Ernesto Neto
1964
Born in Rio de Janeiro
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
Awards
1990
2000
2009
Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília, Brasil
CENTRAL Art Prize, Cologne, Germany
Best Show in a Public Space, AICA/USA, The United States Section of the AICA, The International Art Critics Association
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Ernesto Neto, Kunsthalle Krems
2014
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Ernesto Neto: the body that carries me, Guggenheim, Bilbao
2013
Notes, Stones and dots, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Linha da vida, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Olhando o Cèu, Palazzo Pamphili, Rome
Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
La lengua de ernesto: retrospectiva 1987-2011 Colegio Ildefonso, Ciudad de México, México
Slow iis goood, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cuddle on the Tightrope, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Não tenha medo do seu corpo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, SP
O Bicho SusPenso na PaisaGen, Estação Leopoldina
Fecundation, Loucura é parte da vida, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
2011
Hiper Cultura Loucura na vertigem do Mundo, Los Molinos, Faena district, Buenos Aires
La lengua de ernesto: retrospectiva 1987-2011, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, MARCO, Mexico
2010
Quando a gente para, o mundo roda
Casa de cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro
Ernesto Neto: Intimacy, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Ernesto Neto: Dengo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World, Hayward Gallery, London
Dancing Allowed, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Navedenga, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2009
Anthropodino, Park Avenue Armory, New York
A Culpa Civilizada, Musée des Beaux-arts, Nantes, France
Mitodengo, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2008
A sculpture can be anything that can stand upright, Galeria Elba
Benitez, Madrid
Mentre niente accade/While nothing happens, Museu d‘Arte Contemporanea Roma
Ernesto Neto, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik; Fondazione Volume!, Rome;
…Ai…ai…, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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Solo Exhibitions — Continued
2007
Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
É a vida, o espaço interior, Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro
From Sebastian to Olivia, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Um beijo de joguinho, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary
Art, The MIMOCA Foundation, Kagawa, Japan
2006
The Malmö Experience, Malmö Konsthall
How to Put It Up, Dulcieneia!, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh
Ernesto Neto, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Léviathan Thot, 35th Festival d‘Automne, Panthéon, Paris
From what are we made, made, of of, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
O abraço do tempo… Jazz, with Carlos Bevilacqua, Galeria Fortes
Vilaça, São Paulo
2005
There Is Nothing Else to Be Seen but the World, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
agora Bolas..., Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Tractatus & Deuses, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
Ernesto Neto, Domaine de Kerguéhennec Centre D‘art Contemporain, Paris Ernesto Neto, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
2004
Ernesto Neto, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Ernesto Neto, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Centro Cultural São Paulo
Citoplasma e Organóides, Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2003
The silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people, Tanya
Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Ernesto Neto: Three Religions, No God and the Children, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Ernesto Neto, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
2002
Kunsthalle Basel; Genealogy of Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein
Stuttgart
Directions: Ernesto Neto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington DC
Contemporary Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Arte Futura e Companhia, Brasília
Passing Time, Passing Space, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark
2001
Matrix 190 - A Maximum Minimal Time Space Between Us and the Parsimonious
Universe, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A paisagem do corpo e o corpo da paisagem, Centro Galego de Arte
Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela
Stella Nave, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Flying Gloup Nave, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Only the amoebas are happy, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Horizonte de eventos, Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
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Solo Exhibitions — Continued
2000
O Casamento: Lili, Neto. Lito e os loucos, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio
de Janeiro
Ernesto Neto, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Sister Naves, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Pensamentos Emocionais, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
Ernesto Neto/Andy Goldsworthy, SITE Santa Fé, New Mexico
Acontece num fim de tarde, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
1999
James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Nhó Nhó Nave, §
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
1998
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
Poff, Poff, Poff, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrilo Gil, Mexico City
1997
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasília
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
Esculturas, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
1996
Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
1994
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
1993
Quase Desenhos, Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
1992
Ernesto Neto Esculturas, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
1991
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo; Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro
1990
Galeria Millan, São Paulo; Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
1989
Galeria Macunaíma, FUNARTE - Fundação Nacional de Arte, Rio de Janeiro
