VIK MUNIZ
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1961, São Paulo, Brazil.
Lives and works in New York City and Rio de Janeiro.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Vik Muniz. Mauritshuis, the Hague, Netherlands. June 9-September 4.
Vik Muniz. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. February 28, 2015 – May 29, 2016.
2015
Vik Muniz: Album. Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, China, January 16th – March 4th
Vik Muniz: Album. Xippas Gallery, Paris, France. June 6th – July 31st
Vik Muniz: Poetics of Perceptions. Lowe Art Museum, Miami. February 7th – April 19th,
Vik Muniz: Poetics of Perceptions. Taubman Museum of Art, VA. June 13-September 12, 2015.
Vik Muniz: Mas Acá de la Imagen. Museo de La Universidad Tres de Febrero- Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 21, 2015
Vik Muniz: Pictures of Anything -Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Metropole. November 2015
2014
Vik Muniz: Poetics of Perception. Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia. January 31st – April 14th, 2014.
Vik Muniz: Mas Acá de la Imagen. Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC). Lima, Peru. January 23rd – April 13th, 2014.
Vik Muniz. Sikkema Jenkins, New York, New York. April 10th – May 10th, 2014.
Vik Muniz: Pictures of Anything. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. March 27th – July 21st, 2014.
Vik Muniz: Mas Acá de la Imagen. The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito. May 24th – July 31st, 2014
Vik Muniz: The Size of the World. Santander Cultura Brasil. May 21 to August 10, 2014
Vik Muniz: Album. Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
Vik Muniz: Pictures of Anything. Long Museum, Shanghai, China, September 21 – November 1, 2014
Vik Muniz: Mas Acá de la Imagen. Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro, September 10 – October 11, 2014
Vik Muniz: Small. Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo October 24th – November 29, 2014
2013
Vik Muniz. Clayton Days | Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz. The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July 13 – October 27.
Vik Muniz. Museo Banco de la República. Bogatá, Colombia. July 31 – October 28.
Vik Muniz. Nara Roesler Gallery. São Paulo, Brazil. April 2 – May 5.
2012
Vik Muniz. VERSO. St. Moritz Art Masters 2012. Protestant Church, St. Moritz, Switzerland. August 24 – September 2.
Vik Muniz. Ben Brown Fine Arts. Hong Kong, China. November 21 – February 22, 2013.
Vik Muniz. Elba Benitez Gallery, Madrid, Spain. November 15 -January 16, 2013.
Vik Muniz – Pictures of Magazine 2. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, September 20 – November 10.
VIK. Centro de Arte Contemporánea de Málaga, Málaga, Spain, September 7 – December 2. (traveling exhibition)
VantagePoint X/Vik Muniz. Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, North Carolina. August 25 – April 28, 2013.
Vik Muniz – Pictures of Magazine 2. Xippas Gallery, Paris. France. June 9 – July 28.
2011
Vik Muniz. Le Musé Imaginaire. Collection Lambert en Avignon, Hôtel de Caumont & Église des Célestins, Avignon, France. December 11 – June 15, 2012.
Vik Muniz. Matrici italiane. 1º Festival di Cultura Brasiliana, Galleria Cortona, Palazzo Pamphilj, Rome, Italy. November 25 – December 16.
VIK. Museu Colecção Berardo. Lisbon, Portugal. September 21 – December 31. (traveling exhibition)
Vik Muniz. Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. September 9 – October 15.
Vik Muniz 3D. Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo – ECCO, Brasília, Brazil. June 13 – August 21.
Relicário. Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil. March 1 – April 24.
Vik Muniz.Beyond the Boundary between Celebrated Painting and Photo. Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea. February 11 – March 13.
2010
Vik Muniz. Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay. December 15 – April 5, 2011.
Vik Muniz. Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. October 22 – November 20.
Relicário. Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. October 13 – December 5.
Vik Muniz. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California. September 9 – October 23.
