VIK MUNIZ
BRUSHSTROKES 5.14–6.20.26
VIK MUNIZ
BRUSHSTROKES 5.14–6.20.26
Vik Muniz is globally renowned for his series recreating popular and art historical imagery using unorthodox source materials—chocolate, sugar, scraps of paper, and junk, among a range of unexpected media. His practice engages the act of looking as a site of physical and symbolic experience, where the presumed nature of an artwork can be thrillingly destabilized. In Brushstrokes, Muniz presents a vibrant homage to the pictorial language of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters. The works in this series are created from distinct strokes of paint that are photographed, cut out, and arranged into compositions after artists such as Paul Cézanne, Joaquín Sorolla, Vincent van Gogh, and Edouard Vuillard. These artists proposed new ways of seeing the world, realized through sensorial expressions of color, medium, and light. Drawing on this history, Muniz embraces the ambiguities of material (re) creation as a source of visual experimentation and discovery. The process of creating the works in Brushstrokes involved a complex negotiation of physical gesture and digital mediation. To ensure the faithfulness of the recreation, each brush stroke had to be lit, photographed, and positioned in relation to the original painting’s directional light. The result is a rich syntax of color that conveys an illusion of dimensionality while cohering into images of landscapes, still lifes, and figurative subjects. By deconstructing the material identity of painting and reproducing its most fundamental unit, Muniz foregrounds the potential of each brushstroke to exist both as an autonomous gesture and as part of a larger whole. For viewers, this fidelity of construction and fabrication of presence work in tandem—capturing attention, triggering associations, and shaping how each individual understands an image in relation to their own self. Brushstrokes invites consideration of the function of painting in history and memory, and within our increasingly mediated visual world. For Muniz, ideas of “image” and “medium” are neither inextricable nor bound to a singular truth; rather, they offer empirical entry points into an ever-expanding process of perception and interpretation. With deep reverence for past and future artistic revolutions, Brushstrokes playfully meditates on the slipperiness of reality and the enduring valence of representation.
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Vik Muniz was born in 1961 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His work is currently featured in the major retrospective Vik Muniz: A Olho Nu, on view at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, and previously exhibited at Museu de Arte Contemporânea Bahia, Salvador (202526) and Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife (2025). Other notable solo exhibitions include Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut (2024-25); Flora Industrialis at Museo Universidad de Navarra, Spain (2023-24); and Vik Muniz at Museo Universidad Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (2020-21). In 2016, his public art installation Perfect Strangers, commissioned by MTA Arts & Design, opened at the 72nd Street Station in New York City. Muniz’s work is included in the public collections of Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Tate Modern, London. Muniz is involved in social projects that use art-making as a force for change. Muniz’s work with a group of catadores— pickers of recyclable materials—in Brazil was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary film Waste Land (2010). In recognition of his contributions to education and social development, Muniz was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 2011. Muniz is the founder of Escola Vidigal, a school of art and technology serving children 4 to 8 years old at the favela Vidigal in Rio de Janeiro.
