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Division Arts Division

Department/College/Unit Art Department

Title Assistant Professor, Social Design

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Faculty Type Regular Faculty

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Assistant Professor, Social Design, Art Department
Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA
Affiliated Faculty, Visualizing Abolition Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Film & Digital Media Department
Principal Faculty, Creative Technologies course

Cláudio Bueno, Ph.D., is an artist and curator. Bueno is a member of several platforms and groups, such as ‘Explode! Platform’, ‘Intervalo-Escola’ and 'O grupo inteiro'. Throughout these collectives, he has worked in collaborative, dialogical, and interdisciplinary political-aesthetic propositions, projects, and processes in art, design, education, activism, architecture, and technology. He has been involved with several social movements, biomes, and people – committed to social and environmental justice. He has a Ph.D. in Visual Arts from USP – University of Sao Paulo. In 2022, he was the director of Participation and Culture at Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo. From 2019 – 2021, he was a visiting professor at the graduate program of the School of Arts from FAAP (Fundação Armando Álvarez Penteado). In 2018-19, he co-curated the exhibition 'Fields of Invisibility' at Sesc-SP – a reflection on the global technological infrastructures and its modes of operation regarding the dynamics of life and the Earth. As a designer, Bueno has been developing digital platforms for art and educational institutions for the last 20 years - please visit groundatlas.org (2021) as the last one. 

Bueno has been featured in many exhibitions, residencies, awards, and talks in Brazil and abroad – contributing to artistic and educational institutions such as Hessel Museum/CCS Bard, Chicago Architecture Biennial, CUNY (USA); Delfina Foundation, Central Saint Martins/UAL, Whitechapel Gallery (England); Prix Ars Electronica (Austria); Festival de Artes Electronicas Transitio_MX (Mexico); Humboldt-Universität (Germany); Rumos CyberArts Itaú Cultural, Videobrasil, MASP, MAM Rio and São Paulo Biennial (Brazil); Pro-Helvetia/Far (Switzerland); Het Nieuwe Instituut (Netherlands); U-jazdowski Castle for Contemporary Arts (Poland); University of Cape Town (South Africa); amongst others. His last articles were published by Mousse Publishing, Terremoto.mx and Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. 

For more, please download his temporary portfolio by clicking here.

Teaching Interests

Contemporary Arts, Visual Arts, Collective and Communitarian practices, Social and Environmental Justice, Design, Education, Technology

Awards, Honors and Grants

2024 - Terra Foundation with IAS, Visualizing Abolition (Rachel Nelson and Gina Dent), and Explode! Platform – two-year program on Abolition between Brazil and the US. <https://www.terraamericanart.org/2024/12/04/grants-awarded-fall-2024/>

2022 - Arts Research Institute for an Equity and Innovation (UCSC) – Explode! School 

2020 - Fellowship Regeneration: New Institutional Practices, Project: DNOCS – Drought, Regeneration, Orós, Sertão, Caatinga Project, with O grupo inteiro (Carol Tonetti, Claudio Bueno, Enrico Rocha, Ligia Nobre, Vitor Cesar), Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/articles/caatinga-institutions-interview-o-grupo-inteiro>

2017 - "Select award" for Art & Education, CCBB-SP – Shortlisted with Tainá Azeredo. 

2016 - Musagetes Foundation (Canada), Explode! Residency, in collaboration with Lanchonete.org and ArtsEverywhere.ca;

2015 - Rede Nacional Funarte de Artes Visuais, Intervalo-Escola, with Tainá Azeredo.

2012 - Award “Videobrasil em Contexto” [Videobrasil in Context] (Brasil), artistic research grant including residency at Delfina Foundation (London, UK) and Casa Tomada (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

2011 - Honorable Mention at Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria).

2011 - Award Transitio_MX (México) - "Campo Minado" [Minefield] artwork.

2011 - Rumos Cinema and Vídeo, Itaú Cultural - category: Webdocumentary. As part of the Lat-23 collective.

2010 - Arte.Mov festival (Brazil) - "Redes Vestíveis" [wearable networks] artwork.

2009 - Rumos CyberArts - Itaú Cultural (Brasil); artistic research to develop a new piece.

2009/11 - Nominated twice for Prêmio Sergio Motta of Art and Technology (Brazil).

Selected Exhibitions

Sep.2023-Jan.2025

Seeing Through Stone curated by Gina Dent, Rachel Nelson and Lauren Dickens. 

