EDUARDO ELOY (Fortaleza, Brazil, 1955)

Artist, painter, designer, engraver and producer of artisan paper, Eduardo Eloy was born in Fortaleza, Brazil in1955 where he current lives and develops his art work, researches and studies. Since 2000 he has been teaching as a professor of Engraving, Lithography, Drawing and Art Materials of the graduate course of Contemporary Arts at the Integrated University of Fortaleza. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, at the Museum of Modern Art - MAM and at the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian - all in Rio de Janeiro.

Eduardo Eloy is also an art consultant and curator. He volunteers his services at the Cultural Bureau of the State of Ceará Government, at the Dragão do Mar Institute of Art and Culture, and at the Cultural Center of the Federal Bank of Northeastern Brazil in Fortaleza. His work is part of the Itau Cultural Foundation Virtual Encyclopedia of Visual Arts and Eloy has participated in various exhibits sponsored by that institution in many states of Brazil as in other countries as well. He has directed and implemented art work courses of engraving and artisan paper manufacturing in many cities in Brazil, Europe and South America. He directed courses on paper and engraving in the University Alcala of Henares in Spain and in the University of São Paulo - USP.

He founded and coordinated the Studio of Engraving and Artisan Paper of the Museum of Art of the Federal University of Ceará - MAUC, where he was responsible for the development of new engravers and developed a new technique through his research in the recycling of paper and vegetable fibers. From 1996 to1998 he has developed and directed courses on engraving for low-income juveniles through the Cultural Center of the Government of the State of Ceará. In 2004, Eduardo Eloy was the professor and curator of the Project “Imagens da Cidade - Um Olhar sobre o Theatro” (Images of the City - A look over the Theatre), for low income high school students, who created and exhibited engraving art work inspired by the architecture of the Jose de Alencar Theatre in Fortaleza. He has founded and coordinated the Studio of Art Tauape, which gave rise to a homonymous group of engravers and participated in the Aranha Group of mural painting. He was president and founder, together with other artists of the Institute of Engraving of Ceará - INGRAV. He has had exhibits in many countries including France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and the United States. In Brazil, he has organized exhibits in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Belem, Recife, Brasilia, Porto Alegre and Fortaleza.

Works in Museums, Institutions, and Private Collections
• Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo - MAC
• National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro
• Museum of Art of the Federal University of Ceará - MAUC, Brazil
• Museum of Contemporary Art of the Center Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza
• Cultural Institute Brazil Germany - ICBRA, Berlin
• Museum of Engraving of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
• Foundation Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
• Academy of Letters of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
• Federal Bank of the Northeastern Brazil Cultural Center, Fortaleza
• Department of Tourism of the State of Ceará
• Ceres Franco Collection , France
• Oboe Financial Collection, Fortaleza, Brazil
• Armando Gonteri Collection, Switzerland
• Paolo Carnevali Collection, Italy
• Ider Carli Collection, Italy

Awards
• 1982 32nd Abril Art Exhibit of the Secretary of Culture of Ceará (Painting), Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 1982 8th National Gallery of Art (Painting), Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 1983 Art Gallery of the University of Fortaleza - UNIFOR Design (Mixed Media), Fortaleza.
• 1985 2nd Pirelli Gallery of Young Painters - Special Prize Pietro Maria Bardi Medal awarded by the Museum of Art - MASP, São Paulo.
• 1996 Gallery of Art Teleceará (Mixed Media), Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 1997 Norman Rockwell Gallery at the Brazil - United States Institute - Special Prize in Engraving
for the Body of Work, Fortaleza. 2000 2nd Fortaleza Navy Base Plastic Art Exhibit - Fortaleza, Brazil.

Solo Exhibitions
• 1981 Eduardo Eloy Engravings - Ideal Club Gallery - Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 1983 Eduardo Eloy - Mix technique and Engraving - Rodrigo Andrade Gallery at the National
Foundation of Art - FUNARTE, Rio
• 1987 Eduardo Eloy - Óleos, Dibujos y Grabados, Galeria Contemporânea, Montevidéu, Uruguai. • 1990 Eduardo Eloy Paintings - LM Art Gallery in Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 1992 Eduardo Eloy - Paintings, Federal Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro.
• 1995 Paintings on Brazilian Fibers at the Institute Brazil - United States Gallery in Fortaleza, Brazil. 1999 Three Engravers, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Center Dragão do Mar of Art and Culture in Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 2007 Eduardo Eloy - On the 30 Years' Edge - Northeastern Brazil Federal Bank Cultural Center
in Fortaleza, Brazil.

