Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982, Maceió, Brazil) lives and works in Recife, Brazil. He develops videos, photographs and installations based on the production of images and texts, employing strategies that juxtapose fiction and reality, tradition and negotiation with local communities. Parting from the artist's interests in social issues, his works cross the field of language and anthropology as aspects that challenge the notion of truth, power, desire and social imaginary. He has held solo exhibitions such as Jonathas de Andrade: Eye–Spark, at Maat, Lisbon (2023) and Crac Alsace, France (2022); Pounce and Bounce at Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023), In the hangover city, at Mamam, Recife (2023); Staging Resistance, at Foam Amsterdam (2022); One to One, at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019); The Fish, New Museum, New York (2017); The Power Plant, Toronto (2017); Visiones del Nordeste, Museo Jumex, México City (2017); Museu do Homem do Nordeste, MAR: Museum of Art, Rio de Janeiro (2014-2015), and participated in group exhibitions, such as 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019); Artapes, MAXXI: National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (2018); 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial (2016); Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art MoMA (2015); and Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014). In 2022, Jonathas de Andrade presented a solo project for the Brazilian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.

filmography
columbófilos (2023)
estação rádio bouça (2023)
knot in the throat (2022)
out loud (2022)
directed games (2019)
voyeuristic (2018)
the housekeeper (2016)
the fish (2016)
uprising (2012)
4.000 shots (2010)
pacific (2010)
love and happiness in the wedding (2007)

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