Ato Ribeiro

Untitled (Wooden Kente Quilt 61), 2024. Repurposed wood, acrylic, HDPE, wood glue, 24 x 24 x 2 inches.

Asafo Flag #864, 2023. Repurposed wood, acrylic, HDPE, wood glue, 72 x 72 x 1 ¼ inches.

BIOGRAPHY
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989
Resides: Sandy Springs, Georgia
Education: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018); Cranbrook Academy of Art (M.F.A., 2017); Morehouse College (B.F.A., 2012)
Website: atoribeiroart.com

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
“The Law of Self-Preservation,” Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (E Concourse), Atlanta, Georgia.

2023
“NADA Miami 2024,” New Art Dealers Alliance, Miami.
“Ato Ribeiro: Growing Together,” Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, Georgia.
“ZMA Project Walls: Ato Ribeiro,” Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia.
“Ato Ribeiro: Under Her Canopy,” MOCA GA, Atlanta, Georgia.

2022
“Ato Ribeiro: In Due Time,” MINT Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Congo Biennale 2022: The Breath of the Ancestors,” Young Congo Biennale, Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo.

SELECTED GROUPS EXHIBITIONS
2024
“MPINGO,” Southwest Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Atlanta Art Fair: Patterns of Place,” Pullman Yards, Atlanta Georgia.
“The Armory Show: Ato Ribeiro & Na Chainkua Reindorf,” New York.
“Summer Group Exhibition,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.
“Transcendent Geometries: Ato Ribeiro, Carrie Marill, and Andy Burgess,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.

2023
“The Next Hundred Years III,” Brooklyn Collective Mico Art Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
“mundane x sacred x profane,” Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany.
“Entwined: A Group Exhibition,” Marietta Cobb Museum of Art (MCMA), Marietta, Georgia.
“Homage,” Fred Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
“The Alchemists,” Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia.

2022
“They know from whence they came: Kevin Cole, Ato Ribeiro, Freddie Styles & Jamele Wright Sr.,” September Gray Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Of the Fantastic: Extraordinary ATL,” Arts & Entertainment Atlanta & ADID, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Wear Your Love Like Heaven,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.
“Storyteller: Mona Cliff, Sanaz Haghani, and Ato Ribeiro,” Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.

2021
“Prizm Art Fair: Points of Contact,” Miami.
“Little Things,” Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
“ENDLESS SÉANCE,” Hi-Lo Press Exile 3, Atlanta, Georgia.
“CONRAD EGYIR & ATO RIBEIRO: Every Time I Try to Get a Peace of Mind,” Anastasia Tinari Projects, Chicago.
“With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932,” Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

2020
“Prizm Art Fair: Noir, Noir,” Miami.
“Softhouse: Detroit Month of Design,” Grand On River, Detroit, Michigan.
“Shapeshifters: Transformation in Contemporary Art,” Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
“Serenity Now: Meditations on Humanity,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.
“Once Upon a Story,” Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Omotosho, Ade. The Yearbook: 2024. Fountainhead Arts.
Scaturro, Michael. “‘Let Go’: How Atlanta Artists Hit Peak Creativity,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (August).
McIntosh, Monique. “Mother Tongue,” Luxe Interiors + Design Southeast (May/June).

2023
Bacon, Camille. Ato Ribeiro: Under Her Canopy. Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia.
Daugherty, Amina. “In Conversation with Ato Ribeiro,” burnaway.org (November 18).
Genis, Leia. “Ato Ribeiro Weaves Diasporic Futures from Recycled Wood,” frieze.com (September 12).

2022
Nickolaou, Alexandra. “Creating a Home Away from Home: Cross-Cultural Connections in the Work of Ato Ribeiro,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 96, no. 1.

2021
“Artists Máximo González and Ato Ribeiro Recreate the Art of Authentic Storytelling,” Highbrow Magazine (January 8).

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