Constância Nery

Constancia Nery (born 1936, Ipigua, Sao Paulo, Brazil) is one of today’s leading Latin American Naïve Art painters. Nery is considered a revolutionary Naive Art painter in the Latin American landscape which yielded a number of widely known artist in this space and one of the youngest selling Naive Art painters today. Neri resides in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.

Prizes

• 1984 Bronze Medal, International Center of Contemporary Art, Paris
• 1985 Silver Medal, Winter Salon of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2002 Suisse Prize and Europe Prize of Primitive & Modern Painting, Gallery Pro Arte Kasper Morges, Switzerland

Public collections

• Musée d'Art Naïf - Max Fourny, Paris
• MAN Naïve Art Museum, Beraut, France
• Fundacao Cultural Solar do rosario, Curitiba, Brazil

References

• "L’Arbre et les Naifs", Max Fourny, 1990, Paris“Naïve Art in Brazil”, Jacques Ardies, 1998, São Paulo
• “Brasil-Visao Artistica”, Brazil, 2001
• “Arte e Raizes”, Brinquedos e Brincadeiras, 2001, São Paulo

External links

• Constancia Nery’s paintings at GINA – International Gallery of Naiva Art