Biography
 

ANTONIO MANUEL (1947)
Born in Avelãs de Caminho, Brazil
 

1953
Arrival with family in Brazil, settling in Rio de Janeiro.

1963
Produces first drawings.

1965
Teenagers´ Salon, promoted by the daily newspaper O Globo.

1966
Prize for drawing at the 23^rd Paraná Salon of Fines Arts, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

Participation at Bahia National Biennial, Salvador, Brazil.

1967
Solo exhibition, Galeria Goeldi, Rio de Janeiro.
Awarded purchase prize at the 9^th São Paulo Biennial (drawing over newspaper, 1967), Brazil.
Awarded at the 3^rd Salon of Contemporary Art, Campinas, São Paulo.
Participation at Tropicália event, following invitation by Hélio Oiticica, Nova Objetividade Brasileira, survey exhibition, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.
Frequent visitor to Ivan Serpa´s studio until 1973.

1968
Urnas quentes, participatory work produced for the Apocalipopótese event, Aterro do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro.

1969
Purchase prize, Salão da Bússola, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.
Nominated for the Paris Biennial with Eis o Saldo and Repressão outra vez of 1968.
A preview exhibition was organized at the Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, was closed by the military government and the Brazilian participation in Paris was subsequently cancelled.

1970
O corpo é a obra, performance during the National Modern Art Salon, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.

1971
Engraving Biennial, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan.

1972
Production of, O Galo (The Cock of the Golden Eggs).
By Antonio, 16-mm, black-and-white short-film. 

1973
Bode, planned solo exhibition Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, cancelled by the military regime.
Super jornais – clandestinas, work produced at the daily newspaper O Dia.
Exposição de 0 a 24 horas, work published as a six-page supplement of the daily newspaper
O Jornal, on July 15, 1973. It contained visual material relating to the cancelled exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro. Sixty thousand copies were printed and sold at newsagents.
Loucura & Cultura, 35-mm black-and-white short-film, with Rogério Duarte, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Luis Saldanha and Caetano Veloso, awarded a prize at the 2^nd Short-film Festival, Jornal do Brasil/ Instituto Nacional de Cinema, Rio de Janeiro.
Expoprojeção, group exhibition, films and audiovisuals, São Paulo.

1974
Group exhibition, Centro de Arte y Cultura Cayc, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1975
Urna Quente, work registered at notary’s office, with the specification that the box would under legal contract remain closed for 30 years.
Isso é que é, solo exhibition, Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro (matrixes and objects).
Semi-ótica, 35-mm black-and-white short-film; awarded a prize at the 5^th Short-film Festival, Salvador, Bahia.

1976
Semi-ótica, installation, Venice Biennial, International Contemporary Art Sector, Italy.
Isso é que é, solo exhibition, Arte Global Gallery, São Paulo.
Arte Hoje, 16-mm black-and-white short-film.

1977
Uma parada, 16-mm black-and-white short-film, awarded prize at the 5^th Jornal do Brasil Short-Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro.

1979
Lis’79 – Lisbon International Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal.

1980
Frutos do espaço, solo exhibition, sculptures, Espaço Arte Brasileira Contemporânea,
Parque da Catacumba, Rio de Janeiro.
Quasi cinema, film and video group exhibition, Centro Internazionale di Brera, Milan, Italy.

1982
Birth of daughter Beatriz.
Brazil: 60 years of modern art – Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Barbican Gallery, London, UK.
Portuguese artists living abroad, Figueira da Foz, Lisbon and Oporto, Potugal.

1983
Solo exhibition, paintings, Galeria GB Arte, Rio de Janeiro.
Vaga-lume, installation, Parque da Catacumba, Rio de Janeiro.

1984
Awarded research grant from Fundação Nacional da Arte, during the 1^st Ivan Serpa Competition.
Homenagem a Mário Pedrosa, group exhibition, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.

1985
Birth of son Mario.
Antonio Manuel, solo exhibition and book launch, published by Fundação Nacional da Arte,
Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro.

1986
Tudo isso existe, solo exhibition, paintings, Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro.
Quadro a quadro, solo exhibition, paintings, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo.

1988
Por tudo, solo exhibition, paintings, Galeria Montessanti, Rio de Janeiro.
Cuidado com a cabeça, installation at Ponte para o século XXI, Rio Design Center, Rio de Janeiro.

1989
Rio hoje – Pinturas no MAM, survey of paintings in the collection, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.

1990
Sombras e cintilações, solo exhibition, paintings, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo.

1991
Mário Pedrosa – arte, revolução, reflexão, group exhibition, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
Group exhibition, Secretaria de Cultura de Lisboa, Portugal.

1993
Solo exhibition, paintings, Galeria Goudard, Rio de Janeiro.
Brasil, segni d’arte, survey exhibition, Venice, Milan, Florence and Rome, Italy.
Emblemas do corpo – O nu na arte brasileira, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
Um olhar sobre Joseph Beuys, 2^nd Brasília Forum of Visual Arts, Museu de Arte Moderna de Brasilia
(first version of the installation Fantasma), Brazil.

1994
Fantasma, installation, Galeria do Instituto Brasil- Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro.
As fronteiras dos vazios – livro-objeto, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
(“Exposição de 0 a 24 horas”,1973).

1995
Awarded prize by Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos for Fantasma, installation.
Configura 2 – Dialog der Kulturen, group exhibition, Fischmarkt Gallery, Erfurt, Germany.
Publication of A arma fálica, photographic comic book originally produced in 1970, Rio Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1997
Antonio Manuel, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro.
Re-Aligning Vision – Alternative Currents in South American Drawing, survey exhibition, Museu del Barrio, New York.

1998
Exhibits Fantasma at XXIV São Paulo Biennial.

1999
Ocupações-Descobrimentos, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Global Conceptualism, survey exhibiton, Queen`s Museum of Art, NY, USA.
Fantasma, solo exhibition, Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

2000
Antonio Manuel, solo exhibition, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
Eterotipias, survey exhibition, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

2001
Body and Soul, survey of Brazilian art, Guggenhein Museum, New York, NY, USA.
Experiment: Experiência, Art in Brazil 1958-2000, survey exhibition, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, UK.

2002
Solo exhibition, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo.

2003
Sucessão de Fatos, solo exhibition, Centro Cultural São Paulo.

2004
Solo exhibition, Manoel Macedo Galeria de Arte, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Solo exhibition, H.A.P. Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro.
Beyond Geometric Experiments in Form, survey exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, California, USA.
Inverted Utopias, survey exhibition of Latin American art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA.

2005
Diversidade da Arte Brasileira, Projeto França Brasil,  Carreau du Temple, Paris.
Exhibits Susseções de Fatos at V Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Antonio Manuel: Ocupations and Discoveries, Pharos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.