Cassio Vasconcellos

By LatAm ARTE

Cássio Campos Vasconcellos (São Paulo, SP, 1965) – Photographer since 1981. Vasconcellos has had his images exhibited over 200 times in twenty countries. His series “Nocturnes São Paulo” can be admired along with today’s renowned professionals in the craft in the pages of “The World Atlas of Street Photography” (Thames & Hudson, England / Yale University Press, USA, 2014). Some of his recent exhibitions are: “Trees”, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France (2019); “Civilization:The Way We Live Now”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia and UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2019); “Past/Future/Present:Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (2017), “Collectives”, Today Art Museum (TAM), Beijing (2013); “Itinerant Languages of Photography”, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey (2013). The Brazilian photographer has thirteen books published among them Aeroporto (Ed. Madalena, 2016), Aéreas do Brasil (B.E.I., 2014) and Noturnos São Paulo (2002). His awards include Conrado Wessel of Art (2011); Paulista Association of Art Critics (APCA – 2002) for best photography exhibition of the year with “Noturnos São Paulo”; Porto Seguro Prize of Photography (2001); and National Art Foundation (Funarte) (1995). The artist’s photographs are in Brazil’s main private collections as well in museums such as the MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil), and abroad in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, France) and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH, Houston, US).