Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria is a multidisciplinary artist who navigates between painting and movement, shifting the boundaries of mediums to exhaust its form. He started out as a 3D computer graphics artist working for various media before joining the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014, where he studied alongside Emmanuelle Huynh and Claude Closky. In 2017, he continued his transdisciplinary research at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
His work From War to Art, a breathless dance addressing the under-representation of individuals in the iconography of art history, earned him the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts in 2019, and its film adaptation was acquired by the Departmental Collection of Seine-Saint-Denis in 2023.
Linking issues of social justice to the preservation of biodiversity, he works with "end-of-life" objects, salvaged to reactivate their symbolic charge around notions of memory and attachment.
Recent exhibitions include 4 (a)ch/cords at Festival l'Envers du Décor #8 - Palais de la Porte Dorée, Artistic Direction of Expo Favela Paris, En Circuits Courts at Centre d'Art Contemporain Tignous, Montreuil, and a one-year residency at Fondation Fiminco. His work can be found in several public and private collections, including the Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain de Montreuil, the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, the Collection Fiminco, the Collection Société Générale, and La Fab. - Agnès b. Foundation. for Contemporary Art.
Exhibitions
2025
Behind the Scenes #8, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, FR
2024
Expo Favela, Paris, FR
En Circuits Courts, Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
A Private Affair, Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium, BE
Open your Art - l’écho du présent, Musée Transitoire, Paris, FR
Artaïs vente de multiples, Galerie Dix9, Paris, FR
La mécanique de l’exploit, le corps à l’épreuve du sport, Musée d’art et d’histoire Paul Eluard de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, FR
En Circuits courts, pour court-circuiter l’écosystème de l’art, Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain Montreuil, FR
2023
PROMESSES, Galerie du Crous de Paris, Paris, FR
Allongées au lit, Théatre Paris-Villette, Paris, FR
MÉTA/SCOPE, POUSH, Aubervilliers, FR
L’Odyssée Urbaine, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, FR
Berceau du Monde, Art-o-Rama, Marseille, FR
Art & Bagarre, La Ruche K., Marseille, FR
Multiple Art Days, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, FR
Private Choice, éclosion de talents, Paris, FR
Artissima, Turin, IT
Dsoérdre, H Gallery, Paris, FR
Artaïs vente de multiples, Galerie Dix9, Paris, FR
Le Rêve d’Iroko, Galerie du Crous de Paris, FR
2022
Raízes do Tempo, Galeria Umida Arte, Rio de Janeiro, FR
MÉMWA VIVAN, Espace 29, Bordeaux, FR
Printemps Fleuriau, La Rochelle, FR
Horse Pill, de Crème Soleil, FR
2021
Dialogue(s), Galerie Épisodique Paris, FR
Transport Commun, Société Générale, La Défense, FR
Ninguém vai tombar a nossa bandeira, Centro Cultural da Diversidade, São Paulo, BR
Vivere Memento, GIDE, Paris, FR
L’art dans la ville, 87 Rue Richelieu, Paris, FR
2020
Natureza Adormecida, Torcy, FR
Foire Saint Sulplice: Salon de la Photographie, Paris, FR
Terre Perdue, de Bianca da Costa, Arts Déco Paris, Paris, FR
Amanhã há de ser outro dia : Demain sera un autre jour, Grandes Serres, Pantin, FR
The European Nomadic Biennial - Manifesta 13 Marseille, Marseille, FR
ThunderCage #17, Aubervilliers, FR
Erigir, No Drama, Paris, FR
2019
Lauréats Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts, Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris, FR
Da Guerra à Arte, DNSAP | MFA Thesis Show, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Paris, FR
A Vida Enorme, de Emmanuelle Huynh, CN D,Pantin, FR
Coup de Foudre, de Nathalie Talec/Fabrice Hybert, Fondation Groupe EDF, Paris, FR
Life is old there, de Tanguy Malik Bordage/Hoël Duret, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
SCRATCH x Éditions Cimaise, SHOWROOM 4,Paris, FR
One Thousand and One Nights, de Edith Dekyndt, CN D,Pantin, FR
2018
Ainda Dá - gestes pour un non-poème, Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, FR
Le chemin se fait en marchant, de Esther Ferrer, CN D, Pantin, FR
ART AS EXPERIMENT: Performing the school, Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo, JP
Epic Fail, de Jennfer Lacey, CN D, Pantin, FR
Monumental, de Jocelyn Cottencin, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Échauffement Général, de Jocelyn Cottencin, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Formation, Thalie Fondation, Bruxelles, BE
2017
Vertebral / Bardo / Box Pacific, CalArts, Los Angeles, EUA
Monumental, de Jocelyn Cottencin, CN D, Pantin, FR
Animal vu, Mal vu – Performing Species Vol. I : Gazella, Point Éphémère, Paris, FR
Entre Nós / Entre Nous - l’espace entre nous, DNAP | BA Thesis Show Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris
2014
Chasing Light, Le Cardinal, Toulouse, FR
Avec Amour, Le Cardinal, Toulouse, FR
Fragments de Joie, Rue Bayard, Toulouse, FR
2012
Avenida Central, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Awards
2024 The ADAGP Artistic Research Time Endowment, Paris, FR
2022 Fondation Dream big and grow fast award, Paris, FR
2021 Révèle ton Talent - Art Urbain, Paris, FR
2020 Altarea, Paris, FR
Education
2020 MFA École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
2014 Ateliers : Emmanuelle Huynh / Claude Closky
2018 CalArts - CaliforniaInstitute of The Arts, Los Angeles, EUA
2013 Atelier Prep’Art Sud Toulouse, FR
2009 MELIES - Escola de 3D, Cinema e Animação São Paulo, BR
2008 Colégio Pedro II - Unidade Escolar Tijuca II - Sessão Informática Rio de Janeiro, BR
Residencies
2023 Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, FR
2022 6bis Fabrik, Vitry-sur-Seine, FR
2021 Festival Casa Tomada, Rio Grande do Norte, BR
2021 Oficinas, São Paulo, BR
2020 White Mountain College, Les Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Marseille, FR
2018 Art as Experiment: Performing the School, Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride, JP
Collections
2024 Municipal Contemporary Art Fund, Montreuil, France
2024 FRAC of Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
2023 FIMINCO Foundation, Romainville, France
2023 Collection Départementale de la Seine St. Denis, France
2022 Collection d’art Société Générale, La Défense, France
2021 GIDE, Paris, France
2020 Altarea, Paris, France
2019 La Fab. la fondation d’Agnès b pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France