Archivos Atómicos, Harddiskmuseum by Solimán López, participating artists: Aaron Jablonski, Ai-Da Robot, Alba Triana, Andreas Lutz, Andrés Senn, Angelina Merenkova, Antoine Schmitt, Arturo Moya Villén, Azul De Monte, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Bosch & Simons, Bruno Oubam & Ciberpajé, Carla Gannis, Carlotta Aoun, Caroline Delieutraz, César Escudero Andaluz y Mario Santamaría, Ciro Múseres, Claudia Hart, Claudia Robles-Angel, Cool 3D World, Daniel Cruz, Davis Lisboa, Diego Alberti, Domenico Barra, Donatien Aubert, Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanechère, Eduardo Kac, Emilie Gervais, Enrico Dedin, Enrique Radigales, Esteban Diácono, Esteban Ottaso, Eugenio Ampudia, Fabiana Cruz, Fabien Zocco, Faisal Anwar, Fito Segrera, Fleury Fontaine, François Quévillon, Gabriel Rud, Gregory Chatonsky, Guido Corallo, Guillermo Jones, hAyDiRoKeT, HE Zike, Hugo Martínez-Tormo, Ines Norton, Inma Femenía, Inti Pujol, Iury Lech, Jaime de los Rios, Javier Bilatz, JM Stash, John Sanborn, Jonathan Monaghan, Jorge Castro, Jorge Isla, Juan Covelli, Juan Miceli, Julia Puyo, Jurgen Trautwein, Kamilia Kard, Kate Durbin, Katrin Florian, Kevin Kripper, Klaus Fruchtnis, Labinter, Laís Pontes, Lenina, Li Zhu, Marcos Calvari, María Cañas, Mariana Destro, Mateo Amaral, Matthew Prater, Maximiliano Bellmann, Mike Pelletier, Milad Forouzandeh, Mit Borrás, Miyö Van Stenis, Mohsen Hazrati, Pablo Reche, Pascal Dombis, Paulo Arraiano, Rachel Lamot, Ricardo de Armas, Ricardo Iglesias, Roger Vilder, Roman Chizz, Rosana Antolí, Rubén Tortosa, Ruini Shi, Sabrina Ratté, Sandra Araújo, Sandrine Deumier, Sebastián Tedesco, Snow Yunxue Fu, Systaime, Vladimir Muhvich, Yael Kanarek, El Parqueadero, experimental space, from the Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia
- 2023 El [M]UMoCA en la Nit dels Museus 2023, with the participation of María María Acha-Kutscher, Jaime Aledo, Carmen Alvar, Eugenio Ampudia, Alfredo Aracil, Almudena Baeza, Pepe Buitrago, Nieves Correa, Josechu Dàvila, Lydia Garvín, Anna Gimein, Blanca Lemus, Davis Lisboa, Mateo Maté, Ramón Mateos, Eugenio Merino, Nean, José Quintanilla, Ben Roberts-EclectikTronik, Oscar Seco, José Luis Serzo, Son3k, Rafael Suárez, JM.Yes, [M]UMoCA curated by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain.
