Oliver Mourão

Oliver Mourão (born 10 September 1946 in Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian artist. His work depicts the human figure.
Artistic career
Born in 1946, he found he loved art by the age of 8. By 12, he got the media attention when one of his portraits was published in a very popular newspaper. Such an event caused him to be invited by the first lady at the time, , to paint the presidential family's sons.
Mourão studied Plastic Arts in Brazil and, when he was 19, he organized his first exhibition of portraits and drawings at L’Atelier d’Art. In 1966, he took the exhibition to the Salon Art Museum and then to Salão Ouro Preto.
Despite his many pieces exhibited throughout the country, he met resistance for expressing himself and his art during Brazil’s military dictatorship and sought exile in Europe. When he was 23, he traveled to Rome and started sculpting in marble. Mourão also worked with lithography in Paris and studied Art History in London.
After graduating, the artist flew to New York City with creations in jewelry and tapestry depicting natural elements of Brazil’s fauna and flora, setting up the exhibit “From Portraits to Monument Painting”. He spent most of his life and career acting in London, but in 1976, he moved to Ibiza, Spain, where he generally spends summer in a house known for being an artistic reference.

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