Brígida Baltar
Brazilian photographer (1959-)
Brígida Baltar (1959/1960 – 8 October 2022) was a Brazilian visual artist. Her work spanned across a wide range of mediums, including video, performance, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She was interested in capturing the ephemeral in her artwork.
Life and career
Brígida Baltar was born in 1959 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lived and worked. Her career began in the 1990s, often working with primordial elements, such as the material she took from her own house in the neighbourhood of Botafogo. In recent years, Baltar's work was shown in institutions throughout Brazil and in the United States, Japan and Argentina, and other countries. She also took part in important group shows, such as The Peripatetic School – Itinerant Drawing From Latin America (2011), which premiered at the Drawing Room in London, and then toured to several other venues.
She participated in important Biennials, such as the I Biennial of the Americas, Denver (USA) (2010); 25a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (2002); V Bienal de la Habana (1994); and 12a Bienal do Mercosul (2020). Her work is featured in important public collections such as MOCA Cleveland (USA); Blumenthal Collection (Boston, USA); MIMA Museum (Middlesbrough, United Kingdom); Coleccíon Copel, CIAC (México); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil); MAC-USP, Museu de Arte Contemporânea USP (São Paulo, Brazil); Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil); Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (Recife, Brazil); and the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Baltar died from leukemia on 8 October 2022, at the age of 62.
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