- 2022 Metopia Pavilion, The Wrong Biennale 5, 2022 curated by Luciana de Paula Santos
- 2020 Mirades des del confinament, curated by Joan Fontcuberta, Cruïlla Festival, Òmnium Cultural, Igualada, Spain
- 2020 The Temple of Man, Marcel Duchamp Roast, RIA Live Cinema, Beyond Baroque, Venice, California, USA
- 2020 California FluxFest 2020: Vision 20-20, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, California, USA
- 2019 A Book About Death, Islip Art Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 2019 NeoLatinísiiimo Art Biennial, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- 2019 FluxFest 2019: Big Ideas in Small Art, Sheldon Rose Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2019 FluxFest 2019: Pride Mail Project Art Exhibition and Performances, Sheldon Rose Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2017 Aquí y Ahora, “Power, Corruptions and Lies” (6th edition), with María Alcaide, Pablo Bellot, Clément Carat, Alvaro Chior, Jennifer Custodio, Julio Falagán, Urtzi Ibargüen, Davis Lisboa, Céleste Rogosin, Estela Sanchís, Amélie Scotta, and Valcárcel Medina, Galería Blanca Soto Arte, Madrid, Spain
- 2017 Espacio f, collective exhibition of mail art, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
- 2017 For Real, curated by Petra Varl and Elisa Bollazi, participation in The MicroCollection, Archive, ArtHelix Art Gallery, New York, USA
- 2016 Dendrogram Tree-Kit, Davis Museum, Laboratori Social Metropolità, Catarina Leitão and Davis Lisboa, curated by Anna Recasens, La Nau Sud, NauEstruch, Sabadell, Spain
- 2016 Galeria Transparente: Showroom, curated by Frederico Dalton, Galeria do 2º Andar, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2014 Eleven: The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) 10 Year Retrospective, curated by Sean Miller, with Sergio Vega, Saya Moriyasu, Arnold Mesches, Galen Olmsted, Tea Makipaa, Chip Lord, Gregory Green, Ben Patterson, Yoko Ono, Closed Gallery, Brendan Jamison, Davis Lisboa, The Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- 2014 Encapsulados (Wunderkammer), curated by Juan Cuéllar Costa, Casa Sotoa, Málaga, Spain
- 2014 Eleven: The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) 10 Year Retrospective, curated by Sean Miller, with Art Guys, Oliver Herring, Chip Lord, Tea Mäkipää, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Gregory Green, Jim Drain, Andrea Robbins, Max Becher, Sergio Vega, Arnold Mesches, John Feodorov, Kristin Lucas, Connie Hwang, Davis Lisboa, Brendan Jamison, Kevin B. Chen, Saya Moriyasu, Derrick Buisch, Bethany Taylor, John Kieltyka, Kim Anderson, Kelly Cobb, Aideen Doran, Galen Olmsted, Cyriaco Lopes, Miguel Martin, Craig Miller, Deirdre Power, Paraic Leahy, LuLu LoLo, and others, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Florida, USA
- 2013 Incubarte, Festival Internacional de Arte, curated by Javier Marisco, Centro del Carmen Cultura Contemporània, Valencia, Spain
- 2013 The Wrong: New Digital Art Biennale, Homeostasis Lab Pavilion, curated by Julia Borges and Guilherme Brandão, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2013 Remix: 10 years in the mix, Davis Museum (Davis Lisboa) and Danger Museum (Miho Shimizu & Øyvind Renberg), Spor Klübü, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 Small, Unusual and Specialist Museums Survey, curated by Sacha Waldron, with Bill Burns, Andy Warhol, Lenka Clayton, Matthew de Pulford, Paul Hazelton, Betts Robinson, Victoria Adam, Bridgette Ashton, Nicole Ward, Benedict Drew, Michael Crowe, and Anna Clawson, CRATE Studio and Project Space, Margate, England
- 2013 Fast Film "Here and gone in 60 seconds”, LACDA, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, USA
- 2012 Hileia/Antropoantro, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas (MACC), Brazil
- 2011 Museum Show, curated by Nav Haq, with Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum (Davis Lisboa), Boîte-en-valise (Marcel Duchamp), La Galerie Légitime (Robert Filliou), Musée d'art Moderne, Département des Aigles (Marcel Broodthaers), Museum of Contemporary African Art (Meschac Gaba), Museum for Myself (Peter Blake), Museum of American Art, Museo Salinas (Vicente Razo), Museum of Modern Art Syros (Martin Kippenberger), Museum of Incest (Simon Fujiwara) and others, Arnolfini, Bristol's International Centre for Contemporary Arts, England
- 2011 Até Meio Quilo, Grupo Aluga-se, Casa de Cultura da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil
- 2011 Até Meio Quilo, Grupo Aluga-se, Fundação Cultural Badesc, Florianópolis, Brazil
- 2011 Hiléia no Ateliê, Sílvia Matos Creativity Studio, Campinas, Brazil
- 2011 Z-Axis Works, Toy Art Exhibition, Sho Bcn, Barcelona, Spain
- 2011 TroyArt International, MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2010 A Book About Death, SAL Art Gallery, CW Post Campus of Long Island University, Brookville, USA
- 2010 HomeMade: A group video show, curated by Stéphani Hab and Irene Pomar, Davis Museum, Barcelona, Spain
