Vik Muniz
Born 1961 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works in Brooklyn,NY, USA
selected solo exhibition
2007 Baltic Center, Level 3 Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2007 Vik Muniz: Reflex, P.S. 1. Queens, NY
2007 Vik Muniz Reflex. Museum of Contemporary Art, Montréal,
Canada Fortes Vilaca Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007 Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 Vik Muniz: Reflex, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
(Traveling - Catalogue)
2006 Bulfinch's Recycling Yard: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk,
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Sala Amos Salvaldor, Logrono, Spain
2005 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2005 Vik Muniz: Divas & Monsters, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil,
Sao Paolo, Brazil
2004 Rebus, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Retratos de Revista, Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Pictures of Magazines, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
2004 Gallery Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
2004 Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
2004 University of South Florida, East Gallery, Tampa, FL
2003-04 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain (Catalogue)
2003 MACRO-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
2003 Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2003 Marabini Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2003 Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003 Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 Galleria Cardi ,Milano Italy
2002 The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2002 CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Bolder, CO
2002 Pictures of Color, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Vik Muniz, Model Pictures, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2002 Earthworks, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Douglas Lawing, Houston, TX
2002 Pictures of Air, Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London, UK
2002 Laberints, Spai 13, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2002 CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2001 Seeing is Believing, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2001 The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust, Michael Hue Williams
Fine Art London
2001 The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2001 Reparte, Atlanta Colege of Art Gallery, Woodruff Art Center
2001 Traveling to the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
¨ Seattle
2001 Seeing is Believing, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001 Seeing is Believing, Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife, Brazil
2001 Funcacao Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
2001 Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001 Clayton Days, Espaco Cine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001 Vik Muniz, Homenagem ao Centenario de JK Museu da Pampulha,
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2001 49.Biennale di Venezia, Brazilian Pavillion and Museo di
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2001 Renos Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
2001 The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust,
Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London, UK
2001 Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Pictures of Ink, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Earthworks, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Photographs" and Personal Articles, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
2000 The Invisible Object, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000 Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Foundation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000 Musee de l'Elysee Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2000 Vik Muniz, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery,
Saratoga Springs, NY
2000 Clayton Days, The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
selected group exhibition
2007 Imaginary Prisons: G.B. Piranesi & Vik Muniz,
National Gallery of Victoria Victoria, Australia
2007 TRANSactions Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art,
La Jolla, CA.
2007 Traveling to: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester,
2007 NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
2007 Wetherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina.Greensboro
2006 Busy going Crazy: Collection Syvio Perlstein-
2006 Art & Photographie de Dada a aujourd'hui, La Maison Rouge,
Foundation Antoine de Galbert
2006 Before the Camera Remaking Reality and the Make-Believe,
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
2006 Paralela, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira,
Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brasil
2006 Le Noir Est Une Couleur, Hommage vivant a Aime Maeght,
Fondation Marguerite et Aime Maeght, Saint-Paul, France
2006 Football et art contemporain .Musée Géo Charles, Echirolles,
France
2006 Rendons à Cézanne ce qui, Galerie d'art du Conseil Général,
Aix-en-Provence, France
2006 Figures de l'acteur, le paradoxe du comédien,
Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
2006 Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 MOMA, NY
2006 Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale,
Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston, ME
2006 The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fúbol, Roebling Hall,
Chelsea
2006 Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960's- 2000's: Selection of the Missumi Collection
Sompo Museum. Tokyo, Japan
2006 Transformer: A traveling exhibition of contemporary artworks
from the West Collection, Main Line Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Certain Encounters Daros Latinamerica Collection. Morris and
Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 Inventive Fashion Photographs: Chuck Close,
Annie Leibovitz and Vik Muniz, Danzinger Projects, NY
2006 Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, SP, Brasil
2006 Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture,
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Connected –Unconnected, The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shanon
Co. Leitrim, Ireland
2006 Visitonair 47 Taste. Visionaire Gallery, NY
2006 Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain,
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2006 Eretica: Trascendenza e profano nell'arte contemporanea,
Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palermo
2005 Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection,
Tate, Liverpool
2005 Erotica-Os Sentidos na Arte, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil,
São Paulo, Brazil
2005 The Hours: Selection of the Daros Collection, Irish Museum of
Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland
2005 Vik Muniz and Laurent Millet: Illusions et machines a images,
l’Hotel des Arts-Centre Mediterraneen d’Art, Toulon, France
2005 Overhead/Underfoot: The Topograghical Perspective in
Photography Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005 Human Landscapea: permanent collection of the CAC Malaga,
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, CAC, Malaga, Spain
2005 Revolution And Commerce: The Legacy of Korda’s
Portrait of Che Guevara, UCR/California Museum of Photography,
2005 Main Line Collects: Distinctive Choices, Main Line Art Center,
Harverford, PA
2005 In Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Allen G.
Thomas Jr. Collection North Carolina Museum of Art
2005 Surfaces Paradise: Vik Muniz, Thomas Ruff and Gary Carsley,
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2005 Cloud Images, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2005 Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, PaceWildenstein
2005 The Other Mainstream: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley
Weithorn Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2005 The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Fotographia! Arte 2005: Latin American Photography,
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
2005 Material Matters. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Cornell University Ithaca, NY
2005 Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, CA
selected public collection
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, IN
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Banco de Espana, Madrid, Spain
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
Caisse Des Depots et Consignations, France
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Cabildo De Gran Carnaria, Canary Island, Spain
Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm, SC, Mexico City
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Daros Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Foundation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fnac Fonds Nacionale d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fundacao Horizontes, Minas Gerais, Brazil
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
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
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
IVAN Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
List Center, MIT, Cambridge,MA
Los Angeles County Museum, CA
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
La Maison Europenne de La Photographie, Paris, France
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, OH
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Museu Bibliografico Luis Angel, Bogota
Museo de Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
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
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH
Prudential Foundation, Newark, NJ
The Rhode Island School of Design Modern Art Museum, Providence, RI
Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY
Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
Spencer Museum of Art, university of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany, NY
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The West Collection at SEI
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanasawa, Japan