"Impressions Series represents a phase of my work, integrating in it, as usual, intimations of my continuous project enduring patterns of inner experience and conceptual processes as a work in progress that is a reflection on the “act of painting”.
The visual materiality belonging to this series is intimately related in its conceptual process and representations to the the physicality of repetition/overlapping marks to conjure patterns of new images reworked and reimpressed showing an interplay of organic forms, geometric structures and colors.
The naming of Impressions refers to various layers of meanings as well as a working process. There is a display of interpretations of atmospheric/ psychological imprint: I approach the paintings in this series as images/impressions that allude also to particular moods through their shifting complexions, being marks from Memory and Nature".
— Isabel Pavão.
Selected Solo Shows
| 2021 — | Virtual Portuguese - American Art Gallery, launched During PALCUS National Conference Online Gallery is a Collaboration Between, PALCUS, the Portugal-US Chamber of Commerce and the Embassy of Portugal, with the support of FLAD. | "Porto/Paris/New York", Cooperativa Árvore Gallery, Porto, Portugal |
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Book Launch and exhibition “The Heart is a Drowning Object", New Dominion Bookshop and co-sponsored by the Virginia center for the Book, Charlottsville, VA, USA. | |
| 2020 — | Book Launch and exhibition “The Heart is a Drowning Object”, iBook Apple store, New York, USA |
| 2017 — | “Ten Impressions of Rose and Sea”, exhibition at Fralaes Cultural Center, Portugal. “Ten Impressions of Rose and Sea”, exhibition at Cinema Arts Centre Gallery, Huntington, NewYork. |
| 2016 — | “Impressions”, official unveiling of Painting for the permanent collection on view at the Convent of S. Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. “Ten Impressions of Rose and Sea”, and book launch with same title, Portuguese Cultural Center, 20th anniverary of Caixa Geral de Depositos, organized by Art Institute, Berlin, Germany. “Ten Impressions of Rose and Sea”, and book launch with same title, Poet’s House, organized by Art Institute, New York. “Ten impressions of Rose and Sea”, Residence Andre de Gouveia, Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, France.“Impressions series”, Municipal Museum of Coimbra, Portugal. |
| 2014 — | “Impressions series”, Gallery Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal. |
| 2006 — | New York/Americana – Series, 750 Gallery, New York. |
| 2005 — | Cartographies, Conjunto Cultural Caixa Federal, Gallery Newter Michelon, S. Paulo, Brasil. |
| 2004 — | Atmospheres series, Gallery Fernando Santos, Oporto, Portugal. Atmospheres series, Fidelidade – Mundial Chiado 8, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 2003 — | Cartographies, Docas Museum, Belém do Pará, Brasil. Cartographies, Dragão do Mar Contemporary Museum, Fortaleza, Brasil. Cartographies, Palacio das Artes Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brasil. |
| 2002 — | Alice in the Wonderland, Quinta da Barca – Contemporary Art, Esposende. (Org. Gallery Fernando Santos), Portugal. Cartographies, Conjunto Cultural Caixa Federal, Brasília, Brasil. Cartographies, National, Historic Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. |
| 2000 — | Cartographies, Gallery Edicarte, Funchal, Madeira , Portugal. Alice in the Wonderland, Gallery Fernando Santos, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1999 — | Cartographies, Mosteiro de Santa Cruz, City Museum, Coimbra, Portugal. |
| 1998 — | Cartographies, LAALIT KALA AKADEMI, New Deli, Índia. Cartographies, Ancient Art Museum, Lisbon, Portugal. Cartographies, Sala Damiao De Gois, Portuguese Embassy, Brussels, Belgium. Cartographies, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Paris, France. |
| 1997 — | Marca Madeira, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madeira, Portugal. Paintings, Gallery Ho, New York, USA. |
| 1996 — | Linguistic Boundaries, Oriental Series", Leal Senado Museum, Macau, China. Linguistic Boundaries, United Nations, New York, USA. Americana Series, Gallery Fernando Santos, Oporto and Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1995 — | Linguistic Boundaries, Gallery Fernando Santos, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1993 — | Los Angeles, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1992 — | Los Angeles, Gallery Fluxus, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1990 — | Vestíges, Gallery Fluxus, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1988 — | Vestíges, Gallery of Casa de Portugal, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, France Vestíges, Gallery Livraria Bertrand, Lisbon, Portugal. Vestíges, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Paris, France. |
| 1987 — | Vestíges, Cooperative Árvore, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1985 — | Paintings, Gallery Roma e Pavia, Oporto, Portugal. Vestíges, Contemporary Art Center, Coimbra, Portugal. |
Selected Group Shows