- 2010 A Book About Death, MOMA Wales, Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales
- 2010 A Book About Death, MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2009 Els Colors del Foc, Centre Cívic Parc Sandaru, Barcelona, Spain
- 2009 XXI Equus Catalonia, Artnobel Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2009 Digital Art Expo International, LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, USA
- 2009 Moda Ilustrada, Olido Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2009 Barris Creatius: Energia Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain
- 2009 Sketch it Out!, APW Gallery, New York, USA
- 2009 Mi Torito Pucará, Artevistas Gallery, Albi and Toulouse, France
- 2008 FAIM 2008, Feria de Arte Independiente de Madrid, Spain
- 2008 Asperger: Magazine Interior, directed by Lorena Dorta, CASM, Art Center Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
- 2008 Muzeum Swiatowej Ilustracji, Glowinski Library, Olesnica, Poland
- 2008 Mi Torito Pucará, Artevistas Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2008 Sentidos, Cristina Costa Gallery, Famalicão, Portugal
- 2008 Sketchbooks!, Pop Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2008 Artevistas Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2007 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, USA
- 2007 VI Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea di Firenze, Italy
- 2007 Solum, Museu de Arte do Parlamento de São Paulo, Brazil
- 2007 Paspartú Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006 espai [b], galeria d'art contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006 Marb Art, II Exposición Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo en Marbella, Spain
- 2006 Paspartú Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2005 Miedzynarodowy Projekt, Art for Chelmek, Galerii Epicentrum, MOKSIR: Miejski Ośrodek Kultury Sportu i Rekreacji w Chelmku, Chelmek, Poland
- 2005 Puro Arte Art Fair, Vigo, Spain
- 2005 Holland Art Fair, The Hague, Holland
- 2005 Gaudí Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- 1989 Jaume Busquet Hall, Escola Massana, Centre d'Art i Disseny, Barcelona, Spain
- 1988 Wonder, Jaume Busquet Hall, Escola Massana, Centre d'Art i Disseny, Barcelona, Spain
- 1984 Art Brut Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
- 1984 Association of Collage Plastic Artists, São Paulo, Brazil
Conferences and Performances
- 2019 La Secció de les Pintures del Davis Museum, Casa del Llibre, Barcelona, Spain
- 2013 Quotes Section from Davis Museum (Unusual Conference) Performance, VI Incubarte, Festival Internacional de Arte, Centre del Carme, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, / Museu de Belles Arts de Castelló, Valencia, Spain
- 2013 Quotes Section from Davis Museum (Unusual Conference) Performance, CRATE Studio and Project Space, Margate, England
- 2009 Karura Art Centre Museum (MKAC), Second Life
The Paintings Section of the Davis Museum in Private Collections
- Alejandro Vásquez Herrero, Viladecans, Spain
- Ashish Mistry, Atlanta, USA
- Brandon Gillian, Oceanside, California, USA
- Carles Vidal Garganta, Barcelona, Spain
- Daniel Marcoux, Montreal, Canada
- Denise Siqueira, São Paulo, Brazil
- Francesc Torres, Barcelona, Spain
- Geert De Kegel, Zele, Belgium
- James Dacre, London, England
- James Norton, Blue Ridge, Georgia, USA
- Joe Smith, New York, USA
- Johnny Temple, Uxbridge, Canada
- Peter Verstraeten, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
- Philip Henderson, Atlanta, USA
- Soteris Argyrou, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Taylor Smith, Indianapolis, USA
- Yellowstone Club, Big Sky, Montana, USA
Public and Private Collections
- Antimuseo, [M]UMoCA, Madrid, Spain
- Artists Space, New York, USA
- Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- FluxMuseum, Texas, USA
- Fundação Cultural Badesc, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Galeria Transparente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Galerii Epicentrum, MOKSIR: Miejski Ośrodek Kultury Sportu i Rekreacji w Chelmku, Chelmek, Poland
- Harddiskmuseum, Valencia, Spain
- John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA), Gainesville, USA
- LACDA, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, USA
- La Erreria (House of Bent), Xátiva, Spain
- Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas - MAAC, Brazil
- MoFAI, Museum of Failed and Abandoned Ideas, Bratislava, Slovakia
- MOMA Wales, Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Machynlleth, Wales
- MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Brazil
- Museo Microcollection, Busto Arsizio, Italy
- Museu de Arte do Parlamento de São Paulo, Brazil
- Museum of the Sub-conscious, Okandukaseibe, Namibia; Tel Aviv, Israel; La Candelaria, Argentina; Houston, USA; Wiesbaden, Germany
- SAL Art Gallery, CW Post Campus of Long Island University, New York, USA
- Yellowstone Club, Big Sky, Montana, USA
- Walpole Bay Hotel Museum and Napery, Margate, England