São Paulo, Brazil, 1943
São Paulo, Brazil, 2023
Dudu Santos was a painter, set designer, illustrator, curator, and teacher. Between 1959 and 1963, he studied painting with Eduardo Sued (1925), Mário Gruber (1927), and Yolanda Mohalyi (1909-1978). drawing with Nelson Nóbrega (1900-1997) and Renina Katz (1926); mosaic and fresco with Joaquim Rocha Ferreira (1900-1965); engraving with Marcelo Grassmann (1925) and Mário Gruber and sculpture with Caciporé Torres (1935). In 1966, he taught drawing and painting at Ateliê Via Veneto, by Nieta Lex. In addition to these activities, he performs the scenarios of the pieces Knock or Triumph of Medicine, by Jules Romain in 1960 and Triad in 1993; produces the covers of the books of Paulo Bonfim, Leila Gouvea, Arruda Camargo, and Antônio Penteado Mendonça.
Throughout his career, he had individual exhibitions at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia / Solar do Unhão (Salvador, BA) in 1974, Documenta Galeria de Arte (São Paulo, SP) in 1984, Moira Galeria de Arte (Lisbon, Portugal) in 1991, Mônica Filgueiras Gallery of Art (São Paulo, SP) in 1998, Gallery of Art of the House of Brazil (Madrid, Spain) in 1999, among others.
He recently presented the exhibitions “Transfiguration”, in 2022, “Contra o vazio” in 2018, and “Nothing is real but everything is real” in 2016, all in Galeria Jaqueline Martins (São Paulo, SP). He has also participated in numerous collective exhibitions in galleries and institutions such as the Modern Museum of São Paulo (MASP, São Paulo, SP), National Museum of Fine Arts (Rio de Janeiro, RJ) and Atami Museum of Fine Arts (Moa, Atami (MAC / USP, São Paulo, SP) in 1998 and “Only for the Rare, only for the Crazy” curated by Daniela Name, Galeria Jaqueline Martins (São Paulo, SP) in 2011.
