Valeska Soares
Born in 1957, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Lives and works in New York, USA
Awards
2005
2003-4
1996
1994
1991
1990
1989
Anonymous Was the Woman
Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Bolsa de Estudos no Exterior, CNPq – Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia
Bolsa de Estudos no Exterior, CAPES – Ministério da Educação
Prêmio FIAT para Artes Visuais
Prêmio de Aquisição [Acquisition Award], Funarte, Rio de Janeiro
Prêmio de Aquisição [Acquisition Award], Funarte, Rio de Janeiro
Solo Exhibitions
2014
Max Wigram Gallery, London
2013
Notations, Max Wigram Gallery, London
2012
Paragraphs, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Paragraphs, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
2010
Vaga Lume, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
Passa Tempo, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
2009
Passa Tempo, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2008
After, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
2007
After, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2006
Walk on by, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
2005
Nar-cis-sus, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Nar-cis-sus Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Notations, Fusebox, Washington DC
2003
Follies, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, travelled as Caprichos to Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey
Centro Cultural Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza
2002
Puro Teatro, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Mirrorings, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife
Detour, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
1999
Vanishing Point, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
Projeto FINEP, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
1998
Vanishing Point, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Vanity, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland
Histories, a project for the Public Art Fund, New York
Characters, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1997
Personagens, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia
1996
Strangelove, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Strangelove, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Untitled (from Vanishing Point), Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995
Discontinuous Teasers, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1994
Fall, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Fall, Information Gallery, New York
1992
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
1991
Centro Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro Art Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Blueprint, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
2013
Push Pull, performance to coincide with the exhibition, Permission to Be Global, Cisneros
Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, 6th December
Permission to Be Global – Latin American Art form the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection,
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida (the exhibition will travel to the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston in Spring 2014)
CHICK LIT: Revised Summer Reading, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York
What to do, CaixaForum, Barcelona
Order, Chaos, and the Space Between, Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and
Bruce Halle Collection, group show, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
On-Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Commercial Break, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City
Los habladores: narrativas en el arte contemporâneo internacional, Arte y Numismática Museos
del Banco de la República, Bogotá
2012
Repeat to Fade, Galeria Mendes Wood, São Paulo
The Storytellers, Narratives in International Contemporary Art, Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Text in Process, RH Gallery, New York
Read, Look! We promise it’s not dangerous, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
Inter Ruption: A Break in the Continuity of the Interstitial Space, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los
Angeles
Weights and Measures, Eleventon Rivington Gallery, New York
2011
Zona Letal Espaço Vital: Obras da Colecção da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Museu de Arte
Contemporânea de Elvas; Museu Municipal de Tavira/ Palácio de Galeria; Museu da Imagem em
Movimento, Leiria
P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, The National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Tablet, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
Entrecolchetes, Coleção Particular, São Paulo
Tonight Screening at Bring to Light Festical, Nuit Blanche New York
Walk on by Installation at Flash: Light, New Museum, New York
8 a Bienal do MERCOSUL, Porto Alegre
Everything Must Go, Guadalajara, Mexico; Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Afterlife, Cemetery De Nieuwe Ooster, Amsterdam
Museu da Imagem em Movimento / Município de Leiria, Leiria
2010
Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Models Kits: Thinking Latin America From Musaz’s Collection, MUSAC, Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
Santiago, punto de encuentro: Obras maestras de la Catedral y Caixa Galicia, Fundación Caixa
Galicia, Santiago de Compostela
Guatavita, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
Superfícies del Deseo, The University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City
Arte e Política: Outros Olhares, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto
S, M, L, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
2009
Follies, Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho
Sharjah Biennial 9- Provisions for the Future, Sharjah
2a Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe, Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, San Juan
Nus [Nudes], Galeria Fortes Vilaça,,São Paulo
The Second Hand, Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna
Just What Are They Saying, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
The Order of Things: Revolutions of the Ordinary, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
The Communism of Forms, Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto
Experiências Contemporâneas – Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça no MAC USP, Espaço Cultural,
