S O L A N G E - F A B I Ã O ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2011

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Lives and works in New York

Artist and architect Solange Fabião was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fabião, since very early age has been committed to the fine arts considering painting a lifetime activity. At the age of 8 Fabião produced her first set, a large-scale painting of a tree on a black background. Diversity in the creative process and in the forms of expression has been her focal point; Fabião studied Architecture and received her BFA in Set Design. Fabião worked as set designer for the Brazilian Network Rede Globo and designed sets for theater in Rio de Janeiro and in Berlin, Germany. Fabião studied digital media and art history at the HDK and Freie Universität Berlin arriving in Berlin seven months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 1994 Fabião left Berlin to New York.

Fabião received several honorable mentions for her architectural projects, in 2005 she won the architecture competition for the Cité de L’Ocean et du Surf in Biarritz, France. The collaboration with Steven Holl Architects is now complete and set to open in June 2011. As industrial designer Fabião has launched in 2005 in Austria an innovative door handle which combines pliable silicone technology and sculptural qualities manufactured by Olivari in Italy. Elementar no.1 - Path to Henry Hudson, an outdoor installation was part in Ahoy! Where lies Henry Hudson an exhibition of Henry Hudson memorials in Woodstock, NY celebrating the Quadricentennial of Hudson’s explorations in 2009.

In 2008 Fabião inaugurated her project AMAZÔNIA (Projecting on Black) at Western Bridge, a non-profit space in Seattle- a HD Video series shot in the Amazon region during the dry and wet seasons of 2006 and 2007. The single-direction videos, which presented unedited the dramatic changes that occur during sunrise and sunset were projected on a black-painted surface revealing a new kind of depth to the projected image while also exploring the extremes of darkness and light.

Fabião’s art projects have been exhibited in Europe, in the Americas and in the Middle East. Including Global Public Art Project TRANSITIO: TRANSITIO_MIAMI in 2006, TRANSITIO_NYC in 2005 (Made possible by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with support from The September 11th Fund; the project was selected to participate in the 2006 Architecture Venice Biennial to represent NYC at Cities, Architecture and Society Exhibition) 2004 TRANSITIO_BEIRUT, 2003 exhibition TRANSITIO NYC_TORNIO in the Aine Art Museum in Finland, 2002 at Art and Idea - Mexico City and 2001 Duration: 1 hour and 3 minutes - Location: 1.3 miles at the Paul Rogers Gallery in NYC coinciding with the Guggenheim Museum exhibition, Brazil: Body and Soul. In 1997 she participated in the 47th Venice Biennial presenting the Internet project Cyberclone 2000.

AMAZÔNIA (Projecting on Black ) is on view from April 30 to June 11, 2011 at the Simon Fraser University gallery in Vancouver, Canada.