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.

 

Barbosa’s work operates within the aftermath of modernist traditions such as Neo-Concretism and the International Style, reshaping their sensorial and structural residues into a visual syntax shaped by memory, displacement, and contemporary media saturation. 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 spaces, 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.

 

His work has been presented in a range of exhibition contexts across the United States, reflecting his ongoing investigation into how abstraction and popular imagery operate within lived experience in the visual economies of the twenty-first century.