Cildo Meireles
Born 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 “Cildo Meireles: Rio OIR,” 10th Edition of Projecto Ocupação, Itaú Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
“Glovetrotter,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
“Cildo Meireles,” Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. Traveled through 2010 to Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
“Babel,” Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Brazil; Traveled to Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
“Algum Desenho [1963-2005],” Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004
“Descala and Strictu,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Occasion,” Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
2003
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2002
“Aquisicões essenciais,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001
Arte Futura e Companhia, Brasilia, Brazil
“Geografia do Brasil,” Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio, Brasília, Brazil
2000
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Kunstverein Heilbron, Kolnischer, Cologne, Germany
“Zona Instavel: Cildo Meireles, Luiz Alphonsus and Alfredo Fontes,” Escola de Artes Visuals,
Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Retrospective, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York; Traveled through 2000 to Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paolo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Studio K, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1998“Camelô,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“Desenhos – Cildo Meireles, Artur Barrio and Luis Fonseca,” Paco imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1997
“Atelier Finep,” Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centre d'Art Contemporain Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
“Eureka/Blindhotland and Fio," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1995
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Centro del Carme, Valencia, Spain; Traveled to Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
"Ouro e paus," Galeria Joel Edelstein, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Two Trees," Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
"Volatile," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1994
"Volatile and Entrevendo," Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
1992
"Metros I," Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1990
“Cildo Meireles: Missão/Missões How to Build Cathedrals & Cinza,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
“Projects,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1989
“Atraves,” Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
"Campos de Jogo," Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
"Cinza,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Desvio para o vermelho,” Museu de Arte Moderna, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Red Shift," Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil
1984
“Desvio para o vermelho,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Red Shift,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Two Collections – Drawings,” Sala Oswaldo Goeldi, Brazil
1983
"Eureka/Blindhotland," Rio Arte Humaita, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Obscure Light," Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1981
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1979
"Definitives Articles," Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"The Sermon on the Mount: Fiat Lux," Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1978
"Cildo Meireles Drawings from Luiz Buarque de Hollanda and Paulo Bittencourt Collection,” Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
1977
"Casos de Sacos," Museum of Art and Popular Culture, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
1975
"Blindhotland/Ghetto: Virtual Spaces: Corners," Galeria Luiz Buarque de Hollanda e Paulo Bittencourt, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Eureka/Blindhotland," Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1967
“Desenhos,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Systems, Actions and Processes: 1965-1975,” Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“A Rua (The Street),” Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Paradigm Shift. Serralves Collection 60’s 70’s,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, France
“Distant Star / Estrella Distante,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
“The Spiral and the Square. Exercises in Translatability,” Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
“A Terrible Beauty is Born,” 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Athena Galería de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Galería Kurimanzutto, San Miguel Chapultepec, México
“Art and Confrontation in Latin America: 1910-2010,” Palacio de Bellas Artes and Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
“Interventions in the Landscape,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2010
“Amazonia, A Arte,” Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil
“Os 70’s,” Progetti, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
“First and Last, Notes on the Monument,” Galería Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Contemporary Art from the Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Snapshots of Tourism,” Gallery Augusta, HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
“Like Tears in Rain,” Palacio das Artes – Fabrica de Talentos, Porto, Portugal
“185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York, New York
2009
“Los Impoliticos,” Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
“Grito e Escuta,” 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“À Contre-Corps / Countering the Body,” Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
“Brazilian Summer.Art & the City,” Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands
“On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
“Making Worlds,” 53rd Italian Pavilion, International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Unbuilt Roads,” Based on the book Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealised Projects, Hatje Cantz (1997) edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa, e-flux project space, New York, New York
“NÓS,” Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Collection,” Siobhan Davies Dance Studio & Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
“When Lives Become Form – Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960 – Present,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
“Trazos Humanos [Human Traces],” University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
“Arte ? Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“No Es Neutrala – Daros Latinamerica Collection,” Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
2007
“New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Face to Face,” The Daros Collections, Zurich, Switzerland
