Vita



1964

 

Born in Rio de Janeiro

 

 

1994-1997

Courses at the Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

 

1994-1997

Escola de Artes Visuais Pargua Lage, Rio de Janeiro

 

Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro

Solo Exhibitions



2010

Hayward Gallery, London

Ernesto Neto: Navedenga
Museum of Modern Art, New York


2009

Variations
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich

Ernesto Neto - A Culpa Civilizada

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes


2008

 

...Ai...ai...
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
 

1/3
Fondazione Volume!, Rome
 

While nothing happens
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (catalogue)
 

Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid

 

 

2007

 

From Sebastian to Olivia
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
 

MIMOCA – Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa

 

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo

 

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego

 

 

2006

 

O Abraço do Tempo...Jazz (with Carlos Belvilacqua)
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo


From What We Are Made, Made, Of Of

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

How to put it up, dulcieneia!
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich

The Malmö Experience
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (catalogue)

Forum 57: Luisa Lambri / Ernesto Neto
CMOA - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

In / Out
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

Leviathan Thot
35. Festival d’Automne, Panthéon, Paris (catalogue)

 

 

2005

 

There is Nothing Else to Be Seen but the World
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis

Agora bolas
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

Tractatus / Deuses
Sigmund-Freud-Museum, Vienna

O Corpo onde não há
34. Festival d’Automne, Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris

Domain de Kerguéhennec – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan

 

 

2004

 

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

 

Four Artists and I

Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

 

Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte 

 

Citoplasma e Organóides

Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro

 

Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo

 

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

 


2003

 

The Silent Cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

 

Ernesto Neto / Rivane Neuenschwander

Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife

 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

 

 

2002

 

Les blocs du plaisir

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

 

Passing Time, Passing Space

Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus

 

Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales

 

Directions
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (catalogue)

 

Genealogy of Life

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart (catalogue)

 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

 

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalogue)

 

 

2001

 

Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

 

Horizonte de eventos

Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro (catalogue)

 

A paisagem do corpo / O corpo da paisagem

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (catalogue)

 

Matrix, 190: A maximum minimum time space between us and the Parsimonious Universe

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley

 

Only the amoebas are happy

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

 

O Casamento: Lili, Neto. Lito e os loucos

Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janerio


Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

 


2000

 

Pensamentos Emocionais

Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid

 

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (catalogue)

 

Accontec num fim de tarde

Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo

 

Sister Naves

Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Ohio

 

Ernesto Neto / Andy Goldsworthy

SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe

 

Stella Nave
University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester


1999

 

Nhó Nhó Nave

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)

 

James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels

 

 

1998

 

poff, poff, poff

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrilo Gil, Mexico City

 


1997

 

Esculturas

Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto

 

Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

 

Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo

 

Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasília

 

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica

 


1996

 

Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid

Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

 

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica

 

Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago

 

Espacio 204, Caracas

 

 

1994

Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo (catalogue)


1993

Quase Desenhos
Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro

 


1992

 

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo

 

 

1991

Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro

Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo

 

 

1990

Galeria Millan, São Paulo

Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro


1989

Galeria Macunaíma, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro


1988

 

Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro

Group Exhibitions



2010

connect:
A Gentil Carioca
ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin

Die 60s in Brasilien

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna


2009

AFTER UTOPIA - a view on Brazilian contemporary art
Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato

Sector plen air
art forum berlin 2009, Berlin

 

ANABASIS. RITUALS OF HOMECOMING
Ludwik Grohman Villa, Lodz

Don't stare at the sun
Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun

Brazil Contemporary - Contemporary art, architecture and visual culture
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Violence

Haife Museum of Art, Haifa


2008

 

When Lives Become Form
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 

Held together with Water
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul 

Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
 

PRIVATE PASSIONS, PUBLIC VISIONS
MARCO, Vigo

Poetica da Percepcao
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro

Call it what you like!

Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg

autoreverse

Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich

Sammlung als Aleph – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (catalogue)

 

Psycho Buildings
Hayward Gallery, London

The implications of the image
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City

 

 

2007

 

Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra

Space for your Future
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

 

„To Be Continued...“
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm

 

Melting Point
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

 

Don’t Look
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley

Acting in Utopia
Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz

The Hours: Visual Art of Contemporary Latinamerica
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

 

 

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (catalogue)

 

Reverence
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
 

Held together with water
MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna (catalogue)

 

 

2006

 

Coleção MAMAN
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife

Surprise Surprise
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Carbonic Anhydride
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)

Seduções. Valeska Soares, Ernesto Neto, Cildo Meireles
Daros Exhibitions, Löwenbräu-Areal, Zurich

The Grand Promenade
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens, Athens

 

Chers amis
Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Barbican Art Gallery, London; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (catalogue)

Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton

3. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken

reverence
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill

Choque Cultural na Fortes Vilaça - Fortes Vilaça na Choque Cultural
Galeria Fortes Vilaça / Choque Cultural, São Paulo

Abrigo poético: Diálogos com Ligia Clark
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro

 

 

2005

 

Troca Brasil

The Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland

 

The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America    

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 

150 Works of Art

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

 

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)

 

Contained

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

 

Drawing from the Modern: 1975 – 2005

Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

 

Collecció Fundació La Caixa: 20 Years with Contemporary Art. New Acquisitions

Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona

 

Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives between Reality and Fantasy

TB A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

 

5th Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre

 

Extreme Abstraction

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

 

Educação, Olha!