Marcantonio Vilaça, Brasília
Um Mundo sem Molduras, MAC USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São
Paulo
Private Universes, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
A World without Frames, MAC Cidade Universitária, São Paulo
2008
Em Vivo Contato, 28a Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
Stream of Forgotten Memories, OK Center of Contemporary Art, Linz
Arte Contemporânea Brasileira – Doação Credit Suisse, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo
Procedente-MAP: Novas Aquisições, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
Defining a Moment, 54 Crosby Street, New York
Private Passions, Public Visions – Collections D. O. Galicia, MARCO – Museu de Arte
Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
It is Not Neutral: Daros Latin American Collection, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea
Tabakalera, San Sebastián
2007
Fit To Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Places, Luxe Gallery, New York
Re-materialized, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Shapes of Space, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Itaú Contemporâneo:Art in Brazil from 1981- 2006, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
2006
Paralela 2006, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, São Paulo
Seduções, Daros Latin America, Zürich
Venice-Istanbul: A Selection from the 51t International Venice Biennale, Istanbul
Clube da Gravura: 20 Anos, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
Everybody Dance Now, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, New York
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, The Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego, California
Walk on By, CACI – Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Inhotim, Brumadinho
Dirty Yoga: Taipei Biennial 2006, Taipei
Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton,
Ontario
2005
Always a Little Further, 51. Biennale di Venezia, Venic
Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool
Landmark, 10 years of making the world safe for contemporary art, Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
Anthology of Art Project, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe
Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place, Laumeier Sculpture Park and
Museum, St. Louis; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History at McPherson Center, Santa Cruz;
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs; Arizona State University, Arizona; The Amarillo Museum
of Art, Amarillo; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Herron School of Art, Indiana
University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art,
Nashville, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami
Draw, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Glass, Seriously, Dorsky Gallery, New York
En las Fronteras/ In the Borderlands, Instituto Cervantes, Prague; Instituto Cervantes in
Stockholm, Moscow, Berlin, Brussels and Granada
The World Becomes a Private World: Selections from the Collections of Penny Cooper and Rena
Rosenwasser, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
RAMPA: Signaling New Latin American Art Initiatives, Arizona State University Art Museum,
Phoenix, Arizona, Taipei Biennial, Taipei
Hair Raising, San Jose Institute of Contemporary, San Jose, California
2004
Material as Metaphor, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Non Toccare la Donna Bianca: Arte Contemporanea fra Diversità e Liberazione, Fondazione
Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin
Anthology of Art Project, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Estratégias Barrocas: Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The World Becomes a Private World: Selections from the Collections of Cooper and Rena
Rosenwasser, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
Third Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Novas Aquisições 2003: Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de
Janeiro
25th Anniversary, Cristopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paralela 2004, São Paulo
Natureza Morta/Still Life, Galeria de Arte do Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo
Soirée Prospectif Cinéma, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Bazar de Verão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2003
Marcantonio Vilaça: Passaporte Contemporâneo, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade
de São Paulo
Mirror Tenses: Conflating Time and Presence, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Pegadas de Luz/Huellas de Luz/Traces of Light, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago
de Compostela
2002
poT, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
Arquitecturas de Interior, Galería Fúcares, Madrid
Caminhos do Contemporâneo 1952-2002, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Paralelos: Arte Brasileira da Segunda Metade do Século XX em Contexto: Colección Cisneros,
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio
de Janeiro
Arte brasileño de hoy, Sala de Armas, Ciudadela, Pamplona
20 Artistas/20 Anos, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
2001
Before Reflection Begins, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island
Virgin Territory: Women, Gender, and History in Contemporary Brazilian Art, National Museum
of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Elusive Paradise, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;
F(r)icciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
Arcadia, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Espelho Cego: Seleções de uma Coleção Contemporânea, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
O Espírito de Nossa Época, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
Rotativa Fase 1, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2000
inSITE2000-01, San Diego, California; Tijuana
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,
California; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Miami Art Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Good Business is the Best Art": Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program, The
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Brasil: Plural y Singular, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
XII Mostra da Gravura da Cidade de Curitiba: Marcas do Corpo, Dobras da Alma, Museu
Metropolitano de Arte, Curitiba
Shoes, TZ Art Gallery, New York
A Forma e os Sentidos um Olhar sobre Minas, Museu Ferroviário Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha
1999
Dobles Vides, Museu Marítim de Barcelona, Barcelona
Amnesia, Christopher Grimes Gallery and Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, California; traveled to
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá;
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; The Bronx Museum of the Arts,
New York
A Vuelta con los Sentidos, Casa de América, Madrid
Um e Outro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Not There, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Der Brazilianisch Blick, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin; traveled to Ludwig Forum für
Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
IV Foro Atlántico de Arte Contemporáneo, Pontevedra, Espanha Os 90, Paço Imperial, Rio de
Janeiro
Os 90, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
1998
1997
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo
Desde el Cuerpo: Alegorias de lo Feminino, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas
BIS, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Fronteiras, Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo
Anos 90: Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro;
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
you are here, Royal College of Art, London
Esto Es: Arte Objecto y Instalación de Iberoamérica, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
City
Life's Little Necessities, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg
Art Foundry Editions Santa Fe at Knoedler, Knoedler & Company, New York
Tridimensionalidade na Arte Brasileira do Século XX, Insituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo; Galeria
Itaú Cultural, Belo Horizonte; Galeria Itaú Cultural, Brasilia; Galeria Itaú Cultural, Penápolis
Así está la cosa: Instalación y Arte Objeto en América Latina, Centro Cultural Arte
Contemporáneo, Mexico City
1996
6 Women in Red, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisboa
Collective Soul, Galleria Marabini, Bologna
To Live Is to Leave Traces, Hospicio Cabanas, Guadalajara
The Tailor's Dummy, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Visions, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Camargo Vilaça Bis, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Pequenas Mãos, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Alumni, São Paulo
Transparências, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
1995
Dark Room, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
La Habana-São Paulo: Junge Kunst aus Lateinamerika, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
The Education of the Five Senses, White Columns, New York; traveled as L’Educazione dei
Cinque Sensi to Palazzo Pamphili, Rome
Longing and Belonging, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Espelhos e Sombras, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Brasil na Bienal, Galeria da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói
Anos 80: O Palco da Diversidade, Galeria de Arte do Sesi, São Paulo
1994
XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo
Perception, Information Gallery, New York
A Fotografia Contaminada, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
Espelhos e Sombras, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
Escultura Carioca, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
International Critic’s Choice, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University; traveled to
University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Brasil Hoy, Galería Valenzuela Klenner, Bogota
6 Artistas, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
1993
ABC: Contemporary Art from Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch
College, New York
Artist in the Marketplace: Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New
York
International Critic’s Choice, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois
Língua Latina Regina Est, Stux Gallery, New York
A Presença do Ready-Made 80 Anos, MAC USP - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
1992
1991
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Programa Annual de Exposições de Artes, Fundação Bienal, São Paulo
Polaridades e Perspectivas, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Imagem sobre Imagem, Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
IV Bienal de la Habana, Havana
Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
XXII Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
7 x Ar, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
EAV Processo nº738.765-2, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro
80/90 Formas Tridimensionais: A Questão Orgânica, Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba
Programa de Exposições de Artes Plásticas, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulol
Salão Carioca de Artes Plásticas, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
1990
VII Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo
Possível Imagem, Solar Grandjean de Montigny, Rio de Janeiro
Aqueous, Fundição Progresso, Rio de Janeiro
1989
XI Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro
1988
XX Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte Moderna, Belo Horizonte
1987
I Bienal de Escultura ao Ar Livre, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque
Lage, Rio de Janeiro
Collections
Albright Knox, Buffalo, New York
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Burger Collection, Zürich
CAC - Centro De Arte Contemporânea, Malaga
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela
CPPC - Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas
Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel (CIAC)
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Texas
Daros Foundation, Zürich
Fundação Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho
Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, Missouri
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
MAC USP - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
MACBA - Museu d ! Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
MAP - Museu Arte de Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporânea, Monterrey
MEIAC - Museu Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporâneo, Badajoz
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tate Modern, London
The MINT Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
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