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Duda Penteado is a fine artist, filmmaker, educator and cultural visionary, who lives between the United States and Brazil for more 20 years and works with : performance , video, installations , murals , sculptures, paintings and other visual practices. In recent years Duda has devoted much of his work on important issues of : peace, globalization, diaspora, dual citizenship and other geopolitical and social phenomena of the twenty-first century.

Active in Brazil and the USA, as well as in Europe throughout the 1990s and the early 21st Century, he showed at the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, N.J.; Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, 2009; Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC; The Museum of Art and Origins, Harlem, NYC (NY); BACI-The Brazilian American Cultural Institute, Washington, DC; Museo de Las Americas, Denver, CO; CITYarts 272nd Mural, “Nature is Love on Earth”, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, The St. John’s Recreation Center, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NYC, 2008, 2009; Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, Kean University, Union, NJ; Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ; Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; Drew University, Madison, NJ; Middlebury College, Vermont; UFES- Universidade Estadual do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, ES; UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista, SP, SESC – SP, MAC / Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi , RJ and Museu – Afro Brasil, SP.

Duda also was President of the Artist Certification Board, of the City of Jersey City, NJ, until 2010. Today he is an artist – teacher at Paul Robenson Galleries at Express Newark Rutgers University, the Creative Director of Jersey City Youth Works Public Art Program and serves at Jersey City Arts Advisory Board. Duda has been a recipient of several awards and recognized from various institutions in the United States including : Urban Artist Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Goldman Sachs Student Art Project Grant, Jersey City, NJ (2006, 2007, 2008); Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Claremont, CA; Special Guest for Artistic Achievement & Commitment to YMCA Greater, NY-Youth, NYC; American Graphic Design Award, Interactive Multimedia Installation, NYC; Humanitarian Award from the Hudson County Chapter of the American Conference on Diversity, Jersey City, NJ, and received a Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity Award, Eta Rho Chapter, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ., “The Jewel of JK” Juscelino Kubitschek Award at United Nations – CICESP, NYC. Along with Mario Tapia and Dr. Carlos Hernandez, he has been at the helm of the We Are You Project since 2015.

Artist Statement The real question for me today is: how can an artist working in the twenty-first century continue to create original works of art after the overwhelming presence of remarkable twentieth century art movements like Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus and Cobra? When I go to museums, I look at art from two different perspectives. One is from a historical point of view and the other is from the perspective of an artist. I will never paint like Jackson Pollock or Francisco de Goya but I profoundly admire the challenges they both brought to the aesthetics of art.

The last two years have been significant for me in terms reflecting on art, history, and war. Dada was one of the most significant avant–garde art movements, born in the heart of Europe in the midst of World War I. This war remains the most brutal conflict ever seen in history and the artists of the period challenged tradition. Art as it was known would never be the same: industrialization, the photo-illustrated press, radio broadcasting, and commercial cinema.

They created new strategies of art–making, including collage, montage, assemblage, readymades, and media pranks. My art installation Beauty for Ashes Project is a response to the history of modernism and functions as a twenty-first century parallel that reflects on the consequences of our times. The real challenge is to know when an artist stops quoting someone else and begins to quote himself. Great art comes from within, it is the true language of the soul. To create art is an act of faith in itself. In my case my faith in Christ Jesus is an endless source of inspiration and empowerment in the areas of creativity, love and hope. —Duda Penteado

Today, Duda Penteado is the Co-Founder of Unshakeable Productions, a filmmaking company that has produced various kinds of films and documentaries. As co-founder, Duda Penteado brings his unique contribution and vision to the Unshakeable Productions Company. Coming from a fine art background, his approach to film encompasses a profound creative process of the moving image. On June 21, 2018, more than 350 people attended the HOW MANY LIVES ?! DOCUMENTARY. A pre-screening event at the White Eagle Hall in Jersey City. During the Golden Door International Film Festival Awards, Unshakeable Productions won the – Spirit of New Jersey Award. Also, at the beginning of 2019 we started a Film Tour visiting several Universities throughout the U.S., including Rutgers, NJCU, Kean, Drew, NJIT, Seton Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Middlebury College, Columbia University and Harvard Club – NYC, among others.

Quotes FINE ARTIST “The real challenge is to know when an artist stops quoting someone else and begins to quote himself. Great art comes from within, it is the true language of the soul. To create art is an act of faith in itself.” — Duda Penteado FILMMAKER “Filmmaking is art. Art is never based on a simple question, but it has the power to make us reflect on several important issues.” — Duda Penteado