2021
Time-out. Of Breaks and Moments of Awakening
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg
2020
Bodyscapes
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Songs in the Dark
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2019
Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg
Deichtorhallen - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Happy
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale
The Corcoran Legacy Collection
University Katzen Museum of Art, Washington D.C.
2018
Urban forest
Museum Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art of Sicily, Palermo
Suspension: A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture (1918 – 2018)
Palais d’Iéna, Paris
Arte Para Sentir
Caixa Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
Der Duft der Bilder – Werke der colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona
Kunst- und Kulturstiftung, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
Spacemakers and roomshakers
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
TISSAGE TRESSAGE - quand la sculpture défile
Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Featured Works
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
2017
Sculpture, Painting and Video
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
Enjoy. Art meets Amusement
Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
Floating Worlds 14th Lyon Biennale
Various locations, Lyon
Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Art from the Museum of Modern Art São Paulo
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
BIENALSUR: International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America
Various venues, South America
Art and Space
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Vive Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale
Arsenale and Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice
Sentido del Olfato
Galería Elvira González, Madrid
Infinite Garden. From Giverny to Amazonia
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
2016
Brasil, Beleza?!
museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague
Lange Voorhout, The Hague
Political Intent and Beyond Limits,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Generosity. The Art of Giving
National Gallery, Sternberg Pallace, Prague
2015
Uma Coleção Particular
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
Wie Raum wird
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Station to Station
Barbican, London
Made in Brasil
Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro
Possibilities of the Object. Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Belle Haleine - The scent of art
Museum Tinguely, Basel
Transfer Exercises: 9915 Collections
Centro de Arte, Alcobendas
2014
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influences on Modern Architecture
Marta Herford, Herford (catalogue)
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (traveled to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, 2015)
Beyond and Between
Leeum, Samsung Museum, Seoul
Simple Shapes
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris (catalogue)
do it Moscow
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
The Five Senses
Scottdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottdale
2013
Permission To Be Global: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami;
traveled to:
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (catalogue)
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Brasiliana. Installationen von 1965 bis heute
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
Antigravity
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
Sobre Papel / On Paper
Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres (catalogue)
El Arte del Presente. Colección Helga de Alvear
Centrocentro, Madrid
Spun. Adventures in Textiles. Material World
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Travessias 2
Arte Contemporanea na Mare, Rio de Janeiro
Shelter And Land: Art and Society in Brazil
MAR - Museo de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The insides are on the outside
Casa de Vidro by Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo
Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah
2012
Arte e sociedade no Brasil
MAR - Museu d Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Food
Musée Ariana, Geneva
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh;
traveled from:
ZKM, Karlsruhe
1st Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi
Sculptures
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Open Spaces / Secret Places
Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg (catalogue)
Fruits of Passion
Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art
The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (catalogue)
SAMMEN / TOGETHER
Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
Von Sinnen
Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel (catalogue)
Play With Me. Interactive Installations
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
Wide Open School
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Es gibt... / There is...
b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur (catalogue)
11 Oncena Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
Abwehr. Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag
Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon
Art Foundation Mallorca Collection. Special Edition
CCA, Andratx/Mallorca
El Panal / The Hive
Trienal Poli / Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico
Matters of Fact
Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson
SuperBodies
3rd Hasselt Triennial, Hasselt
Foreign Excursions
McKee Gallery, New York
2011
A Rua (The Street)
Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, Antwerp
Kunst-Stoff. Textilien in der Kunst seit 1960
Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe
Ordem e progresso
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
Pandemonium
Göteborg International Biennial Of Contemporary Art, Gothenburg
Spaceship Earth
Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun
Biomorph! Hans Arp im Dialog mit aktuellen Künstlerpositionen
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
Vestígios de Brasilidade
Santander Cultural, Recife
Private / Corporate VI
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin
2010
Art Foundation Mallorca
Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx/Mallorca
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Passages. Travels in Hyperspace
LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon
29th Biennale São Paulo, São Paulo
The New Décor
Hayward Gallery, London;
traveled to:
The Garage, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Capturing Dimensions
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
Communication Networks
City Art Museum, Ljubljana
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
Silent Writings
Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris
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/Main
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
