Campo Mourão, Paraná State, Brazil, 1989.

Lives and works in São Paulo.

Bruno Marcelino works at the intersection of painting and construction, integrating color and pictorial composition with carpentry and metalwork skills and processes. From the repetition of limited procedures, the artist develops a matrix of undefined possiblities for variation, based on opportune experimentation and negotiation with color and specific materials. His practice and his pieces insist on the notion of deviation as the driving force behind invention and attention to the inconstancies of experience as a way of dodging the usual meaning of things. Hinting at or escaping familiar categories, Marcelino's work addresses its own condition of possibility, proposing a reflection on the materiality of contemporary visual culture.

Marcelino has exhibited his work in collective and solo exhibitions in several museums and institutions of Brazil, such as Funarte (São Paulo, 2023), Art Factory Marcos Amaro (Itu, 2022), Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, 2020), Engraving Museum of Curitiba City (2019), Art Museum of the Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba, 2018), House of Gaze Luiz Sacilotto (Santo André, 2018), SESC, Freedom Palace (Curitiba, 2016), SESC of the corner, (Curitiba, 2014), SESI Cultural (Curitiba, 2009). His work is in the collection of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (2020).

He has been a resident artist at the Three-Dimensional Laboratory Studio at the UNESP (São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho) since August 2023, when he was selected for the Art Residency program L.o.t.e. (Place. Occupation. Time. Space.).

Marcelino is a PhD student (2022-current) and Master of Arts (2021) at UNESP (São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho). He holds a BA in Visual Arts (2012) from the UFPR (Federal University of Paraná).