Group Exhibitions
• 1978 2nd Carioca Art Exhibit - National Art Foundation - Funarte, Rio de Janeiro.
• 1980 37th Art Exhibit of Paráná, Curitiba, Brazil.
• 1982 32nd Abril Art Exhibit of the Secretary of Culture of Ceará (Painting), Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 1982 8th National Art Exhibit of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 1982 Postal Art Internation Exhibit - Bottega D'Art Group, Rome, Italy.
• 1982 V National Art Exhibit, Museum of Modern Art - MAM Rio de Janeiro.
• 1984 “Complicities” - Plastic Art Exihibit from the Northeastern of Brazil in Portugal - Federal
Northeastern Bank of Brazil.
• 1985 III São Paulo Contemporary Art Exhibit at the São Paulo Biennial Art Exhibtion, Brazil.
• 1985 VIII National Plastic Art Exhibt - Modern Art Museum - MAM Rio de Janeiro.
• 1989 “Overview of Contemporary Brazilian Art - Painting”, Museum of Modern Art - MAM São Paulo.
• 1991 BR 80 - Brazilian Painting - 80's Decade, Centro Cultural Abolição, Fortaleza, Brasil.
• 1992 “Northeastern Brazil Art Paper ”, Espace Latino-Americain, Paris , França.
• 1992 “Northeastern Brazil Art Paper”, House of Brazil, Madrid, Spain.
• 1993 Grafica de Aqui y de a Alla - Isabel de Farnesio Cultural Center - Aranjuez, Spain.
• 1993 Overview of Contemporary Brazilian Art - Painting, Museum of Modern Art - MAM São Paulo.
• 1994 “I Latin American Exhibit of Miniprint” - Museum of Fine Arts Rosa Galisteo de Rodriguez
in Santa Fe, Rosario, Argentina.
• 1994 Engraving from Cordel to the Gallery - MASP, Sao Paulo.
• 1995 “Wood Engraving of Ceará - Contemporary Image”, Foundation Joaquim Nabuco -
Cultural Mauro Mota Hall, Recife, Brazil.
• 1996 II Norman Rockwell Gallery of Drawings and Engravings at IBEU Brazil - United States Institute, Fortaleza.
• 1996 Tauape Group Wood Engravings - Museum of the Fine Arts Rio de Janeiro.
• 1997 “Contemporary Art of Engraving”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Curitiba, Brazil.
• 1997 “Contemporary Brazilian Engravings” Haggar University Gallery in Texas, University of Dallas, Midwestern State University, University of Texas Permian Basin, Abilene Christian University and at the Louisiana State University, USA.
• 1997 Tauape Group Wood Engravings - “Corriendo Las Fronteras - from Fortaleza to Buenos
Aires” at the Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1998 Tauape Group Wood Engravings, in the Brazilian Cultural Institute - ICBRA, Berlin,
Germany.
• 1998 Dragons and Lions - Museum of Contemporary Artes Dragon of the Sea, Fortaleza, Brazil. • 2000 Coisas da Terra - Things from Our Land, Racine Arts Council Gallery, Wisconsin, EUA.
• 2001 “Energy and Life”, Latin American Contest of Painting - Enersis - National Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago, Chile.
• 2003 Art Fair “Art Frankfurt - Engravings”, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2003 “Unknown Zone - Engravings - Eduardo Eloy”, Brazilian Gallery of Engraving, São Paulo.
• 2003 “Unknown Zone - Engravings - Eduardo Eloy”, Memorial for the Culture of Ceará of the Center Dragão do Mar of Art and Culture, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 2003 “Contemporary Art Museum of São Paulo - 40 Years of Contemporary Interfaces” - Commemorative Exhibit for the 40 Year Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art
of the University - MAC São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2004 “Impressions - Overview of the Brazilian Wood Engraving History”, Cultural Santander Center, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• 2005 “An Ode to Still-Life - Works of the Collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts from
the XVII to the XXI Century” - Cultural Circuit Federal Bank of Brazil, traveling Exhibition
in many cities, Brazil.
• 2005 “Brazilian Art - Drawings and Engravings”, Oboe Cultural Center, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• 2005 Collection of Art in the Pará Art Gallery, Belém, Brazil.
• 2006 7th World Collection of Original Prints and Engravings -Triennial of Chamalieres (Triennial
Art Exhibit), France.

Selected Bibliography
• 2007 Overmundo.com.br - Brazilian Cultural Magazine, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2003 Dictionary of the Plastic Arts of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil. Published by Oboe Cultural Center.
• 2003 Printmaking Today Magazine, London, UK.
• 2002 VOCES Art and Literature Magazine, San Francisco, USA. Published by Armando Molina.
• 2001 Agulha Magazine. São Paulo, Brazil. Published by Floriano Martins e Claudio Willer.
• 2000 Visual Arts Enciclopedia, São Paulo, Brazil. Published by Itau Cultural Foundation.
• 2000 Pagina Digital Magazine, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2000 A Nona Geração (The Nineth Generation), Costa Rica. Book writen by Alfonso Pena.
• 2000 Triptico, São Paulo, Brazil. Book written by Maria Estela Guedes.
• 1998 Tip Berlin Magazine, Berlin, Germany.
• 1987 Uma Visão da Arte no Ceará (A Vision of the Art of Ceará), Fortaleza, Brazil. Book writen by Roberto Galvão.