VIK MUNIZ
Born in 1961 in São Paulo, Brasil. Lives and works in New York, US
S OLO S HOWS
2016
Vik Muniz, Mauritshuis, La Haya, Países Bajos (upcoming)
2015
Vik Muniz, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Vik Muniz Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vik Muniz: Album, Ben Brown Arts, Hong Kong, China
2014
Pictures of Anything, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Vik Muniz. O Tamanho do Mundo, curated by Ligia Canongia, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
Vik Muniz: más acá de la imagen, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador
2013
Vik Muniz. Más Acá de la Imagen. Museo de Arte del Banco de la República de Bogotá, Colombia
2012
Galería elba Benítez, Madrid
Vik Muniz, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (CAC), Málaga, Spain
Vik Muniz: The Imaginary Museum, Collection Lambert, Avignon, Francia
2011
Vik Muniz, Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisboa
Vik Muniz, Sikkema Jenkins & Co Gallery, New York, USA
Relicário. Vik Muniz. Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
Backspace: Vik Muniz, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Vik Muniz. Pictures of Paper, Nichido Contemporary, Tokio
Relicário, Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro
Museum of the University of Fortaleza, Unifor, Ceará, Brazil
Leonard Drew and Vik Muniz, Sikkema Jenkis, New York
Verso. Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sau Paulo
2009
Vik Muniz: The 8th Photo Festival, Gana Art Center, Korea
Vik Muniz, Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Identity V, curated by Hiroshi Minamishima. Nichido Contemporary Art. Tokyo, Japan
Vik a Retrospective, MASP, Sau Paulo, Brasil
Vik Muniz. Pictures of Paper, galería elba benítez, Madrid
Nus/Nudes. Galeria Fortes Vilaça. São Paulo, Brasil
Vik Muniz. Museum of Modern Art (MAM). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vik Muniz, galerie xippas, París
Vik Muniz. Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Paraná, Brazil
2008
Vik Muniz. Arndt & Partner. Berlin, Germany
Reflex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico
Verso. Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., Nueva York, USA.
Vik Muniz, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
The beautiful Earth, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
This is Vik Muniz, CB Collection, Roppongi, Tokyo
2007
Moscow House of Photography-Manezh, Russia
Gary Tatintsian, Gallery Moscow, Russia
Vik Muniz Reflex, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada
Muniz Remastered: Photographs from the West Collection, Museo de Las Americas, Denver,USA.
A Terra e a Gente, Museu da Eletricidad, Lisboa
Vik Muniz: Reflex, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA.
Imaginary Prisons: G. B. Piranesi and Vik Muniz, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Pictures of People, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK.
Vik Muniz: Reflex. P.S. 1, MOMA, Nueva York, USA.
Vik Muniz: A Survey, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Russia
The Beautiful Earth (2 venues): Paço das Artes, São Paulo y Fortes Vilaça Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2006
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA.
University of S. Florida, Florida, USA.
Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA.
Evolving Identities: Brazilian Artists in New York, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nueva York, USA.
2005
Vik Muniz. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, USA.
Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2004
Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublín
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
Brent Sikkema, Nueva York, USA.
Gallery Xippas, Paris
Retratos de Revista, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Espaço Cultural
Contemporâneo Venâncio– ECCO, Brasilia
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
Piranesci Prisons, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C,
2003
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianápolis, USA.
Macro- Museo D’Art Contemporanea, Roma
Xippas Gallery, Paris
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Monadic Works and Drawings, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea- CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2002
Candy Bam, proyecto especial para el Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund
Pictures of Air, Sperone Gallery, Roma
Vik Muniz Cardi Gallery, Milán, Italy
Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Centro Dragão do Mar, Ceará, Brasil
Doug Lawing, Houston, USA.
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London
Barbara Krakow, Boston, USA.
Laberints, Spai 13, Fundación Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Earthworks, Brent Sikkema Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Reparte, CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Bolder, USA.
Model Pictures, The Menil Collection, Houston, USA.
2001
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brasil
Vik Muniz- Homenagem ao Centenário de J.K., Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brasil
Erotica, Xippas Gallery, Paris
49th Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Venecia, Italy
49th Venice Biennial: Palazzo Fortuny, Venecia, Italy
Henry Art Gallery- University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Vik Muniz, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Clayton Days Espaço Cine, São Paulo, Brasil
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleáns, USA.