“Arte para Crianças [Art for Children],” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Transactions,” Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
“Time Present Time Past: Highlights from 20 Years of the International Istanbul Biennial,” Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey. Exhibition concurrent with the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“New Economy,” Artists Space, New York, New York
2006
“The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos),” North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota; Traveled through 2010 to El Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Museo de Arte de San Marcos, Lima, Peru; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Central Cultural Matacuna 100, Santiago, Chile; The Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia; Art Museum of the Americas OAS, Washington, D.C.; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming; Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Centennial Museum, and the Union Exhibition Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas
“Contrabando,” Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Seduçoes: Valeska Soares, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto,” Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
“20 Desarranxos: Panorama da Arte Brasileira,” Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
“Collection Fundacion ‘la Caixa’: New Acquisitions,” Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
“Espaço Brasil,” Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970,” Tate Modern, London, England
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Paralela 2004,” São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
“Populism,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Exhibited concurrently at Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilinius; and the National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
2004
“Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Forms 1940s-70s,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Inverted Utopias,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
2003
“50 Biennale di Venizia,” Venice, Italy
“A Nova Geometria,” Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil
“Layers of Brazilian Art,” Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
“Panorama da Arte Brasileira,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Poetic Justice: 8th Istanbul Biennial,” Istanbul, Turkey
“The Paper Sculpture Show,” Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York; Traveled through 2007 to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
“Uneasy Space,” SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002
”Arte All’ Arte 10: Arte Architettura Paesaggio,” Associazione Arte Continua, Siena, Italy
“Desenhistas e Coloristas,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
“Fluxus and the Folgen,” Strojectburo Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden, Germany
“Parallels: Brazilian Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century in Context – Colección
Cisneros,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Tempo,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Vivencias – Dialogues between the works of Brazilian artists from 1960-2002,” New Art Gallery, Walsall, England; Traveled to Sainsbury Center for Visual Art, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
2001
“Ars 01 – Unfolding Perspectives,” Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
“Da Adversidade Vivemos,” Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“El Final del Eclipse – el arte de America Latina en la Transicion al Siglo XXI,” Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
“Espelho Cego – Selcoes de uma Colecao Contemporanea,” Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Espaco Cultural Venancio, Venancio Aires, Brazil
“Marking time/ Making memory,” Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
“Minimalism Past And Presence,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Museu de Etnologia de Leiden, Holland
“The Public Garden – The Enclosure and the Disclosure of the Public Garden,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
“Rembrandt to Rauschenberg,” Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
“Shopping,” Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
“Trajetoria da luz na arte brasileira,” Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
“Versiones del Sur: Eztetyka del sueno,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid,
Spain
2000
“Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment,” National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; Traveled through 2001 to Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil; Freedman Gallery, Albright Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania; Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of South Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Extetyka del Sueno,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Iron+Grid+Void: Art of the Americas from the Chase Manhattan Collection,” The Americas Society, New York, New York
“Jornal Aberto,” Museo do Telefone/Espaco Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Kwangju Biennale 2000: Man + Space,” Kwangju, South Korea
“Making Choices,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Mostra do Redescobrimento, São Paulo, Brazil
“Others Modernities,” London Institute, London, England
“Outros 500 – Highlights of Brazilian Contemporary Art in UECLAA,” University of Essex, Collection of Latin American Art, Colchester, England
South Korea Biennial, South Korea
“Stuacoes – Arte Brasileira Anos 70,” Casa Franca-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Song of the Earth,” Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Versiones del Sur – Fricciones,” Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Versiones del Sur – Heterotopias,” Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Versions del Sur - No es Sólo lo Que Ves: Pervirtiendo el Minimalismo,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
“Vivências (Life Experiences),” Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Worthless (Invaluable),” Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999
“Circa 1968,” Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“Das Vanguardas ao Fim do Milenio,” Culturegest, Lisbon, Portugal
“Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s,” Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, New
York; Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Horizontes Cambiantes,” Casa da America, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“S.M.A.K.,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Gand, Belgium
“Why Duchamp?” Paco des Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
1998
XXIV São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