Verso. Galeria Fortes Vilaça. São Paulo, Brazil. July 29 – September 11.
Vik Muniz. Museum of the University of Fortaleza/Unifor, Fundação Edson Queiroz, Ceará, Brazil. April 16 – August 8.
Leonard Drew and Vik Muniz. Sikkema Jenkins and Co. New York, NY. January 30 – March 6.
2009
Vik Muniz. Galerie Xippas, Paris, France. December 12, 2009 – February 13, 2010.
Vik Muniz: The 8th Photo Festival, Gana Art Center, Korea. August 6 – 31.
Vik Muniz. Museu Inimá de Paula. Minas Gerais, Brazil. August 21 – November 2.
Identity V. Curated by Hiroshi Minamishima. Nichido Contemporary Art. Tokyo, Japan. June 26 – July 25.
Vik Muniz. Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain. June 2 – July 31.
Vik. Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). São Paulo, Brazil. April 25 – July 19.
Nus/Nudes. Galeria Fortes Vilaça. São Paulo, Brazil. February 17 – April 4.
Vik Muniz. Museum of Modern Art (MAM). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. January 28 – March 22.
Vik Muniz. Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. November 20 – March 10, 2010.
2008
Vik Muniz. Arndt & Partner. Berlin, Germany. October 29 – December 20.
Vik Muniz: The Beautiful Earth. Tokyo Wonder Site. Tokyo, Japan. November 22 – March 1.
Vik Muniz. Rena Bransten Gallery. San Francisco, CA. October 16 – November 22.
Vik Muniz: verso. Sikkema, Jenkins & Co. New York, NY. September 7 – October 11.
Vik Muniz Reflex. Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso. Mexico City, Mexico. March 11 – July 13.
This is Vik Muniz. CB Collection Roppongi. Tokyo, Japan. January 19 – April 19.
2007
Vik Muniz. Moscow House of Photography. Manezh, Russia. November 1 – December 2.
To Russia With Love. Gary Tatintsian Gallery. Moscow, Russia. October 31 – December 30.
A Terra e a Gente. Museu da Eletricidad. Lisbon, Portugal. October 17 – 16.
Vik Muniz Reflex. Museum of Contemporary Art. Montréal, Quebec, Canada. October 4, 2007 – January 6, 2008.
Muniz Remastered, Photographs from the West Collection. Museo de Las Americas, Denver, CO. October 4-January 20, 2008.
The Beautiful Earth. Fortes Vilaça Gallery. São Paulo, Brazil. August 4 – September 27.
Vik Muniz Reflex. Museum of Contemporary Art. San Diego, California. June 2 – September 9.
The Beautiful Earth. Paço das Artes. São Paulo, Brazil. August 1 – October 7.
Imaginary Prisons, G. B. Piranesi and Vik Muniz. National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, Australia. April 19 – September 30.
Vik Muniz: A Survey. Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Kiev, Ukraine. April 13 – May 20.
Vik Muniz Reflex. P.S. 1. MoMA. Long Island City, NY. February 11 – May 7.
Pictures of People. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Gateshead, UK. January 31-April 15.
2006
Vik Muniz Reflex. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Washington. November 10 – January 14, 2007.
Vik Muniz: Remastered Selections from the West Collection. Gadsden Arts Center. Quincy, Florida. July 9 – September 3.
Vik Muniz Reflex. Contemporary Art Museum. University of South Florida. Tampa, Florida. July 7 – October 7.
Pictures of Pigment. Xippas Gallery. Paris, France. June 10 – 29.
Vik Muniz. Nassau County Museum of Art. New York, NY. February 19 – May 14.
Vik Muniz Reflex. Miami Art Museum. Miami, Florida. February 10 – May 28.
Best of Vik Muniz. La Reserve. Pacy-sur-Eure, France. February 1 – July 31.
BulFinch’s Recycling Yard: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk. Rena Bransten Gallery. San Francisco, California. April 13 – May 27.
Vik Muniz – Pictures of Junk, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York, NY. September 9 – October 14.
2005
Vik Muniz in the Italian Collections. Ersel in collaboration with Gian Enzo Sperone. Turin, Italy. November 29 – February 26, 2006.
Vik Muniz. Koyanagi Gallery. Tokyo, Japan. October 14 – November 14.
Vik Muniz. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA. September 17 – November 20.
Vik Muniz. Cardi Gallery. Milan, Italy. April 7 – May 28.
Vik Muniz: Divas & Monsters. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil. São Paulo, Brazil. March 5 – April 24.
Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Vik Muniz. Fortes Vilaça Gallery. São Paulo, Brazil. March 4 – April 9.
2004
Vik Muniz: Diamond Divas and Caviar Monsters. Fundación Telefónica. Madrid, Spain. November 17 – January 9, 2005.
Vik Muniz. Gallery Xippas. Athenas, Greece. October 12 – November 15.
Vik Muniz. Gallery Xippas. Paris, France. September 11 – October 23.
Retratos de Revista. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil. January 24-March 28.
Vik Muniz. Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio-ECCO. Brasília, Brazil. June 8 – July 7.
Piranesi Prisons. National Academy of Sciences. Washington D.C. August 1 – May 1, 2005.
Vik Muniz. Brent Sikkema, New York, NY. May 7 – June 5.
Vik Muniz. Irish Museum of Contemporary Art. Dublin, Ireland. March 31 – June 13.
Vik Muniz. Gallery Elba Benítez. Madrid, Spain. February 14 – March 31.
Vik Muniz – Rebus. Rena Bransten Gallery. San Francisco, California. April 1 – May 1.
2003
Vik Muniz. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea-CGAC. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. December 18 – April 6, 2004.
Vik Muniz. Gallery Gan. Tokyo, Japan. November 28-December 28.
Vik Muniz. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma-MACRO. Rome, Italy. September 27-
January 6, 2004.
Monadic Works and Drawings. Galeria Fortes Vilaça. São Paulo, Brazil. August 13 – September 13.
Retratos de Revista. Paço Imperial. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. August14 – September14.
Vik Muniz. Curated by Miguel Fernandez-Cid. Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. Indianapolis, IN. February – March.
La Mirada – Looking at Photography in Latin America Today part II. Daros Latin America Collection at Daros Exhibitions. Zürich, Switzerland. January 17 – March 29.
2002
Candy Bam, special project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund. Brooklyn, NY. 2002 – 2003.
La Mirada – Looking at Photography in Latin America Today part I. Daros Latin America Collection at Daros Exhibitions. Zürich, Switzerland. October 25 – January 4, 2003.
Vik Muniz. Cardi Gallery. Milan, Italy. October 10 – November 23.
Pictures of Air. Sperone Gallery. Rome, Italy. October 16 – December 15.
Vik Muniz. Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Dragão do Mar. Ceará, Brazil.
Vik Muniz. Doug Lawing Gallery. Houston, TX. May 3-June 4.
Vik Muniz – Pictures of Color. Rena Bransten Gallery. San Francisco, California. May 2 – June 8.
Michael Hue Williams Fine Art. London. April 15 – May 18.
Barbara Krakow, Boston. April 27.
Laberints, Spai 13, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. June 21 – July 28.
Earthworks, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY. February – March.
Vik Muniz: Model Pictures, The Menil Collection, Houston. February 22 – June 9.
Reparte, CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. January 17 – March 23.
2001
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil.
Vik Muniz – Homenagem ao Centenário de J.K. Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil.
Erotica, Xippas Gallery, Paris, France.
49th Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Venice, Italy.
49th Venice Biennial: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.
Henry Art Gallery- University of Washington, Seattle.
Vik Muniz. Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan. August 27 – September 29.
Vik Muniz. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
Clayton Days. Espaço Cine, São Paulo, Brazil.
