Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin uses traditional materials such as stone, iron, wood, bronze, marble and terracotta. He investigates the relationships, differences and changes between images not just in art, but in our entire consumer culture. He seeks equality in the appreciation and judgement of all things: art, artifacts and thoughts. As Cemin remarked in his typically aphoristic fashion: "The world of art-objects, and that of common objects, form a continuous field. The value system used to produce and evaluate art-objects, even the most rarefied conceptual work, shares a common ground with the apparatus used to evaluate anything else in the world, such as people, social situations, or the weather." Inspired by the heterogeneity of this object-world, Cemin’s sculptures are eclectic, fragments of thought which hint of a totality, that has been deliberately left undisclosed.

EDUCATION

Ecole Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts, Paris


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2008
Sikkema Jenkins, Co. New York, USA

2007
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium

2006
Galeria Brito Cimino, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy

2005
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France

2004
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA

2003
Bolsa de Arte, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Galleria Sperone, Rome, Italy

2002
Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Museo De Arte Moderno, Mexico

2000
Lever House Lobby Gallery, New York, USA
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

1999
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Galeria Enrique Guererro, Mexico City, Mexico
Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium

1998
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC, USA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, UK
AL 1997 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

1996
California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, USA

1995
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Gian Ferrari Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

1994
Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden

1993
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gallery, St. Louis, MO, USA

1992
Lorenzo Soledad, Madrid, Spain
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

1991
Baumgartner Galleries Inc, Washington D.C, USA
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca, USA
Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithson Institution, Washington D.C, USA

1990
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, USA
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA

1989
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, USA

1988
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Galleria Sperone, Rome, Italy

1987
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, USA

1986
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, USA

1985
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, USA

1984
Beulah Land, New York, USA

1982
Galeria Proojecta, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Red Bar, New York, USA

1981
Galeria Guinard, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Galeria Projecta, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1980
White Room, Hasselt, Belgium

1979
Galeria Guinard, Porto Algre, Brasil Galeria Projecta, Sao Paulo, Brazil