2011
Graffiti Teacher – Escola Cetesc

2012 – 2013
Video editor – Agência Apê Films

2013 – 2014
Centro Cultural A História Que Eu Conto

Role: Art Educator / audiovisual

2014
Group exhibition, “Onde Leva a Rua”

Group exhibition – Feira de Arte Urbana do Rio de Janeiro.

Speaker at the Design Fair A SEDE, carried out by UNIT (Universidade Tiradentes) – Aracaju – SE

Tema: Processo Criativo

2015 – 2017
Graffiti teacher – Projeto Ocupa Escola

2018
Sentido Oeste exhibition – Galeria Modernistas

2019
Sentido Oeste exhibition – Kariok hostel

2021
artistic residence Parque lage and group exhibition ‘deformation and formation’ course

2022

Fissuras group exhibition  – Galeria Portas Vilaseca

Abre Alas exhibition – Galeria  Gentil carioca SP

Art Sampa – Solar dos abacaxis

Composição Carioca group exhibition – Centro cultural PGE-RJ

Exhibition and film ‘Cavalo’ – Galeria 5 Bocas

Art Rio – galeria 5 Bocas

2023
Chromatic Vigor : affirmation – curated by Cecília Fortes

Pablo León de la Barra – Outubro 2021

Tainan Cabral (Rio de Janeiro 1990) was born and raised by evangelical missionary parents in the Senador Camará suburb in Rio de Janeiro’s western periphery, a region also known as Complexo da Coréia and previously known as the Sertão Carioca (Carioca Desert). His artistic practice which began with drawing and graffiti evolved towards abstract paintings where light becomes painting, capturing the contemplative radiance of sunset and sunrises, and becomes portals to other states of consciousness where psychedelic experience incorporates spiritual ecstasy. Cabral’s oneiric and utopian landscapes are in dialogue with the history of neoconcrete art and tropicalism, while at the same time capture the presence of nature and the divine in the everyday through geometric and biomorphic forms, soft colours and soft edges, as well as colour gradients and fluorescences that become vital sources of energy that immerse the spectator into similar trascendental states of mind, a state which we could call TropicalMysticism.
In parallel, Cabral has been developing what he calls ‘public sculptures’ where through painting he transforms the urban barricades installed by drug cartels to protect the inhabitants of communities in Rio de Janeiro from police raids and shootings which are a common practice in the city’s civil war. Through Cabral’s interventions the barricades become markers to envision a different social reality, as well as thresholds suggesting alternative possible futures for the city and its communities.