VIK MUNIZ
São Paulo, Brazil b.1961
1961 Born in São Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works in New York, NY, and Rio de Janeiro
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Vik Muniz: Epistemes. Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA
2016 Vik Muniz: Metachromes. Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, China
2016 Vik Muniz: Metachromes. Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
2016 Vik Muniz: Handmade. Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2016 Vik Muniz. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2016 Vik Muniz. Mauritshuis, the Hague, Netherlands
2016 Vik Muniz. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2016 Vik Muniz, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
2016 The Mauritshuis, the Hague, the Netherlands
2016 Vik Muniz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
2015 Lampedusa, La 56 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2014 Closer to the Image, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Lima, Peru
2014 Pictures of Anything, Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China
2013 Clayton Days | Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz, The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, USA
2012 VIK, Centro de Arte Contemporánea de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
2011 Vik, Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Beyond the Boundary between Celebrated Painting and Photo, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Identity V, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
2008 Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2007 Moscow House of Photography, Manezh, Moscow
2007 Imaginary Prisons, G. B. Piranesi and Vik Muniz, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Reflex, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2005 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
2004 Diamond Divas and Caviar Monsters, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
2004 Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland
2003 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma – MACRO, Rome, Italy
2003 La Mirada – Looking at Photography in Latin America Today part II, Daros Latin America Collection at Daros Exhibitions, Zürich, Switzerland
2002 49th Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Venice, Italy
2002 The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2000 Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
1999 Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
1999 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
1998 Seeing is Believing, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1996 The Sugar Children, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
2014 Visual Deception II into the Future, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
2014 Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
2013 Das Abenteuer Bildung, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland
2012 Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2012 The First Permanent Collection Galleries by Photography Department, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2012 Modern Lab: Material Interventions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
2010 Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, and The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2007 Portrait Souvenirs: Collection Neuflize Vie, Salon du Collectionneur, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2006 Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2006 The Summer Collection/Open Stage for Young Filmmakers, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2005 Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2004 Artist’s Favorites: Act II, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Honors and Awards
2008 Honored at CITYarts’ 40th Anniversary, New York, USA
2005 National Artist Award granted by the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, USA
2005 Premio Villa de Madrid de Fotografía “Kaulak”, awarded by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Madrid
1998 Best Photography Exhibition, Second Place: Vik Muniz: Seeing is Believing. Awarded by The International Center of Photography
Collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Daros Latin America, Zürich, Switzerland
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, USA
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK