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Vik Muniz Biography
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1961 |
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Born in São Paulo, Brazil
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1983 |
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Relocated to New York, NY
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2007 |
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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
Guest Speaker. Mellon Foundation's Collaborative Workshop in Contemporary Photography. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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Honored at CITYarts’ 40th Anniversary, New York, NY
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Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012
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Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore
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2010
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Rummaging in the rubbish: waste and recycling in Contemporary Art, Center of Art and Nature, Huesca, Spain
Leonard Drew and Vik Muniz, Sikkema, Jenkins and Co., New York, NY
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2009
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Vik Muniz & Janaina Tschape, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan
Galerie Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
Ingres et les Modernes, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
L’Invention d’un monde, collection of La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Hydra School Project Artwalk, Hydra, Greece
Fragile- Terres d’empathie, Musée d’art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
AMERICAS LATINAS – las fatigas del querer, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Une image peut en cacher une autre (Archimboldo, Dali, Raetz), Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz - Rebus, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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2008
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Vik Muniz, Sikkema, Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
Art(e)merica Latina, été culturel, St. Tropez, St. Tropez, France
Wetherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
TRANSactions Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
This is Vik Muniz, CB Collection Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
Vik Muniz, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
Vik Muniz, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Guangzhou Triennial-Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
To Russia with Love, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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2007
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Vik Muniz: A Survey, Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
The Beautiful Earth, Galerie Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
A Terra e a Gente, Museum of Electricity, Lisbon, Portugal
Vik Muniz, New Manezh, Moscow, Russia
Pictures of People, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
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2006
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Vik Muniz: Reflex, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, NY (solo)
Pictures of Pigment. Xippas Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
Vik Muniz, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY (solo)
BulFinch’s Recycling Yard: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Vik Muniz: Remastered Selections from the West Collection, Gadsden Arts Center, Quincy, FL (solo)
Into Me/Out of Me, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, Roebling Hall, NY
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s- 2000’s: Selection of the Missumi Collection, Sompo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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2005
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Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
Divas e Monstros, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brasil
Vik Muniz. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Prisons After Piranesi, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Die Akte Weimar, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
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2004
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Moving Outlines, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Universiy of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland
Fotos de Revista., Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Rebus, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Hair: Untangling a Social History, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Home Sweet Home, Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
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2002 - 2003
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Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran’s Photograph Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Museo D’Art Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Candy Bam, special project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY
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2002
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Reparte, CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (solo)
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Laberint de Vik Muniz, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Vik Muniz: Model Pictures, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (solo)
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Tempo, MoMAQNS, New York, NY
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2001
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Erotic, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (solo)
Reparte, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (solo)
Museum de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Galeria Camargo Viaço, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Clouds, a skywriting project, Creative Time, New York, NY (solo)
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Fortaleza, Brazil (solo)
The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
49th Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
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2000
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2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: Body and Soul, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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1999
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After Warhol, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie JGM, Paris, France
Tate Gallery, London, England
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
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1998
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XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Seeing is Believing, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (traveled Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY)
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1997
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New Photography XIII, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1996
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Wesenschau: Disingenuous Images, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
The Best of Life, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY (solo)
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1995
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Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Wine Pictures, Galeria Camargo Vilaga, São Paulo, Brazil
Panorama de Arte Contemporanea Brasiliera, Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
Mostra America, Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
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1994
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Galeria Claudio Bartello, Turino, Italy
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1993
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Sound, Museo de Arte Moderna, Bolezano, Italy
Equivalents, PontPietra Gallery, Verona, Italy (solo)
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1992
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Diversité Latino Américaine, Galerie 1900/2000, Paris, France
Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg
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1991
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Galerie Claudine Papillan, Paris, France
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1989
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Fluxus and Friend, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, NY
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1988
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Stux Gallery, New York, NY
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
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Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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| Literature |
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2005
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Muniz, Vik. Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer. New York: Aperture, 2005.
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2004
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Muniz, Vik. Natura Pictrix: Essays and Interviews on Photography. New York: Edgewise Press, 2004.
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| Links to further information |
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