(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1969)

Lives and works in London (UK). Solo exhibitions include Laissez Faire, Camden Arts Centre, London (2009); Sommer & Kohl, Berlin; Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo; and Vilma Gold, London (all 2008); Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Alexandre da Cunha – Damien Roach, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (both 2007). Group shows include: Inaugural Show, CRG, New York; First and Last, Notes on the Monument, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo; Billdertausch 2, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch; Panamericana, Kurimanzuto Gallery, Mexico City; Tristes Tropiques, The Barber Shop, Lisbon; A Very Long Cat, Wallspace, New York (all 2010); San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico; Revolution of the Ordinary, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Pete and Repeat, Zabludovic Collection 176, London; IV Bienal de Jafre, Girona (all 2009); Procedente, MAP Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte; Transformational Grammars, Galeria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan; The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris (all 2008); Fortunate Objects, CIFO, Miami; Eurovision, NAK, Aachen (all 2007); Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA/South London Gallery, London (2006). Da Cunha was educated at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, the Royal College of Art, London, and at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1999-2000)