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nueva
York, USA.
Reparte Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA.
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust, Michael-Hue Williams Fine Art, London
Double Vision: Photographs from the Strauss Collection, University Art Museum CSU, CA, USA.
2000
Clayton Days, The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Suiza
Pictures of Ink, Brent Sikkema Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Photographs & Personal Articles, Ubu Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulú
Foundation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Holanda
Vik Muniz. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs
The Invisible Object, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Earthworks, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
1999
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Galeri Lars Bohman, Estocolmo, Suecia
Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, Roma
Photo & Co., Turín, Italy
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
Flora Industrialis, Caisse des Dépôts et Cossignations, Paris
Fresh Paint, Renos Xippas Gallery, Paris
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulú
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA.
1998
Galeria Módulo, Lisboa
Seeing is Believing, International Center of Photography, Nueva York, USA.
Beyond the Edges, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, USA.
Flora Industrialis, Brent Sikkema Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
1997
Pictures of Thread, Wooster Gardens, Nueva York
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Ángeles, USA.
1996
The Sugar Children, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, Nueva York, USA.
Galeria Casa da Imagen, Curitiba, Brasil
The Best of Life. Wooster Gardens, Nueva York, USA.
Pantomimes, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
1995
The Wire Pictures, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
1994
Representations, Wooster Gardens, Nueva York, USA.
1993
Equivalents, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, Nueva York, USA.
Equivalents, Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona, Italy
1992
Individuals, Stux Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Claudio Botello Arte, Turín, Italy
1991
Gabinete de Arte Rachel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brasil
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
1990
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
1989
Stux Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
G ROUP S HOWS (S ELECTION )
2016
4ª Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Puerto Rico (upcoming)
2015
La trampa en la sonrisa. Colección Artium, Artium, Álava, Spain
Múltiples mundos, CarrerasMugica, Madrid, España
25 años, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, España
Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, EE.UU.
Fotografía Contemporánea en la Colección Telefónica, Centro Cultural Montehermoso
Kulturunea, Vitoria, Spain
Made in Brasil, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Food, Shelter, and Clothing, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, USA
Books Beyond Artists: Words and Images, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain
Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Libanon
Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, USA
Blueprint, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
White, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, USA
Visual Deception II Into the Future, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
2013
Somos Libres. MATE – Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru
Surveying the Terrain, curated by Dan Solomon. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina
Tweet. Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY.
Universo Bordallo Pinheiro – 20 Bordallianos do Brasil. Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness. SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Yo es otros – Autorretrato Contemporáneo, curated by Paulina Ascencio and Geovana Ibarra.
MAZ – Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Handicap International, Orangerie du Sénat, Paris, France.
A arte da tapeçaria – tradição e modernidade, Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MURANO>MERANO. Il vetro e l’arte contemporanea, curated by Adriano Berengo and Valerio
Dehó. Edificio Cassa di Risparmio, Merano, Italy
Oedipus and Sphinx (Pictures of Junk)/Vik Muniz and the Philadelphia Wireman. Invisible-Exports,
New York, NY.
Travessias 2 Arte Contemporânea na Maré. Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
On Time / Grand Central at 100. MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design. Grand Central Terminal,
New York, NY
Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture. National Academy Museum
2012
About Caravaggio, Visioni & Illusioni Contemporani, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Rome, Italy.
Fútbol, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, A. C. (MARCO), Mexico
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
BABEL : Les fables du paysage flamand au XVIe siècle, du fantastique au merveilleux : Bosch,
Bruegel, Bles, Bril, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France
More Real?: Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) and SITE, Santa Fe,
New Mexico
The First Permanent Collection Galleries by Photography Department, The Art Institute of
Chicago
America Rules!, The West Collection at SEI, Oaks, Pennsylvania
Silent Echoes, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. Kanazawa, Japan
San Antonio Collects: Contemporary Exhibition, The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio,
Texas
Utopia Dystopia: Constructed with Photography. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Glasstress New York: New Art From the Venice Biennales. MAD – Museum of Arts and Design,
New York, NY
Modern Lab: Material Interventions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design. MAD – Museum of Arts and
Design, New York, NY
2011
The Imaginary Museum. Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
Fotógrafos da Cena Contemporânea, curated by Helouise Costa. MAC – Museu de Arte
Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber. Museu da Ciência da Universidade de
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Living as Form. Creative Time, Historic Essex Street Market, New York, NY
The Digital Eye : Photographic Art in The Electronic Age. Henry Art Gallery, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
Global New Art, Taguchi Collection, Seiji Togo Memorial, Sompo Japan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Gigantes por su propia naturaleza, curated by Wilson Lázaro. Centre Julio González, IVAM –
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
Silent Echoes – Collection I. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Silent Echoes –
Collection 1. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Pure Paper. Rena Bransten Gallery, curated by Aimée Reed. San Francisco, California. February
2010
La Mirada. Fotografien und Videos aus der Daros Latinamerica Collection. Museum der Moderne
Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina
Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection. Tucson
Museum of Art, Tucson
Afterpost. Mas allá de la fotografía. Consejería de Educación de Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain.
VaXiNation. Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Gabinete Blanco. Fundación/Colección Jumex, México D.F, México
Who Are You Close To. Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, New York, NY
Re:Creation. Serious Play with Canonical Art. Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California.
Latinas! The Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, NY.
2009
When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the Present, Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, the
Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, and the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow,
Russia
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection. The Metropolitan Museum Of
Art, New York, NY
Auto. Sueño y Materia, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Asturias, Spain
Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art, curated by Seve Penelas.
Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, San Sebastián, Spain
Vik Muniz & Janaina Tschäpe. Roger Ballen Foundation. Johannesburg, South Africa.
Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection.
Bronx Museum, NY, NY,
Americas Latinas, Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy
Complicity: Contemporary Photography and the Matter of Sculpture. Rena Bransten Gallery, San
Francisco, California
Identity 5. Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Bun. Kumukumu Gallery. New York, NY
To: Night: Contemporary Representations of the Night, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
Untitled (Vicarious) Photographing the Constructed Object. Gagosian Gallery. New York, NY
Piranesi e Muniz “Carceri d’invenzione”, Armerie del Castello Odeschalchi di Bracciano, Milano,Italy
Duchamp-me, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Geografias (in)visibles. Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros,
Dominican Republic
Forgetting Velazquez. Las Meninas, Museu Picasso. Barcelona, Spain
Face to Face: The Daros Collections, Daros Exhibitions. Zurich, Switzerland
Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, California
Critical Distance, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Rúa Valle Inclán, Spain
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, High Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA
Slightly Unbalanced. Yates Gallery and Exhibit Hall. Chicago Cultural Center
Empires and Environments, Rose Art Museum-Brandeis University
Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe. The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Osaka, Japan
2007
Vik Muniz, Xippas Gallery, Atenas
Pop Art 1960’s >2000’s from Misumi Collection, Hachioji Yume Art Museum, Hachioji, Japón
Existencias: Coleccion MUSAC, MUSAC., León, Spain
Un/Fair Trade: Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit, Neue Galerie. Graz, Austria
Most Humans Do Not Know Better, Brooke Alexander Editions, Nueva York, USA.
Portrait Souvenirs: Collection Neuflize Vie, Salon du Collectionneur, Grand Palais, Paris
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection. San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, CA, USA.
Pop Art 1960’s >2000’s from Misumi Collection, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hiroshima, Japón
Puntos de Vista, Latin America Contemporary Art Daros-Latinamerica-Collection, Bochum,
Germany
Cuerpo y Mirada. Huellas del siglo XX, MNCARS, Madrid
Pop Art 1960’s >2000’s from Misumi Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japón
Timer-Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Create your Own Museum, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscú, Rusia
Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
Timer: Intimacy, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Imaginary Prisons: G.B. Piranesi & Vik Muniz, National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO Future, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome
Drawing from History, ASU ART Museum at Arizona State University, AZ, USA.
TRANSactions- Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
Will travel to: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY. and High Museum of Art, Atlanta
USA.
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA.
2006
The Food Show: The Hungry Eye. The Jewish Museum, New York, USA.
Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Busy going Crazy: Collection Syvio Perlstein- Art & Photographie de Dada a aujourd’hui, La Maison
Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Before the Camera Remaking Reality and the Make-Believe, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, USA.
Paralela, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Desidentidad, MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
Le Noir Est Une Couleur: Hommage vivant a Aime Maeght, Fondation Marguerite et Aime Maeght,
Saint-Paul, France
Football et Art Contemporain, Musée Géo Charles. Echirolles, France
Rendons à Cézanne ce qui… ,Galerie d’art du Conseil Général, Aix-en-Provence, France
Figures de l’acteur, le paradoxe du comédien, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
Into Me/Out of Me. P.S.1 MoMA. New York, USA.
Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, USA.
The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, Roebling Hall, New York, USA.
The Summer Collection/Open Stage for Young Filmmakers, Huis Marseille Museum for
Photography, Amsterdam, Holland
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s- 2000’s., From the selection of the Misumi Collection, Sompo Japan
Museum of Art, Tokyo
Transformer: A traveling exhibition of contemporary artworks from the West Collection, Main Line
Art Center, Philadelphia, USA.
Certain Encounters Daros Latinamerica Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The
University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada
Inventive Fashion Photographs: Chuck Close, Annie Leibovitz and Vik Muniz, Danzinger Projects,
NY, USA.
Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, SP. Brasil
Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture. University of Virginia Art Museum.
Charlottesville, USA.
Connected –Unconnected. The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shanon, Co. Leitrim. Irlanda
Visitonair 47 Taste, Visionaire Gallery, New York, USA.
Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, USA.
Eretica: Trascendenza e profano nell’arte contemporanea, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna,
Palermo, Italy
2005
The Other Mainstream: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley Weithorn
Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, El Museo del Barrio. NY. USA.
Museum of Art; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA.
About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
2004
Janaina Tschäpe & Vik Muniz. ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Photography and Sculpture, MAM Collection: 1995-2004, MAM, São Paulo, Brasil
Reanimation, Kunstmuseum Thun, Uhr
The Cobweb, The Collection, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection at the SFMOMA
…So Fresh, So Cool! Galleria Cardi & Co., Milán, Italy
Artist’s Favorites: Act II, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
On Side, Centro de Artes Visuais, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra
Moving Outlines- Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Open House. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Nueva York, USA.
Hair: Untangling a Social History, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore
Collage, Saratoga Springs, Nueva York, USA.
Home Sweet Home. Cardi Gallery, Milán, Italy
2003
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SF MoMA
Pour de Vrai? Chateau Boisbonnard, Villeperdue, France
Crosscurrents at Century’s End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection, Norton
Museum of Art, Palm Beach, USA.
On. Xippas Gallery, Athens
Panorama de Arte Brasileira, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brasil
A Nova Geometrias Gallery Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Regarding War, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, USA.
Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, Nueva Cork, USA.
Stranger in the Village organized by the Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, USA.
Overview: Highlights From The Collection of Fondation Cartier pour L’art Contemporain.
BildMuseet Umea Universitet, Umea, Suecia
S(how): Visual Ephemerality/Bodily Consumption, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, USA.
Only Skin Deep: Visions of the America Self. International Center of Photography, Nueva Cork, USA.
Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran’s Photograph Collection, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C
Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
State Museum, Nueva York
D'Après, Galleria GAS Corso Vittorio, Turín, Italy
Finesilver Gallery opening, San Antonio, USA.
Last Súper, Michael Hue-Williams Gallery, London
Miradas Cómplices, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New
York, USA.
Installation of Vik Muniz works from the West Collection at SEI, Filadelfia, USA.
2002
We Love Painting: The American Contemporary Art from Misumi Collection, Museum of
Contemporary Art. Tokyo
Shape. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Attack: Attraction. Marcel Sitcoske Gallery
La Mirada: the Art of Photography in Latin America Today, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Suiza
Tempo, Inaugural group show of MoMAQNS, Nueva York, USA.
The Photogenic: Photography through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art. The Insitute of
Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York, USA.
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Nueva York, USA.
What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nueva York, USA.