1988
Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro
Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards)
2015
Belle Haleine - Der Duft der Kunst, Museum Tinguely Basel
Es liegt was in der Luft - Duft in der Kunst, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot (DE)
2014
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influences on Modern Architecture, Marta Herford, Herford (DE)
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Simple Shapes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris
do it Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
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Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards) — Continued
2014
Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Kobe
The Five Senses, Scottdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottdale, USA
2013
Brasiliana. Installationen von 1960 bis heute.Schirn, Frankfurt
Station to station. A Doug Aitken Project, nine stops at train
stations across the country from New York City to San Francisco
The Insides Are on the Outside I O interior está no exterior,
Casa de Vidro Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo
Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
Permission To Be Global: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-
Cisneros Collection, CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, traveled to MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
REMEMBER EVERYTHING, 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012
Food, Musée Ariana, Genève
SuperBodies, 3rd Triennial of contemporary art, fashion and de
sign, Hasselt, Belgium
El Panal/The Hive Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico; 11 Oncena Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art, Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway
SAMMEN/TOGETHER, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
Arte e sociedade no Brasil, MAR-Museu d Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
2011
Biomorph! Hans Arp in dialogue with contemporary artist positions, Germany Arp museum
Ordem e Progresso, MAM, São Paulo
The new design of the ENEL Gallery, Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea Roma
2010
Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain
A Gentil Carioca, Ein Kunstraum in Rio de Janeiro, IFA – Berlin
29th São Paulo Biennial, SP
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London
Tropicália Die 60s in Brasilien/ Kunsthalle Wien
2009
History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Nudes, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
MEMORIAL revisitado, 20 anos, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo
Desenhos [Drawings]: A – Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
Silent Writings, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris; touring to Palazzo Dugnani, Milan
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Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards) — Continued
2009
Brazil Contemporary, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming, Ludwick Grohman Villa, Lodz, Poland
After Utopia – A View on Brazilian Contemporary Art, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art 1960-present, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Experiências Contemporâneas – Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça no MAC USP, Espaço Cultural Marcantonio Vilaça, Brasília
Don‘t Stare at the Sun / Nie patrz prosto w słonce Works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection
Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland
2008
Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
De Perto e de Longe – Paralela 08, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo
Blooming Now! - Brazilian Contemporary Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan
19 desarranjos – Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2003, Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica Bogotá, Colombia
PARANGOLÉ. Fragmentos desde los 90 en Brasil, Portugal y España, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
N Múltiplos, Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Arte para Crianças - Uma exposição de arte contemporânea para o publico infantil, SESC Pompéia, SP
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary-Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz
Psycho Buildings: Artists take on Architecture, Hayward Gallery, London
Poética da Percepção, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Sand: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,
New York
Order Desire Light: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
It is Not Neutral: Daros Latin American Collection, Centro de Cultura
Contemporánea Tabakalera, San Sebastián
2007
Poética da Percepção, Espaço Cultural Vivo, São Paulo
Space for your Future: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Action in Utopia, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria
ICA 60 the Anniversary Edition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Por um fio, Espaço Cultural CPFL, Campinas, Brazil; Paço das Artes,
São Paulo
Material, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Other animal in Views on Stage, Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part 1, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Drawing is a Verb, Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal
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Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards) — Continued
2007 Close to Me: Art from Brazil, Guenzani Via Melzo, Milan
Arte para Crianças, Museu Vale do Rio doce Vitória, Rio de Janeiro
Held Together with Water, MAK - Ausstellungshalle, Vienna; 80-90:
Modernos, Pós Modernos, etc, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
Novel Readings, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Melting point, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
REtalhar, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
2006
Choque Cultural na Fortes Vilaça - Fortes Vilaça na Choque Cultural,
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Reverence, Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Brazil in Zurich: Seduced to art by art, Daros Exhibitions,
Löwenbräu-Areal, Zurich
Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art, Art
Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
Seduções / Seductions, Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Tokyo; Gardens, Toyota Municipal Museum
of Art, Toyota City, Japan
