Norma Grinberg

Born in 1951 in Bolivia, nationalized and residing in São Paulo, Brazil, since 1959, Norma Tenenholz Grinberg has held national and international exhibitions. As a visual artist, she is one of the major artistic standouts working with ceramics in the country. The quality of her work is acknowledged by both the public and the critics, who point out the originality and contemporary nature of her aesthetic proposal.

Norma Grinberg’s academic training includes an Arts Teaching Degree, with a Master’s and Doctor’s Degree in Visual Poetics from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), where she is currently a senior professor in the Visual Arts Department. Her career is marked by awards and honorable mentions in events and exhibitions such as the 1st São Paulo Saloon for Contemporary Arts and the 26th Brazilian Congress on Ceramics, among others.

She has also received invitations for international conferences and exhibitions such as the Festival International du Film Ceramique in Montpellier and Le Printemps des Potiers in Bandol, France; the 47º Concorso Internazionale Della Ceramica D’Arte, Faenza, and Galleria D’arte Ítalo-Brasiliana, in Milan, Italy; and at Javits Convention Center, New York, USA; the Neue keramik aus Brasilien, Brasiléia Foundation, Basel, Switzerland, among others.

Norma exhibits her pieces in Brazil and abroad, and her work is part of national and international private and museum collections, such as Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; USP Museum of Contemporary Art; Casa Porto das Artes, Espírito Santo; Mokiti Okada Foundation (M.O.A.- São Paulo); Museum of Contemporary Art of Curitiba; Alfredo Andersen Museum; Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON), Curitiba; Cultural Foundation of Brasília – Brasília; CAPES Foundation – Brasilia. Fule International Ceramic Art Museum, China; National Museum of Sévres, France; Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche – Faenza – Italy; GIFU Prefectural Tajimi Hospital – Tajimi-City, Japan; Óbidos City Museum, Portugal; Uttarayan Art Center – Vadodara, India; New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan. She is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) since 2009.

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