NEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects announced the representation of Brazilian artist Alice Shintani (b. 1971, S鉶 Paulo) in the United States, in collaboration with Almeida & Dale, S鉶 Paulo. Alison Bradley Projects will present Shintani's first US solo exhibition in Fall 2027.
Shintani's practice is grounded in an expanded understanding of painting as a site of spatial, social, and institutional inquiry. Working across painting, installation, collective actions, and interventions in public space, she investigates the ways images, objects, and gestures circulate between everyday life and the structures that frame contemporary art. Rather than treating painting as a discrete medium, Shintani approaches it as a mode of thinking—one that extends into architecture, urban space, and encounters with diverse publics.
Formally, her work is characterized by an economy of means. Color, folding, repetition, light, and simple geometric forms become tools through which she examines relationships between bodies, spaces, and systems of visibility. These understated gestures unfold through slow processes of making, resisting spectacle in favor of sustained attention to material presence and lived experience. Beneath their apparent simplicity lies a persistent engagement with the contradictions of contemporary social and political life, where intimacy and violence, care and precarity, coexist.
Central to Shintani's practice is an ongoing questioning of where and for whom art exists. Her projects frequently move beyond conventional exhibition spaces, emerging instead through public interventions, collaborative actions, or alternative forms of circulation that unsettle established distinctions between artwork and everyday experience. This commitment is informed by periods of sustained engagement outside the institutional art world—including her decision to step away from artistic production to work as a street vendor in downtown S鉶 Paulo—which profoundly shaped her understanding of labor, exchange, and public life.
Born in S鉶 Paulo to a family of Japanese immigrants and originally trained as a computer engineer, Shintani brings an interdisciplinary sensibility to her work, informed as much by systems of organization and urban experience as by art history. While deeply responsive to the specific political and institutional conditions in which it is produced, her practice remains resolutely open-ended, inviting viewers to reconsider how acts of looking, making, and inhabiting space might become forms of collective reflection.
Among Shintani's recent solo shows are Echo at SMU Meadows School of theArts, Dallas, USA (2026); Caverna at Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeir鉶 Preto, Brazil (2024); and Mata ON SALE at Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, S鉶 Paulo (2021)— alongside public intervention projects such as Prayer Birds (Flags Project) atAmericas Society/Council of the Americas, New York, USA (2024); COMPROOURO at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, S鉶 Paulo (2019); and Tuiui, presented across the Associa玢o Brasileira de Encaderna玢o e Restauro(ABER), the M醨io de Andrade Library, and Pra鏰 Dom Jos Gaspar, S鉶 Paulo(2017).
Shintani has participated in group shows such as the duo Montanha e Vale:Tomie Ohtake e Alice Shintani, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2026); 繯ueima-Roupa: uma cole玢o contempor鈔ea, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (IFF), Ribeir鉶 Preto, Brazil (2026); Echoes and Mirages at Almeida & Dale, S鉶 Paulo(2025); 100 Anos da Arte Brasileira at the G20 Summit, Pavilh鉶 da Bienal, S鉶Paulo (2024); The Sun's Path at Gomide & Co., S鉶 Paulo (2023); the 34th Bienalde S鉶 Paulo (2020–2021) and its itinerancies in S鉶 Lu韘, Bel閙, Fortaleza, Campinas, and Campos do Jord鉶, Brazil; Centro Carrilhos, Santiago, Chile; and LUMA Foundation, Arles, France (2022); Autumn Residents at DelfinaFoundation, London, UK; Shadows & Monsters at Gasworks, London, UK (2017); Survival Adaptations at Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, USA (2014); Utropicat the Centre of Contemporary Art, Poznań, Poland (2013); T醫icas deDesaparecimento in Guant醤amo, Cuba (2012); Rumos Artes Visuais at Ita鶦ultural, S鉶 Paulo; Bras韑ia; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2009); Nova Arte Novaat Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and S鉶 Paulo, Brazil (2008); the 25th Arte Par, Bel閙, Brazil (2006); and the Sal鉶 Bunkyo, S鉶 Paulo (2003).
Shintani was a resident, visiting artist and has participated other in iniciatives atSMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, USA (2026); Complexo Hospitalar doJuquery, Franco da Rocha, Brazil (2019); Hablar En Arte, Madrid, Spain (2018); Delfina Foundation, London, UK, through the SP-Arte Prize (2017); ValandAcademy, Gothenburg, Sweden (2017); and Rumos Artes Visuais Ita Cultural (S鉶 Paulo, 2008–2009).
Her works are featured in the collections of the LUMA Arles Foundation, France; Funda玢o Bienal de S鉶 Paulo – Acervo Wanda Svevo, Brazil; Pal醕io do Itamaraty – Brazilian Federal Government; Pinacoteca de S鉶 Paulo, Brazil; and SESC S鉶 Paulo.
