Miriam Angeli Padilha

Miriam Angeli Padilha lives and works in Paris. Born in Rio de Janeiro (BR) in 1999, she attended painting classes at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, earned a degree in Art History from the Rio de Janeiro School of Fine Arts and later obtained her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts from the Marseille School of Fine Arts.

Artist statement

Miriam Angeli Padilha’s work delves into the sacred and magical dimension of

impressions of modernity. Color is the primary instrument for this visual research, in dialogue with Pierre Bonnard, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Lucian Freud.

While her palette sometimes delves into saturation, it remains tender; capturing what simmers in anticipation, what is written in sleep. By documenting the present, the painter transforms the everyday into memory and translates its mythologies. Careful gestures, innocent celebrations, become rituals that ward off tragedies.

Selected exhibitions:

2026 Group exhibition «L’Écho du Silence», See Galerie (Paris, FR)

2025 ICART Artistik Rezo Prize, Hotel Mona Bismarck (Paris, FR)

2024 Group exhibition «Campus Panic», Friche la Belle de Mai, Curation: Salma Mochtari (Marseille, FR)

2024 Juvenars Prize 2024, IESA (Paris, FR)

2024 Group exhibition «Tranlation(s)», art-cade galerie des grands bains douches Curation: Arlène Berceliot Courtin (Marseille, FR)

2023 Solo exhibition «Veranico», Solarium, Curation: Maya Benarouch and Yahnis Rocailleux (Marseille, FR)

2022 Group exhibition «Da pintura», Galeria Z42, Curation : Isabel Portella and Patrizia D’Angello (Rio de janeiro, BR)