Ilka Benez Brandao Lemos was born in Araçatuba, São Paulo State, in 1957. She attended the School of Fine Arts in Penápolis, São Paulo State, between 1974 and 1975. She studied drawing and painting with Ângela Anzel in 1986 and Art History with Arnaldo Filho in Araçatuba, in 1988 and New York/Washington in 1989. In 1986, she attended the workshop given by Antonio Helio Cabral, in São Carlos, São Paulo State. She moved to the city of São Paulo in 1997 and participated in the workshop Arte e Movimento at Sesc Pompéia, and later joined Sergio Fingerman’s art studio, where she worked for four years. In 1999, she attended the course Encontro sobre a Bienal led by Agnaldo Farias at São Paulo’s Oscar Americano Foundation and studied Art History with Rodrigo Naves between 1999 and 2000.

As of 1988, Ilka Lemos participated in various collective exhibitions across São Paulo State and in São Paulo City, among them:

Contemporaneidade – Jô Slaviero & Guedes Galeria de Arte Quadrienal Internacional de Aquarela at São Paulo’s Santa Marcelina School 120 anos da Abolição – Galeria Brazil Gallery Giuliano Spitaletti and Ilka Lemos – Bita Art Loft Galeria Projeto Guimarães Rosa faz 100 – O Filosofo sertão Universal – Galeria Brazil Galery Café com Arte – Projeto Itinerante – Casa Galeria e Museu do Café de Botucatu A arte abstrata não Existe – Galeria Area Artis Se a arte morreu, esqueceram de me avisar – Galeria Garcia Arte.

Ilka also held numerous individual exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, among which: Nus – Espaco Cultural Olinto Lemos, Araçatuba, 1998 O Santo Descoberto – Galeria Araçatuba, 1999 Rompimento da Fraternidade – Mostra Eletrônica, 2000 Signos e seres – Conjunto Nacional da Caixa Econômica Federal, São Paulo, 2002 Trégua? – Espaço Cultural Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo, 2002 Individual Exhibition – Arvani Arte Galeria, São Paulo, 2003 Individual Exhibition – Mara Dolzan Galeria, Campo Grande, 2003 Porque Hoje é Sábado – Bita Art Loft Galeria, São Paulo, 2004 Diálogo Brasil Portugal – Sines, Portugal, 2004 Individual Ilka Lemos – Casa Pedro Alvares Cabral - Casa do Brasil, Santarém, Portugal, 2005 Fragmentos de São Paulo – Mercure Grand Hotel, São Paulo, 2006 Exhibition – Bita Art Loft Galeria, São Paulo, 2007 Passagens – Art display on Alto do Ipiranga subway station, São Paulo, 2008 Lilith – Participacao semana literária na Avenida Paulista São Paulo2008 Lilith – Galeria Garcia Artes - São Paulo, 2009

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Artist Highlights

• ArtWanted.com Gallery:    Fine Art
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