Gabriela Machado Brazilian

1960, Joinville, Brazil. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Gabriela Machado’s research is focused mainly on painting. The imagery of day-to-day experience is a great source of inspiration, providing the artist with parameters for landscapes and still lifes, in which she emulates small slices of everyday life on the canvas. Her processes spring from quick, organic and spontaneous gesturality, lending pure visuality to the lively colors and forms. As an outgrowth of this aesthetics, she also creates sculptures, in which she investigates shapes through the potentials of other materials, such as clay, plaster and bronze.

Gabriela Machado received her BA in architecture from Universidade Santa Úrsula (RJ), in 1984. She then furthered her studies in art at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (RJ), between 1985 in 1993, as well as in open courses. She has held solo shows at notable venues including Fundação Eugênio de Almeida (2019, Évora, Portugal), the Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (2018, Santa Catarina), Auroras (2017, São Paulo), MAM (2016, Rio de Janeiro), the Espaço Caixa Cultural (2009, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), and the CCBB (2002, Rio de Janeiro). She has participated in group shows held by prestigious museums and organizations that include Paço Imperial (2014, Rio de Janeiro), Oi Futuro (2014, Rio de Janeiro), Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (2025 and 2012, Ribeirão Preto) (2012, São Paulo), Centro Cultural São Paulo (2011, São Paulo), the Museu de Arte da Pampulha (2010, Belo Horizonte), Centro Universitário Maria Antônia (2002, São Paulo), and MAM (1999, Salvador). Her work figures in the collections of important institutions, including those of the Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte), the Instituto Brasileiro de Arte Contemporânea (IBAC, Rio de Janeiro), and the Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina).