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Cildo Meireles    (Brazilian, 1948)

 Cildo Meireles - Atlas (Photographs) h: 62 x w: 50 x d: 3.5 in / h: 157.5 x w: 127 x d: 8.9 cm
Cildo Meireles
Atlas 2007
 
 Cildo Meireles - Babel (Installations) h: 197 x w: 118 in / h: 500.4 x w: 299.7 cm
Cildo Meireles
Babel 2001
 
 Cildo Meireles - Strictu (Installations)
Cildo Meireles
Strictu 1999
 

Biography
1948 Born in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Exhibitions
2011 Interventions in the Landscape, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2011 “A Terrible Beauty is Born,” 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
2011 “Art and Confrontation in Latin America: 1910-2010,” Palacio de Bellas Artes and Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 “Amazonia, A Arte,” Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil
2010 “Os 70’s,” Progetti, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2010 “First and Last, Notes on the Monument,” Galería Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2010 “Contemporary Art from the Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2010 “Snapshots of Tourism,” Gallery Augusta, HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
2010 “Like Tears in Rain,” Palacio das Artes – Fabrica de Talentos, Porto, Portugal
2010 “185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York, New York
2009 “Los Impoliticos,” Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
2009 “Grito e Escuta,” 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2009 “À Contre-Corps / Countering the Body,” Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
2009 “Brazilian Summer.Art & the City,” Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands
2009 “On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2009 “Making Worlds,” 53rd Italian Pavilion, International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2009 "A Mancha Humana / The Human Stain,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2009 “Unbuilt Roads,” Based on the book Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealised Projects, Hatje Cantz (1997) edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa, e-flux project space, New York, New York
2009 “NÓS,” Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009 “The Collection,” Siobhan Davies Dance Studio & Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008 Cildo Meireles, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (solo)
2008 When Lives Become Form – Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960 – Present, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Trazos Humanos [Human Traces], University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
2008 Arte‚ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
2008 No Es Neutrala – Daros Latinamerica Collection, Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
2007 New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2007 Face to Face, The Daros Collections, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Arte para Crianças [Art for Children], Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007 Transactions, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
2007 Time Present Time Past: Highlights from 20 Years of the International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey. Exhibition concurrent with the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
2007 6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2007 “New Economy,” Artists Space, New York, New York
2007 The Disappeared, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
2006 Cildo Meireles: Babel,Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
2006 Seducoes: Valeska Soares, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto,h Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, Switzerland
2006 Contrabando,Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005 Populism,Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2005 20 Desarranxos: Panorama da arte brasileira,Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain
2005 Algum Desenho [1963-2005],Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
2005 Espaço Brasil, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
2005 Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970,Tate Modern, London, England
2005 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2005 Paralela 2004, São Paulo Biennial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Forms 1940s-70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
2004 Occasion, Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 Descala and Strictu, Galerie Lelong, New York
2004 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
2003 Musee dfArt Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
2003 Layers of Brazilian Art, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Iowa
2003 Uneasy Space, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 The Paper Sculpture Show,Sculpture Center, New York
2003 Poetic Justice: 8th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2003 Strictu, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2002 XI Documenta, Kassel, Germany
2002 Desenhistas coloristas, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2002 Aquisicões essenciais, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
2001 Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas
2001 'Minimalism Past And Presence' Galerie Lelong, New York, June 26, - August 17, 2001
2001 'Versiones del Sur: Eztetyka del sueno' Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2000
2000 South Korea Biennial, Korea
2000 'Vivências (Life Experiences)' Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, September 15 – December 22, 2000
2000 'Making Choices' Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 Worthless, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000 'Cildo Meireles' (Retrospective organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NewYork.) Museu Moderna Arte de São Paulo, July 13 – August 20. Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5 – December 2.
2000 'Cildo Meireles' O Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, December 2000.
2000 'Cildo Meirelesh' Kunstverein, Koln Germany
2000 Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP
1999 Retrospective, New Museum New York, NY
1999 'Ku Kka Ka Kka' Galerie Lelong, New York
1999 'Cildo Meireles' New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1999 The Queens Musuem of Art New York, NY
1999 Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980sh organized by Jane Farver, Queens Museum of Art, NY; traveling to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, Miami Art Museum, FL.
1999 Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
1998 XXIV Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998 The Garden of the Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen
1998 Camelô, Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP
1997 You Are Here, Royal College of Art London
1997 'Cildo Meireles' (retrospective organized by the IVAM, Spain) Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
1996 Retrospectiva, Museu de Arte Do Porto Portugal
1992 Metros I, Galeira Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP
1992 America, Bride of the Sun, Musee Reel de Beaux Arts D'Antuerpe, Belgie
1990 'Projects' The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1990 Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
1990 The Retorical Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY
1990 Projects, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1989 'Through and Lezartes' The Kannal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
1989 'Les Magiciens de la Terre' Centre Georges Pompidou, La Villette, Paris, France
1989 XX Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil
1987 Non Magic World, Museum of Contemporary Art São Paulo, SP
1986 Cinza (Gray), Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP
1981 The Sermon of the Mountain: Fiat Lux, Museum of Moderna Art Medellin, Colombia
1981 Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP
1976 International Actulity, Biennale of Venice
1975 Eureka/Blindhotland, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, RJ
1970 Information, MOMA New York, NY
1967 Museu De Art Moderna Bahia, Salvador
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