Collection of Photographs from MAM, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Huesca Image: VIII International Festival of Photography
Staging Reality: Photography from the West Collection at SEI, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia, USA.
Imagens Apropriadas, Espaco MAM Villa Lobos, SP
2001
Museum as Subjects: The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japón
Planet Earth, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK.
Drawn from Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, USA.
Brazil: Body and Soul, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York, USA.
Espelho Cego: Seleções de uma Coleção Contemporanea, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The Thread Unravelled: Contemporary Brazilian Art, El Museo del Barrio, Nueva York, USA.
Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C
Rotativa, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
2000
Minimalism and After ,Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, USA.
The Path of Resistance, White Spectrum, Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, USA.
Bruit de fond. Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
Fundação Calouste Gulbekian, Lisboa
La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States. National Hispanic Cultural Center of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Projecto Mnemosyne: Encontros de Fotografia. Museu Antropologico, Coimbra, Portugal
Sean Kelly Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
2000 Biennial Exhibition.Whitney Museum of American Art, Nueva York, USA.
Photo Spain 00. Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Landscape-Portrait. Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
The 46th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
D.C.
The Quiet of the Land. Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador
Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney
Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Nueva York, USA.
Deslocamentos do Feminino. Galeria Conjunto Cultural da Caixa, RJ
Brasil +500: Mostra do Redescobrimento: Artes Visuais, Modulo de Arte Contemporanea, Pavilhao
Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brasil
A Figura Humana na Colecao Itau, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brasil
3a Bienal Internacional de Fotografia, Curitiba, PA
1999
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, USA.
Abracadabra, The Tate Gallery, London
Trace, The Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK.
1998
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Group Exhibition, The Cannon Gallery for Photography, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Urban Cannibal. Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil
Double Trouble, the Patchett Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA.
Le Donné, le Fictif, Centre National de La Photographie, Paris
The Garden of the Forking Paths, Kunstforeiningen, Copenhague; Oslo; Helsinki
Over Our Heads: The Image of Water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand/Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, Berlín
Das Mass der Dinge, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany; Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburgo
The Cottingley Fairies and Other Apparitions, The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, USA.
La Collection II. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Internality Externality. Galerie Lelong, Nueva York, USA.
1997
New Photography XIII, The Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, USA.
New Faces and Other Recent Acquisitions, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
Assi Esta la Cosa. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, México DF
Une Fleur des Photographes: L’Arum, Musée National de la Coopération Franco-Américaine,
Château de Blérancourt, Blérancourt
Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
One Line Drawing. UBU Gallery, Nueva York
Colleción Ordónez Falcón de Fotografia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
Artistes Latino-Americains. Daniel Templon, Paris
20 Years, Almost. Robert Miller Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Hope, The National Arts Club, Nueva York, USA.
Ut Scientia Pictura, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
1996
Wesenchau: Disingenuous Images, Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich
Bis. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
The Subverted Object. UBU Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Recent Acquisitions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, USA.
Inclusion/Exclusion. Steirischer Herbst, comisariado por Peter Weibel, Graz
Some Assembly Required, The Art Institute of Chicago, comisariado por David Travis (three
photographers), Chicago, USA.
Novas Aquisições, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Shadow Play, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
Material Matters. A.O.I., Gallery Santa Fe, N. Mex
1995
Changing Perspectives, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA.
Panorama da Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna, Comisario Mesquita, São
Paulo; Rio de Janeiro
Mostra América, Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Comisario Paulo Herkenhoff, Curitiba
Recent Acquisitions. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
The Photographic Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Cultured Tourist, Center For Photography at Woodstock, Comisario Leslie Tonkonow, Woodstock
Blindspot, The MAC, Dallas Artist Research and Exhibition, Dallas, USA.
Arbage, Thread Waxing Space, Nueva York, USA.
1994
Single Cell Creatures. Katonah Museum of Art, Nueva York, USA.
Crash. The Thread Waxing Space, Nueva York, USA.
Up the Stablishment: Reconstructing the Counterculture. Sonnabend Gallery, comisarida por Dan
Cameron, Nueva York, USA.
Garbage. Real Art Ways, curated by Ann Pasternak, Hartford, Conn
Jetleg. Gallerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany
1993
Tom Cugliani Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
The Alternative Eye: Photography for the ‘90s. Southern Alleghenies Museum, Loreto
Time to Time, Castello di Rivara, curated by Luca Beatrice, Turín, Italy
Sound, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy
Post-Verbum, Pallazzo della Regione, Bergamo, Italy
1992
Life Size: Small, Medium, Large. Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Multiples, The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Conn
Detour, The International House, Nueva York
The Collection, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Les Enfants Terribles, Wooster Gardens, Nueva York
Gallery Artists, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
Theoretically Tours, Regione Autonoma Della Valle d'Aosta, Aosta, Italy
1991
Mike Kelley/Vik Muniz/Jim Shaw. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn
The Encompassing Eye, Photography as Drawing, University Art Galleries, University of Akro
The Neighborhood. A.I.R., Amsterdam
Anni Novanta. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, curated by Renato Barilli and Pier Giovanni Castagnoli,
Comune di Bologna
Real Fake, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Outside America, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
The Fetish of Knowledge, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn
1990
Non Sculpture, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Constructed Illusion, Pace MacGill Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
Assembled, Wright State University, Dayton, USA.
On the Edge Between Sculpture and Photography, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, USA.
1989
De Rozeboomkamer. Beeldenroute Foundation, Diepenheim
Wortlaut: Konzepte Zwischen Visueller Poesie & Fluxus. Galerie Schuppenhauer, Colonia, Germany
E XPOSICIONES C OMISARIADAS P OR E L A RTISTA
2008
Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, MoMA, NY. Invitado por el Museum of Modern Art para comisariar una
exposición con fondos de la colección del museo
2006
Robert Mapplethorpe., Fortes Vilaça Gallery, São Paulo
2005
L’Empire bresilien et ses photograhes: collections de la Bibliotheque Nationale du Brésil et de
L’Institute Moreira Salles, “L’horizont Perdu”, Musee D’Orsay, Paris
1998
Beyond the Edges, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
1997
Making it Real, Catalogue ed. Independent Incorporated, New York (exposición itinerante)
P ELÍCULAS /V ÍDEOS
2004
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Mixed Green Production (54 min.)
Dirigida y producida por Anne-Marie Russel
2002
The Egg Show: episode Inspiration
Producida y emitida por WNET, Channel Thirteen, Nueva York.
C OLECCIONES P ÚBLICAS
21C Museum Fountation, Louisville, KY, USA.
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North , Carolina, USA.
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, Indiana, USA.
Banco de Spain, Madrid
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Nueva York, USA.
The Bohen Foundation, Nueva York, Nueva York, USA.
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Cabildo de Gran Canária, Canary Island, Spain
Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Madrid
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, CAC., Málaga, Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA., USA.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA.
The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Hawaii
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA.
Daros Latin America, Zürich Suiza
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA.
Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, USA.
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
George Eastman House, Rochester, Nueva York, USA.
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA.
Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Holanda
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianápolis, USA.
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho, MG, Brasil
International Pacific College, Kobe City, Japón
Instituto Itau Cultural, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
The International Center of Photography, Nueva York, USA.
IVAM - Centro Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlanda
Israel Museum, Jerusalén, Israel
The Jewish Museum, Nueva York, USA.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA.
La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA.
The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, USA.
MAP - Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, USA.
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachussets, USA.
The Menil Collection, Houston, USA.
The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, USA.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, USA.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA.
The Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, USA.
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Museu Bibliográfico Luis Angel, Bogotá
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Pernambuco, Brasil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brasil
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
National Gallery of Artl Washington DC, USA.
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japón
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
New York Public Library, Nueva York, USA.
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, USA.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
The Princeton University Museum of Art, New Jersey, USA.
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, USA.
Prudential Foundation, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
The Rhode Island School of Design Modern Art Museum, Rhode Island, USA.
Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, Nueva York, USA.
Rooseum, Malmo, Suecia
The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA.
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA.
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CaliforniaSheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
S.M.A.K. -Museum of Contemporary Art, Gante, Bélgica
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York, USA.
The Speed Museum Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
The Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
University Art Museum, State Universe of New York, Albany, Nueva York, USA.
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
The West Collection at SEI, Pasadera, USA.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, Nueva York, USA.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japón