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Mimosas, after Pierre Bonnard, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 41 1/2 inches (91.4 x 105.4 cm), edition of 6 50 × 57 3/4 inches (127 × 146.6 cm), edition of 6 11
Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, after Vincent Van Gogh, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 47 1/2 × 36 inches (120.7 x 91.4 cm), edition of 6 66 × 50 inches (167.6 × 127 cm), edition of 6
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Irises, after Vincent Van Gogh, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 46 3/4 inches (91.4 x 118.7 cm), edition of 6 50 × 65 inches (127 x 165.1 cm, edition of 6 19
Cow in a Barn, after Camille Corot, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 47 1/2 inches (91.4 × 120.7 cm), edition of 6 50 x 65 7/8 inches (127 × 167.4 cm), edition of 6 25
The Plain by Mont Sainte Victoire, View from Valcros, after Paul Cezanne, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 45 inches (91.4 x 114.3 cm), edition of 6 50 x 62 1/4 inches (127 x 158.2 cm), edition of 6 31
La Ravaudeuse, after Edouard Vuillard, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 47 x 36 inches (119.4 x 91.4 cm), edition of 6 62 1/4 × 50 inches (158.1 x 127 cm), edition of 6
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The Great Pine, after Paul Cezanne, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 38 1/2 inches (91.4 x 97.8 cm), edition of 6 50 x 53 1/4 inches (127 x 135.3 cm), edition of 6 39
Tomatoes and a Pewter Tankard on a Table, after Paul Gauguin, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 45 inches (91.4 x 114.3 cm), edition of 6 50 x 62 5/8 inches (127 x 159 cm), edition of 6 45
Tree Trunks in the Grass, after Vincent Van Gogh, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 45 inches (91.4 x 114.3 cm), edition of 6 50 x 62 1/4 inches (127 x 158.2 cm), edition of 6 51
Vase with Roses, after Edouard Vuillard, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 38 5/8 inches (91.4 x 98 cm), edition of 6 50 x 53 5/8 inches (127 x 136.1 cm), edition of 6
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Children at the Beach, after Joaquin Sorolla, Brushstrokes, 2026 Archival inkjet print 36 x 37 1/8 inches (91.4 x 94.3 cm), edition of 6 50 x 51 5/8 inches (127 x 131.1 cm), edition of 6
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VIK MUNIZ Born in 1961, São Paulo, Brazil Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2026 Brushstrokes, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York, NY, May 14–June 20, 2026 2025 Vik Muniz: A Olho Nu, Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife, Brazil, June 13–August 31, 2025, curated by Daniel Rangel Vik Muniz: Brushstrokes, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, June 5–July 25, 2025 Live Cash, Galeria Multiarte, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 27–May 30, 2025 2024 Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, October 6, 2024–February 23, 2025 Scraps and Legal Tender, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, March 22–April 27, 2024 2023 Surfaces, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, November 22, 2023–January 27, 2024 Vik Muniz: Flora Industralis, Museo Universidad de Navarra, Spain, October 18, 2023– March 1, 2024 Fotocubismo, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 6–June 24, 2023 Vik Muniz: Fotocubismo, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, April 20–May 26, 2023 Gibi, Bienal Pavilion at SP-Arte 2023, São Paulo, Brazil, March 29–April 2, 2023; traveled to: Nichido Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, April 14–June 3, 2023 2022 Scraps, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, February 17–April 9, 2022 Vik Muniz: A Brief History of Art, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, February 1–April 5, 2022
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2021 Photocubism, Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, November 10–December 23, 2021 2020 Vik Muniz: Grand Tour, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, December 5, 2020–January 16, 2021 Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, June 18–November 27, 2021 Vik Muniz: Surfaces, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June 12–August 29, 2020 2019 Superfícies, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, October 24, 2019–January 30, 2020 Vik Muniz, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, October 10–November 16, 2019 Vik Muniz: Imaginária, Collection Lambert – Grand Arles Express, Avignon, France, July 1–September 29, 2019 Vik Muniz: Hand Remade, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, June 8–September 29, 2019 Vik Muniz: Real Pictures, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, June 7–September 15, 2019 Vik Muniz: Surfaces, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, March 28–May 16, 2020 2018 Vik Muniz: Handmade, Xippas Gallery, Paris, France, September 8–October 20, 2018 Vik Muniz: Photography and the Rebirth of Wonder, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, July 13–October 14, 2018 Vik Muniz: Verso, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria, March 21–June 17, 2018 Vik Muniz, Dirimart Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, February 2–March 11, 2018 2017 Vik Muniz: Handmade, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, September 14–28, 2017
Vik Muniz: Epistemes, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, February 23–April 1, 2017 2016 Vik Muniz: Metachromes, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, October 6–November 12, 2016 Vik Muniz: Handmade, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, September 3–November 5, 2016 Vik Muniz: Verso, Mauritshuis, Den Haag, The Netherlands, June 9–September 4, 2016 Vik Muniz, Matthew Liu Fine Arts. Shanghai, China, March 18–May 8, 2016 Vik Muniz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, February 28, 2015 – May 29, 2016; traveled to: Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October 1, 2016–February 5, 2017; Marco Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico, March 9–June 11, 2017; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, July 12– October 14, 2018; Sarasota Art Museum at Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, December 14–March 9, 2020; Museo de la Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, September 23, 2020–March 11, 2021; ArtScience Museum, Singapore, TBD Vik Muniz: Pictures of America, Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland, January 15–March 5, 2016 2015 Vik Muniz: La fabrique de l’image, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland, November 8, 2015–January 31, 2016 Vik Muniz, Museu Vale, Espírito Santo, Brazil, October 15, 2015–February 14, 2016 What’s Appropriation: A Arte de Revisitar a Arte, Fundição Progresso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 8–25, 2015 Vik Muniz: Album, Xippas Gallery, Paris, France, June 6–July 31, 2015
