2003    
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
MACRO- Museo D'Art Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea- CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2002     
Candy Bam, special project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund, 2002/2003
Pictures of Air, Sperone Gallery, Rome, October
Vik Muniz Cardi Gallery, Milan, October
Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Centro Dragão do Mar, Ceará, Brazil
Doug Lawing, Houston, May 3
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, May 2
Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London April 15 to May 18
Barbara Krakow, Boston, April 27
Laberints, Spai 13, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain- March 13
Earthworks, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York - February - March
Reparte, CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Bolder -January 17- March 23
Model Pictures, The Menil Collection, Houston - February 21-June 9

2001  
Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
The Things Themselves. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Ga.
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil

2000
Clayton Days. The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne
Pictures of Ink. Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
"Photographs" & Personal Articles. Ubu Gallery, New York
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Foundation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vik Muniz. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs
The Invisible Object. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Earthworks. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco.

1999
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Galeri Lars Bohman, Stockholm
Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, Rome
Photo & Co., Turin
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
Flora Industrialis. Caisse des Dépôts et Cossignations, Paris
Fresh Paint. Renos Xippas Gallery, Paris
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Beyond the Edges. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill.

1998   
Galeria Módulo, Lisbon
Seeing is Believing. International Center of Photography, New York
Flora Industrialis. Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

1997   
Pictures of Thread. Wooster Gardens, New York
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles

1996
The Sugar Children. Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
Galeria Casa da Imagen, Curitiba
The Best of Life. Wooster Gardens, New York
Pantomimes. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

1995    
The Wire Pictures. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo

1994 
Representations. Wooster Gardens, New York

1993
Equivalents. Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
Equivalents.  Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona

1992
Individuals. Stux Gallery, New York
Claudio Botello Arte, Turin

1991
Gabinete de Arte Rachel Arnaud, São Paulo
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris

1990
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

1989
Stux Gallery, New York


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2004
Open house. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Nueva York

2003
D'Après Galleria GAS Corso Vittorio, Torino, Italy
Finesilver Gallery opening, San Antonio. TX.
Last Supper. Michael Hue-Williams Gallery, London
Sweet tooth American Center of Wine, Food and the Arts, New York
Pleasures of Collecting: Part II, 20th-Century and Contemporary Art Bruce  Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich.
Abstraction in Photography Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Vik Muniz / Mark Schlesinger/ Kim Squaglia Finesilver Gallery opening, San Antonio, TX
Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art New York State Museum, Albany, EEUU
Panorama de Arte Brasileira. Museum of Modern Art. October 16-November 30, 2003. São Paulo, Brazil

2002  
Attack: Attraction. Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, December 5, 2002 - January 31, 2003
La Mirada: the Art of Photography in Latin America Today, Daros Exhibitions, Oct 2002/Jan 2003 Zurich, Switzerland.,
Tempo, Inaugural group show of MoMAQNS, June, NY
The Photogenic: Photography through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art. The Insitute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. March, PA
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June/July NY
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, June/July NY
What's New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, , Whitney Museum of American Art, September NY
Collection of Photographs from MAM, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo, July/ August, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Huesca Image: VIII International Festival of Photography. Spain
Staging Reality:  Photography from the West Collection at SEI, August 29 - September 30, 2002 The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts  in Philadelphia, PA
Imagens Apropriadas, Espaco MAM Villa Lobos, September/October 2002, SP, Brazil.

2001
Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Veneza, Italy
49^th Venice Biennial: Palazzo Fortuny, Veneza, Italy
Planet Earth, The City Gallery, Leicester, Inglaterra
Drawn from Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
Brazil:Body and Soul,The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Espelho Cego: Seleções de uma Coleção Contemporanea, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro.
The Thread Unravelled: Contemporary Brazilian Art, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Políticas de la diferencia. Arte Ibero-Americano fin de siglo",
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, SP
Museo Nacional de Belas Artes de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Museo Sofia Imber, Caracas
Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo de Mexico, DF
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Biennale di Venezia, Veneza.

