Roberto Bellini Alves Monteiro
Juiz de Fora – MG, 1979
Brasil

Roberto Bellini formou-se em desenho pela Escola de Belas Artes na UFMG. Realizou várias exposições coletivas com trabalhos em diversas mídias no Brasil e no exterior. Seus vídeos já foram premiados no 15º Salão de Arte da Bahia, Festival do Filme Livre no Rio de Janeiro, na 2ª Bienal de Video Inter-americano nos EUA e no 10° Festival de Cinema de Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Já participou de mostras como o 61° Festival Internacional de Cinema em Locarno, na Suíça, Paraísos Indômitos no Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Vigo, na Espanha, o 14° e 15° VideoBrasil em São Paulo, Kunst Film Biennale na Alemanha, e Ways to See no Centro Fundación Telefónica, Peru. Recentemente finalizou seu mestrado em Transmedia na University of Texas at Austin, nos EUA. Com seu trabalho no Texas Bellini participou de importantes mostras como a Texas Biennial de 2007, Lone Star Video no Center for Contemporary Art em Tel Aviv, This Land is Your Land no Chicago Museum of Contemporary  Photography, e Texas/Nexus no Contemporary Arts Museum de Houston.

Roberto Bellini Graduated in Drawing from the School of Fine Arts, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. He has participated in several collective exhibitions and international video festivals  with work in diverse media in Brazil and abroad.  His videos have received prizes in the 15º Salão de Arte da Bahia, Festival do Filme Livre in Rio de Janeiro, 2nd Inter-American Biennial of Video Art  in United States and the 10th Santa Maria da Feira Film Festival in Portugal. His videos have been screened in exhibits and festivals all over the world including the 61st International Locarno Film Festival, in Switzerland, Untamed Paradises at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain, the 14th and 15th VIDEOBRASIL Festival in São Paulo, Kunst Film Biennale in Germany and Ways to See at the Centro Fundación Telefónica in Peru. Roberto recently finished his MFA in the Transmedia department of the University of Texas at Austin. With his work in Texas Roberto participated in important shows such as the 2007 Texas Biennial, Lone Star Video at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, This Land is Your Land at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and Texas/Nexus at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston.

Educação < education >

  • 2004/2007 – MFA from the University of Texas at Austin
  • 2002 – BA in Fine Arts, from the School of Belas Artes at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil
  • 2003 – Workshop: Video-Dance ministered by the filmmaker Laura Taler, at the Centro Cultural Itaú in São Paulo
  • 2000 – Workshop: Invented Realities ministered by the photographer Eustáquio Neves, at the 32º Winter Festival of UFMG in Ouro Preto, Brazil
  • 1999 – Workshop: A Question of Space II ministered by the artists Ana Maria Tavares and Martin Grossman, at the School of Belas Artes in the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil
  • 1999 – Workshop: Image and Writing ministered by the group A4, at the 31º Winter Festival of UFMG in Ouro Preto, Brazil
  • 1998 – Workshop: Visual scripts for Cinema and Comics ministered by Bryan Talbot, at the 30º Winter Festival of UFMG in Ouro Preto, Brazil

Individuais < solo exhibitions >

  • 2009   Roberto Bellini, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2009   Visibilidades Desviadas: os vídeos de Roberto Bellini, Mostra Imagem e Pensamento, curadoria de Eduardo Jesus, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2008   Mostra Curta Minas, Eixo Brasil, Retrospectiva Roberto Bellini, Cine Humberto Mauro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Coletivas e Festivais < group shows and festivals >

