Biography
Dora Longo Bahia (São Paulo SP 1961). Multimedia artist. As of 1984, she has worked with set design, illustration and performance art. In 1987, she earned a bachelor's degree in artistic education from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado - Faap [Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation], where she studied under Nelson Leirner. In this period, she produced metal engravings featuring images that recalled comic strip heroes. Since the 1990s, her paintings have focused on her predicament as an urbanite dealing with subjects like violence, sex and death. Between 1992 and 1995, she played bass in the Disk-Putas band, which also participated in her performance shows. She exhibited in Brazil, as well as in the Netherlands, Argentine and Mexico. In 1997, she participated in the 6^th Havana Biennial, held at the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center. Since 1993, she has worked as an illustrator for the newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo. She has been teaching painting at the Faap since 1994. From 2000 to 2003, she developed her master's thesis on visual poetics at the Escola de Comunicação e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo - ECA/USP [School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo]. She plays in the Verafischer and Maradonna rock bands.