b. 1988, Petropolis, Brazil
Lives and works in New York, NY


 

Edgard Barbosa is a Brazilian-born artist based in New York whose work bridges modernist structure with the fractured immediacy of contemporary mass media. Using fragments of fashion photography, advertisements, and urban textures, he reconstructs popular imagery into grid-based compositions that expose both emotional and structural fractures within modern life.

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Barbosa’s practice, which he describes as Pop Brutalism, engages with modernist languages ranging from the sensorial logic of Neo-Concretism to the structural ambitions of the International Style, translating them into a visual syntax shaped by memory, displacement, and the saturation of contemporary media. At the center of his process is Korigami, a folding-based technique where abstraction emerges through compression, creasing, and repetition rather than cutting or collage.

 

Each folded surface is scanned and reworked digitally, creating a layered dialogue between analog tactility and digital fragmentation. The process mirrors the tension between physical and virtual space, preserving the mark of the hand within mediated imagery. In Barbosa’s work, structure and collapse share the same grid, revealing the unstable architectures that memory and identity occupy inside the machinery of consumer life.

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His work has been exhibited across the United States, including projects in New York, Washington, Florida, and Indiana, reflecting an ongoing investigation into how abstraction, pop culture, and lived experience intersect within the hyper-urban spaces of the twenty-first century.