Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982, Maceió, Brazil) lives and works in Recife.

The artist uses photography, installation and video to traverse collective memory and history, making use of strategies that shuffle fiction and reality.  De Andrade collects and catalogues architecture, images, texts, life stories and recomposes a personal narrative of the past.

Past solo museum exhibitions include Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo (2008); Instituto Cultural Banco Real, Recife (2009); Centro Cultural São Paulo (2010); Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo (2010);  Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2013); Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal (2013); Museu de Arte do Rio (2014-2015); Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2016-17); The Power Plant, Toronto (2017); New Museum, New York (2017). Solo exhibition of Jonathas de Andrade’s work opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2019 and at Foam, Amsterdam in 2022.

De Andrade has participated at the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2009); New Museum Triennial, New York (2011); 29th São Paulo Biennial (2011); Istanbul Biennial (2011); Lyon Biennial (2013); Performa15, New York (2015); 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016); and in SITE Santa Fe (2016). Jonathas de Andrade's work was also included in Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014), Question the Wall Itself at the Walker Art Center (2016-17), Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montréal (2019), the Istanbul Biennial (2019) and the 70^th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (2020).

In 2022, Jonthas de Andrade will represent Brazil at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia and a solo exhibition of the artist work will open  at Pinacoteca de Sāo Paulo in September 2022.