| 2021 — | "Art Show" at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA | 2020 — | "Holiday Invitational" Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA |
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| 2019 — | "Holiday Invitational" Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA", Cooperativa Árvore Gallery, Porto, Portugal. "1 Artist + 1 Glance at the Permanent Collection”, Cooperativa Árvore Gallery, Porto, Portugal. "Holiday Invitational" Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA “Spring” Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA “Summer” Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA |
| 2018 — | “Holiday Invitational” Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA “Spring” Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA “Summer” Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, NY, USA |
| 2017 — | Holiday group show, Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY. “Lotos Artist Members”, Lotos club, New York. Spring Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York "Four Artists", Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York |
| 2016 — | “Small Artworks” Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York. "Three artists", Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York. |
| 2015 — | “Women of the World”, guest artist, Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building, Nassau County, New York. “Holiday Invitational” Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, USA. IMT Gallery, London, UK. |
| 2014 — | “Small Artworks”, Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York. |
| 2013 — | “Cartography of the Feminine”, organized by Arte Institute, curated by Isabel Pavao, Rogue Space Gallery, New York. “Small Artworks”, Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York. “Bridges International Art Exhibition”, National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
| 2012 — | “What Lotos Members Collect: ABSTRACTION”, Lotos Club, New York. |
| 2011 — | “Exhibiting Artists, BMCC Art Faculty”, Breezeway Gallery, BMCC, New York. |
| 2010 — | Museum of Natural History, Sala do Veado, 20 Years of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal. Geography of Affection: 6 Portuguese Artists in New York, Rooster Gallery, New York. |
| 2009 — | Lá Fora, Museum of Electricity, Contemporay art, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 2008 — | Lá Fora, Museum of the Republic, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. |
| 2004 — | ARCO '04, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. |
| 2003 — | ARCO'03, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. |
| 2002 — | ARCO'02, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. ARTE SANTANDER'02, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Santander, Spain. ARTE LISBOA'02, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 2001 — | ARCO'01, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FORO SUR, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Cáceres, Spain. ART COLOGNE'01, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Cologne, Germany. FAC'01, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 2000 — | ARCO'00, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. MARCA MADEIRA'97, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. ART COLOGNE '00,Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Cologne, Germany. FAC'00, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1999 — | ARCO'99, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FAC'99, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. Mythologies, Westbeth Gallery, New York, USA. |
| 1998 — | ARCO'98, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FAC'98, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1997 — | ARCO'97, Contemporary Art Fair Galeria Fernando Santos, Madrid. Fórum Atlântico de Arte Contemporânea, Gallery Fernando Santos, Corunha, Spain. Group Show, Gallery Fernando Santos, Oporto, Portugal.FAC 97, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1996 — | ARCO'96, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FIAC'96, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Paris, France. Group Show of Portuguese Contemporary Art, Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1995 — | Contemporary Art Fair "Arte Jovem, Won Painting category award, Fórum da Maia, Portugal. International Biennale Contemporary Art Fair of Vila Nova de Cerveira – Guest artist, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal. 20Years of Fine Arts, Palácio da Alfândega, Oporto, Portugal. FIAC'95, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Paris, France. Fórum Atlântico of Contemporary Art, Gallery Fernando Santos, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. |
| 1994 — | FIAC'94, Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France. |
| 1992 — | ARCO'92, Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain. |
| 1990 — | Contemporary Art Fair of Hannover, Hannover, Germany. |