2000  
The Corcoran Bienal. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
Re- Location: on moving, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States. National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Projecto Mnemosyne: Encontros de Fotografia. Museu Antropologico, Coimbra.
Biennial Exhibition.Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Photo España 00.  Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Landscape-Portrait.  Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, Londres
The Quiet of the Land. Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador
Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the Whitney    Museum of American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York

1999  
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Abracadabra. The Tate Gallery, London
Trace. The Tate Gallery, Liverpool
  
1998  
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. São Paulo
Group Exhibition. The Cannon Gallery for Photography, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Urban Cannibal. Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Double Trouble, the Patchett Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Le Donné, le Fictif. Centre National de La Photographie, Paris
The Garden of the Forking Paths. Kunstforeiningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, traveled to Oslo, Norway; Helsinki
Over Our Heads: The Image of Water in Contemporary Art. San Jose
Museum of Art, San Jose
Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand/Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Das Mass der Dinge. Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany; Galerie Im Traklhaus, Saltzburg
The Cottingley Fairies and Other Apparitions. The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tenn.
La Collection II. Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Internality Externality. Galerie Lelong, New York
 
1997
New Photography XIII. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Faces and Other Recent Acquisitions.  The Art Institute of Chicago
Assi Esta la Cosa. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF
Une Fleur des Photographes: L'Arum.  Musée National de la Coopération Franco-Américaine, Château de Blérancourt, Blérancourt
Pool. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
One Line Drawing. UBU Gallery, New York
Colleción Ordónez Falcón de Fotografia. IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez Valencia
Artistes Latino-Americains. Daniel Templon, Paris
20 Years, Almost. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Hope. The National Arts Club, New York
Ut Scientia Pictura. Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York

1996    
Wesenchau: Disingenuous Images. Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich
Bis. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
The Subverted Object. UBU Gallery, New York
Recent Acquisitions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Inclusion/Exclusion. Steirischer Herbst, curated by Peter Weibel, Graz
Some Assembly Required. The Art Institute of Chicago, curated by David Travis (three photographers), Chicago, Ill.
Novas Aquisições. Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Shadow Play. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
Material Matters. A.O.I. Gallery Santa Fe, N. Mex.

1995
Changing Perspectives. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
Panorama da Arte Contemporânea Brasileira. Museu de Arte Moderna, Curated by Ivo Mesquita, São Paulo, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro
Mostra America. Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, Curitiba
Recent Acquisitions.Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
The Photographic Condition. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Cultured Tourist. Center For Photography at Woodstock, curated by Leslie Tonkonow, Woodstock
Blindspot. The MAC, Dallas Artist Research and Exhibition, Dallas
Garbage. Thread Waxing Space, New York

1994  
Single Cell Creatures. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah
Crash. The Thread Waxing Space, New York.
Up the Stablishment: Reconstructing the Counterculture. Sonnabend Gallery, curated by Dan Cameron, New York
Garbage. Real Art Ways, curated by Ann Pasternak, Hartford, Conn.
Jetleg. Gallerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt

1993
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
The Alternative Eye: Photography for the '90s. Southern Alleghenies Museum, Loreto, Pa.
Time to Time. Castello di Rivara, curated by Luca Beatrice, Torino
Sound. Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano
Post-Verbum. Pallazzo della Regione, Bergamo

1992
Life Size: Small, Medium, Large. Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Multiples. The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Conn. 
Detour. The International House, New York
The Collection. Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Les Enfants Terribles. Wooster Gardens, New York
Gallery Artists. Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
Theoretically Yours. Regione Autonoma Della Valle d'Aosta, Aosta

1991
Mike Kelley/Vik Muniz/Jim Shaw. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.
The Encompassing Eye, Photography as Drawing. University Art Galleries, University of Akro
The Neighborhood. A.I.R., Amsterdam
Anni Novanta. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, curated by Renato Barilli and Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Comune di Bologna
Real Fake. Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Outside America. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
The Fetish of Knowledge. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.

1990    
Non Sculpture. Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Constructed Illusion. Pace MacGill Gallery, New York.
Assembled. Wright State University, Dayton
On the Edge Between Sculpture and Photography. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland

1989  
De Rozeboomkamer.  Beeldenroute Foundation, Diepenheim
Wortlaut: Konzepte Zwischen Visueller Poesie & Fluxus. Galerie   Schuppenhauer, Cologne


FILMS

2004
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Mixed Green Production (54 min.)
Director and Producer: Anne-Marie Russel


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTED)

The Art Institute of Chicago
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn.
The Bohen Foundation, New York
Caisse des Depóts et Consignatións, Paris
Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Isla Canarias, España
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, España
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Hawaii
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Daros Latin America, Zürich Daros Latin
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Fundação Horizontes, MG, Brasil
The Jewish Museum, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY
Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
The Indianapolis Art Museum
International Pacific College, Kobe City
The International Center of Photography, New York
IVAN Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain 
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago
La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museu Bibliografico Luis Angel, Bogotá
Museo de Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka City
New York Public Library
Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Prudential Foundation, Newark, New Jersey
The Rhode Island School of Design Modern Art Museum
Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, New York
Roseum, Malmo,Suecia
The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Calif.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri.
The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The West Collection at SEI, PA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Kanasawa, Japan