About

1989, Brasília, Brazil Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

David Almeida’s research is centered on pictorial experimentation across a range of media and supports, including canvas, linen, wood, ceramics, and printmaking. His practice focuses on the notions of space and the body in transit, exploring the visuality of intimate territory, the city, and the Brazilian regional landscape. Within the pictorial field, he investigates the boundaries between rural landscape and the imaginary, at times emphasizing the material density of figurative works and at others tending toward abstraction, or displacing natural elements into paintings with a metaphysical and spiritual tone. Almeida brings together the concepts of memory, body, phantasmagoria, and optical perception, creating paintings in which the intimacy of a culture or community subtly manifests itself within the landscape. In his work, places and sensations are intertwined with his method of representation, in which the density of a painted night is intimately connected to the oblique process of constructing it as an image.

Among his major solo exhibitions are Devagar com o andor que o santo é de barro, Museu da Inconfidência, Ouro Preto, Brazil (2026); Paisagens da Imprecisão, Cerrado Galeria, Brasília, Brazil (2025); Vigília, Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Arriba do Chão, Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); A Task of Wonders, presented during his residency at Espronceda Art Center, Barcelona, Spain (2020); Lindeza, Referência Galeria de Arte, Brasília, Brazil (2019); Encalço, Mult.i.plo Espaço Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018); Paradeiro, Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); and Asseidade da Fenda, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília, Brazil (2016).

Nominated for the PIPA Prize in 2022, Almeida received awards from the Salão de Arte de Jataí in 2013 and 2015, the 20th Salão Anapolino de Arte in 2014, and the first prize at the 1st Vera Brant Contemporary Art Award in 2016.

Almeida curated Midnight Steer Roping, at Almeida & Dale, São Paulo, Brazil (2025), and has participated in group exhibitions including Brasília em Construção: Constelações contemporâneas, Foyer da Sala Villa-Lobos, Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro, Brasília, Brazil (2026); Est-ce un pays que l’on peut voir ou bien mon rêve?, Chapelle PDP, Pézenas, France (2026); Adiar o Fim do Mundo, FGV Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2025); Funil, Casa SP–Arte, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Paisagem interior, Casa Zalszupin, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Stranger than Fiction, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (2023); Contramemória, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil (2022); In Residency, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA (2022); Postcards, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (2020); Um lugar nenhum: Segunda Naturaleza, Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain (2020); Triangular – Arte desse século, Casa Niemeyer, Brasília, Brazil (2019); Scapeland – Território de Trânsito Livre, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); UNS, Library of Love, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA (2017); and Salão Transborda Brasília 2016, Caixa Cultural Brasília, Brazil (2016), among others.