Camila Oliveira Fairclough is an artist and curator born in 1979 in Rio de Janeiro and living and working in Paris. She holds three nationalities: Brazilian, French, and British.
Oliveira Fairclough playfully navigates the contours of figuration and abstraction within the imagery and language of popular culture. She borrows from everyday mundanity and translates it into a painterly practice that likes to toy with what canonically is and what is not considered painting. Arguably, her work reflects on the idea of painting in a tongue-in-cheek manner, yet behind the humorous facade there lies an interest in the linguistic process that occurs when painting words and symbols.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include Papai Contemporary, Oslo; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Metz; BPS22, Charleroi; Coimbra Biennial, Coimbra; Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine; La Salle de Bains, Lyon; Frac Pays de la Loire, Nantes; MuCEM, Marseille; Frac Lorraine, Metz; Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux; CAN, Neuchâtel; Villa Médicis, Rome; MUDAM, Luxembourg Coty. Selected curatorial projects include Aoulioulé, with Sylvie Fanchon, MRAC, Sérignan (2022); Everybody's looking for something, La Salle de Bains, Lyon (2019).
Her work is the collections of Centre Pompidou, CNAP, FRAC Ice de France, FNAC, FRAC Alsace, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, FRAC Bretagne, FRAC Normandy, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Le BPS22, and Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut, among others.