Ana Flávia de Oliveira Garcia. Alegrete, Brazil. 1997.
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Arts Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), has also studied at University of Porto (Portugal). Her work focuses on non-figurative painting, drawing and ceramic sculpture. With academic experience in the areas of Visual Arts, Art Mediation, Art History and Cinema; professional experience in directing, producing and directing art in advertisement and art films. Has participated in collective and solo exhibits in Brazil and Portugal; her artworks are present in private collections in over five countries.
Ana Flávia Garcia (b. 1997, Alegrete, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the Institute of Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where she is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual Poetics. During her studies, she also attended the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, Portugal.
Painting constitutes the central axis of her practice. Between 2018 and 2024, her work developed primarily within abstraction, exploring relationships between gesture, materiality, and color in large-scale paintings. During this period, she investigated the construction of the image through successive layers and glazes, where the energy of gesture interacts with the density and transparency of paint.
More recently, through her research on liminal spaces, her investigation has shifted toward the construction of ambiguous atmospheres marked by a sense of temporal suspension. Empty architectures and artificial light organize compositions that move between recognition and indeterminacy, evoking fragmentary or partially constructed memories.
Her work engages with different moments in the history of painting as well as references drawn from architecture and cinema, including Fra Angelico, Matthias Weischer, and Albert Oehlen, alongside the cinematic universe of David Lynch.
Garcia has participated in group exhibitions and publications in Brazil and abroad. In 2020 she held her first solo exhibition, Ainda anônimos, at Centro Cultural Erico Verissimo, and in the same year received an honorable mention at the Oswaldo Goeldi Biennial. In 2022 she presented her second solo exhibition, Noite da matéria, luz da alma, at Espaço Ado Malagoli (IA/UFRGS).
Her paintings are part of private collections in the United States, England, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, France, and Brazil.
