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Vik Muniz
1961 Born in Sao Paulo (BR) Lives and works in New York. One of the two artists chosen to represent Brazil at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Muniz has received international acclaim for works that deal with photography´s mediation of our engagement with art. Creating what he calls "photographic delusions," Muniz cites disparate influences: optical illusions, photorealist paintings, sight gags, abstract art, and real-life absurdities. Mostly he examines what happens as we continually reproduce works of art - how, through ubiquitous dissemination, they lose their uniqueness, and how we, as viewers, lose experience of the original object. In the last decade, Muniz has recreated iconic works based on modern and contemporary art, using such unconventional materials as soil, sugar, tomato sauce, chocolate, dust, and thread. His finished photographs exist as studies of, or new takes on, absent originals. Muniz has stated that his work "attempts to make the viewer examine the role of representation as an exchange and interaction of forms rather than an improvement on a specific one." 2005 Ecos y Contrastes - Arte Contemporáneo en la Colección Cisneros Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman Galerie de France, Paris The Hours - Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin Vik Muniz Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Miradas y conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid Ripe for Picking - Fruit & Flowers Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin Nueva tecnología-nueva iconografía-nueva fotografía Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz Lagunas Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Open Maps - Latin American Photography 1991-2002 Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki Surfaces Paradise Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem We can do it! Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow The Other Mainstream - Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weith Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ 2004 Diálogos: Arte Latinoamericano del siglo XIX y XX - Colección Cisneros de Venezu Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile About Face - Photographic Portraits from the Collection The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Take Five! - Huis Marseille Turns Five Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam Vik Muniz - Diamond Divas & Caviar Monsters Galerie Xippas, Paris Mapas Abiertos Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan Fotografia e Escultura no acervo do mam (1995-2004) Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo, São Paulo Artists Favourites - act II ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) Marilyn - From Anastasi to Weegee Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Vik Muniz - New Photographs Brent Sikkema, New York, NY Selections from the Collection of William and Ruth True Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Vik Muniz Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin 2003 Corpus Christi _ Christus-Darstellungen in der photographie, 1850-2001 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Vik Muniz CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela Crosscurrents at Centurys End - Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collec Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Vic Muniz MACRO - Museo dArte Contemporanea Roma, Rome Vik Muniz - Trabalhos Monádicos e Fotografias / Los Carpinteros | Novos Desenh Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Scenery Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA STRETCH The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario Overview highlights from the collections of Fondation Cartier pour lart conte Bildmuseet, Umeå s(how) - ICA Art History Project ICA-Institue of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2002 La Mirada - Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Lateinamerika Daros Exhibitions, Zurich Vik Muniz - Haystacks / Irene Pijoan - ? Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Drawn from a Family - Contemporary Works on Paper Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME A Thousand Hounds - A Walk with the Dogs through the History of Photography Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Faux - Real Borusan Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul 2001 Rotativa - Fase 1 Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Vik Muniz Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna Brazil - Body & Soul Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY O Fio da Trama / The Thread Unraveled El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 49th Venice Biennale La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Digital Printmaking at Singer Editions Davison Art Center, Middletown Re-Location - on moving Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY The Things Themselves - Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2000 Media Metaphor - The 46th Biennial Exhibition The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Obra Nova Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo Latin American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Col El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Vik Muniz Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam Now! Modern Photographs from the Permanent Collectio The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1998 Vik Muniz - Seeing is Believing International Center of Photography, New York, NY Das Maß der Dinge - Über die Beziehung zwischen Photographie und Gegenstand Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim Representing galleries 10 Belgium Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels France Galerie Fiat, Paris Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Galerie Xippas, Paris Portugal Módulo - Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon Russia Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow Spain Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid USA Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL Brent Sikkema, New York, NY Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Public collections 14 Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW France Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris Japan 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Netherlands Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam Spain CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Málaga CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela Switzerland Daros Exhibitions, Zurich USA MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI Indianapolis Museum of Art IMA, Indianapolis, IN Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA
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