| BIOGRAPHY Born 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil Lives and works in New York |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | Vik Muniz. Museum of Modern Art. January 12. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Vik Muniz. MASP – The São Paulo Museum of Art. São Paulo. March 25. Brazil |
| 2008-09 | Vik Muniz: The Beautiful Earth, Tokyo Wonder Site. Tokyo, Japan. November 22 – March 1 Artist’s Choice: MoMA, New York, NY, December 10, 2008- February 23, 2009 |
| 2008 | Vik Muniz, Arndt & Partner. Berlin, Germany. October 29 - December 20 Vik Muniz, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, October 16- November 22 This is Vik Muniz, CB Collection. Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. January 19-April 19 Verso, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, NY Sept 7- Oct 11 Reflex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, April 15 – September 14, 2008 Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan, November 2008 |
| 2007 | Vik Muniz, Moscow House of Photography. Manezh, Russia. November 1-December 2. A Terra e a Gente, Museu da Eletricidad. Lisbon, Portugal. October 17-December 16 Vik Muniz: A Survey, Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Kiev, Ukraine. April 13-May 20 Pictures of People, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Gateshead, UK. January 31-April 15 To Russia With Love, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia Muniz Remastered: Photographs from the West Collection, Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO, October 4, 2007- January 20, 2008 National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, April 20 – September 30 The Beautiful Earth, Paço das Artes. São Paulo, Brazil. Aug. 1- Oct. 7., Fortes Vilaça Gallery. São Paulo, Brazil. Aug. 4 -Sept. 27. |
| 2006-2008 | "Reflex: Vik Muniz Retrospective," Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, February 10 - May 28, 2006; University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum, July 7- October 7, 2006; Seattle Art Museum, November 10 2006- January 14 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, June 1- September 9, 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada, October 5, 2007- January 6, 2008 |
| 2006 | Vik Muniz, Nassau County Museum of Art. New York, NY. February 19-May 14. BulFinch’s Recycling Yard: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk, Rena Bransten Gallery. San Francisco, California. April 13-May 27. Pictures of Pigment, Xippas Gallery. Paris, France. June 10-July 29 "Vik Muniz/Rachel Berwick: Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale," Bates College: June 24 - October 8. H&R Block ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO, October 31 - December 30 Vik Muniz Remastered, Selections from the West Collection, Gasden Art Center, July 9- September 3 |
| 2005 | Koyanagi Gallery. Tokyo, Japan. October 14 – November 14 Vik Muniz. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA. September 17-November 20 Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy, April 5- May 28 Vik Muniz. Sala Amós Salvaldor. Logroño, Spain. March 22-May 1 Vik Muniz: Divas & Monsters. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil. SP. Brazil. March 5- April 24. |
| 2004 | Brent Sikkema, New York, NY “Piranesi Prisons,” National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain “Retratos de Revista,” Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gallery Elba Benitez, Madrid, Rome Gallery Xippas, Paris, France |
| 2003 | Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN MACRO, Museo D’Art Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy; traveled to: Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland, 2004 Xippas gallery, Paris France Galerie Fortes Vilaçia, São Paulo, Brazil Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea- CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain “Haystacks,” Marabini Gallery, Bologna, Italy Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2002/2003 | "Candy Bam," special project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2002 | Brent Sikkema, New York, NY "Vik Muniz," Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy "Pictures of Air," Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas "Vik Muniz: Pictures of Air," Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Centro Dragão do Mar, Ceará, Brazil "Vik Muniz: Model Pictures" The Menil Collection, Houston "Reparté," CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Bolder "Vik Muniz: Laberints" Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain "The Room With The Clouds," The West Collection, New York, NY Barbara Krakow, Boston, MA Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Laberints, Spai 13, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2001 | 49th Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy "The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife, Brazil Renos Xippas Gallery, Paris, France "Reparté," Henry Art Gallery- University of Washington, Seattle, WA; CU Art Galleries,University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan "Vik Muniz," Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil "Clayton Days: Picture Stories by Vik Muniz," Espaço Cine, São Paulo, Brazil Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain Homenagem ao Centenário de J.K. Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil "The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz," Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2000 | Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galeria Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil "Seeing is Believing," Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY "Images Pièges," Musée de l'Élisée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Fondation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI "Pictures of Ink," Brent Sikkema, NYC "Photographs & Personal Articles," Ubu Gallery, NYC "Clayton Days: Picture Stories by Vik Muniz," The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1999 | Galeri Lars Bohman Stockholm, Sweden Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, Rome Italy Photo & Co. Milan, Italy Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France Gallerie Xippas, Paris, France "Seeing is Believing" Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | "Flora Industrialis" Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, NYC Galeria Módulo, Lisbon, Portugal "Seeing is Believing" International Center of Photography, NYC Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA "Beyond the Edges," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC |
| 1997 | "Pictures of Thread" Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, NYC Galeria Camargo Vilaça São Paulo, Brazil Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996 | "The Sugar Children" Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, NYC Galeria Casa da Imagen, Curitiba, Brazil "The Best of Life" Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, NYC "Pantomimes" Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco CA |
| 1995 | "The Wire Pictures" Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 1994 | "Representations" Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, NYC |
| 1993 | "Equivalents" Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, NYC "Equivalents" Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona, Italy |
| 1992 | "Individuals" Stux Gallery, NYC Claudio Botello Arte, Turin, Italy |
| 1991 | Gabinete De Arte Rachel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France |
| 1990 | Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1989 | Stux Gallery, NYC |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | “Complicity: Contemporary Photography and the Matter of Sculpture.” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, January 15 – February 21, 2009 |
| 2008-09 | Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, November 4, 2008–March 22, 2009. |
| 2008 | ‘Order. Desire. Light. : An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings,’ Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, July 25- October 19, 2008 Piranesi e Muniz “Carceri d’invenzione”, Armerie del Castello Odeschalchi di Bracciano, Milano, Italia. September 18 – December 15. Duchamp-me, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil, July 15 –September 21 Geografias (in)visibles. Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. June 26-September 21. Forgetting Velazquez. Las Meninas, Museu Picasso. Barcelona, Spain. May 15- September 28. Face to Face: The Daros Collections, Daros Exhibitions. Zurich, Switzerland. March 14-September 7. ‘Bun,’ Kumukumu Gallery, New York, NY, October 23- November 23 “Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object,” Gagosian Gallery, September 23- November 1 LFace to Face: The Daros Collections. Daros Exhibitions. Zurich, Switzerland. March 14-September 7. Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, CA. March 10-August 10. Critical Distance, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea. Rúa Valle Inclán, Spain. February 29-June 1. TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, High Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA. February 9-May 4. Slightly Unbalanced. Yates Gallery and Exhibit Hall. Chicago Cultural Center. Jan. 26-April 13. Empires and Environments, Rose Art Museum-Brandeis University. January 24-April 1 as Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas NV May 23-Oct 26 |
| 2007-08 | “Collectors Choice III: Audacity in Art, Selected works from Central Florida Collections,” Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando FL, December 8 2007- February 3, 2008 |
| 2007 | Disponha: Fotografia Contempôranea Brasileira na Coleção Inhotim, 32 Gallery-Brazilian Embassy. London, UK. December 3-13 Viva La Muerte! Kunst und Tod in Lateinamerika, Kunstehalle Wien. Vienna, Austria. October 17-February 17, 2008. TRANSactions- Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, , Memorial Art Gallery-University of Rochester. Rochester, NY. October 6-December 30. Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina. Greensboro, North Carolina. June 22-September 21, 2008., Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California. Sept. 17-May 13, 2008 Vik Muniz & Janaina Tschape, Xippas Gallery. Athens, Greece. September 27-October 28. Un/Fair Trade: Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit, Neue Galerie. Graz, Austria. September 22-November 25. Existencias: Coleccion MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. León, Spain. September 21-January 6, 2008. Portrait Souvenirs: Collection Neuflize Vie, Salon du Collectionneur-Grand Palais. Paris, France. September 14-23. Most Humans Do Not Know Better, Serge Zieger Galerie at Brooke Alexander Editions. New York City, NY. September 1-October 6. Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, CA. July 30- September 9 Puntos de Vista, Latin America Contemporary Art Daros-Latinamerica Collection. Bochum, Germany. June 2-September 2. Cuerpo y Mirada. Huellas del siglo XX, National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Madrid, Spain. May 2007 Into me, Out of Me. MACRO Future, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. Rome, Italy. April 21-September 30. Drawing from History, ASU ART Museum at Arizona State University. Phoenix, Arizona. April 14-June 23. Timer: Intimacy, Triennale di Milano. Milan, Italy. March 31-June 10. Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, Illinois. February 24-July 29 Create your Own Museum, Gary Tatintsian Gallery. Moscow, Russia. January 24-March 1 Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 20- December 30 "Pop Art, 1960s-2000s, From Misumi Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Apr 7- May 20, 2007, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, July 14- Sept 2, 2007, Hachioji Yume Art Museum, Sept 28- Nov 25, 2007. |