“Horizonte Reflexivo,” Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Insertions. Notes Towards the Dematerialization of the Art Exhibition,” Nordika Museet/Teknisha Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
"Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum fur Augewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
“Puntos Cardinales,” Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1997
“2nd Johannesburg Biennale – Trade Routes,” Johannesburg, South Africa
"Asi Esta la Cosa,” Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
“Face of History,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“I Bienial de Artes Visuais do Mercosul,” Porto Alegre, Brazil
"Realigning Vision: South American Drawings 1960 – 1997," El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Traveled to Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"You are Here," Royal College of Art, London, England
1996
"Face à l'Histoire," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Sin Fronteras-Arte Latinoamericano Actual," Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1995
"Art From Brazil in New York," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Arteieku Colisiones,” Saint Sebastien, Spain
"Panaramas,” Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Temporarily Possessed. The Semi-Permanent Collection,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1994
"20 Anos de Arte Brasileira," Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
"Bienal Brasil Sculo XX," Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Espaco Namour," Colectiva de Esculturas, São Paulo, Brazil
“Impressoes,” Escola de Artes Visuais, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1993
"Body to Earth – Three Artists from Brazil," Fischer Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
“Emblemas do Corpo – Desenhos,” Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“L’autre a Montevideo – Homenaje a Isidore Ducasse,” National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevido, Uruguay
“Time and Tide. The II Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
"America, Bride of the Sun," Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
"Encounters/Displacements," Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century," Estacion Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain; Traveled through 1993 to Fondation Nationale des Arts, Paris, France; Museum Ludwig at Josef- Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Pour la Suite du Monde," Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
1991
"Denonciation," Ecole d'Architecture de Normandie, Normandy, France
1990
“Casino Fantasma,” Casino Municipal, Venice; Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
"The Rhetorical Image," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
“Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists,” Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Traveled to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
“Uncover/Discover – New Works for Different Places,” Derry, Northern Ireland; Traveled to Glasgow, Scotland; Newcastle, England; Plymouth, England
1989
XX Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Magiciens de la Terre," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1988
"Brazil Projects,” P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
“Broken Music,” Daadgalerie Gemeentemuseum, Berlin, Germany; Traveled to The Hague, The Netherlands; Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
“Expressão e Conceito/anos 70,” Galeria Centro Empresarial Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Modernidade – Brazilian art of the 20th century,” Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
"The Debt," Exit Art, New York, New York
"The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920 –1970," The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, New York
1987
“Missoes: 300 Anos – Visão do Artista,” National Theater, Brazil; Traveled through 1988 to Parque Laje, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil; Reitoria da Universade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
"Modernidade - Art Brésilien du 20 Siècle," Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Traveled through 1988 to Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil
“Non Magic World,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
“12 years of Trabalho Juntos,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“Depoirnento de uma Geracao: 1969 – 1970,” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1984
“Private Symbols: Social Metaphor,” V Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, Australia
“Tradicao e Ruptura,” Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1983
"Bread in Meters," Sul America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Eureka/Blindhotland,” Rio Arte Humasta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1982
"From Modern Art to Contemporary Art," Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
1981
XVI Bienal de São Paulo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
"From Modern Art to Contemporary Art," Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
"The Sermon of the Mountain: Fiat Lux," Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia
1979
"Escala: Aquila," Núcleo de Arte Contemporânea, João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
“Figuracao Referencial – XI Salao Nacional de Arte,” Museum of Art, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1977
Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1976
"International Actuality," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1975
“Novas Tendencias,” Paco das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
1974
“Desenho Brasileiro – IX Salao de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas,” Museum of Contemporary Art de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
1973
"Expo-Projecião," Galeria Grife, São Paulo, Brazil
1970
"Agnus Day: Thereza Simoes, Guilharme Vaz and Cildo Meireles," Petite Gallerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Information," Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"From Body to Earth," Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1969
“Pre-Bienial de Paris,” Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Salao de Bussola,” Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1965
“Il Salao de Arte Moderna do Distrito Federal,” Brasilia, Brazil
AWARDS
2008
Velazquez Prize in Plastic Arts, Ministerio de Cultura, Spain
Ordway Prize, administered by Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, New York
2006
Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2005
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1999
Prince Claus Award, The Prince Claus Fund, The Hague, The Netherlands
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Artscape Nordland, Municipality of Dønna, Nordland County, Norway
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Daros Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, Missouri