A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro

 

A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi

Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro

 

Fairy Tales Forever

AROS - Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (catalogue)

 

J’en rêve

Fondation Cartier, Paris

 

Bresil = Foot Art

Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris

 

Desenhos: A – Z / Drawings A – Z

Colecção Maderia Corporate Services, Porta 33, Funchal

 

20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira

Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo

 


2004

 

The Snow Show
Kemi / Rovaniemi, Lapland

Brasil: Body Nostalgia
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Perception of Space
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville (catalogue)

Everything is connected he, he, he
Astrup Fearnley – Museum for Modern Art, Oslo

Polyphony: Emerging Resonances
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

The Real Royal Trip
Patio Herreriano Valladolid – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid

Bazar de Verão
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are Reinvented in the Internet Age
The Logan Collection, Vail (catalogue)

A Contemporary Woman: Disorientation of Beauty
De Pont - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg (as part of the manifestation Lustwarande 04)

Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston
The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)

Bedford Gallery Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures
Boise Art Museum, Boise (catalogue)


2003

 

A Nova Geometria
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

Nouvelle Présentation des Collections Contemporaines du Musée National d'Art Moderne
Centre Pompidou, Paris

A Simple Plan
James Cohan Gallery, New York

Dreams and Conflicts: Dictatorship of the Viewer

50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Imagination: On Perception in Art
Steirischer Herbst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz

The Real Royal Trip
P.S.1 – Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City

From Dust to Dusk: Art between light and dirt
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen

Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston (catalogue)

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures
International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita (catalogue)


2002

 

Shape
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Forever
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

poT
2nd Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool

Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

Matéria Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba

Sleeping, Dreaming, Awakening
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba (catalogue)

Caminhos do Contemporâneo
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro

Retalhar 2002
Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo

The Drawing Center’s 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition Lottery
The Drawing Center, New York

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond; AXA Gallery, New York; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale (catalogue)

The Inside is the Outside
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

Skin, Soul
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

Archivo Pons Artxiboa
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturnuea, Donostia–San–Sebastian

Insieme / Together
Museo Nazionale di Archittetura, Ferrara
 

 

2001

 

Plateau of Humankind
49th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (catalogue)

Space-Jack
Yokohama Museum Art Gallery, Tokyo

Vantage Point
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (catalogue)

Surface
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

El Final Del Eclipse
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; Palacio de Los Condes de Gabia, Salas Caja General e Instituto de América, Granada; Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz

Espelho Cego
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro

TRANS>editions
Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles

The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)

Before Reflection Begins
List Art Center, Brown University, Providence

Bodyspace
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Brazil: Body and Soul
Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (catalogue)

Short Stories
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
 


2000

 

Charles Long / Ernesto Neto / Siobhan Hapaska
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (catalogue)

OO
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

 

Outros 500
University Gallery, University of Essex, Essex (catalogue)

 

La Répétition: La Tête dans les Nuages
Villa Arson Nice – Le Centre d’Art, Nice

Sense and Sensuality: Body and Soul in Pictures
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

The Invisible Touch
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck

Investigações: O trabalho do artista
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo

Brasil 500 Anos
Artes Visuais, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo

Carnegie International 1999/2000
CMOA - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Trace
1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool

Desde el Cuerpo
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas

Os 90
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro

SKIN
Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan
 

 

1999

Raumkörper: Netze und andere Gebilde
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalogue)

Amnesia
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá

The Best of Season
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield

Zero G: When Gravity Becomes Form
Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford

La Metamorfisis de las Manos
Irma Aresstizabal, Mar Del Plata

A Vuelta com los Sentidos
Casa de America, Madrid

Wonderland
Saint Louis Museum, Saint Louis (catalogue)

Drawings
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-99

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston

Versiones del Sur
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

 


1998

 

Arte Contemporãnea Brasileira no Núcleo Histórico
24th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo (catalogue)

11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

Camargo Vilaça Bis 46
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo

Poéticas da Cor
Centro Cultural da Light, Rio de Janeiro

Puntos Cardinales
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas

Amnesia
Track 16 Gallery; Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica

Corpos em Trânsito
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto

Contemporânea
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas


1997

 

Loose Threads
Serpentine Gallery, London

Bienal del Barrio
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Carácas

Material Immaterial
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Así Está la Cosa: Arte objeto y instalación de Iberoamerica
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, México City

Best of the Season: Selected Works from 1996-97
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield

Die anderen Modernen
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Sueños Concretos
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota

Novas Aquisições
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro


1996

 

Transformal
Wiener Secession, Vienna

Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami

Sin Fronteras / Arte Latinoamericano Actual
Museo Alejandro Otero, Carácas

Pequenas Mãos
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro

Centro Cultural Alumni, São Paulo

Transparências
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro

Escultura Plural
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador

Summer Show
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

 


1995

 

The Drawing Center, New York

The Education of the Five Senses, White Columns, Nova Iorque Anos Oitenta: O Palco da Diversidade
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro

Country Code
Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York

The Five Senses
White Columns, New York

Entre o Desenho e a Escultura
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo

Libertaris Libertinos
Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro

1st Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju

Mostra da Gravura
Solar do Barão, Curitiba

Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo

 


1994

 

Escultura Carioca
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro

 

Espaço Namour, São Paulo

 

A Espessura do Signo
Carmeliter Kloster, Frankfurt/M.

 


1993

 

Brasil Hoy
Galeria Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogotá

 

Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo

 


1992

 

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo 

 


1991

 

Brasil, la Nueva Generación
Fundación Museu Bellas Artes de Carácas, Carácas

 

Panorama da Arte Brasileira Atual
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo

 

Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo

 

Formas Tridimensionais: a questão orgânica
Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba

 

6th Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo


1990

 

Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas
Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília

 

 

1989

 

11th Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Rio de Janeiro

 

A Ordem Desfeita
110 Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro

 

O Pequeno Infinito e o Grande Circunscrito
Galeria Arco, São Paulo

 


1988

 

EAV-Processo n°738.765-2
IBAC – Brazilian Institut of Art and Culture, Rio de Janeiro