| 2006 | Busy going Crazy: Collection Syvio Perlstein- Art & Photographie de Dada a aujourd’hui October 29-January 14, 2007 La Maison Rouge. Foundation Antoine de Galbert. Before the Camera Remaking Reality and the Make-Believe Norton Museum of Art October 14- January 7, 2007 Palm Beach, Florida. Paralela Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira Parque do Ibirapuera Oct. 10-Nov. 19 São Paulo. Brasil Le Noir Est Une Couleur: Hommage vivant a Aime Maeght Fondation Marguerite et Aime Maeght June 30-November 5 Saint-Paul, France Football et art contemporain Musée Géo Charles June 7 - October 29, 2006 Echirolles, France Rendons à Cézanne ce qui …, Galerie d’art du Conseil Général, October 6 -December 31, 2006, Aix-en-Provence, France, Figures de l’acteur, le paradoxe du comédien, Collection Lambert en Avignon, July 8 – October 15, 2006, Avignon, France The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fúbol, Roebling Hall, Chelsea, NY, June 9-July 22. 2006 Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s- 2000’s: Selection of the Missumi Collection, Sompo Museum, Tokyo, Japan, July 8- Septmber 3 Transformer: A traveling exhibition of contemporary artworks from the West Collection, Main Line Art Center, April 1-May 3, Philadelphia, PA Certain Encounters Daros Latinamerica Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 7- June 4, 2006 Inventive Fashion Photographs: Chuck Close, Annie Leibovitz and Vik Muniz, Danzinger Projects, NY, Jan. 27-March 04 Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, SP. Brasil, Jan. 19, 2006- April 3, 2006 Connected –Unconnected, The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shanon Co., Leitrim. Ireland, March 13-April 2006 Visitonair 47 Taste, Visionaire Gallery, January 3- March 3, NY Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. MA Eretica: Trascendenza e profano nell’arte contemporanea, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palermo, August 1-September 20, 2006 Vik Muniz/Rachel Berwick: Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale. Bates College: 6/24/06 - 10/8/06. H&R Block ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO, 10/31/06 - 12/30/06 San Antonio Museum of Art, February 4- April 30, 2006 “Evolving Identites,” Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, March 5- April 27 “Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture,” University of Virginia Art Museum, UVA, September 1- October 29 Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, June 23- October 1 Permanent Collection Exhibition, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, March 210 August 20 |
| 2005/2006 | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washingtion DC, October 21- January 8, 2006 |
| 2005 | Ongoing: Carl Andre to Vik Muniz, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea, December 12, 05 to February 12 Contemporary Voice: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan, November 19-December 25 Erotica-Os Sentidos na Arte, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, October 12-January 8, 06; CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Feb.-April 06; CCBB Brasília, May-July 06 The Hours: Selection of the Daros Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, October 4, 2005- January 8, 2006 Vik Muniz and Laurent Millet: Illusions et machines a images l’Hotel des Arts Centre Mediterraneen d’Art June 18 to September 4 Toulon. FranceSikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, September 17- October 22, 2005 “Almost,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, January 20- February 19 “Surfaces Paradise: Vik Muniz, Thomas Ruff and Gary Carsley.” Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem. March 5- July 27. Arnhem. The Netherlands “Material Matters,” Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY, January 28- March 20, 2005 “Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection,” Tate Liverpool, October 15- April 23, 2005 “The Other Mainstream: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection,” January 22- April 23, Arazona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2004 | "Die Akte Weimar," ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany December 11, 2004-January 30, 2005 "Open House: Working in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY "Moving Outlines," Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD "Hair: Untangling a Social History," The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY "Making their Marks," Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT, January 16- March 27 "Home Sweet Home," Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy "Latin American and Carribean Art: MoMA at El Museo," El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, March 5- July 25 "Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ, March 25-July 4, 2004, Richard D. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, September 15-December 12 2004 |
| 2003 | "Supernova: Art of the 19902 from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Only Skin Deep: Visions of the American Self," International Center of Photography, New York, NY "Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photograph Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC "Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection," Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL "Stranger in the Village," organized by the Museum of Modern Art, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY "Miradas Complice," Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain "Pour de Vrai?" Chateau Boisbonnard, Villeperdue, France "Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York," New York State Museum, Albany, NY "Hot Summer in the City," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, July 10- August 16 "Abstraction in Photography," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY, February 6- March 22 "On," Xippas Gallery, Paris, France "Panorama de Arte Brasileira," Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil "A Nova Geometria," Gallery Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil "Regarding War," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY "S(how: Visual Ephemorality/Bodily Consumption, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania "Installation fo Vik Muniz Works from the West Collection," SEI, Philadelphia, PA "Scenery," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Corpus Christi. Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography," Hôtel de Sully, Paris, October 4, 2002- January 5, 2003; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, March 25- June 30 "D'Après," Galleria GAS Corso Vittorio Emanuele II no. 90 10121, Torino, Italy, March 12- May 3. Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, February 27- April 5. "Last Supper," Michael Hue-Williams Gallery, London, UK |
| 2002-2003 | "Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. June 27 2002- January 12, 2003 "La Mirada- Looking at Photographs in Latin America Today," Daros Latin America Collection, Zürich, October 25, 2002- January 4, 2003 |
| 2002 | "Tempo," MoMAQNS, New York, June 29- September 9 "From the Dark Room," Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK, July 17-September 8 "Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000," Curated by Sylvia Wolf, Andy Grundberg. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. "Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY June/July "Recent Acquisitions in Photography," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Constructed Realities," Curated by Barbara Bloemink, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, April 5- May 25 "Blink," presented by Phaidon Press, Deitch Projects, New York, May 22 "O Fio Da Trama/ The Thread Unraveled; Contemporary Brazilian Art," El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY October 13 2001- February 3 "Mémoire Morte Mémoire Vive," Dazibao, Montréal, Quebec. March 7- April 6, "The Photogenic: Photography Through It's Metaphors in Contemporary Art," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylvania, March 2-April 21 "Summer Group Show," Brent Sikkema, July 11- August 16th "Faux/Real," BORUSAN Art Gallery, Instanbul, April 6-June 1 "The Photographic Impulse: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection," Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, July 11- November 10 "Attack: Attraction," Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA December 5-January 31 "Collections of Photographs from MAM," Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo, July/August, Sao Paulo, Brazil "We Love Painting: The American Contemporary Art from Misumi Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan "Huesca Image," VIII International Festival of Photography, Spain "Shape," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Huesca Image: VIII International Festival of Photography, Spain "Staging Reality: Photographs from the West Collection at SEI, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA, August 29- September 30 Imagens Apropriadas, Espaco MAM Villa Lobos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. September- October "La Mirada: The Art of Photography in Latin America Today," Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2001 | "Museums as Subjects," The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan "Planet Earth," The City Gallery, Leicester, UK "From the Dark Room," Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK, 17 July- 8 September "Drawn from Photography," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA "Brazil: Body and Soul," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY "Espelho Cego: Seleções de uma Coleção Contemporânea," Paço Imperial, RJ and Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil. "The Thread Unraveled: Contemporary Brazilian Art," El Museo del Barrio, NY "Rotativa," Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2000 | "2000 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC "Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," opens at El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, and travels to four other US locations. "Group Show," Brent Sikkema, NYC "Photography Now," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA "The Corcoran Biennial," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. "Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs front the Whitney Museum of American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NYC "Landscape-Portrait," Michael Hue-Wiliams Fine Art, London, UK "Photo España 00," Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain |
| 1999 | "The Museum as Muse: Artist Reflect," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC "Abracadabra," The Tate Gallery, London, UK |
| 1998 | "XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo," São Paulo, Brazil "Group Exhibition," The Cannon Gallery for Photography, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK "Urban Canibal," Paço das Artes , São Paulo, Brazil "Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA "Le Donné, le fictif," Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France "The Garden of the Forking Paths," Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsink "Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand/ Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro," Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany "Das Mass der Dinge," Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Saltzburg, Austria "The Cottingley Fairies and Other Apparitions," The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN "La Collection II," Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France "Internality Externality," Galerie Lelong, NYC |
| 1997 | "New Photography XIII," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC "New Faces and Other Recent Aquisitions" The Art Institute of Chicago, IL "Assi Esta la Cosa" Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF, Mexico "Une Fleur des Photographes: L'Arum" Musée National de la Coopération. Franco-Amériçaine, Chateau de Blérancourt, Blérancourt, France "Pool," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. "One Line Drawing" UBU Galery, NYC "Colleción Ordónez Falcón de Fotografia" IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain " Artistes Latino-Americains" Daniel Templon, Paris, France "20 Years, Almost" Robert Miller Gallery NYC "Hope" The National Arts Club NYC "Ut Scientia Pictura" Paolo Baldacci Gallery NYC |
| 1996 | "Wesenchau: Disingenuous Images" Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland "Bis" Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil "The Subverted Object", UBU Gallery, NYC "Recent Acquisitions" The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC "Inclusion/Exclusion" Steirischer Herbst, curated by Peter Weibel, Graz, Austria "Some Assembly Required", The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, curated by David Travis (three photographers) "Novas Aquisições" Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand "Shadow Play" San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA "Material Matters" A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fé, NM |
| 1995 | "Changing Perspectives" Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX "Panorama Da Arte Contmporanea Brasileira" Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Ivo Mesquita "Panorama Da Arte Contemporanea Brasileira" Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Ivo Mesquita "Mostra America," Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil Curated by Paulo Herkenhoff "Recent Acquisitions" Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA "The Photographic Condition" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA "The Cultured Tourist" Center For Photography At Woodstock , NYC Curated By Leslie Tonkonow "Blindspot," The MAC, Dallas Artist Research and Exhibition, Dallas, TX "Garbage" Thread Waxing Space, NYC |
| 1994 | "Single Cell Creatures", Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY "Crash" The Thread Waxing Space, NYC "Up the Stablishment: Reconstructing The Counterculture" Sonnabend Gallery, NYC. Curated by Dan Cameron. "Garbage" Real Art Ways, Harford CT. Curated by Ann Pasternak "Jetleg" Gallerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1993 | Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC "The Alternative Eye: Photography for the 90's" Southern Alleghenies Museum, Loreto, PA "Time to Time" Castello de Rivara, Torino, Italy, curated by Luca Beatrice "Sound" Museo D'Arte Moderna-Bolzano, Italy "Post-Verbum" Pallazzo della Regione Bergamo, Italy |
| 1992 | "Life Size: Small, Medium, Large," Museo D'Arte Contemporaneo Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy "Multiples", The Alldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT "Detour" The International House, New York "The Collection," Centro per l'arte Contemporaneo Luigi Pecci. Prato Italy "Les Enfants Terribles," Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, NYC "Gallery Artists," Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France "Theoretically Yours," Regione Autonoma Della Valle D'Aosta, Aosta, Italy |
| 1991 | "Mike Kelley/Vik Muniz/Jim Shaw," Real Art Ways, Hartford CT "The Encompassing Eye, Photography as Drawing," University Art Galleries, University of Akron, Akron, OH, Traveled "The Neighborhood," A.I.R., Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Anni Novanta," Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Comune di Bologna, Italia, curated by Renato Barilli and Pier Giovanni Castagnoli "Real Fake," Cartier Foundation, Jouy-en-Josas, France "Outside America," Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA "The Fettish of Knowledge," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
| 1990 | "Non Sculpture," Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Nertherlands "Constructed Illusion," Pace MacGill Gallery, NYC "Assembled," Wright State University, Dayton, OH "On the Edge Between Sculpture and photography," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 1989 | "De Rozeboomkamer," Beeldenroute Foundation, Diepenheim, Holland, "Wortlaut: Konzepte Zwischen Visueller Poesie & Fluxus." Galerie Schuppenhauer, Cologne, West Germany |
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| 2009 | Saltz, Jerry. ‘Manhattan Mega Storage,’ New York Magazine, January 16, 2009 |
| 2008 | Juncosa, Enrique. ‘Order. Desire. Light. : An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings,’ c. IMMA Dublin 2008 ISBN: 9781-903811-90-0 (Exhibition Catalogue) Pen with New Attitude Page 122 October 2008 to:Night: Contemporary Representations of the Night. The Hunter College Art Galleries. 2008. Anderson-Spivy, Alexandra. ‘Now you see it now you don’t,’ Artnet October 10 Weinberg, Adam. Momin, Shamim M. 'Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years' c. Whitney Museum of American Art 2008 ISBN 978-0-300-13933-4 Johnson, Ken, 'Vik Muniz: Verso,' The New York Times, Sept 18, 2008 Wehr, Anne. 'Vik Muniz: Verso' Time Out New York, Sept 19-25, 2008 Baker, R.C. 'Best in Show,' The Village Voice, Sept 23, 2008 Esquire Magazine, 75th Anniversary Issue, October 2008, p. 201 Heartney, Eleanor. “Art & Today,” Phaidon press 2008 ISBN: 9780714845142 |
| 2007 | “Into Me Out of Me,” c. Hatje Cantz, 2007 (Exhibition catalog) Leon, Oscar. ‘Vik Muniz,’ Palace Costes, Volume 12, May 2007 Artco issue no.82, November 2007 Nelson, Robert. ‘Modern take on torture is tangled thrill,’ Age, Feb 5, 2007 p.20 “Collectors Choice III: Audacity in Art, Selected works from Central Florida Collections,” Orlando Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog) c. Orlando Museum of Art 2007 ‘To Russia With Love,’ c. 2007 Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia "Contemporary, Cool and Collected," c. The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina 2007 ISBN 978-0-9762300-3-8 Hirsch, Robert. "Light and Lens," c. 2007 Focal Press ISBN: 978-0-240-80855-0 "Vik Muniz speaks with Joan Fontcuberta," c. Fundacion Telefonica and La Fabrica 2007 ISBN: 978-84-96466-77-7 "A New Reality: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art," The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, Sept 1 -Nov 18 Genocchio, Benjamin. "Relism’s Power, Distilled," The New York Times, Sunday September 16, 2007 p. 20 Ollman, Leah. “The artist’s eye plays tricks,” LA Times, June 17, 2007 Olivares, Rosa. "100 Latin American Artists", c. Rosa Olivares 2007 published by Exit Publications. ISBN 8493463930 "Pop Art, 1960s-2000s, From Misumi Collection," (Exhibition Catalogue), c. 2007 The Yomiuri Shimburi, The Japan Association of Art Museums. Culture-Watch, The Illusionist, Departures Magazine May-June 2007. P.156 "The Title of This Photograph Is Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City, May 6, 1957" New York Magazine, May 14, 2007 Nelson, Robert. “Modern take on torture is tangled thrill,” Metro Age, May 5, 2007, p. 20 Schwendener, Martha. “Smile and Say Peanut Butter, Mona Lisa” The New York Times, Friday March 2, 2007 |
| 2006 | Turner, Elsa. “ Pictures of an Exhibition,” Miami Herald, March 26, 2006 Turner, Elsa. “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane! No It’s Art!” Miami Herald, February 9 Perry, Carole. “Evolving Identites,” Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY (Exhibition Catalog) Spangler, Nicholas, “Partly Cloudy, Completely Art,” The Miami Herald, February 10 Richard, Francis. Artforum, Artguide, 2006 Rexer, Lyle. “Vik Muniz: Reflex at the Miami Art Museum,” Art on Paper, July-August, 2006 Suarez de Jesus, Carlos. “Hocus Focus,” Miami New Times, February 23, 2006 Baker, Kenneth. “Brazilian makes art from Trash in a Big Way,” San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, April 15, 2006 Wilson, Eric. “Using a White Shirt as Their Canvas,” The New York Times, May 11, 2006 |
| 2005 | “ Vik Muniz, “ (Exhibition Catalog), Galeria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy, c.2005 Muniz, Vik. “Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer,” Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, c. 2005 Kamari, Avvaiyar, “Flawless?” New York Moves, Issue 19, September 2005 |
| 2004 | Robertson, Rebecca, "Secrets of their Success," ArtNews, October, p. 44 "Open House: Working in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, (Exhibition Catalog) c. 2004 ISBN 0872731502 Yablonsky, Linda. "Borough Sprawl," Time Out New York, April 29-May 6 (review of "Open House: Working In Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Musem) pp. 72-3 Muniz, Vik. "Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer," Aperture, New York, NY September "Vik Muniz," (exhibition catalog) texts by Dan Cameron and Miguel Fernandez-Cid. c. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain "Vik Muniz: Incomplete Works," texts by: James Elkins, Moacir Dos Anjos, Shelley Rice, c. Fundacio Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "Vik Muniz," (exhibition catalog) texts by: Danilo Eccher, Germano Celant, Aracy Amaral, Joshua Dexter, Vincent Katz, Richard Milazzo, Peter Galassi, Olivier Kaepelin, Charles Stainbeck, Linda Benedict Jones, Catherine Millet, Matthew Drutt, Kirby Gookin, Eric Denby, Thomas Zummer and Tonica Chagas. c. MACRO: Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy "Latin American & Carribean Art: MoMA at El Museo," El Museo del Barrio, (Exhibition Catalog) Edited by Miriam Basilio, Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Gary Garrels, Luis Enrique Perez-Oramas, c. El Museo del Barrio, and The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY 2004 "Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ, ISBN 0-911611-28-2 Goldberg, Vicki "Paint by F-Stops," The New York Times, Sunday April 25, 2004 p. 31 Aletti, Vince. "The Photo Shows You Cant Miss." Village Voice, May 26-June 1, p. 44 |
| 2003 | Horch, Daniel. "Vik Muniz's Sao Paolo," Art & Auction, November, pp.112-114 Ebony, David; Harris, Jane; Richard, Francis; Schwendener, Martha; Valdez, Sarah; Yablonsky, Linda. "Curve: The Female Nude Now," c. Universe Publishing, New York, NY, ISBN 0-7893-0871-1, pp. 152-3 Menai, Tania, "O Melhor emprego do mundo," Icaro Brasil, August, pp. 28-33 "Art: Just Looking," The New York Sun, February 21-23 2004 Calander, The Buhl Collection, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Ballentine, Sandra. "Bonbon of the Vanities," The New York Times Magazine, November 10, 2002, p. 55 Schwabsky, Barry. "Vik Muniz: Model Pictures," Art on Paper, September/October, pp. 96-97 Herzog, Hans-Michael (Ed.) "La Mirada- Looking at Photographs in Latin America Today," Daros Latin America Collection, Zürich, Switzerland, 2002 ISBN: 3-90559736-5, pp. 41-53 Vogel, Carol. "Academy of Music in the Land of Sweets," The New York Times, Monday, September 30, 2002, p. E5 Demby, Eric, "Dessert Oasis," Time Out New York, September 26- October 3, 2002, p. 25 Fallon, Roberta "The Halls are Alive," Inquirer, August 4, 2002, pp. 14-18 Grosenick, Uta & Burkhard, Riemschneider. "Art Now" published by Taschen, 2002, ISBN: 3-8228-1444-X, pp. 312-315. Tempo, MoMAQNS, New York, June 29-September 9, 2002 Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, by Sylvia Wolf, Andy Grundberg. C. 2002, The Whitney Museum New York, NY. ISBN: 3-7913-2787-9 Celant, Germano, "Arte/Art: Vik Muniz," Interni, May 2002 pp. 188-193 ARTnews, April 2002 Caputo, Kim Zorn, "Vik Muniz," Blind Spot, 10 Year Anniversary Edition, Issue 20 Glueck, Grace. "For Wall Street's Sake: Art to Lure Visitors Downtown," The New York Times, June 14, 2002 McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, May 31, 2002, p. E20 Klaasmeyer, Kelly. "Arsenic and Old Lace," Houston Press, May 16-22, p. 61 Mavrikakis, Nicolas, "Les Rêves Brisés" Voir, March 21-27 Newhall, Edith, "Air Mail," New York, March 4, 2002 Schaffner, Ingrid, "The Unphotographable," Art on Paper, March-April 2002, pp. 58-63 BORUSAN Art Gallery, "Faux/Real," exhibition catalog "Best Regards, Collection NSM VIE/ABN AMRO 1997-2002" Editions du Regard, 2002, p. 29 "Short Stories on Photography: The Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection at the Henry Art Gallery," (Exhibition Catalogue for The Photographic Impulse: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection) c. 2002 The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA ISBN 0-93555840-3 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Annual report, "Acquisition Highlights: South America Past and Present," Boston, MA, p. 22 |
