Janaina Tschape was born in 1973 in Munich, Germany, and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In her practice, Tschäpe often incorporates themes of aquatic, plant and human life to suggest dreamlike, abstract landscapes that blur perceptions of illusion and reality. Referencing interests in myth, morphology and the mysteries of aquatic states, she has developed a distinctive language of abstraction in which organic forms are imbued with a remarkable quality of luminosity.

Recent solo exhibitions include

Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan
the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Contemporary Museum of Art, St Louis

Group exhibitions include

The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
NCA Taipei, Taiwan
Whitechapel Gallery, London
TBA21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria
CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2017)
Centre D’Art Contemporain de Normandie, France
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanazawa, Japan
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2016)

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Janaina Tschäpe HumidGray and ShadowLake October 26 - December 8, 2018 Sean Kelly, New York Creating a series of major new paintings, Tschäpe's inaugural at Sean Kelly features canvases with increased scale and intensity. Expansive fields of color capture and reflect the alternately bold and delicate gestures the artist employs in their making.