Vinny Olimpio

A woman in workout clothes sitting on a yoga mat, stretching her legs.

b. 1988
Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Lives and works in Europe

Raised in an industrial town in Minas Gerais, left Brazil for Europe at eighteen. Formed across nearly two decades as a creative and art director in London and California, he left the industry in 2020, built a studio in Mexico City, and has since made work that answers to nothing outside itself.

His work express the tension between movement and intention: the washes and ripples of chaos, reality in constant motion, set against symbols, fixed points chosen to give meaning inside that flow. We control almost nothing, except what we mean by it.

He presented Yantras, his first solo exhibition, during Mexico City Art Week in 2024; curated and exhibited in The Art of Nobody during Art Week 2025; and opened À Flor da Pele, his second solo, during Lisbon Art Week in 2026.

My work celebrates the tension between movement and intention. The flow, the washes, the ripples of chaos: that is reality itself, in constant motion and beyond our control. The symbols are the other side, fixed points we choose to give meaning inside that flow, a vehicle for navigating it.

Raised between nature and the smelter, on ground made red by iron, the same iron that reddens the clay and the blood. What feeds the land feeds the body. Urucum, the seed pigment worn on skin as protection, gives the work a red that guards instead of bleeds. The materials hold both inheritances, nurture and rupture: cotton, jute, coffee, rice paper, and against them gold leaf, brass, oxidised surfaces, rust. Blocks are cut by hand and stamped into paper “repetition as industry, repetition as mantra” then oil floods back through; the mark holds, and the intention sets. The wood is carved by the same hand that makes the work.