| 2001 | Bembibre, Cecilia, "Vik Muniz," Latinarte Magazine, November/December 2001 Celant, Germano. "Vik Muniz/Ernesto Neto," Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto, BrasilConnects, Venice 2001 Cordeiro, Veronica. "Vik Muniz, Three-dimensional pictures," ARTNEXUS, August-October 2001, p. 40 - p. 43 Dykstra, Jean "Dust to Dust," Art on Paper, March-April 2001, p. 22-23 Gamboni, Dario. "Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art," Reaction Books, London, 2001 Giuliano, Charles. "Media/ Metaphor," NY ARTS, April 2001, p. 65 Glueck, Grace "Remnant" The New York Times, May 2001 Hackett, Regina. "Muniz's works in chocolate are as dandy as candy," Seattle P-1, November 9-15, 2001 Korotkin, Joyce B. "The Things by Themselves: Pictures of Dust. Vik Muniz," NY ARTS, April 2001, p. 82 Newhall, Edith. "Nothing to Sneeze At," Cue Art, February 12, 2001, p. 94 Rose, Cynthia. "Art and Syrup," Seattle Weekly, November 1, 2001 Saltz, Jerry. "Dust to Dust," Village Voice, March 27, 2001, p.75 Schwendener, Martha. "Sweeping Survey," Artforum, January 2001, p. 44 Solomon, Deborah. "Ars Brevis," The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 11, 2001, p.32 Stoddard, Tim. "The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies," Discover, July 2001, p. 90 Zamudio, Raul. "The Thread Unraveled: Contemporary Brazilian Art," El Museo del Barrio, 2001. pp.106-109 |
| 2000 | Aguilar, Nelson. "Brazilian Art in the 90's." Rediscovery Exhibition: Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalogue, 2000. Alleti, Vince. "Best of 2000," Artforum, December 2000. "Follow the Dots: For Muniz, the Medium is the Message," The Village Voice, May 23, 2000. Anton, Saul. "Your 15 minutes are up," TIME OUT NEW YORK, June 1-8, 2000. "A Thousand Words," ARTFORUM, October 2000, p122-123 Baker, Kenneth. "Muniz's Memory,"The San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2000 Cotter, Holland. "Party Time : Inside and Out, Playful Wit Reigns at Skidmore's New Museum," The New York Times, December 22, 2000, p. E 50 Evans, Jason. "The New Up," View Point, September 2000, issue #8 Johnson, Ken. "Vik Muniz," The New York Times, May 26, 2000. Magill, Mark. "Vik Muniz," BOMB, Fall 2000, p. 28-35. "Vik Muniz, Ubu Gallery, Mahoney, Robert. "Vik Muniz, UBU Gallery, New York and Brent Sikkema, New York," Art on Paper, Sept. - Oct. 2000, p. 83. "Marketplace: With Witty Fabrications, Muniz Rears His Head in a Big Way," Art & Auction, June 2000, p. 57. Ramade, Benedict. "Vik Muniz," Parachute 98, 2000 Wageman, Virginia. "Work of Noted Photographer is all about Image," The Honolulu Advertiser, February 13, 2000. Zamudio, Raul. "Vik Muniz: Operations with/in Photography," NY Arts, June 2000. |
| 1999 | Allen, Kathleen. "Muniz's Photos Blur Artistic Reality," Vision 24, June 1999 Crosby, David. "Vik Muniz," Zoom, February 1999 Durant, Regis. "A Little too Self-Evident," and Galassi, Peter. "Natura Pix," from exhibition catalog for Centre National de la photographie, Caisse de Depot et Consignations and Galerie Xippas, Paris Fortes, Márcia. "XXIV São Paulo Biennieal," Frieze, January/February 1999, p.87 Hirsch, Faye. "Rethinking Genres in Contemporary Photography," Art on Paper, January 1999 Linfield, Susie. "Sweet Deception" ART NEWS, February 1999, p. 90 Picard, Charmaine. "Vik Muniz at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago." ArtNexus, August-October, 1999 |
| 1998 | Alleti, Vince. "Choices" The Village Voice, September 29, 1998. Baker, Kenneth. "Muniz Whets the Appetite for Images in Chocolate," The San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1998. Finkel, Jori. "Vik Muniz: photographs" On Paper, July - August 1998, p.47. Gallo, Ruben. "Aperto Brazil," Flash Art, October 1998 Goldberg, Vicky. "Of Fairies, Free Spirits and Outright Frauds" The New York Times, February 1, 1998. "It's a Leonardo? It's a Corot? Well, No, It's Chocolate Syrup," The New York Times, September 25, 1998. Holliday, Taylor. "Vik Muniz, A Closer Look, Some Second Thoughts," The Wall Street Journal, October 20, 1998. Leffingwell, Edward. "Through a Brazilian Lens, Art in America," April 1998 p.78 Markham, Pamela. "The Complete Vik Muniz" Review, October 15, 1998. Miller, Keneth "Sugar Snaps" Life Magazine, March 1998. Senft, Brett. "Vik Muniz, Low-Tech Illusionist" Photo District News, Oct. 1998 Siegel, Katy. "Vik Muniz," Artforum, December, 1998. Stainback, Charles Ashley. Vik Muniz: Seeing is Believing, Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 1998 |
| 1997 | Aletti, Vince. "Organized Confusion" The Village Voice, December 2nd 1997. Aletti, Vince. Voice Choices, New Photography 13, November 5-11 Cotter, Holland. "200 Images Leisurely Chatting" The New York Times, Jan. 31 1997. "New Photography 13" The New York Times, November 7, 1997. Grumberg, Andy. "Sweet Ilusion" Artforum, September 1997. Katz, Vincent. "The Cunning Artificer: An Interview with Vik Muniz," On Paper, Spring 1997. Kismarik, Susan. "Vik Muniz, New Photography" 13 MoMA Magazine, Fall ‘97 Kandel, Susan. "Artful Illusions and Serial Masquerades Spring to Life," Los Angeles Times, April 4, 1997. Kurjakovik, Daniel. " Wesenschau" Kunst Bulletin, January 1997, Zurich. Scott, Whitney. " Must Museum" The New York Post, October 15 1997. Smith, Roberta. "One-Line Drawing," The New York Times, July 11, 1997 Weibel, Peter. Inclusion/Exclusion Exhibition Catalogue. Kunstlerhaus Graz Austria 1997. |
| 1996 | Alleti, Vince. "Choices" The Village Voice, December 3 1996. Bonetti, David. "Vik Muniz at Rena Bransten" San Francisco Examiner, May 10, 1996. Mahoney, Robert. "Vik Muniz, Sugar Children" Time Out New York, December 19 1996. Shales, Ezra. "Vik Muniz" Review Magazine December 1st 1996. Smith, Roberta. "Art in Review" The New York Times, December 13, 1996 |
| 1995 | Alleti, Vince. "Choices" The Village Voice, March 21, 1995 Hagen, Charles. "Mixing Humor With the History of Photography," The New York Times, March 24 1995. Katz, Vincent. "Vik Muniz at Brent Sikkema" Art in America, December 1995. p.98 Mesquita, Ivo. "Panorama da Arte Contemporanea Brazileira. November 1995. Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 1993 | Levin, Kim. "Vik Muniz" In Brief/ The Village Voice, February 16, 1993. Milazzo, Richard. "Vik Muniz, The Wrong Logician" Exhibition Catalogue, October 1993, Grand Salon NYC and Ponte Pietra, Verona, Italy Morin, France. "The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and Projeto Axé," Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, exhibition catalog Vescovo, Marisa. Post Verbum, Tema Celeste, June 1993. "Sound, Forme e Colore Del Suono," Exibition Catalogue, Museum Fur Modern Kunst- Bozen 1993. "Vik Muniz," The New York Times, February 5th, 1993. |
| 1992 | Cotter, Holland. "Three Shows Celebrate The Spirit of Fluxus," The New York Times, October 23, 1992, New York. Hagen, Charles. "The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing," Aperture, Fall 1992 Huitorel, Jean-Marc. "Life Size," Art Press no. 173, October 1992, Paris, France. "Photographie d'une Collection" Caisse des Dépóts et Consignations/ Hazan, Paris, France, p. 112, 113, 171. Jacques, Alison Sarah. "Life Size," Museo per l'arte contemporanea. Luigi Pecci, Exhibition catalogue, July 1992, Italy. Kahn, Wolf. "Connecting Incongruities". Art in America. November, 1992. p.116-121. Perela, Christina. "Vik Muniz", Tema Celeste, Fall 1992, Italian edition. "Life Size", Museo per L'arte Contemperanea Luigi Pecci, Exhibition Catalogue, July 1992, Italy. Tager, Alisa. "Detour", The International House, Exhibition Catalogue, May 1992, New York. "The Encompassing Eye; Photography as Drawing" APERTURE no 125 , Fall 1992, New York. Vescovo, Marisa "Vik Muniz a Torino". La Stampa, April 27, 1992 Italy. |
| 1991 | Jouannais, Jean Yves. "Vik Muniz", Art Press, December 1991 Levin, Kim. "Choices," The Village Voice, April 2, 1991 Lieberman, Rhonda. "Stuttering," Flash Art, April/May 1991. "Traumatic Objects: There's No Place Like Home," exhibition catalogue Gabinete De Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 1991. Barilli, Renato. "Anni Novanta" exhibition catalogue, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Comune di Bologna, Italy. |
| 1990 | Alleti, Vince. "Constructed Illusions," The Village Voice, November 20, 1990. Baker, Kenneth. "Eccentric and Entertaining Pieces,"The San Francisco Chronicle, April 7, 1990. Bonetti, David. "The Inevitability of Vik Muniz." San Francisco Examiner, April 6, 1990. Cyphers, Peggy. Arts Magazine, May 1990. p.112. Faust, Gretchen. "Vik Muniz," Arts Magazine, May, 1990. Lieberman, Rhonda. "Vik Muniz at Stux", Arts Magazine, January 1990. Melrod, George. "Vik Muniz, Stux Gallery, New York" Sculpture. Nov./ Dec. 1990 Rosenburg, Barry. Exhibition Catalogue: "Assembled," April 1990. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art |
| 1989 | Collins, Trisha & Milazzo, Richard. "Double Talk. Pricarity and Balance" Tema Celeste International Art Review, N. 22-23, October-December 1989, pp. 56-7 Decter, Joshua. "Vik Muniz" Exhibition Catalogue, Stux Gallery, New York."Vik Muniz At Stux," ARTS MAGAZINE, March 1989, p. 96. Morgan, Stuart. "Vik Muniz At Prato." FRIEZE MAGAZINE, # 7 Princenthal, Nancy. "Vik Muniz at Stux," Art in America, April 1989, p.226 Roberts, Lisa. "Expatriate art. How Brazilian is it?" POLYESTER, Vol 2 #8 Wilson, Beth. Catalogue Essay, October 1989, Stux Gallery, New York |
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Ball State University, Muncie, IN The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Caisse des Depots et Consignatións, Paris Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, IT The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Hawaii Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Daros Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Fundação Horizontes, MG, Brazil The Jewish Museum, New York, NY George Eastman House, Rochester, NY The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN International Pacific College, Kobe City, Japan International Center of Photography, New York, NY IVAN Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain Israel Museum, Jerusalem LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA The Menil Collection, Houston, TX The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, OH The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Museo Bibliografico Luis Angel, Bogotá, Spain Museo de Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janiero, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Pãulo, Brazil Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC The National Museum of Art, Osaka City, Japan Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL New York Public Library, New York, NY The Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH Prudential Foundation, Newark, NJ The Rhode Island School of Design Modern Art Museum Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY Roseum, Malmo, Sweden The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Luis, MI The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA The Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS The Tate Gallery, London, UK The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK University Art Museum, State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, NY University of Virginia Art Museum, UVA, Charlottesville, VA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN The West Collection at SEI Investments, Oaks, PA The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan AWARDS Honored at CITYarts’ 40th Anniversary sponsored by Dr. Miriam & Sheldon G. Adelson, Candia Fisher, Winston Fisher, and chaired by Jane Holzer. New York, NY. 2008 Society for News Design Annual Creative Competition Award of Excellence in the category of Magazine Cover Design for the cover of The New York Times Magazine. 2007 National Artist Award granted by the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO. 2005 Premio Villa de Madrid de Fotografía “Kaulak" 2005, awarded by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Madrid ”Kaulak” Prize of Photography 2004, Área de Gobierno de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Spain FILM/VIDEO |
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| 2002 | The Egg Show: episode Inspiration Produced and Broadcasted at WNET, Channel Thirteen, New York. |
| 2001 | Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz Mixed Green Production (54 min.) Director and Producer: Anne-Marie Russel |
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