  • 2009   De Passagem, Galeria Rhysmendes, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2008   Vídeo in Foco / Foto in Foco, Galeria Baró Cruz, São Paulo, Brasil
  • 2008   15° Salão da Bahia, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
  • 2008   Container Art, Parque Vila Lobos, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2008   SímBIO, Casa do Baile, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2008   23rd Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, Mar del Plata – Argentina
  • 2008   I/legítimo, MIS Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2008   61st Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno – Switzerland
  • 2008   Resposta, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2008   Brazil Knows What Video Art Is, Le Cube, Paris, France
  • 2008   Parísos Indômitos/Untamed Paradises, Museu de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
  • 2008   Mostra Vídeo Itaú Cultural – Conflitos (Curadoria de Francisco Cesar Filho), Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte – Brasil
  • 2008   This Land is Your Land, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, United States
  • 2007   Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, United States
  • 2007   Mostra Vídeo Itaú Cultural – A Montanha e o Abismo na Estética do Cenário Audiovisual Mineiro (Curadoria de Dellani Lima), Palácio das Artes e Instituto de Artes do Pará, Brasil
  • 2007   Mostra Vídeo Itaú Cultural -  Nem o Vazio Nem a Catástrofe (Curadoria de André Brasil), Palácio das Artes e Instituto de Artes do Pará, Brasil
  • 2007   9 Festival de Curtas de Belo Horizonte, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
  • 2007   22nd New American Talent, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, USA
  • 2007   Accidents, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2007   Lone Star Video, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2006   Texas Biennial 2007, Austin, Texas, United States
  • 2006   Kun.Kortfilm International Short Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2006   10 Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Auditório Biblioteca Municipal, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
  • 2006   Acidentes – Encontros Sesc Videobrasil, SESC São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2006   20 MB Video Exhibition, MASS Gallery, Austin Texas, United States
  • 2006   Goiania Short Film Festival, Goiania, Brazil
  • 2006   YLA 11: Juventud Desenfrenada, at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas, United States
  • 2006   Making it Together, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin Texas, United States
  • 2006   17th International Short Film Festival of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
  • 2006   8th International Short Film Festival of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
  • 2006   Liquid Days, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas, United States
  • 2006   2nd Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
  • 2006   Austin’s Soundtrack, Live performance with Mario Ramiro and Skyler McGlothlin, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin Texas, United States
  • 2006   Ways to see: places and landscapes, Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima, Peru
  • 2006   Mostra do Filme Livre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2005   Imagem dos Povos Festival, Ouro Preto, Brazil
  • 2005   KO 1st Durban Video Festival, Durban, South Africa
  • 2005   Kunst Film Biennale – “Focus on South America”, Cologne, Germany
  • 2005   Videologia II International Festival of audio-visual arts, Volgograd, Russia
  • 2005   15˚ VIDEOBRASIL, at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2005   Shade, Creative Research Lab in Austin Texas, United States
  • 2004   II Bienal de Video Arte del CC BID, at the IDB Cultural Center in Washington DC,
    United States
  • 2003   4th Fluxus 2003 – International Internet Film Festival, http://www.fluxusonline.com.br
  • 2003   14th VIDEOBRASIL, at SESC Pompéia in São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2002   Ruído Digital: Premiere of videos from Minas, at Museu Histórico Abílio Barreto, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2002   8 Mosquitos, at Itaú Cultural of São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2002   Unidade/Diversidade, art gallery of CEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2002   Quatro Quartos, at the Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2001   Resposta, art gallery of CEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2000   XIII Integrarte EBA/UFMG, at the Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2000   Condutibilidade, art gallery of CEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2000   Show of the 32° Winter festival of UFMG, at the Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2000   Ponto, Linha e Plano, at the Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2000   As Figuras, at the Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2000   PAD 2000, at the School of Belas Artes Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 1999   XII Integrarte EBA/UFMG, at the Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 1998   13º National Salon of Fine Arts of Aracaju, Bahia, Brazil

Prêmios e Bolsas < prizes and scholarships >

  • 2008 Prêmio Aquisição no 15° Salão da Bahia, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
  • 2007 Honorable Mention, Bolsa Iberê Camargo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2007 Honorable Mention, Sérgio Motta Art and Technology Prize, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2006 Best Short Film at the 10 Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, in the session “Somos todos filhos da terra”, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
  • 2006 Isabell Smith Herzstein Presidential Scholarship in Art
  • 2006 Best Short at the Mostra do Filme Livre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2004 second place prize at the Second Inter-American Biennial of Video Art, realized by the The Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington DC,

United States

  • 2004 Pre-emptive Fellowship from Ofiice of Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin
  • 2003 Selected for a Master Class Workshop with filmmaker Laura Taler on the topic of Video/Dance, organized by the Itaú Cultural Institute
  • 2001 Selected at UFMG for the exchange program with University of Texas at Austin
  • PAD/2000 Scholarship (Program of Student Development through extra curricular activities)
  • PAD/1999 Scholarship (Program of Student Development through extra curricular activities) with orientation from the following professors:

- Roberto Bethônico
- Wanda Tófani
- Eugênio Pacelli

  • 2000   First Prize at the exhibition of the 32° Winter festival of UFMG
  • 1999   APUBH prize at the XII Integrarte EBA/UFMG
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