ABOUT — Caio Leme

caio leme.

tattoo. painting. sketchbook. shop. about. f.a.q.

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Having spent my childhood in Brazil gave me lots of time to wander around among contorting trees and insect filled jungles as well as the mass of concrete that is the city of São Paulo. Those moments of watching all the unrecognizable moving bits, the sourceless sounds and the darkened corners that stare back at you of such environments became crucial experiences that now inform a lot of my art making, creative processes and behaviours.

I often portray in my work those natural and unnatural inspired observations, the creatures and stories I made up that weren’t really there, the plants I looked at from a little too close, the insects I captured against my mother’s wishes and tried to keep as pets, the hard edges and obtuse lightning of a giant sprawling crumbling city, the echoes of spiral repetitive thinking of staring too long.

Having spent a number of years going back and forth between places I currently reside and work as a full time artist in Calgary AB. When not making stuff, you can catch me sometimes biking, sometimes wandering, sometimes fishing, a lot of the time playing MTG.

Works and Publications.:

2023 / Beakerhead Festival @ Contemporary Calgary - Calgary CA

Guest artist for “Alien Talk Show” with Jay Ingram

2016 / Group Exhibition at Alberta College of Art and Design - Calgary CA

“Birds of a Feather”, acrylics on illustration board

2014 / Pinturas y Dibujos, Flashes, Bocetos / Neotradicional - Buenos Aires AR

Tattoo Flash paintings and drawings

2013 / Pinturas, Dibujos, Flashes y Bocetos / Tattoo Referencias - Buenos Aires AR

Tattoo Flash painting and drawings

2012 / Colección Arte Tattoo Diseños Tradicional - Buenos Aires AR

Tattoo Flash paintings

2011 / Group Exibition at Buenos Aires Tattoo Expo 2011 - Buenos Aires AR

Lobster body suit, acrylics on wood panel

2010 / Group Exhibition at Galeria Shunkun - São Paulo BR

“Sakuras”, acrylics on canvas

Arts Learning and Work.:

2010-present / Full time tattooer

2018 / Volunteer artist @ Le Milieu Atélier et Café - Montréal CA

2011-2016 / Bachelor of Design @ Alberta College of Art + Design (now AUArts) - Calgary CA

2010-2011 / Traditional Japanese painting with Sensei Kaoru Ito - São Paulo BR

2009-2010 / One Year Illustration @ Instituto Europeo di Design - São Paulo BR