| 1988 — | Salon des Grands et des Jeunes d'Aujourd'Hui, Grand Palais, Paris, France. Trois Peintres Portugais, Gallery Latina, Paris, France. Fluctuations, Gallery Fluxus, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1986 — | III Exhibition of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1985 — | Prémio de Grabado Maximo Ramos, Museum of Bello Pinero Ferrol, Corunha, Spain. Amnesty International Art Show, Mercado Ferreira Borges, Oporto, Portugal. Contemporary Art Show, A. F. de Oliveira, Museum Soares dos Reis, Oporto, Portugal. |
| 1984 — | Contemporary Trends, Gallery Roma e Pavia and UNICEF, Oporto, Portugal. Contemporary Art Exhibition – First Prize in Tapistry, Mercado Ferreira Borges, Oporto, Portugal. International Biennale of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal. |
| 2004 — | ARCO 2004, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. |
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| 2003 — | ARCO 2003, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. |
| 2002 — | ARCO 2002, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. ARTE SANTANDER 2002, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Santander, Spain. ARTE LISBOA 2002, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 2001 — | ARCO 2001, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FORO SUR, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Cáceres, Spain. ART COLOGNE 2001, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Cologne, Germany. FAC 2001, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 2000 — | ARCO 2000, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. MARCA MADEIRA 97, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. ART COLOGNE 2000,Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Cologne, Germany. FAC 2000, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1999 — | ARCO 99, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FAC 99, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1998 — | ARCO 98, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FAC 98, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1997 — | ARCO 97, Contemporary Art Fair Galeria Fernando Santos, Madrid. Fórum Atlântico de Arte Contemporânea, Gallery Fernando Santos, Corunha, Spain. FAC 97, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1996 — | ARCO 96, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Madrid, Spain. FIAC 96, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Paris, France. |
| 1995 — | Contemporary Art Fair, Arte Jovem, Won Painting category award, Fórum da Maia, Portugal. FIAC 95, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Fernando Santos, Paris, France. Fórum Atlântico of Contemporary Art, Gallery Fernando Santos, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. |
| 1994 — | FIAC 94, Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France. |
| 1992 — | ARCO 92, Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain. |
| 1990 — | Contemporary Art Fair of Hannover, Hannover, Germany. |
Isabel Pavão, lives and works in New York since 1990.
She exhibits her work in New York City, as in many museums and galleries all over the world. Participates as invited artist as well as a guest professor in Universities, Art Schools, and Museums.
Presents on Contemporary Art, on art projects dealing with her own work, pedagogical issues and aesthetics.
Creative Director of a TV program, Healing Waters and Baths of Europe, Isabel Pavão belongs to the Board of Directors of the Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, N.Y. Development and Fundraising Committee.
She also belongs to the Advisory Board of Directors of ARTE INSTITUTE.
Higher Education
| 1990-94 — | Ph.D. Arts, New York University |
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| 1986-88 — | Master in Arts, University of Paris VIII |
| 1978-83 — | Bachelor of Fine Arts; Post Graduation, University of Porto |
Additional Higher Education
| 2019 — | Institutional Apparatuses - The museum as a form, James Gallery, Graduate Centre Cuny, New York. |
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| 2010-11 — | Aesthetics of Deskilling, The Graduate Center CUNY. |
| 2008-09 — | Fundraising for non-profit Organizations, Adelphi University. |
| Board of Directors Workshop for non-profit organizations, Adelphi University. | |
| 2007 — | Topics in Modern Art: The Postwar Years, The Graduate School University Center, CUNY. |
| 2006 — | Art Methods of Research; Selected Topics in Modern Art, Graduate School University Center, CUNY. |
| Topics in Contemporary Art, Graduate School University Center, CUNY. |
Academic and Professional Honors
Awards and Grants
| 2015 — | Award and invited artist from the Comptroller of Nassau County for the “Women of the World” exhibition, Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building, Nassau County, New York. |
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| 2014 — | Award From Arte Institute, New York. |
| 2008 — | Exhibition Grant, S. Paulo, Brasil, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
| 2007 — | Exhibition Grant, Lisbon, Portugal, Museum of the Presidency of the Republic. |
| 2005 — | Exhibition Grant, S. Paulo, Brasil, Conjunto Cultural Caixa Federal. |
| 2004 — | Research Grant, Goa, India, Orient Foundation. |
