Ritchelly Oliveira
Portugal
Ritchelly Oliveira is a Brazilian visual artist whose work takes the human figure as a starting point to explore the depths of affectivity. He began his professional career in 2012, developing a sensitive, autobiographical, and visceral visual language. Ritchelly’s work offers a poetic reflection on love, not only as a universal ideal, but as an intimate experience shaped by memories, traumas, and emotional scars. In his creations, to speak of affection is also to speak of wounds: of the courage to remain open to emotional experience, even when it is fractured. In the early years of his career, the artist turned to personal experiences within the family context.
Biography
Education
Exhibitions
Artist Statement
Biography
| Ritchelly Oliveira is a Brazilian visual artist whose work takes the human figure as a starting point to explore the depths of affectivity. He began his professional career in 2012, developing a sensitive, autobiographical, and visceral visual language. Ritchelly’s work offers a poetic reflection on love, not only as a universal ideal, but as an intimate experience shaped by memories, traumas, and emotional scars. In his creations, to speak of affection is also to speak of wounds: of the courage to remain open to emotional experience, even when it is fractured. In the early years of his career, the artist turned to personal experiences within the family context. |
Education
Visual Arts from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG)
Exhibitions
- Solo exhibition “Cartografias da Afetividade“, Tilsitt Gallery, Nov 2025 – Dec 2025, Porto, Portugal.
- CasaCor Goias, April 2021, Goiania – Brazil.
- Intercontinental, junho 2024. Porto – Portugal.
- Collective exhibition, Tilsitt Gallery, April 2024. Porto – Portugal
- Solo exhibition “Fragilities“, La Brea, April 2023, Los Angeles – US
- CasaCor Goias, April 2021, Goiania – Brazil.
- Collective exhibition “Volume Fest”, Colonia Nova, November 2017, Berlin, Germany.
- Exhibition “Vanitas VIII”, Plus Galeria, November 2017, Goiânia, Goias, Brazil.
- Exhibition “SE7E” , Plus Galeria, May 2017. Goiânia – Goias, Brazil.
- Collective exhibition, “Cotidianidades: do íntimo ao exposto”, Gallery ExpoLab, Federal University of Goias, May 2017. Goiânia – Goias, Brazil.
- Lou La Vie Gallery(Art Basel Miami), December 2016. Miami – California. USA.
- Collective exhibition Zanith – Fusing Art and Fashion , Lou La Vie Gallery, November/2016 – January/2017. Miami – California. USA.
- Collective exhibition
“Vanitas VII”, Plus Galeria, November 2016. Goiânia – Goias. Brazil. - Collective exhibition ” Double Vision”, Highline Gallery, May 2015,New York City – USA.
Artist Statement
“There are few places where I allow myself to be as vulnerable as I do in my work. Much of that vulnerability often isn’t visible in the final product, the canvas, but rather in the process behind it.
My work is sometimes like a filter: I take what reality gives me, filter it in my own way, and return it, reshaped by my perspective and by what I felt.”
My work is sometimes like a filter: I take what reality gives me, filter it in my own way, and return it, reshaped by my perspective and by what I felt.”
Artworks
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