ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mimi Pinheiro is a painter and performance artist of Azorean-American origin. Her most formative visual arts education was her two year apprenticeship with the Mexican painter, Jose 'Pepe' Barbosa, from the Collective Grupo Suma in Mexico City. She is a part of the collective El Quinto Piso in Mexico City, and also studied with many members of the collective. She has recently relocated to the United States and continues her practice of figure drawing and painting still life out of her studio in the Kilburn Mill in New Bedford, MA. Mimi also practices live arts, creates installations and art objects. She has directed and performed live arts at many independent galleries throughout Mexico City and New England. She is motivated by absurdism, disgusting splendor and elaborate parties.

Her paintings explore obsessions, often with petty objects. She processes her cultural position and subconscious tendencies by translating objects into personal cult images, a form of idolization and devotional painting.

Paintings and drawings available for collection through Mooni in Condesa, Mexico City and Merchant House in New Orleans LA.