Artwork: Freedom Zero (Liberdade Zero), 2024

Video installation, poster, wood and charcoal drawing

Video: 13:54 minutes; poster: 36 x 24 in.; drawing: 13 x 18 in.

O grupo inteiro (Carol Tonetti, Cláudio Bueno, Ligia Nobre and Vitor Cesar) + Lorran Dias and Vanessa Soares

In collaboration with Centro de Estudos e Ações Solidárias da Maré and Complexo de Favelas da Maré

Venues: 

IAS, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA 

SJMA, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, Santa Cruz, CA

Museu da Maré (screening), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

https://ias.ucsc.edu/exhibits/visualizing-abolition/seeing-through-stone/

Apr.2019-Jan.2020

…and other such stories, Chicago Architecture Biennial, curated by Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama, and Paulo Tavares.

MSTC: Housing as Citizenship Practice 

Exhibition, Publication, Research, Participatory Process, Encounters

Co-curators, Co-editors, Installation Work in Chicago and Graphic Designers: O grupo inteiro – Carol Tonetti, Claudio Bueno, Ligia Nobre, Vitor Cesar. <https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/people/mstc-city-center-homeless-peoples-movement-sao-paulo-in-collaboration-with-escola-da-cidade-and-o-grupo-inteiro/>

Jan.-Nov.2018

The Marquee, MAM, and Us in the Middle

Exhibition, Publication, Encounters, Playlists, Public Program

Venue: MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo and Marquee, Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo, Brazil (May,9-Aug.19,2018)

Curators: Ana Maria Maia in conversation with MAM Educativo and O grupo inteiro – Carol Tonetti, Claudio Bueno, Ligia Nobre, Vitor Cesar. 

Co-curators, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Catalogue Graphic Design, Texts, Artworks Obstáculo and Teia: O grupo inteiro – Carol Tonetti, Claudio Bueno, Ligia Nobre, Vitor Cesar. 

Mar.-Dec.2016

Playgrounds 2016

Artwork: Condutores (Conductors), 2016
Venue: MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo and Sesc Interlagos. curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Julieta González, Luiza Proença. Artists: Céline Condorelli, Ernesto Neto, Grupo Contrafilé, O grupo inteiro, Rasheed Araeen, Yto Barrada. Commissioned and funded by MASP and Sesc Sao Paulo. Venues: Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo – MASP (Mar.18-Jul.24) and Sesc Interlagos (Aug.20-Dec.4), Sao Paulo, Brazil

O grupo inteiro – Carol Tonetti, Claudio Bueno, Ligia Nobre, Vitor Cesar. <https://masp.org.br/exposicoes/playgrounds-2016>

Oct 2017 – Jan 2018

Time to Break at Gotong Royong: things we do together

Installation, Education program

Venue: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art. Warsaw, Poland 

Curated by: Marianna Dobkowska and Krzysztof Łukomski

Intervalo-Escola (Cláudio Bueno and Tainá Azeredo)

Intervalo-Escola was invited to be "the heart of Gotong Royong. Things we do together – an exhibition-meeting place at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, in which the exhibition and a rich public program were intertwined. The idea of community organized a selection of films, objects, documentation and public activities offered by the artists, activists and educators from places around the world. Intervalo organized the education program, a diagram about our practice and the design of the space with platforms informed by our experiences between Amazonia and Sao Paulo.

https://u-jazdowski.pl/en/programme/exhibitions/gotong-royong-

Selected Publications

AZEREDO, Tainá. BUENO, Claudio. Intervalo-Escola: The Artisanship of Times, Learnings, and Collectivities, in Things We Do Together: The Post-Reader. Milan: Mousse Publishing and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2020.

BUENO, Cláudio. CESAR, Vitor. NOBRE, Ligia. TONETTI, Carol. Marquise, in Arc en Rêve. France, 2024. Available at: <https://arcenreve.eu/explorations/marquise> Last Access: Jan 2025.

BUENO, Cláudio. DRUWE, ANA. MEDEIROS, Vânia. SIMÕES, João. Nossa Voz #1024, Issue: Palavra Chão [Ground Word] (org.). Sao Paulo: Casa do Povo, 2024. Available in Portuguese at: <https://casadopovo.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/nv_2024_03_digital.pdf>. Last access: April, 2025.

Courses ART 210A: Practice-Based Research Group: Sites (Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA))
ART 108: Art, Design and Social Practice
ART 170: Playgrounds: forms of gathering and playing
ART194: Forms & Ideas
ART20K: Introduction to New Media and Digital Art Making
CT 100: Digital Platforms: Observations and Practices