Abrigo Poético: Diálogos com Lygia Clark, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janerio
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
MAM na Oca, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo
Paralela 2006, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo
2005
5th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Bresil = Foot Art, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Collecció Fundació La Caixa: 20 Years with Contemporary Art. New
Acquisitions CaixaForum, Barcelona
Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Desenhos: A - Z (Drawings A - Z), Collecção Maderia Corporate Sevice, Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal
Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives Between Reality and Fantasy, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art, Vienna
Drawing from the Modern: 1975 - 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Educação, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
Exchange Brazil, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Fairy Tales Forever - Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
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Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards) — Continued
2005
J‘en rêve, Fondation Cartier, Paris
O Corpo na Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
Razão e Sensibilidade, Casa Cor, São Paulo
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, trabalhos se
lecionados da Coleção Latino Americana de Daros, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
Troca Brasil, The Feldman Gallery & Project Space, Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Portland
Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
touring to Barbican Art Gallery, London
Centro Cultural Belém, Lisbon
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Le corps où il n’est pas, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris
2004
The Snow Show, Kemi and Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
Perception of Space, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Brasil: Body Nostalgia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Everything is connected he, he, he, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Invenção de Mundos, Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Brazil
Lustwarande 04: Disorientation by Beauty, De Oude Warande
De Pont - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville
Casa - Poética do Espaço na Arte Brasileira, Museu Vale do Rio Doce,
Invenção de Mundos, Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Brazil
Lustwarande 04: Disorientation by Beauty, De Oude Warande
De Pont - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville
Casa - Poética do Espaço na Arte Brasileira, Museu Vale do Rio Doce,
Vila Velha, Brazil
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
4 Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances,
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Múltiplos, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro
Arte Contemporânea Brasileira nas Coleções do Rio, Museu de Arte
Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are
Reinvented in the Internet Age,The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado
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Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards) — Continued
2004
21st Anniversary Show, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Vila Velha, Brazil
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
4 Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances,
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Múltiplos, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro
Arte Contemporânea Brasileira nas Coleções do Rio, Museu de Arte
Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are
Reinvented in the Internet Age,The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado
21st Anniversary Show, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
2003
Imagination - Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
The Museum collections: new presentation of art works from 1960 to the present day, Centre Pompidou, Paris
VIII Bienal de Havana, Cuba
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro; touring to Museu de Arte Moderna Aluísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
Via BR 040 - longo trecho em aclive, Museu Imperial - Plataforma Contemporânea, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro
From Dust to Dusk - Art between light and dirt, Charlottenborg
Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Marcantonio Vilaça - Passaporte Contemporâneo, Museu de Arte
Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
A simple plan, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Forever, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
The Real Royal Trip, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; touring to Museo Pátio Herreriano, Valladolid
2002
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, AXA Gallery, New York; touring to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands
International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Texas
Chicago Cultural Centre; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Bedford Gallery - Regional Center for the Arts Walnut Creek, California
Boise Art Museum, Indianapolis
The Inside is the Outside, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Vivências: Dialogues between the works of Brazilian artists between 1960s and 2002, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Sleeping, Dreaming, Awakening, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
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Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards) — Continued
2002
Retalhar 2002, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo
Caminhos do Contemporâneo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
poT, 2nd Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, UK
Touring to Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Insieme/Together, Museo Nazionale di Archittetura, Ferrara, Italy
Archivo Pons Artxiboa, Koldo
Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San-Sebastian, Spain
Matéria Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba, Brazil
Shape, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Skin, Soul, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Fundación NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Cadiz
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