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     ERNESTO NETO / press release · images · bio
   
 
ERNESTO NETO

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1964
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 
EDUCATION
                      
 
Escola de Artes Visuais Pargua Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil                    
           

SOLO SHOWS
           
2008                          
Ernesto Neto, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
 
2007                         
Sebastian to Olivia, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany  
É a vida, o espaço interior; Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Um beijo de joguinho, MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan
Otheranimal, Cunningham Miami MOCA, USA
MCASD downtown, JACOBS building, California, USA
 
2006                                     
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Léviathan thot, Festival d’ automne à Paris, 35 edition, Paris, France
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
How to put it up, dulcieneia! Galerie Bob von Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
The Malmö Experience, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
 
2005                          
Ernesto Neto, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Tratatus/Deuses, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
Ernesto Neto, Domaine de Kerguéhennec Centre D’art Contemporain, Paris, France
 
2004                          
Desorientation by beauty, De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Ernesto Neto, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanasawa
National  Museum of Modern Art ,Tokyo, Happiness: a survival guide for art and life
Ernesto Neto, MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
                       
 
2003                           
The silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people, Tanya Bonakdar, NY, USA   
Ernesto Neto, MAMAM, Recife, Brazil
Ernesto Neto, Museum of  Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Passing Time, Passing Space, Aarhus Artbuilding, Aarhus, Denmark
 
2002                           
Directions-Ernesto Neto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
Ernesto Neto, Kunsthalle Basel, Zurich, Switzerland
Genealogy of Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
 
2001                          
Matrix 190, A Maximum Minumum time space between us and the parsimonious universe, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Only the amoebas are happy, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, USA
A paisagem do corpo/O corpo da paisagem, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Kiasma Museum of Comtemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
 
2000                          
O Casamento – Lili, Neto, Lito e os loucos. MAM do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Stella Nave, University of Essex, SITE Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA
Acontece num fim de tarde, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, Australia
                                   
1999                           
Ernesto Neto. Nhó Nhó Nave
, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

1998                                     
poff, poff, poff
, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrilo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
 
1997                                     
Esculturas
, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
 
1996                                     
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela
         
  1994                                     
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
         
1993                                     
Quase Desenhos, Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1992                                     
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

1991                                     
Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
1990                                      
Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1989                                     
Galeria Macunaíma, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1988                                     
Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
            
GROUP SHOWS

2007
Space for your future, MOT, Tokyo, Japan
Arte para criança, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Action in Utopia, Leiter Des Landesgalerie Linz, Austria     
Retalhar, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tropicália, uma revolução na cultura brasileira MAM Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Por um fio, CPFL Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Melting point, Tokyo opera city, Tokyo, Japan
Close to me
, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Arte para criança, Museu Vale do Rio doce Vitória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Held together with water, MAK, Austria
1980/95, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
ICA 60 the aniversary edition, London, UK
PNCA Hessel Museum Bard College, NY, USA

2006                          
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Centro Cultural Cascais, Portugal
Gardens, Toyota municipal museum of art, Japan
Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture at the Bronx Museum of Art, NY, USA
Forum 57, Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto, Carnegie Museum of Art, Washington, USA
Abrigo poético: Diálogos com Ligia Clark MAC Niterói, Brazil                     
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Surprise, surprise, ICA, London, UK
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
                                      
2006                            
Brazil in Zurich: Seduced to art by art, Daros Exhibitions, Löwenbräu-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens, Athens, Greece
Sublime Embrace, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
Choque Cultural na Fortes Vilaça - Fortes Vilaça na Choque Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tropicalia, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Tropicalia, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
                                    
2005                            
Troca Brasil The Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern          Art, Dublin, Ireland
150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Drawing from the Modern: 1975 – 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Bresil = Foot Art, Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris, France
A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Educação, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
La Caixa collection. 20 Years with Contemporary Art new Acquisitions, Barcelona, Spain
Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives between Reality and Fantasy, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
5º Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
O Corpo onde não há, Festival d’Automne, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris,
France
J’en rêve Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Desenhos: A – Z Collecção Maderia Corporate Sevice, Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal
20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

2004                       
The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
A Contemporary Woman:  Disorientation by Beauty, Tilburg Triennial of Contemporary Art at The De Pont Foundation, The Netherlands
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
Perception of Space, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
Everyting is connected he, he, he Astrup Fearnley – Museum for Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
The Real Royal, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
Bazar de Verão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are reinvented in the Internet Age, The Logan Collection, Vail (catalogue)
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA (catalogue)
Bedford Gallery Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
Thin Skin: The fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures,
Boise Art Museum, Boise (catalogue)

2003                           
Nouvelle Présentacion dês Collections Contemporaines du Musée Nacional d´Art Moderne Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
8th Havana Biennial, Cuba
A Simple Plan, James Cohan Gallery, NY, USA
50th Biennale di Venezia, UNESCO´s Palazzo Zorzi, Venice
Imagination: On Perception in Art Steirischer Herbst 2003, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
The Real Royal Trip, P.S.1 MOMA, Long Island City, NYC, USA
From Dust to Dusk: Art between light and dirt Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Thin Skin: The fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures, International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA                
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita
 
