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 the formal rigor of Concrete Art traditions with the fractured immediacy of contemporary mass media. Using fragments of fashion photography, advertisements, and urban textures, Barbosa reconstructs popular imagery into brutal, grid-based compositions that reveal both emotional and structural breakdowns in modern life.

His practice — which he describes as Pop-Brutalism — extends the geometric clarity of Concrete and Neo-Concrete Art into a new visual language shaped by memory, displacement, and the excesses of commercial culture. Central to this process is Barbosa’s signature technique, Korigami: a method of folding, rather than cutting, printed imagery, where abstraction emerges through tension, creasing, and accumulation.

After folding, the works are scanned and digitally manipulated, creating a layered interplay between analog tactility and digital fragmentation. This hybrid process mirrors the collapse between physical and virtual realities in contemporary life, while preserving the trace of the artist’s hand within mediated images. In Barbosa’s work, structure and collapse coexist — exposing the fragile architectures that memory and identity must navigate within hyper-commercialized environments.

His work has been exhibited in New York, Washington, and Florida, reflecting an evolving exploration of how abstraction, popular culture, and lived experience collide in the hyper-urbanized spaces of the 21st century.