Name: Vilson Palaro Júnior
Country represented: Brazil
Personal web site: www.vpalarofotografia.com.br
1st Award Photography – X Florence Biennale 2015
Many are the awards that Vilson Palaro has won throughout his artistic career before obtaining the ‘Lorenzo il Magnifico’ Award for photography in 2015, which added to the one he received in 2011 within the framework of the IXth Florence Biennale. At the International Art Biennial of Rome he received the 2nd Prize in 2012, and the 4th Prize in 2014. By then he had received other prizes, including the 6th Prize at the Mostra Internazionale di Nettuno (Italy). Also to be mentioned is the 1st Prize he received at the ‘Arte da Magistradura’ contest (Brazil) in 2011 with Resignação, following the prize gained one year earlier at the same contest with Travessia. In 2013 he won the gold medal at the XXVIIth Salao de Artes Plastica de Arceburgo (Minas Gerais). In the subsequent 2014 and 2015 editions of that contest he was awarded the Troféu Prefeitura Municipal de Arcerburgo. Amongst his many exhibitions, special mention should be made of ‘Trilha do Tempo’ (2008), ‘Gente’ (2011), ‘Alma Cabocla’, and ‘O Reid a Viola’, held during the 2nd Seminario ‘Vertentes da Viola no Brazil’ in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais).
