Carlos Zilio

Carlos Zilio (Rio de Janeiro, 1944) spent much of his childhood in Copacabana's Posto 6, as well as living in Washington and Jundiaí due to his father's job transfers. In 1962, he enrolled at the Guanabara Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied painting under Iberê Camargo. In 1966, he began studying at the Psychology Institute of the former University of Brazil, now UFRJ, while developing his career as a visual artist.

The exhibitions "Otra Figuración" and "Opinion 65" at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art had a significant impact on his work, and he also participated in "New Brazilian Objectivity" in 1967. In 1965, he was deeply influenced by Barnett Newman's retrospective at the VIII São Paulo Biennial. During the 70s, Zilio got married and traveled to Paris, London, Cologne, and New York to delve deeper into international contemporary art. In 1975, he held his first solo exhibition at the Luiz Buarque de Hollanda and Paulo Bittencourt Gallery in Rio de Janeiro. He lived in Paris until 1980, a period during which his work was marked by the questioning of Brazilian culture and the influence of international artistic movements.

Back in Brazil, in 1982, he held a solo exhibition at the ABC Space of Funarte, organized by Paulo Sergio Duarte. In 1980, he became a professor and coordinator of a specialization course in Art and Architecture History in Brazil at PUC-Rio, one of the first postgraduate initiatives in the field in the country. Carlos Zilio also had a productive academic career, creating the project for the Visual Languages Area at the School of Fine Arts at UFRJ and participating in important exhibitions and biennials throughout his career.

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Photo: Carlos Zilio