Childhood and Early Formation

Alexandre de Carvalho Mury was born in 1976 in São Fidélis, a small city in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of a seamstress and a carpenter, his early formation was marked by an appreciation for manual skills and the intelligence of materials—abilities that would come to profoundly influence his artistic practice. From an early age, he demonstrated interest in manual skills and drawing, initiating his career as a draftsman at age 16 in a packaging factory. Subsequently, he worked as a radio announcer between 1996 and 2000. 

Education and Professional Development

In pursuit of knowledge and professional improvement, Mury moved to Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, where he studied Advertising and Propaganda at the School of Philosophy of Campos (now UNIFLU), graduating in 2000. The following year, he worked as an art director at an advertising agency, a position he held for three years. In 2003, he began a master's degree in Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), though he did not complete it. During this period, he also taught in social communication courses at various institutions including UNIFLU, IFF, and Fundação São José until 2004. 

Entry into the Art System and Consolidation

A significant turning point occurred in 2010, when Mury received a proposal for commercial representation of his photographic work. That same year, he was invited to exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (MAM-Rio), participating in the exhibition "New Acquisitions of the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - 2007/2010." This entry into the art system was notably uncommon, achieved not through gallery representation but through direct acquisition by a renowned collector for the permanent collection of a major museum.

His works are now present in the collections of MAM-Rio, MAR (Museum of Art of Rio), and MFF (Museum of Photography Fortaleza), as well as in various private collections of important Brazilian and international collectors.

Mature Period and Recognition

Throughout his trajectory, Alexandre Mury has developed a critical approach to the image, proposing displacements between self-portraiture and performance, document and fiction, museum and digital space. His independent and experimental research reflects a continuous engagement with art history and the processes of cultural memory construction. His works operate as devices for reflection on identity, temporality, and technological mediation, tensioning the boundaries between the human and the artificial.

In 2016, Mury was nominated for the prestigious PIPA Prize, a recognition of his significant contribution to the contemporary Brazilian art scene. He has participated in important individual exhibitions such as "Fricções Históricas" (2013 at Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, and 2015 at SESC Glória, Vitória, ES), curated by Vanda Klabin. Additionally, he has participated in significant group exhibitions including "Genealogias do Contemporâneo" (2012) at MAM-RJ, "Espelho Refletido – O Surrealismo e a Arte Contemporânea Brasileira" (2012) at Centro Hélio Oiticica, and "Ver e ser visto" (2015) at MAM-Rio.

Recent Developments and Artistic Occupation

A significant milestone in his career was the artistic occupation "Formas Múltiplas de Continuidade no Espaço," presented in 2024 at Casa de Cultura Villa Maria (UENF). This project brought together performance, installation, sound, video, and digital intervention in intermedia narrative constructions, featuring hybrid curation developed in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence. The occupation reinforced his research on the image as an expanded field of memory and critical experience, integrating transmedia exhibition strategies and reaffirming his relevance in the panorama of contemporary Brazilian art.

In this occupation, Mury revealed what he calls "dramaturgical ecosystems": modular structures in which each work operates autonomously yet gains strength through systemic relations. He employs repetition with difference—the same concept, Boccioni's sculpture, appropriated and materialized across diverse media (foam, gold leaf, mirrors, sound, algorithms)—to produce polyphonic readings.