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Contemporanea, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 “Cildo Meireles: Rio OIR,” 10th Edition of Projecto Ocupação, Itaú Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
“Glovetrotter,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
“Cildo Meireles,” Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. Traveled through 2010 to Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
“Babel,” Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Brazil; Traveled to Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
“Algum Desenho [1963-2005],” Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004
“Descala and Strictu,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Occasion,” Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
2003
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2002
“Aquisicões essenciais,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001
Arte Futura e Companhia, Brasilia, Brazil
“Geografia do Brasil,” Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio, Brasília, Brazil
2000
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Kunstverein Heilbron, Kolnischer, Cologne, Germany
“Zona Instavel: Cildo Meireles, Luiz Alphonsus and Alfredo Fontes,” Escola de Artes Visuals,
Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Retrospective, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York; Traveled through 2000 to Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paolo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Studio K, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1998“Camelô,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“Desenhos – Cildo Meireles, Artur Barrio and Luis Fonseca,” Paco imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1997
“Atelier Finep,” Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centre d'Art Contemporain Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
“Eureka/Blindhotland and Fio," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1995
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Centro del Carme, Valencia, Spain; Traveled to Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
"Ouro e paus," Galeria Joel Edelstein, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Two Trees," Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
"Volatile," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1994
"Volatile and Entrevendo," Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
1992
"Metros I," Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1990
“Cildo Meireles: Missão/Missões How to Build Cathedrals & Cinza,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
“Projects,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1989
“Atraves,” Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
"Campos de Jogo," Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
"Cinza,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Desvio para o vermelho,” Museu de Arte Moderna, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Red Shift," Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil
1984
“Desvio para o vermelho,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Red Shift,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Two Collections – Drawings,” Sala Oswaldo Goeldi, Brazil
1983
"Eureka/Blindhotland," Rio Arte Humaita, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Obscure Light," Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1981
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1979
"Definitives Articles," Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"The Sermon on the Mount: Fiat Lux," Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1978
"Cildo Meireles Drawings from Luiz Buarque de Hollanda and Paulo Bittencourt Collection,” Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
1977
"Casos de Sacos," Museum of Art and Popular Culture, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
1975
"Blindhotland/Ghetto: Virtual Spaces: Corners," Galeria Luiz Buarque de Hollanda e Paulo Bittencourt, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Eureka/Blindhotland," Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1967
“Desenhos,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Systems, Actions and Processes: 1965-1975,” Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“A Rua (The Street),” Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Paradigm Shift. Serralves Collection 60’s 70’s,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, France
“Distant Star / Estrella Distante,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
“The Spiral and the Square. Exercises in Translatability,” Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
“A Terrible Beauty is Born,” 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Athena Galería de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Galería Kurimanzutto, San Miguel Chapultepec, México
“Art and Confrontation in Latin America: 1910-2010,” Palacio de Bellas Artes and Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
“Interventions in the Landscape,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2010
“Amazonia, A Arte,” Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil
“Os 70’s,” Progetti, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
“First and Last, Notes on the Monument,” Galería Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Contemporary Art from the Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Snapshots of Tourism,” Gallery Augusta, HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
“Like Tears in Rain,” Palacio das Artes – Fabrica de Talentos, Porto, Portugal
“185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York, New York
2009
“Los Impoliticos,” Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
“Grito e Escuta,” 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“À Contre-Corps / Countering the Body,” Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
“Brazilian Summer.Art & the City,” Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands
“On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
“Making Worlds,” 53rd Italian Pavilion, International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Unbuilt Roads,” Based on the book Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealised Projects, Hatje Cantz (1997) edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa, e-flux project space, New York, New York
“NÓS,” Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Collection,” Siobhan Davies Dance Studio & Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
“When Lives Become Form – Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960 – Present,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
“Trazos Humanos [Human Traces],” University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
“Arte ? Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“No Es Neutrala – Daros Latinamerica Collection,” Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
2007
“New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Face to Face,” The Daros Collections, Zurich, Switzerland
