Dorian Ribas Marinho (Rio de Janeiro, 1951) is a Brazilian visual artist (printmaker and designer) based in Santa Catarina, with a master’s degree in art, culture and education from UDESC.
He was a teacher of print, Ivan Serpa assistant at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (1968/69), having participated in hundreds of international exhibitions such as Krakow, Ljubljana, Tokyo, (Leipzig) etc., and Still organized events such as the International Biennial of Engraving and Graphic Art of Cabo Frio (1982/85), Bahia Papert (1986), etc.
From 1978, he began to make postal art (mail art) as one of the pioneers of the movement in Brazil [and experimental poetry (visual poetry), receiving awards at the Komotini Poetry Festival (Greece), being selected in the poetry biennial Badajoz Experimental (Spain – 2005 /2010 /2011), organizing various international exhibitions (Mail Art & Visual Poetry) under human rights related topics (Child Abuse / Freedom & Prison / Human Rights / Tolerance x Intolerance / Job or Slavery / War Or Peace / Power x Rights etc.).
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Marinho has at least no solo shows but 75 group shows over the last 40 years. A notable show was Focus Latin America: Art Is Our Last Hope at Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, AZ in 2014. Other notable exhibitions were at New York Public Library in New York City and Spazio Contemporanea in Brescia. Dórian Ribas Marinho has been exhibited with Ovidiu Petca and Margret Sander.
As a lawyer since 1977 and human rights defender, he was a member of the OAB/SC Internship and Examination Commission (1997/98), a member of the OAB/SC Ethics and Discipline Court (2004/09), member of the Commission of Legal Education of the OAB/SC (2007/09) and chairman of the OAB/SC Human Rights Commission since 2001. He was a professor of human rights in the undergraduate and postgraduate degree at UDESC – Santa Catarina State University (2001/04), at the Santa Catarina State Military Police Training Center (1997/06), having several texts on Human Rights published in books and legal magazines.
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