2002                           
Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Shape, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Sleeping/Dreaming/Awakening, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba
Forever, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, USA
Thin Skin: The fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, AX Gallery, New York; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Ernesto Neto / Rivane Neuenschwander, Museum of Modern Art, Recife, Brazil
II Liverpool Biennial of Cotemporary Art, Liverpool, UK       
  New South Whales Museum, Australia
Art Auction 2002, Benefiting, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
The Inside is the Outside, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Skin, Soul, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Archivo Pons Artxiboa, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturnuea, Donostia San Sebastian, Spain
Insieme / Together, Museo Nazionale di Archittetura, Ferrara, Italy
                       
2001                                      
Space-Jack, Yokohama Museum Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Vantage Points, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Surface, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
El Final Del Eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; Palacio de Los Condes de Gabia Salas Caja General e Instituto de America, Granada; Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz, Spain
Outros 500, University Gallery, Essex, College, Essex, USA
Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Plateau of Humankind, 49º Biennale di Venezia, Brazilian Pavilion and the Arsenale
Trienal of Barcelona, Spain
Espelho Cego, Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
TRANS>editions, Chac Mool Gallery
The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA (catalogue)
Before Reflection Begins List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, USA
Bodyspace, The Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
Brazil: Body and Soul,Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Short Stories, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
 
2000                           
La Repetition, La Tete dans les nuages, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Sense and Sensuality, Body and Soul in Pictures, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Charles Long / Ernesto Neto / Siobhan Hapaska Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
OO, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
The Invisible Touch, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Investigações: O trabalho do artista, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Brasil 500 Anos, Artes Visuais, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Carnegie International 1999/2000, Pittsburgh, Brazil
Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
Desde el Cuerpo, Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Os 90, Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SKIN, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA
 
1999                          
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Versiones del Sur, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, ICA, Boston, USA
Raumkörper: Netze und andere Gebilde, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
Amnesia, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá
The Best of Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, USA
Zero G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford
La Metamorfisis de las Manos, Irma Aresstizabal, Mar Del Plata
A Vuelta com los Sentidos, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain
Wonderland, Saint Louis Museum, Saint Louis, USA (catalogue)
Drawings, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 /99 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Versiones del Sur, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
 
1998                          
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
11stSidney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
Camargo Vilaça Bis 46, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Poéticas da Cor, Centro Cultural da Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Puntos Cardinales, Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Amnesia Track 16 Gallery, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Corpos em Trânsito, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Contemporânea, Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
 
1997                                     
Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Bienal Barro de América, Roberto Guevara, Memorial da America Latina, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura and Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Navedenga, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Material Immaterial, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Así Está la Cosa: Arte objeto y instalación de Iberoamerica, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, México City, Mexico
Best of the Season: Selected Works from 1996-97, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Die Anderen Modernen Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Sueños Concretos, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Novas Aquisições, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
  1996                          
Transformal, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Sayde Branfman Center, Montreal, Canada
Espaco 204, Caracas, Venezuela
Sin Fronteras/Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in NY, Miami, and LA, MCA, Miami, USA
Pequenas Mãos, Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centro Cultural Alumni, São Paulo, Brazil
Transparências, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Escultura Plural Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
 
1995                            
L'Educazione Dei Cinque Sensi, Palazzo Pamphili, Rome, Italy
Drawing Center, New York, USA
The Education of  the 5 Senses, White Columns, NY, USA
Anos 80: O Palco da Diversidade MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Country Code, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, USA
The Five Senses, White Columns, New York, USA
Entre o Desenho e a Escultura, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Libertaris Libertinos Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1st Kwangju International Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
Mostra da Gravura, Solar do Barão, Curitiba
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

1994                            
Escultura Carioca, Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Espaço Namour, São Paulo, Brazil
A Espessura do Signo, Carmeliter Kloster, Frankfurt, Germany
 
1993                          
Brasil Hoy, Galeria Vanezuela & Klenner, Bogota, Colombia
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
 
1992                          
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
1991                            
Brasil, la Nueva Generacion, Fundação Museu Bella Artes de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Panorama de Arte Brasileira Atual, MAM, São Paulo, Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Formas Tridimensionais: A questão orgânica, Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba
6º Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
 
1990                          
Premio Brasilia de Artes Plásticas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil

1989                           
11th Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Ordem Desfeita, 110 Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
O Pequeno Infinito e o Grande Circunscrito, Galeria Arco, São Paulo, Brazil

1988                             
Processo n°738.765-2, EAV Parque Lage ,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IBAC – Brazilian Institut of Art and Culture, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


AWARDS

CENTRAL Art Prize, 2000
 

COLLECTIONS

Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Málaga
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle  
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh   
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York  
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin   
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Purchase Fund, Washington D.C.
The Martin Margules Family, Miami
The Monsoon, London
The American Fund for the Tate Gallery Collection, London
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Daros Latin America, Zurich
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Austria
Fundación Televisa, Mexico
 
 



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