Lica Cecato is a multimedia artist who travels with equal ease in the areas of visual arts, music, poetry and body movement. Possessing a peculiar trait, Lica attributes to her drawing the same ephemeral character of music which, in her words, "... exists only at that moment, directed to that public. One and the same, a link between energy and what is born on paper". A visual diary interpreted in the light of the most evident stimuli of everyday life, so is its music, so too is the work the artist who, therefore, leaves to the other the reading of what is veiled.

​ Martha Pagy, gallerist and curator


LICA CECATO 2020 - 2001

2020 MARTHA PAGY ESCRITÓRIO DE ARTE, Reflexos Reflexões; b-gallery, Tokyo, “Collection”

2019 CAFÉOTHÈQUE PARIS, solo show “Caffè”; Fête de la Musique, unplugged, Paris; b-gallery Tokyo, solo show “Caffè”; Hako Gallery Tokyo, solo srt show & live concert; Bossa Aoyama Tokyo 2019 LIVE; Yamaki Nobue and Lica Cecato interpret Villa-Lobos, Palazzo Barbarigo-Minotto Venezia; Punga Ponga, Okinawa with Midori Onaga; Copo do Dia Tokyo; Kumano Christmas Concert com Kinokawa Ryoko; Condecoration Embassador of Tourism and Culture Turismo of Kumano, Japan | Tour Toohoku com Nasu Shohei

2018 ERRATICA, 80 years of Tom Zé, Caixa Federal São Paulo; launching of new album QUERO QUERER, Teatro Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro; Teatro Unibes Cultural São Paulo; Festival Chiostro, Lica Cecato and Ensemble del Conservatorio di Milano, Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi; IL FESTIVAL DELLE STORIE, with Paolo Maria Noseda and Stefano Scutari; Group show at Martha Pagy Escritório de Arte, co-curator Paula Terra-Neale, In each line a trace - in each thread a plot; Solo show at Embaixada do Brasil em Tokyo, Pocket show at the opening | Kumano Hall, Cultural Center, Japan with Kepel Kimura | Tour Toohoku with Nasu Shohei

2017 Show COPACABANA, TUPI OR NOT TUPI, SP; JAPAN HOUSE SP, book release MAIS OUTRA translated in Japanese by Megumi Arai; Istituto Europeo di Design IED, SP, with Giba Favery and Fernando Rosa; TEATRO MUNICIPAL CAFÉ PEQUENO, RJ; CRISTALLO HOTEL SPA & GOLF, Cortina d’Ampezzo, with Stefano Scutari; STARHOTELS SPLENDID VENICE, Tribbute to Jobim with Stefano Scutari and Stefano Olivato; Festival de Cultura Brasileira em Bratislava; LIVE STACCATO TOKYO; EMBAIXADA DO BRASIL EM TOKYO; MUSIC GALLERY GREEN BAY TATSUKI, with Shohey Nasu; BROOKLIN PARLOR HAKATA, with Kepel Kimura

2016 Embaixada do Brasil em Tokyo – release of the translation in Japanese of the book MAIS OUTRA (author Lica Cecato; production Amalia Tarallo, Editora Giostri, SP). Show COPACABANA, Teatro Italia, SP; Teatro Martins Pena & Décio Almeida Prada, Prefeitura do Estado de São Paulo

2015 Viva Bossa Nova Tchaikovsky Great Conservatory Hall, Moskow; NO TOM @Tom Jazz SP; TEDex Women SP; Photozofia Arte e Cozinha, São Francisco Xavier, SP; SYBABELIA Teatro Italia SP

2014 OMAGGIO Live @ TOM JAZZ SP

2013 DRIBBLING RAI 2 TV Elisabetta Caporale, special to Italian RAI TV about Rio de Janeiro Sports; AFETOS & SABERES, MARTHA PAGY; Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli, Roma, with Stefano Scutari | JAPAN SENDAI 坐Café; Saule Branche, Hachinohe; Autumn Forest Morionte Festival com Kayo Sudo, Kuroda; BAR BRASCO, Hyuga; CAFE BAR SOHO, Miyazaki; Y51 Hiroshima; QUATTRO Hiroshima; Alvorada, Tokyo; Ginza Cinq, Tokyo ; CIRCUS CLUB, Tokyo; Copo do Dia, Tokyo

2012 COLLISIONI inVENTO Barolo, Italia; Brazilian Day Stockholm, Sweden; Perelik Peak Stage July Jazz Fest, Bulgary; Solo @ Cité Internationale des Arts Paris; Centrale Montemartini, Primavera Latinoamericana ROMA; JazzNL Gateway to Global Jazz, Amersfoort, Holland; Jazz&Blues Festival Rio das Ostras Brasil

2011 Koppelmann Galerie, Köln; WDR Big Band, Manfred Schoof zum 75. Geburtstag, Domicil, Dortmund; WDR Funkhaus: KVB, Köln; GALLERIE AIGUILLAGES Paris; LA CAFEOTHEQUE, Paris

2010 SYBABELLIA | André Vallias, Lica Cecato | Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro; SESC POMPEIA Mostra das Artes; IDEOGRAMAS, Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro


2009 CIDADECITÉ RI(O)PA(RI)S Cité des Arts, Paris | Lica Cecato, Florent Jodelet, Philippe Dao contemporary multimidia show, mixing up visual arts and music performance; LIVE @ NEW MORNING | Paris; WEEK-END VILLA LOBOS, Radio France, Paris, voice and 4 symphonic percussionists

2008 Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro performance; ERRATICA | POEMA AO VIVO, CCBB SP

2007 ERRATICA | POEMA AO VIVO, CCBB Rio de Janeiro and S.Paulo ; PEDRALMA SESC PINHEIROS, São Paulo | Performance created to the artist Denise Milan’s work and installation STONES’ OPERA | Lica Cecato, DJ Dodo, Ale Cecato

2004 PROJECT Z Multilingual performance Melbourne, Australia; D’s Caffe Bangkok, Thailand; Writer’s Festival, Melbourne, Australia


2003 SONGBOOK Performance at tghe opening of the exhibition LA MIRADA, DAROS LATIN AMERICA, Zurich | Lica Cecato, Michael Heupel, Paul Shigihara

2001 CALEIDOCOSMOS MAM (Museum of Modern Art), Rio de Janeiro | Multimedia performance, where sculpture (Iole de Freitas), electroacustic music (Vania Dantas Leite and Lica Cecato), poetry (Augusto and Haroldo de Campos), dance (Gisela Maria Moreau), intertwine.