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA.
MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil.
MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Reparte, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
Galeria Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain.
The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust. Michael-Hue Williams Fine Art, London, UK.
2000
Double Vision: Photographs from the Strauss Collection. University Art Museum-CSU. Long Beach, California. January 11 – March 11, 2001.
Clayton Days. The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. September 8-October 29.
Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Pictures of Ink. Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY.
Photographs & Personal Articles. Ubu Gallery, New York, NY.
Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan.
Foundation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Vik Muniz. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY.
The Invisible Object. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
Earthworks. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Vik Muniz. Sala de Exposiciones. Pátio de Escuelas. Centro de Fotografía. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. January 19 – February 27.
1999
Vik Muniz: Seeing is Believing. Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona. June 26 – September 26.
Galeri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden.
Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy.
Photo & Co., Turin, Italy.
Vik Muniz. Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France. November 17 – January 10, 2000.
Flora Industrialis. Caisse des Dépôts et Cossignations, Paris, France. November 19 -December 23.
After Warhol. Renos Xippas Gallery, Paris, France. November 20 – January 15, 2000.
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. March 14 – June 1.
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois.
1998
Galeria Módulo, Lisbon, Portugal.
Seeing is Believing. International Center of Photography, New York, NY.
Flora Industrialis. Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY.
Pictures of Chocolate. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California. April 2 – May 9.
1997
Pictures of Thread. Wooster Gardens, New York, NY.
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
Vik Muniz. Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, California. February 28 – April 6.
1996
The Sugar Children. Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
Galeria Casa da Imagem, Curitiba, Brazil.
The Best of Life. Wooster Gardens, New York, NY.
Pantomimes. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1995
The Wire Pictures. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
1994
Representations. Wooster Gardens, New York, NY.
1993
Equivalents. The Grand Salon, New York, NY.
Equivalents. Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona, Italy.
1992
Individuals. Stux Gallery, New York, NY.
Home Alone. Claudio Botello Arte, Turin, Italy. April – May.
1991
Gabinete de Arte Rachel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
Vik Muniz. Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France. October 26 – November 30.
1990
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Stuttering. Stux Gallery, New York, NY.
1989
Vik Muniz – Photographs. Stux Gallery, New York, NY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
FotoFest 2016 Biennial: Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet. FotoFest International, Houston Texas. March 12 – April 24, 2016
2015
Visual Deception II Into the Future Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan January 10 – March 22nd, 2015
White MOCA Jacksonville Jacksonville, Florida January 24th – April 26th 2015
Blueprint Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, New York January 24th – March 21st
Alimentario Art and Construction of the Brazilian Food Heritage Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil January 25 – March 31st 2015
Museum Studios The Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania January 27 to April 3rd, 2015
Less = More Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 4 – May 31, 2015
A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, February 3 2015—May 17 2015
Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, February 8th – May 17, 2015
Books Beyond Artists: Words and Images Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain February 24th, 2015
Sizing It Up: Scale in Nature and Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Essex, Massachusetts, October 10 2015 – September 18 2016
Open Rhapsody – a Journey into Photography and Video collections Beirut Exhibition Center Beirut, Lebanon, March 2nd – April 19, 2015
Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions Denver Art Museum, Colorado May 17th 2015 – January 3rd 2016
Food, Shelter, and Clothing Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky May 23 – September 19, 2015
Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado May 12 – January 3, 2016
The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critque and Culture EXPO MODENA 15, Modena, Italy September 18 – January 31, 2016
2014
Arte Portáti: Vulgo Malas Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil, January 18th – February 15th, 2014
ToledoContemporánea Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain February 18th – June 6th, 2014
Wieland Collection warehouse, Atlanta, Georgia 2014
Another Look: Appropriation in Art Nasher Museum, Durham, North Caralina December 14th – April 27th, 2014.
