Using
unconventional materials, Lia Do Rio creates her works through a language which
lies somewhere between installation, and appropriation and intervention work,
to share her perception of how we build memories of the past and the future
in the eternal and timeless present. Rio has her Bachelors of Fine Arts
from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is currently an art teacher
at the Visual Art School of Parque Lage and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Art Center.
She has been a participant in collective and one-person shows in Brazil, the
United States, Guatemala, Germany and France. She has presented lectures, had
her work appear in collections, and has been honored in competitions, specifically,
the "XX" and "XXII National Competition of Belo Horizonte,"
"Interferências Urbanas" (award), "Brahma Reciclarte"
(award), "Macunaíma 90," "FIAT 89" (award), "Novos-Novos"
and "Le Déjeuner Sur L'Art" in Rio de Janeiro and "Meditronic
Art Competition" (award) in São Paulo. Rio has also participated
in the conception of the art books "Dialeto" and "Dialeto II"
at the gallery of the University of Rio de Janeiro.

