Edgar Racy
1963, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom
In the late 80s, beginning of the 90s, he took part in a drawing course lectured by Carlos Fajardo and met a group of artists who would later engage in a sequence of exhibitions. Also he partook of Art History and Philosophy courses lectured by Rodrigo Naves and Rogério da Costa, respectively. He participated in a workshop with Amílcar de Castro at Pinacoteca do Estado. He shared technical expericence as part of the Mentoring for Young Artists Centre (A Produção Refletida) from Oficina Oswald de Andrade. In 2017/18 he attended Tiago Mesquita´s course: Imagem na Arte Contemporânea. In December 2018, he moved to London and between 2018 and 2020 started working as an artist’s assistant for Michael Raedecker, John Davies, and Alexandre da Cunha. In 2021 he became part of Damien Hirst’s artist’s assistant team.