Iole de Freitas

Iole Antunes de Freitas (born 1945) is a Brazilian sculptor, engraver, and installation artist who works in the field of contemporary art.

Freitas began her career in the 1970s, participating in a group of artists in Milan, Italy linked to Body art.

In the 1960s she became involved with the Ateliê de Ipanema where she learned to make copper jewelry and weave on a manual loom.

In the 1970s, she worked in Milan as a designer at Olivetti's Corporate Image Studio under the guidance of the architect Hans von Klier.

In 1975, she participated in the IX Biennial of Paris with facilities and photographic sequence of the series Glass pieces, life slices, at the invitation of the critic Tomasso Trini.

In 1980 she created the "Almost Cinema" exhibition at the Centro Internazionale di Brera in Milan, Italy; the same show was presented in 1981 at the National Art Foundation (Funarte) in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1986, she received the Fulbright-Capes scholarship to conduct research at the Museum of Modern Art (Moma), New York, USA.

In 2005, at the V Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, and also at the III Art Forum of the Americas, Belo Horizonte, where she launched the book Atelier Circuit, in his honor, a project coordinated by Fernando Pedro da Silva and Marília Andrés Ribeiro.

She presented her most recent solo show in a space located in Gabinete se Arte Raquel Arnaud.