Marcius Galan's extensive and diverse body of work unfolds through installations, sculptures, drawings, videos, and photography. His practice assimilates concepts and languages from everyday life to rework space, the central theme of his work. Galan delves deeply into the characteristics and natures of each material he works with, combining or juxtaposing them. His works challenge the certainty and apparent stability of objects, confusing perception and creating a space open to interpretation.
Marcius Galan holds a degree in Art Education from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado and lives and works in São Paulo. His work, deeply rooted in the urban experience of everyday life, also engages with key moments of inflection in 20th-century art history, with a particular focus on the discussions brought forth by Brazilian Neo-Concrete art and American art from the 1950s and 1960s.
His recent solo exhibitions include: Mecânica dos meios contínuos, Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2025); Gravidade, Museu de Arte Contemporânea — MAC-USP, São Paulo (2022); Pintura de emergência, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo — MAM-SP (2022); They Endured, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany (2020); Seção: prisma fumê, Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2019); Instrumentos de Precisão, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, SP (2018); Mará-obi, Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo (2018); Line Weight, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany (2017); Penetra, Fundação Ema Klabin, São Paulo (2017); Arquitecturas del Desarraigo, Ideobox Artspace, Miami, USA (2014); Diagrama, NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia (2013); Geometric Progression, White Cube, London, UK (2013); among others.
He participated in the 8th Mercosul Biennial: Geopoetics Essays (2011) and the 29th Bienal de São Paulo: There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In (2010). Notable group exhibitions include: The Pencil Show, Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium (2025); Janelas - Une exposition d'art postal, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne, France (2022); Obscura Luz, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2022); A Máquina do Mundo: Arte e Indústria no Brasil 1901–2021, Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2021); Zona da Mata, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo — MAM-SP and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo — MAC-USP (2021); Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context, Phoenix Art Museum (2020); Plural Domains – Selected Work from the CIFO Collection, Bienal de Cuenca, Museo de la Ciudad, Cuenca, Ecuador (2018); Avenida Paulista, MASP, São Paulo (2017); Art and Space, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2017); De lo espiritual en el arte, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia (2016); Brazil, Beleza?! Contemporary Brazilian Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands (2016); Empty House, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA (2015); Inside, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2014); Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA (2014); 30x Bienal, Bienal de São Paulo (2013); Blind Field, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Illinois, USA (2013); among others.
Galan has been awarded prizes such as the PIPA Prize in 2012; the Cifo – Cisneros Fontanals Commission Prize in 2009; and the Iberê Camargo Grant — Visiting Artists Program (Art Institute of Chicago, USA) in 2004. His works are part of prominent national and international collections: MASP, São Paulo; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo — MAM-SP; Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro — MAM Rio; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG; Cifo Cisneros Fontanals, Miami, USA; Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom; Phoenix Art Museum, USA; among others.