Vik Muniz: Album, Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, January 16–March 4, 2015 2014 Vik Muniz: Album, Les Reccontres d’Arles Photographie, Église des Trinitaires, Arles, France, July 7–September 7, 2014 Vik Muniz: The Size of the World, Santander Cultura, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 21– August 10, 2014 Album, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, April 10–May 10, 2014 Vik Muniz: Pictures of Anything, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 28–August 2, 2014 Vik Muniz: Poetics of Perception, Virginia Beach, Virginia, February 7–April 27, 2014; traveled to: Lowe Art Museum at University of Miami, Miami, FL, February 7–April 19, 2015; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, June 13–September 12, 2015 2013 Más acá de la imagen/Closer to the Image, Museo Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia, July 31–October 28, 2013; traveled to: El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru, January 23–April 13, 2014; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, May 24–July 31, 2014; Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero–Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 21– September 14, 2015 Clayton Days | Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz, Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburg, PA, July 13–October 27, 2013 Vik Muniz: Garbage Matters, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, June 14– September 22, 2013 Vik Muniz: Paper Mirrors, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, April 2–May 11, 2013 2012 Vik Muniz: Pictures of Magazines, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, November 21,
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2012–February 8, 2013 Vik Muniz, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain, November 15, 2012–January 2013 Vik Muniz: Pictures of Magazines 2, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September 20–November 10, 2012 Vik Muniz, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga - CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain, September 4–December 2, 2012 Vik Muniz: Garbage Matters, Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, August 25, 2012–February 24, 2013 Vik Muniz: VERSO, St. Moritz Art Masters 2012. Protestant Church, St. Moritz, Switzerland, August 24–September 2, 2012 Vik Muniz: Pictures of Magazines 2, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France, June 8–July 28, 2012 2011 Vik Muniz: Le musée imaginaire, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France, December 11, 2011–May 13, 2012 Vik Muniz: Matrici italiane, 1º Festival di Cultura Brasiliana, Galleria Cortona, Palazzo Pamphilj, Rome, Italy, November 25– December 16, 2011 VIK, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal, September 21–December 31, 2011; traveled to: Centro de Arte Contemporánea de Málaga, Málaga, Spain, September 7–December 2, 2012 Vik Muniz, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, September 9–October 15, 2011 Vik Muniz 3D, Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo– ECCO, Brasília, Brazil, June 13–August 21, 2011 Relicario, Insitituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, March 2011 Vik Muniz: Beyond the Boundary between Celebrated Painting and Photo, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, February 11–March 13, 2011
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2010 Vik Muniz, Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay, December 15–April 5, 2011 Pictures of Paper, nac | Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, October 22 – November 20, 2010 Relicario, Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, October 13–December 5, 2010 Vik Muniz, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September 9–October 23, 2010 Verso, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil, July 29–September 11, 2010 Vik Muniz, Museum of the University of Fortaleza/Unifor, Fundação Edson Queiroz, Fortaleza, Brazil, April 16–August 8, 2010 Leonardo Drew and Vik Muniz, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, January 30–March 6, 2010 2009 Vik Muniz, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France, December 12, 2009–February 13, 2010 Vik Muniz, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, November 20, 2009– March 10, 2010 Vik Muniz, Museu Inima de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, August 21–November 2, 2009 Vik Muniz: The 8th Photo Festival, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea, August 6–31, 2009 Pictures of Paper, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain, June–July 2009 Vik Muniz: Pictures of Garbage, Arndt & Partner, Zürich, Switzerland, April 3–June 20, 2009 Vik, MAM – Museu de arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 22–March 8, 2009; MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, April 22–July 14, 2009 2008 Vik Muniz: The Beautiful Earth, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan, November 22, 2008–