Mind the Map Punkt O, Moss, Norway June 21st to September 21st 2014
Reigning Cats and Dogs Rena Bransten Projects November 14th – January 10 2015
Blaise Cendrars at the Heart of Arts Musée des beaux-arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland November 16th – March 1st 2015
2013
Das Abenteuer Bildung – Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland, November 17th – March 23rd, 2014.
Somos Libres. MATE – Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru. October 10.
Surveying the Terrain, curated by Dan Solomon. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina. October 4 – January 13, 2014.
Tweet. Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY. September 24 – January 25, 2014.
Universo Bordallo Pinheiro – 20 Bordallianos do Brasil. Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 15 – September 8.
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness. SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. July 8, 2012 – January 6.
Yo es otros – Autorretrato Contemporáneo, curated by Paulina Ascencio and Geovana Ibarra. MAZ – Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. July 5 – September 29.
Handicap International, Orangerie du Sénat, Paris, France. June 19 – 30.
A arte da tapeçaria – tradição e modernidade, Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 13 – August 18.
MURANO>MERANO. Il vetro e l’arte contemporanea, curated by Adriano Berengo and Valerio Dehó. Edificio Cassa di Risparmio, Merano, Italy. June 8 – September 8.
Oedipus and Sphinx (Pictures of Junk)/Vik Muniz and the Philadelphia Wireman. Invisible-Exports, New York, NY. June 7 – July 13.
Travessias 2 Arte Contemporânea na Maré. Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. April 13 – June 23.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
March 21 – June 9.
On Time / Grand Central at 100. MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design. Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY. March 6 – July 7.
Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture. National Academy Museum, New York, NY. January 30 – May 5.
2012
About Caravaggio, Visioni & Illusioni Contemporani, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Rome, Italy. December 1 – March 3, 2013.
Futbol, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, A. C. (MARCO), Mexico. November 16 – March 3, 2013.
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 18 – December 31.
BABEL : Les fables du paysage flamand au XVIe siècle, du fantastique au merveilleux : Bosch, Bruegel, Bles, Bril, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France. June 8 2012- January 7 2013.
More Real?: Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) and SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico. July – June 2013.
The First Permanent Collection Galleries by Photography Department, The Art Institute of Chicago. May 1 – October 31.
America Rules!, The West Collection at SEI, Oaks, Pennsylvania. June – September.
Silent Echoes, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. Kanazawa, Japan. April 29 – July 18.
San Antonio Collects: Contemporary Exhibition, The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. March 24 – July 1.
Utopia Dystopia: Constructed with Photography. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas. March 11 – June 10.
Glasstress New York: New Art From the Venice Biennales. MAD – Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. February 14 – June 10.
Modern Lab: Material Interventions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. February 11 – August 12.
Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design. MAD – Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. February 7 – August 12.
2011
The Imaginary Museum. Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France. December 11 – June 17, 2012.
Fotógrafos da Cena Contemporânea, curated by Helouise Costa. MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. November 19 – February 04, 2012.
Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber. Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. October 26, 2011.
Living as Form. Creative Time, Historic Essex Street Market, New York, NY. September 24 – October 16.
The Digital Eye : Photographic Art in The Electronic Age. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. July 9 – September 25.
Global New Art, Taguchi Collection, Seiji Togo Memorial, Sompo Japan Museum, Tokyo, Japan. July 12 – August 31.
Gigantes por su propia naturaleza, curated by Wilson Lázaro. Centre Julio González, IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain. May 23 – July 17.
Silent Echoes – Collection I. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Silent Echoes – Collection 1. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. April 29 – July 18.
Pure Paper. Rena Bransten Gallery, curated by Aimée Reed. San Francisco, California. February 3 – March 12.
2010
STARE, Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, FL. December 15 – March 13, 2011
Fragments latino-américains : 16 artistes, 9 pays, 40 ans d’images. Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France. November 18 – January 28, 2011.
Bittersweet: The Chocolate Show. Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. September 1 – November 10.
