Paulo Whitaker’s work has made a unique contribution to the Brazilian art scene, through a markedly dynamic process of experimentation since the 1980s. Terry Winters (1949, New York, USA), starting to incorporate, to the pictorial development, elements present in the American painter and engraver, such as the accumulation of decisions taken, changes in course and attempts demarcated on the surface of the painting.
Painter and draftsman, Paulo Whitaker graduated in Artistic Education at the University for the Development of the State of Santa Catarina – Udesc/SC, in 1984. Among several exhibitions, he participated in the 25th edition of the São Paulo International Biennial, in 2002. Between 1991 and 1992, he is artist in residence at Plug In, in Winnipeg, Canada, at E-Werk Freiburg in Germany and in 1999 at The Banff Center for the Arts, also in Canada. That same year, he participated in the Brazilian Contemporary Art on Paper exhibition at MAM, in São Paulo, and in 2001, he participated in the 3rd BIENAL DO MERCOSUR in Porto Alegre. In 2007, he participated in the Biennale de Montreal, in Canada.
Whitaker receives, in 1993, the Gunther Painting Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, in 1998 at the VI Salão Nacional Victor and the Grand Prix at the Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina. Paulo Whitaker’s works are in the collections of important institutions and museums such as: Museum of Art of Santa Catarina – MASC, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – MAM/SP, Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, MAC/USP, Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná – MAC/PR, Museum of Brazilian Art of the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation – MAB/Faap, Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, among others.