March 1, 2009 Vik Muniz, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany, October 29–December 20, 2008 Vik Muniz, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, October 16–November 22, 2008 Vik Muniz: Verso, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, September 7–October 11, 2008 Reflex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico, April 15–September 14, 2008 This is Vik Muniz, CB Collection Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan, January 19–April 19, 2008 2007 To Russia With Love, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia, November 1–December 30, 2007 Vik Muniz, Moscow House of Photography, Manezh, Russia, November 1–December 2, 2007 A Terra e a Gente, Museu da Eletricidad, Lisbon, Portugal, October 17–December 16, 2007 Muniz Remastered: Photographs from the West Collection, Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO, October 4, 2007–January 20, 2008 The Beautiful Earth, Fortes Vilaça Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, August 4–September 27, 2007 The Beautiful Earth, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, August 1–October 7, 2007 Imaginary Prisons: G.B. Piranesi & Vik Muniz, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, April 20–September 30, 2007 Vik Muniz: A Survey, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 13–May 20, 2007 Pictures of People, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, January 31–April 15, 2007 2006 Vik Muniz: Pictures of Junk, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, September 9–October 14, 2006 Vik Muniz Remastered: Selections from the West
Collection, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, FL, July 9–September 3, 2006 Vik Muniz, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, February 19–May 14, 2006 Bulfinch’s Recycling Yard: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 13–May 27, 2006 Pictures of Pigment, Xippas Gallery, Paris, France, June 10–July 29, 2006. Reflex: Vik Muniz Retrospective, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, February 10–May 28, 2006; USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, July 7–October 7, 2006; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, November 10, 2006–January 14, 2007; MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, February 11–May 7, 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, June 1–September 9, 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada, October 5, 2007– January 6, 2008 2005 Narcissus: Vik Muniz Self Portraits, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, October 14– November 14, 2005 Vik Muniz, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17–November 20, 2005 Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy, April 5–May 28, 2005 Vik Muniz, Sala Amós Salvaldor, Logroño, Spain, March 22–May 1, 2005 Vik Muniz: Divas & Monsters, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil, March 5–April 24, 2005 2004 Muniz: Diamond Divas and Caviar Monsters, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain, November 17, 2004–January 9, 2005 Vik Muniz, Gallery Xippas, Paris, France, September 11–October 23, 2004 Piranesi Prisons, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, August 1, 2004–May 1, 2005
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Vik Muniz: New Photographs, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, May 7–June 5, 2004 Vik Muniz, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 8–May 1, 2004 Vik Muniz, Gallery Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain, February 14–March 31, 2004 Retratos de Revista, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, January 24– March 28, 2004 2003 Vik Muniz, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea—CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, December 18, 2003– April 6, 2004 Vik Muniz, Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan, November 28–December 28, 2003 Vik Muniz, Museo D’Art Contemporanea Roma— MACRO, Rome, Italy, September 27, 2003–January 6, 2004 Retratos de Revista, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 14–September 14, 2003 Trabalhos Monádicos e “Fotografias” [Monadic Works and “Photographs”], Galerie Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, August 18– September 13, 2003 Vik Muniz, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, ID, February 15–April 13, 2003 Haystacks, Marabini Gallery, Bologna, Italy 2002 CandyBAM, special project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY, 2002–2003 Pictures of Air, Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy, October 16–December 15, 2002 Vik Muniz, Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy, October 10–November 23, 2002 Vik Muniz: Laberints, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, June 21–July 28, 2002 Vik Muniz, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, May 3–June 4, 2002 Vik Muniz, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2–June 5, 2002
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Vik Muniz, Barbara Krakow, Boston, MA, April 27–June 5, 2002 Vik Muniz: Pictures of Air, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, April 15–May 18, 2002 Vik Muniz: Model Pictures, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, February 22–June 9, 2002 Earthworks, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, February 9–March 16, 2002 Reparté, CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, January 17–March 23, 2002 The Room With The Clouds, The West Collection, New York, NY Vik Muniz, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Dragão do Mar, Ceará, Brazil 2001 Erotica, Xippas Gallery, Paris, France, October 27–December 12, 2001 Reparté, Henry Art Gallery—University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 4– December 16, 2001; University of Colorado Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA Vik Muniz, Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan, August 27– September 29, 2001 49th Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, June 10– November 4, 2001 Clayton Days: Picture Stories by Vik Muniz, Espaço Cine, São Paulo, Brazil Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil Galeria Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 27 – May 20, 2001; Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art,
London, United Kingdom Vik Muniz, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Vik Muniz, Homenagem ao Centenário de J.K. Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2000 Clayton Days: Picture Stories by Vik Muniz, The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 8– October 29, 2000 Photographs & Personal Articles, Ubu Gallery, New York, New York, April 29–June 9, 2000 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Earthworks, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA The virtuoso who became a photographer, Fondation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Images Pièges, Musée de l’Élysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland The Invisible Object, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Pictures of Ink, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, May 5–June 3, 2000 1999 Vik Muniz, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France, November 17, 1999–January 10, 2000 Flora Industrialis, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France Galeri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy Photo & Co., Milan, Italy Gallerie Xippas, Paris, France 1998 Beyond the Edges, An Insider’s Look at Early Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, October 9, 1998– February 14, 1999 Flora Industrialis, Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
Galeria Módulo, Lisbon, Portugal Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Seeing is Believing, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, September 12–November 8, 1998; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, April 15–July 31, 1999; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, June 26–September 26, 1999; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 28, 2000–February 11, 2001; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, October 6–December 30, 2001. 1997 Vik Muniz, Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 28–April 6, 1997 Pictures of Thread, Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, New York, NY Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil 1996 Galeria Casa da Imagen, Curitiba, Brazil The Best of Life, Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, New York, NY The Sugar Children, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY Pantomimes, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1995 The Wire Pictures, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil 1994 Representations, Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, New York, NY 1993 Equivalents, Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona, Italy Equivalents, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1992 Home Alone, Claudio Botello Arte, Turin, Italy, April–May 1992 Individuals, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
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1991 Gabinete de Arte Rachel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil Vik Muniz, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France, October 26–November 30, 1991 1990 Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Stuttering, Stux Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Vik Muniz—Photographs, Stux Gallery, New York, NY PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 21c Museum Foundation, Louisville, KY 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan ABN AMRO Art Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ackland Art Museum at UNC–Chapel Hill, NC Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Art Institute of Chicago, IL Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, IN Banco de España, Madrid, Spain Banco Espírito Santo, Lisbon, Portugal Banque de Neuflize, Paris, France Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia Bohen Foundation, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Caisse des Dépôts et Consignatións, Paris, France CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (CAC), Málaga, Spain
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Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Chase Art Program, New York, NY Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Collection Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina Collection D.O.P, Caracas, Venezuela; Madrid, Spain; Miami, FL; Paris, France Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela; New York, NY Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Daros Latin America, Zürich, Switzerland Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Deutsche Bank, New York, NY Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA Exit Art, New York, NY Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina Fundación Siglo para el Turismo y las Artes de Castilla y Leon, Valladolid, Spain Fundació Sorigué, Lleida, Spain Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY The Frick Pittsburgh Museums & Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA Fundação Horizontes, Brazil Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Greene Miami Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hyundai International Division Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG, Brazil Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil International Center of Photography, New York, NY International Pacific College, Kobe City, Japan Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Israel Museum, Jerusalem J. P. Morgan Chase, New York, NY J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Jewish Museum, New York, NY Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Long Museum, Shanghai, China Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Margulies Collection, Miami, FL Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA Menil Collection, Houston, TX Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, OH Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN MIT List Visual Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, SaintÉtienne, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Spain Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (MAMAM), Boa Vista, PE, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Museum of Art, Osaka City, Japan New Museum, New York, NY New York Public Library, New York, NY Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH Prudential Foundation, Newark, NJ Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, NY Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Rollins Museum of Art, Orlando, FL Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
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Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent, Belgium Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv University Art Museum, State Universe of New York, Albany, NY University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC West Collection at SEI, Oaks, PA Wharf Art Collection, Hong Kong Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York, NY Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom
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