A New Form of Memories: New York Contemporary Art Exhibition. Kasama Nichido Museum of Art. Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan. August 31 – November 14.
On the Mark: Contemporary Works on Paper. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. July 3 – September 12.
The Dorothy And Herbert Vogel Colletion: Fifty Works for Fifty States. Traveling Exhibition – Various American Institutions. 2010 – 2011.
La Mirada. Fotografien und Videos aus der Daros Latinamerica Collection. Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria. October 30 – January 16, 2011.
Collection Exhibition: Invisible reality, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. September 11, 2010 – April 10, 2011.
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. September 2 – February 6, 2011.
Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection. Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. July 17 – October 10.
Mise-en-Scène. 30th Anniversary Exhibition Program. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon. June 2 – July 16.
Afterpost. Mas allá de la fotografía. Consejería de Educación de Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain. May 27 – July 27.
VaXiNation. Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece. April 29 – June 19.
Gabinete Blanco. Fundación/Colección Jumex, State of Mexico, Mexico. April 17 – September 5.
Who Are You Close To. Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, New York, NY. March 6 – April 18.
Re:Creation. Serious Play with Canonical Art. Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California. February 8 – March 18.
“Latinas!”. The Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, NY. January 10 – February 28.
2009
When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the present. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California. November 5 – January 31, 2010.
A Invenção de Um Mundo. From the Collection of Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil. October 15 – December 13.
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, the Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, and the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia, September 24 – October 25.
Exquisite Corpse. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ireland. October 15 – November 28.
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection. The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, NY, September 15 – May 16, 2010.
Auto. Sueño y Materia. Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Asturias, Spain. May 15 – September 21.
Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art, curated by Seve Penelas. Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, San Sebastián, Spain. October 29 – January 23, 2010.
Vik Muniz & Janaina Tschäpe. Roger Ballen Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa. July 26.
Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the
Complicity: Contemporary Photography and the Matter of
Identity V. Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. June 26 – July 25.
FRAGILE, Terres d’empathie. Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Paris, France. May 16 – August 16.
Americas Latinas, Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy. May 13 – October 4.
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. Bronx Museum, New York, NY. March 5 – May 10.
Sculpture. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, January 15 – February 21.
2008
Bordando Arte, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. November 1 – 3.
Exquisite Corpse. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. September 20 – March 29, 2009.
Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada. May 23 – October 26.
20 Desarreglos. Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. November 5 – February 9, 2009.
Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, November 4, 2008 – March 22, 2009.
Bun. Kumukumu Gallery. New York, NY. October 23 – November 23.
To: Night: Contemporary Representations of the Night, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY, September 26 – December 6.
Untitled (Vicarious) Photographing the Constructed Object. Gagosian Gallery. New York, NY, September 23 – November 1.
Piranesi e Muniz “Carceri d’invenzione”, Armerie del Castello Odeschalchi di Bracciano, Milano, Italy. September 18 – December 15.
Duchamp-me, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, July 15 – September 21.
Geografias (in)visibles. Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. June 26 – September 21.
Forgetting Velazquez. Las Meninas, Museu Picasso. Barcelona, Spain. May 15 – September 28.
Face to Face: The Daros Collections, Daros Exhibitions. Zurich, Switzerland. March 14-September 7.
Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, California. March 10 – August 10.
Critical Distance, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Rúa Valle Inclán, Spain. February 29 – June 1.
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, High Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA. February 9 – May 4.
Slightly Unbalanced. Yates Gallery and Exhibit Hall. Chicago Cultural Center. January 26 – April 13.
Empires and Environments, Rose Art Museum-Brandeis University. January 24 – April 13.
Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe. The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Osaka, Japan. September – March 2009.
2007
Disponha: Fotografia Contempôranea Brasileira na Coleção Inhotim, 32 Gallery-Brazilian Embassy. London, UK. December 3-13.
Oh l’amour: Contemporary Photography from the Stéphane Janssen Collection, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, November 22 – March 1, 2008.
Contemporary, Cool, and Collected, Mint Museum. Charlotte, North Carolina. October 20 – December 30.
Viva La Muerte! Kunst und Tod in Lateinamerika, Kunstehalle, Vienna, Austria. October 17 – February 17, 2008.
TRANSactions- Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Memorial Art Gallery-University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. October 6 – December 30.
Pop Art 1960’s >2000’s from Misumi Collection, Hachioji Yume Art Museum. Hachioji, Japan. September 28-November 25
Vik Muniz and Janaina Tschäpe, Xippas gallery, Athens, Greece: September 27 –November 24.
Un/Fair Trade: Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit, Neue Galerie. Graz, Austria. September 22 -November 25.
Existencias: Coleccion MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. León, Spain. September 21 – January 6, 2008.
TRANSactions- Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina. Greensboro, North Carolina. June 22 – September 21, 2008.
TRANSactions- Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California. September 17 – May 13, 2008.
Portrait Souvenirs: Collection Neuflize Vie, Salon du Collectionneur-Grand Palais. Paris, France. September 14 – 23.
Most Humans Do Not Know Better, Serge Zieger Galerie at Brooke Alexander Editions. New York City, NY. September 1 – October 6.
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, California. July 30 – September 9.
Pop Art 1960’s >2000’s from Misumi Collection, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Hiroshima, Japan. July 14 – September 2.
Puntos de Vista, Latin America Contemporary Art Daros-Latinamerica Collection. Bochum, Germany. June 2-September 2.
Cuerpo y Mirada. Huellas del siglo XX, National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Madrid, Spain. May.
Into Me, Out of Me. MACRO Future, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. Rome, Italy. April 21 – September 30.
Drawing from History, ASU ART Museum at Arizona State University. Phoenix, Arizona. April 14 – June 23.
Pop Art 1960’s > 2000’s from Misumi Collection, The Museum of Modern Art. Ibaraki, Japan. April 7 – May 20.
Timer: Intimacy, Triennale di Milano. Milan, Italy. March 31 – June 10.
Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, Illinois. February 24 – July 29.
Create your Own Museum, Gary Tatintsian Gallery. Moscow, Russia. January 24 – March 1.
Roots, Beanstalks & Growing Up, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, April 23 – May 7.
Celebrity. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona. January 20 – April 29.
Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona. September 29 – December 30.
2006
Into Me/Out of Me. KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. November 26 – February 2007.
The City, the Body and the Machine. Modern Photographs – the Machine, the Body and the City, pp. 10 and 103. Published by Miami Art Museum on the occasion of the exhibition with the same title. Miami, Florida. 2006.
The Food Show: The Hungry Eye. The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. November 17 – February 24, 2007.
Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art. Haifa Museum of Art, Israel. November 25 – May 12, 2007.
Busy going Crazy: Collection Syvio Perlstein- Art & Photographie de Dada a aujourd’hui. La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France. October 29 – January 14, 2007.
Before the Camera Remaking Reality and the Make-Believe. Norton Museum of Art. October 14- January 7, 2007. Palm Beach, Florida.
Paralela. Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil. October 10 – November 19.
Desidentidad. MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil. September 21 – January 7, 2007.
Le Noir Est Une Couleur: Hommage vivant a Aime Maeght. Fondation Marguerite et Aime Maeght. Saint-Paul, France. June 30 – November 5.
Football et Art Contemporain. Musée Géo Charles. Echirolles, France. June 7 – October 29.
Rendons à Cézanne ce qui… Galerie d’art du Conseil Général, Aix-en-Provence, France. October 6 – December 31.
Figures de l’acteur, le paradoxe du comédien. Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France. July 8 – October 15.
Into Me/Out of Me. P.S.1 MoMA. June 21 – September 25.
Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale. Bates College Museum of Art. Lewiston, Maine. June 23 – October.
The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol. Roebling Hall, Chelsea, New York. June 9 – July 22.
The Summer Collection/Open Stage for Young Filmmakers. Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 3 – August 27.
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s- 2000’s. From the selection of the Misumi Collection. Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. July 8 – September 3.
Transformer: A traveling exhibition of contemporary artworks from the West Collection. Main Line Art Center, Philadelphia, PA. April 1 – May 3.
Certain Encounters Daros Latinamerica Collection. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 7 – June 4.
Inventive Fashion Photographs: Chuck Close, Annie Leibovitz and Vik Muniz. Danzinger Projects, NY. January 27 – March 4.
Hollywood Boulevard. Galeria Fortes Vilaça, SP. Brasil. January 19 – April 3.
Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture. University of Virginia Art Museum. Charlottesville, VA. September 1 – October 29.
Connected –Unconnected. The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shanon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland. March 13 – April.
Visitonair 47 Taste. Visionaire Gallery, New York. January 3 – March 3.
Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. January 28 – April 30.
Eretica: Trascendenza e profano nell’arte contemporanea. Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy. August 1 – September 20.
2005
Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection. Tate Liverpool. October 15 – April 23, 2006.
Ongoing: Carl Andre to Vik Muniz. Gaain Gallery. Seoul, Korea. December 12 – February 12, 2006.
Vik Muniz nelle collezioni italiane. Photo & Contemporary, Turin, Italy. November 29 -January 12, 2006.
Contemporary Voice: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection. Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan. November 19 – December 25.
Collection. Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan. November 19 – December 25.
Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection. Tate Liverpool. October 15 – April 23, 2006.
Erótica – Os Sentidos na Arte. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil-CCBB, São Paulo, Brazil. October 12 – January 8, 2006; CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. February – April 2006; CCBB Brasília, Brazil. May – July 2006.
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America. Selection of the Daros Collection. IMMA-Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. October 5 – January 15, 2006.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, New York. September 17 – October 22
Vik Muniz and Laurent Millet: Illusions et machines a images. L’Hotel des Arts- Centre Méditerranéen des Arts. Toulon, France. June 18 – September 4.
Pictures. Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea. July 6 – 31.
Overhead/Underfoot: The Topograghical Perspective in Photography. Whitney Museum of American Art. July 1 – September 25.
Human Landscape: permanent collection of the CAC Málaga. CAC-Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Revolution And Commerce: The Legacy of Korda’s Portrait of Che Guevara. UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California. January 29 – May 28.
Main Line Collects: Distinctive Choices. Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Philadelphia. March 26-April 26.
In Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection. North Carolina Museum of Art. North Carolina. April 3 – July 17.
Surfaces Paradise: Vik Muniz, Thomas Ruff and Gary Carsley. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem. Arnhem, The Netherlands. March 5 – July 27.
Cloud Images. Aargauer Kunsthaus. Aarau, Switzerland. February 26 – May 8.
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art. PaceWildenstein, New York, NY. February 18 – March 26.
The Other Mainstream: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. January 22 – April 23.
Material Matters. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. January 22 – March 20.
2004
Surprise. Cardi Gallery, Milan. November 30.
Diálogos, Arte Latinoamericano desde la Colección Cisneros. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile. November 25 – February 28, 2005.
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits. El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. December 3-March 20, 2005; San Diego Museum of Art. April 16 – June 12, 2005; Bass Museum of Art, Miami. July 23 – October 2, 2005; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Washington D.C., October 21, 2005 – January 8, 2006; San Antonio Museum of Art, February 4 – April 30, 2006.
Encounters in the 21st Century. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. October – March 2005.
About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. October 9 – January 16, 2005.
Janaina Tschäpe & Vik Muniz. ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany. December 10 – January 30, 2005.
Photography and Sculpture, MAM Collection: 1995-2004. MAM-Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil. August 5 – October 25.
Reanimation. Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland. September 24 – October 24.
The Cobweb. The Collection. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. June – September.
Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Pa