| 2002 — | Exhibition Grants, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation. |
| 1998 — | Exhibition Grants and book publishing, New Delhi, India, Brussels, Belgium, Paris, France, Luso American Foundation and Orient Foundation. |
| 1996 — | Exhibition Grant, Macau, China, Portuguese/Chinese Government. |
| 1995 — | Contemporary Art Fair, Arte Jovem, Painting category award, Fórum da Maia, Portugal. |
| International Biennale of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Invited artist, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal. | |
| 1994-90 — | Research Grant towards the Doctorate in Contemporary Art, Art Department, New York University, Calouste Gulbenkian and Luso-American Foundation. |
| 1985-87 — | Research and painting Grant, Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Paris, France. |
| 1985— | Prémio de Grabado Maximo Ramos, Museum of Bello Pinero Ferrol, Corunha, Spain. |
Conferences
| 2021 — | The Heart Is a Drowning Object: A virtual event, January 22, presented by Book Arts at the Virginia Center for the Book, a program of Virginia Humanities. |
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| 2020 — | "Meet the artist", Monday, October 12, 2020, this event marked the launch of the Portuguese American Art Gallery virtual exhibition, made possible by PALCUS, PUSCC, The Embassy of Portugal and FLAD. “Virtual Art Lecture with Isabel Pavão”, Thursday, October 29, 2020, Lotos Club about her recently published book Porto-Paris-New York—a book celebrating her career since the 80’s. The launch of this publication was planned to be back in March simultaneously with her retrospective show in Porto at Coop Arvore, but because of the health crisis, is now scheduled for next year. Porto-Paris-New York is both the title of the book and the defining stages along a journey. This trajectory, Porto – Paris – New York – reflects an itinerary which the artist has undertaken and is a reference of the visual and conceptual inquiry carried along each stage and process of her artwork. Isabel will be also will be presenting on her recent artwork produced during the lockdown. |
| 2019 — | Pop Up Lunch, presentation “The creative process, The Art of making Art”, Lotos Club, New York. |
| 2018 — | XI Colloquium of Psychoanalisis and Culture, presentation “the Art of making Art” |
| 2011 — | BMCC Presentation “Translating New York”, XIV Colloquium of the Modern Languages Department, City University of New York. |
| Presentation and Introduction to the movie “Exit through the Gift Shop” by Banksy, at the Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, New York. | |
| 2007 — | BMCC Presentation with Profs. Dolores DeLuise and Maria de Vasconcelos on the English translation and on my art cover of the novella, Monique. |
| 2006 — | BMCC presentation, Atmospheres Series, for the Women's History month. |
| 2005 — | Symposium organized by the University of S. Paulo, Conjunto Cultural S. Paulo, Brasil. |
| 2003 — | Presentations in the Museums of Belem, Fortaleza and Belo Horizonte, Brasil. |
| 2002 — | BMCC Presentation - The Woman Artist and the Problematic of Gender, for The Women's story Month. |
| 2001 — | BMCC Presentation - New York Series, for the Modern Language Colloquium. |
| Seminar on Contemporary Art, Conjunto Cultural Caixa Brasilia and University of Brasilia, Brasil. | |
| 2000 — | BMCC Presentation - Linguistic Boundaries, for The Women's Her story month. |
| 1998 — | Colloquium with Christine Buci Glucksman. Cartographies in Art, Academy of Fine Arts, New Delhi, India. |
| 1996 — | Linguistic Boundaries- Oriental Series, Art Academy and Leal Senado, Macau, China. |
- Serralves Museum — The Collection
- Artist’s Proof Editions — The Heart Is a Drowning Object
- 9/11 Memorial Museum — 911memorial.org
- Galeria Fernando Santos — galeriafernandosantos.com
- Rooster Gallery — roostergallery.com
- Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian — cam.gulbenkian.pt
- Fundação Ilídio Pinho - Anamnese — anamnese.pt
- Museu Nacional de História Natural / Sala do Veado — mnhn.ul.pt
- Museu Histórico Nacional - Brasil — museuhistoriconacional.com.br
- Arte Institute — arteinstitute.org
Recent publication
Paintings "Porto/Paris/New York", — Introduction and edited by Laura Castro, Published by Cooperativa Arvore, Porto, May 2020
Artist’s Proof Editions — The Heart Is a Drowning Object
Cover and Article in Cove Magazine
Specific Bibliography on my Work and my Publications (alphabetical order)
Books And Catalogues:
Almeida, Bernardo Pinto de, |
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Barrias, Jose, |
Castro Laura, |
Chicó, Sílvia, |
Croce, Alexander, |
Diehl, Gaston, |
Fernandes, Maria João, |
França, Carlos, |
Gil, José, |
Glucksmann, Christine Buci, |
Hatherly, Ana, |
Judice, Nuno and Isabel Pavao, |
Lamb, Charles, |
Lawrence, Eduard Mutt, |
Pavao, Isabel, |
Peyré, Yves, |
Pinto, António Cerveira, |
| Sabino, Amadeu Lopes, The Venice Blue, published in solo exhibition catalog by Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Paris, 1989. Text published in Arts & Literature Journal, March 1989. |