Chico Coelho

Nascido em Americana (SP) e criado em Piracicaba (SP), Chico Coelho cria música e arte moderna abstrata. Formado arquiteto pela FAU-USP, Chico atua como artista, fotógrafo, ilustrador, compositor, guitarrista, cantor e escritor. Atualmente no Brasil, viveu em São Francisco, California, por muitos anos.

Born in Americana and raised in Piracicaba, Brazil, Chico Coelho creates music and modern abstract art. Coelho studied Architecture and Urban Development in São Paulo. He also worked as an artist, publicity photographer, illustrator, composer, guitarist, singer and writer in Brazil and San Francisco, California, for many years.

In 1998, Coelho was one of 20 Brazilian artists invited to participate in the celebratory exhibition of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Paris, and the show then opened the Centro Cultural in Sintra, Portugal.

In 2005, Coelho was selected to work for ATELIER AMARELO (Yellow Art Studio), a project sponsored by the government of São Paulo. His work NA RUA (In the Streets) portrays the people living in Cracolãndia (The Land of Crack) who were mostly homeless crack addicts in São Paulo. Also in 2005, Coelho created Vaca Bandida (The Bad Cow) which was selected for the CowParade/São Paulo—an international public art event that exhibits life-sized cows and have been staged in over 50 countries worldwide since 1999.

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