“Arte para Crianças [Art for Children],” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Transactions,” Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
“Time Present Time Past: Highlights from 20 Years of the International Istanbul Biennial,” Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey. Exhibition concurrent with the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“New Economy,” Artists Space, New York, New York
2006
“The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos),” North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota; Traveled through 2010 to El Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Museo de Arte de San Marcos, Lima, Peru; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Central Cultural Matacuna 100, Santiago, Chile; The Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia; Art Museum of the Americas OAS, Washington, D.C.; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming; Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Centennial Museum, and the Union Exhibition Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas
“Contrabando,” Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Seduçoes: Valeska Soares, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto,” Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
“20 Desarranxos: Panorama da Arte Brasileira,” Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
“Collection Fundacion ‘la Caixa’: New Acquisitions,” Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
“Espaço Brasil,” Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970,” Tate Modern, London, England
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Paralela 2004,” São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
“Populism,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Exhibited concurrently at Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilinius; and the National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
2004
“Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Forms 1940s-70s,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Inverted Utopias,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
2003
“50 Biennale di Venizia,” Venice, Italy
“A Nova Geometria,” Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil
“Layers of Brazilian Art,” Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
“Panorama da Arte Brasileira,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Poetic Justice: 8th Istanbul Biennial,” Istanbul, Turkey
“The Paper Sculpture Show,” Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York; Traveled through 2007 to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
“Uneasy Space,” SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002
”Arte All’ Arte 10: Arte Architettura Paesaggio,” Associazione Arte Continua, Siena, Italy
“Desenhistas e Coloristas,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
“Fluxus and the Folgen,” Strojectburo Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden, Germany
“Parallels: Brazilian Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century in Context – Colección
Cisneros,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Tempo,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Vivencias – Dialogues between the works of Brazilian artists from 1960-2002,” New Art Gallery, Walsall, England; Traveled to Sainsbury Center for Visual Art, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
2001
“Ars 01 – Unfolding Perspectives,” Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
“Da Adversidade Vivemos,” Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“El Final del Eclipse – el arte de America Latina en la Transicion al Siglo XXI,” Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
“Espelho Cego – Selcoes de uma Colecao Contemporanea,” Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Espaco Cultural Venancio, Venancio Aires, Brazil
“Marking time/ Making memory,” Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
“Minimalism Past And Presence,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Museu de Etnologia de Leiden, Holland
“The Public Garden – The Enclosure and the Disclosure of the Public Garden,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
“Rembrandt to Rauschenberg,” Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
“Shopping,” Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
“Trajetoria da luz na arte brasileira,” Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
“Versiones del Sur: Eztetyka del sueno,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid,
Spain
2000
“Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment,” National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; Traveled through 2001 to Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil; Freedman Gallery, Albright Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania; Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of South Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Extetyka del Sueno,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Iron+Grid+Void: Art of the Americas from the Chase Manhattan Collection,” The Americas Society, New York, New York
“Jornal Aberto,” Museo do Telefone/Espaco Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Kwangju Biennale 2000: Man + Space,” Kwangju, South Korea
“Making Choices,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Mostra do Redescobrimento, São Paulo, Brazil
“Others Modernities,” London Institute, London, England
“Outros 500 – Highlights of Brazilian Contemporary Art in UECLAA,” University of Essex, Collection of Latin American Art, Colchester, England
South Korea Biennial, South Korea
“Stuacoes – Arte Brasileira Anos 70,” Casa Franca-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Song of the Earth,” Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Versiones del Sur – Fricciones,” Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Versiones del Sur – Heterotopias,” Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Versions del Sur - No es Sólo lo Que Ves: Pervirtiendo el Minimalismo,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
“Vivências (Life Experiences),” Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Worthless (Invaluable),” Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999
“Circa 1968,” Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“Das Vanguardas ao Fim do Milenio,” Culturegest, Lisbon, Portugal
“Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s,” Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, New
York; Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Horizontes Cambiantes,” Casa da America, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“S.M.A.K.,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Gand, Belgium
“Why Duchamp?” Paco des Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
1998
XXIV São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
“Horizonte Reflexivo,” Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Insertions. Notes Towards the Dematerialization of the Art Exhibition,” Nordika Museet/Teknisha Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
"Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum fur Augewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
“Puntos Cardinales,” Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1997
“2nd Johannesburg Biennale – Trade Routes,” Johannesburg, South Africa
"Asi Esta la Cosa,” Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
“Face of History,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“I Bienial de Artes Visuais do Mercosul,” Porto Alegre, Brazil
"Realigning Vision: South American Drawings 1960 – 1997," El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Traveled to Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"You are Here," Royal College of Art, London, England
1996
"Face à l'Histoire," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Sin Fronteras-Arte Latinoamericano Actual," Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1995
"Art From Brazil in New York," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Arteieku Colisiones,” Saint Sebastien, Spain
"Panaramas,” Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Temporarily Possessed. The Semi-Permanent Collection,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1994
"20 Anos de Arte Brasileira," Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
"Bienal Brasil Sculo XX," Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Espaco Namour," Colectiva de Esculturas, São Paulo, Brazil
“Impressoes,” Escola de Artes Visuais, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1993
"Body to Earth – Three Artists from Brazil," Fischer Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
“Emblemas do Corpo – Desenhos,” Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“L’autre a Montevideo – Homenaje a Isidore Ducasse,” National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevido, Uruguay
“Time and Tide. The II Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
"America, Bride of the Sun," Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
"Encounters/Displacements," Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century," Estacion Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain; Traveled through 1993 to Fondation Nationale des Arts, Paris, France; Museum Ludwig at Josef- Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Pour la Suite du Monde," Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
1991
"Denonciation," Ecole d'Architecture de Normandie, Normandy, France
1990
“Casino Fantasma,” Casino Municipal, Venice; Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
"The Rhetorical Image," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
“Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists,” Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Traveled to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
“Uncover/Discover – New Works for Different Places,” Derry, Northern Ireland; Traveled to Glasgow, Scotland; Newcastle, England; Plymouth, England
1989
XX Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Magiciens de la Terre," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1988
"Brazil Projects,” P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
“Broken Music,” Daadgalerie Gemeentemuseum, Berlin, Germany; Traveled to The Hague, The Netherlands; Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
“Expressão e Conceito/anos 70,” Galeria Centro Empresarial Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Modernidade – Brazilian art of the 20th century,” Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
"The Debt," Exit Art, New York, New York
"The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920 –1970," The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, New York
1987
“Missoes: 300 Anos – Visão do Artista,” National Theater, Brazil; Traveled through 1988 to Parque Laje, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil; Reitoria da Universade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
"Modernidade - Art Brésilien du 20 Siècle," Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Traveled through 1988 to Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil
“Non Magic World,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
“12 years of Trabalho Juntos,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“Depoirnento de uma Geracao: 1969 – 1970,” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1984
“Private Symbols: Social Metaphor,” V Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, Australia
“Tradicao e Ruptura,” Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1983
"Bread in Meters," Sul America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Eureka/Blindhotland,” Rio Arte Humasta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1982
"From Modern Art to Contemporary Art," Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
1981
XVI Bienal de São Paulo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
"From Modern Art to Contemporary Art," Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
"The Sermon of the Mountain: Fiat Lux," Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia
1979
"Escala: Aquila," Núcleo de Arte Contemporânea, João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
“Figuracao Referencial – XI Salao Nacional de Arte,” Museum of Art, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1977
Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1976
"International Actuality," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1975
“Novas Tendencias,” Paco das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
1974
“Desenho Brasileiro – IX Salao de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas,” Museum of Contemporary Art de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
1973
"Expo-Projecião," Galeria Grife, São Paulo, Brazil
1970
"Agnus Day: Thereza Simoes, Guilharme Vaz and Cildo Meireles," Petite Gallerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Information," Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"From Body to Earth," Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1969
“Pre-Bienial de Paris,” Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Salao de Bussola,” Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1965
“Il Salao de Arte Moderna do Distrito Federal,” Brasilia, Brazil
AWARDS
2008
Velazquez Prize in Plastic Arts, Ministerio de Cultura, Spain
Ordway Prize, administered by Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, New York
2006
Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2005
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1999
Prince Claus Award, The Prince Claus Fund, The Hague, The Netherlands
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Artscape Nordland, Municipality of Dønna, Nordland County, Norway
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Daros Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, Missouri
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Contemporanea, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom