ERIKA VERZUTTI
1971
Born in São Paulo, Brasil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brasil
EDUCATION
2000 Associate Research Student in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1999 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1991 Graduate in Industrial Design [Graduate in Graphics], Universidade Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brasil
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 “Swan with Stage”, SculptureCenter, Long Island, US, May 2 - Aug. 3
2014 “Mineral”, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, US, cur. Ian Berry, July 5 – Nov. 16
“Painted Ladies”, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, June 14 – July 19
2013 “Palettes”, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 20 2012 “Antonio Malta & Erika Verzutti”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil, cur. José A. Ribeiro, March 10 – May 27
2011 “Missionary”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, May 14 – July 16
2010 “AIT Backers Residency Exhibition”, Side 2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, May 22 – June 12
“Chopping Board”, Misako & Rosen Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 18 – May 23
“Bicho de Sete Cabeças”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 19 – Dec. 18
2009 “Erika Verzutti”, Misako and Rosen Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 26 – Feb. 22
“Erika Verzutti”, Swallow Street, London, UK, Sept. 4 – Oct. 3
2008 “Pet Cemetery”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 11 – Dec. 13
2007 “Bicho de 7 Cabeças [7 Headed Monster]”, Blow de la Barra, London, UK, Oct. 8 – Nov. 10
2006 “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”, Galeria Forte Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, May 4 – May 27
2003 “Sculptures”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, July 8 – Aug. 8
1997 Meditation Platform, Centro Cultural UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1995 Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Exhibitions Program Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 “34o Panorama da Arte Brasileira”, MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil, cur. Aracy Amaral and
Paulo Myada, Oct. 3 - Dec. 15
"Empty House Casa Vazia", Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US, June 27 - Aug. 28
“Organic Sculptures”, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK, March 27 – May 23
“No Sound”, Anexo Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 3 – Feb. 12
“LARA – Latin American Roaming Art”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
“Alimentario”, Pavilhao Lucas Nogueira Garcez, São Paulo, Brazil
“Brazilian Pavillion”, Expo Milano, Milan, Italy, May 1 – Oct. 31
“EAV”, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Under The Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today”, Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
“Jac Leiner”, Albert Baronian Project Space, Brussels, Belgium, cur. Laurence Dujardyn, March 12 – April 18
2014 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico, cur. Tatjana Cuevas, Nov“Animal Mineral Vegetal”, Andrew Kreps, New York, US, Nov. 1 – Dec. 20
“Histórias Mestiças”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, cur. Adriano Pedrosa, Lilia Schwarcz, Aug. 16 –
Oct. 5
“Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US, cur.
Pablo León de la Barra, June 13 – Oct. 1
“Postcodes”, Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil, May 9 – May 31
“Salon Distingué”, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland, cur. Nadia Schneider Willen, May 3 – Nov. 30
“Banana Boat”, Alvaro Razuk Arquitetura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, cur. Pedro Caetano, April 6 “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, US, Feb. 1 – April 20
“140 Caracteres”, MAM Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Jan. 28 – March 16
“Matter & Memory”, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK, Jan. 16 – Feb. 15
2013 “Voir est une Fable”, Chambres à Part, Paris, France, cur. Laurence Dreyfus, Oct. 21 – Oct. 27
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56 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA, Oct. 5 – March 16
“Vision of Paradise: The Savage Mind”, Art Rio, Rio, Brazil, Sep. 5 - Sep. 8, 2013
“Commercial Break”, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico D.F., Mexico
“Portals, Forecasts and Monotypes”, Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil, cur. Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy,
Sept. 13 – Nov. 11
“Mitologias por Procuraçao”, MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna da Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Universo Bordallo Pinheiro”, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Betao a Vista”, Mube, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Estaçao Pinacotea, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Principios Flexor”, Galeria Gramatura, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 31 – Oct. 20
“Home Again – 10 Artists Who Have Experienced Japan”, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan,
Aug. 28 – Nov. 18
“Air de Lyon”, PROA Fundación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 17 – June 21
“Lilliput”, High Line Art, New York, NY, USA, cur. Cecilia Alemani , Apr. 19 – Apr. 14, 2013,
“Mythologies”, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, cur. Kiki Mazzucchelli, Dec. 7 – Dec. 21
“New Brazilian Sculpture – Heritage and Diversity”, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 14
– Jan. 01
“A terrible Beauty is born”, 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, cur. Victoria Noorthoorn, Sept.15 – Dec. 31
“Law of the Jungle”, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA, Dec. 10 – Jan. 29
“Use & Mention”, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Uni Greenwich, London, UK, cur. John Chilver, Jan. 26 – Feb. 26
“Paper Moon”, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 31 – Dec. 19
“Studio Voltaire”, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 31 – Dec. 19
“Alcova”, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, cur. Marcelo Campos, July 8 – Aug. 9
“Geba Geba summer show – Geba geba 4 weeks”, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan, June 22 – July 19
“Once Upon a Time…Art Tells Stories of the World”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil, cur. Katia
Canton, Apr. 21 – June 21
“Nudes”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça and Galeria Bergamin, São Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 14 – Apr. 4
“Trickle–down Theory – If I get 10 Lexus SUVs, You Might Get a Pair of Flip-flops”, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki,
Finland, cur. Riiko Sakkinen, Apr. 17 –
"Erika Verzutti /Tiago Carneiro da Cunha", Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 26 – Feb. 22
“Haptic”, Tokyo Metropolitan Fundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan, cur. Vik Muniz,
Nov. 22 – Jan. 12
“When Lives Become Form – Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960 to the Present”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, USA, cur. Yuko Hasegawa, Nov. 5 – Jan. 31
“De Perto e de Longe”, Paralela 08, Liceu de Artes e Oficios de São Paulo, Brazil, cur. Rodrigo Moura, Oct. 28 –
Dec. 7
“Secret Passages”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brasil, cur. Gilberto Mariotti, Oct. 25 – Dec. 21
“When Lives Become Form – Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960 to the Present”, Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, cur. Yuko Hasegawa, Oct. 22 – Jan. 12
“Drawing in all directions – Festival de Invierno SESC Estado do Rio de Janeiro”, SESC Petrópolis, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, July 17 – Aug. 3
“Legend”, Centre Artistique et Culturel, Chamarande, France, cur. Alexis Vaillant, May 25 – Sept. 28
“When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future – Brazil, Japan”, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo,
Brazil, cur. Yuko Hasegawa, Apr. 10 – June 22
“Martial Museum of Terrestrial Art”, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, cur. Francesco Manacorda and Lydia Yee,
March 6 – May 18
“Communism of the Form: Sound + Image + Time – The Strategy of Music Video”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo,
Brazil, cur. Fernando Oliva and Marcelo Rezende, July 20 – Aug. 4
“Animal World”, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, July 3
“The Juddykes”, The Old Art Shop at John Jones, London, UK, cur. Howard Dyke and Ben Judd, June 1- June 30
“Contemporary Design”, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal, cur. Marcelo Campos
“Everything must go”, VTO Gallery, London, UK, March 25 – Apr. 29
“Choque Cultural at Fortes Vilaça and Fortes Vilaça at Choque Cultural”, Choque Cultural and Fortes Vilaça, São
Paulo, Brazil, March 18 – Apr. 20
“Paralela 2006”, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil, cur. Daniela
Bousso, Oct. 7 – Nov. 19
“That's Us/Wild Combination”, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK
2005 Aderências, SESC Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
“Education, Look!”, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 17 – Oct. 15
“Plastic.o.rama”, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, cur. Erika Palomino, March 17 – March 27
2004 “Summer Bazaar”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, Dec. 20 – Feb. 19
“Paralela 2004”, São Paulo, Brazil, cur. Moacir Dos Anjos
“PASTE IT! ”, Angel Studios, Berlin, Germany, cur. Jean Lee and Martina Schmacher
2003 “Colapso”, Amp Galaxy, São Paulo, Brazil
2002 “poT”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, Dec. 19 – Feb. 28
“PoT: The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art–The Independent,” Commercial Unit 6 Square, Liverpool, UK,
cur. Erika Verzutti, Sept. 14 – Nov. 24
Aprilʼs Fool Day, São Paulo, Brazil
Feira, Espaço Virgílio, São Paulo, Brazil
2001 Aprilʼs Fool Day, São Paulo, Brazil
BBQ Project Gallery, in collaboration with Camila Sposati, Berlin, Germany
“Zig Zag”, Thomas Cohn Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2000 “Assembly”, Stepney City, London, UK, cur. David Gyscek and Gordon Cheung, Oct. 5 – Oct. 31
“Dilated Pupils”, VTO Gallery, London, UK
“The Armchair Project”, Cinch, London, UK, cur. Paul McDevitt and Declan Clarke, Oct. 11 – Oct. 28
1999 Non Stop Opening Lisboa, Ze dos Bois Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
1998 “Antartica Arts with Leaf – book”, Casa Triângulo Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
“Antartica Arts with Leaf – book”, Manoel da Nóbrega Pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil
“Beyond the Rainbow”, FAAP Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
“Contemporary Legacies”, MAC Contemporary Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
“Non Stop Opening”, Central Point Gallery, London, UK
1997 “Dobras de Corpo”, Múltipla Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
1996 Antartica Artes com a Folha, Manoel da Nóbrega Pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil
“Limits Do Not Exist”, Maternidade Filomena Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
1995 “Works on Paper”, Casa Triângulo Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Museum – ASU Art Museum, Tempe, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, USA
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTED BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES)
2015 "Erika Verzutti. Swan with Stage", SculptureCenter, New York, US
2014 “Erika Verzutti: Mineral”, Ian Berry, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York, US (upcoming)
2013 “Erika Verutti”, José Augusto Riberio, published by Cobogó, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Art Cities of the Future”, texts by Kiki Mazzucchelli, José Roca, Phaidon, London
“2013 Carnegie International”, Carmegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
2012 “Contemporary Art Brazil”, Hossein Amirsadeghi, Catherine Petitgas, Thames and Hudson, London, UK
2009 “Era Uma Vez…Arte Conta Histórias do Mundo”, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
2008 “Neo Tropicália – When Lives Become Form, Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960ʼs to the Present”, MOT – Museum
of Contemporaty Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art. Encyclopedia of Terrestrial Life. Volume VIII”, Barbican Centre, Merrell,
London, UK
“Desenho em todos os sentidos. Festival de Invierno Rio de Janeiro”, SESC Nova Friburgo, Tisara, Brazil
2007 “Erika Verzutti”, Rodrigo Moura, published by Cobogó, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTED PRESS ARTICLES & REVIEWS)
2015 “Erika Verzutti: Echoes of Touch”, Michele DʼAurizio, Flash Art, Milan, p. 60 - 65
2014 “Peter Kilchmann, Zürich”, Katrin Bachofen, Handelszeitung, Zurich, Nr. 24/2014, p. 7
“Erika Verzutti”, Aoife Rosenmeyer, Frieze E/D, Berlin, Sept., Nov., p. 148-149
“500 Words: Erika Verzutti”, Frank Exposito, Art Forum online, New York, Aug. 18.
“Erika Verzutti”, Satornu Nagoya, FlashArt, Milan, Jan./Feb., p. 107
2013 “The 2013 Carnegie International: Museum within a Museum”, Starr Review, Ohio, Oct. 16
2012 “Lilliput – Art Review”, The New Yorker, New York, Sept. 25
“Artifacts – Gilding the “Lilliput”, Linda Yablonsky, T Magazine, New York, April 30
“See the Diminutive Sculptures From the High Lineʼs First Group Show, “Lilliput”, Benjamin Sutton, In the Air, New
York, April 25
2008 “Haptic”, Lucy Birmingham, Artforum.com, Dec. 22
2003 “Gallery walk: São Paulo”, Celso Fioravante, Art on paper, May-June, No. 7, p. 82