Saint Clair Cemin (born 1951) is a Brazilian sculptor and painter who currently lives and works in New York and Beijing.

Cemin became interested in art as a teenager, leaving behind philosophy and physics to focus on art, drawing and working on illustrations for magazines. Throughout the 1980s, Cemin became an integral part of NY’s east village art scene which included a circle of important contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons. After those formative years in New York, Cemin moved to Egypt and then Paris to pursue sculpture in different environments and with different mediums. After 2010 he returned to NY and continues to create sculptural works in his Brooklyn studio.

His work ranges from the naturalistic to the abstract surreal. His forms encompass multiple styles, approaches, and materials, from furniture to toys in popular culture to the history of sculpture.

Oedipus is the title of Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin's fourth solo exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. The show presents new sculptures, including a twenty-part work. The exhibition is on view at the gallery's 293 Tenth Avenue location between March 8 - April 14, 2018. Saint Clair Cemin: Oedipus.

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Saint Clair Cemin by Shirley Kaneda

Works appear in

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island City, NY
Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles