Estate of Helio Oiticica
Born 1937 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died 1980
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
“Museu É O Mundo,” Paço Imperial and Casa Fraça-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York,” Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York
2009
“Drawings: 1954–58,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2007
“Hélio Oiticica / Neville D’Almeida: Cosmococa Programa in Progress - Quasi-Cinema CC1 Trashiscapes,” Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
2006
“Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Traveled through 2007 to Tate Modern, London, England
“Hélio Oiticica / Neville D’Almeida: Cosmococa Programa in Progress - Quasi-Cinema CC1 Trashiscapes," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Penetrável,” Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Helio Oiticica / Neville d’Almeida: Cosmococa Programa in Progress,” Colección Constantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003
“Exposição Momentos: Frames, Cosmococa,” Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
2002
“Hélio Oiticica: Obra e Estratégia,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hélio Oiticica: Quasi-Cinema,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
“Paisagem Zero,” SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
2001
“Construção do Penetrável Magic Square No. 5,” Museu do Açude, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hélio Oiticica: Quasi-Cinemas,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Traveled to Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
2000
“Beyond Space,” Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba; Traveled to Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Espaços Públicos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998
“Hélio Oiticica e a Cena Americana,” Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hélio Oiticica DesenHOs,” Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro; Traveled to Centro de Estudos Brasileiros, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Hélio Oiticica Fotografias,” Galeria Paparazzi, São Paulo, Brazil
1996
“Hélio Oiticica” Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1992
“Hélio Oiticica,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Traveled to Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Fundación Tápies, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1990
“Hélio Mangueira Oiticica,” Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1989
“Grupo Frente e Metaesquemas,” Galeria de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1987
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
“O Q Faco e Musica,” Galerie de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1981
“Homanagem a Mário Pedrosa,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1980
“Hélio Oiticica,” Galeria Chaves, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1972
“Metaesquemas,” Galerie Ralph Camargo, São Paulo, Brazil
1969
“Hélio Oiticica,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1968
“Apocalipopotesis,” Aterro Park, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
1967
“Collective Parangole,” Aterro Park, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
1966
“Environment of Nuclei and Bodies,” Galeria G4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1961
“Os Projetos de Helio Oiticica,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“The 1950s: (Neo-) Concretism,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with Europalia.Brasil
“Brazil.Brasil,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with Europalia.Brasil
“Terra Brasilis,” ING Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with Europalia.Brasil
“A Rua (The Street),” Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Malba: Ten Years,” Malba-Fundación Costantini (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires), Argentina
“Playing with Form: Concrete Art from Brazil,” Dickinson, New York, New York
Galería de Arte Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Athena Galería de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Reinvention of the Modern,” Gagosian Gallery, Project Space, Paris, France
“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
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
“Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,” The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. Traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark e Lygia Pape,” Baró Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
“Everlasting Gobstopper,” Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, California
“Expanded Horizon,” Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“The Shape of Abstraction,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Hélio Oiticica/Rirkrit Tiravanija: Contact,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Arsenal,” Baró Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
“Textiles: Art and the Social Fabric,” Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
“Mexico: Expected/Unexpected,” TEA Tenerife Space for the Arts, Canary Islands. Traveled through 2011 to Stedelijk Museum Scheidam, the Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
“Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
“Brazil Contemporary,” Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
“NÓS,” Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milan – Turin / Los Angeles, 1956–1969,” Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
“Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100,” The Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, New York
2008
“Here is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Color in to Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
“Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection, Mexico: Expected / Unexpected,” La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
“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
“Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object,” Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York
“Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selected Highlights from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art,” New York State Museum, Albany, New York
“Time & Place: Rio de Janeiro 1956-1964,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
“Face to Face: Part 2,” The Daros Collections, Zurich, Switzerland
“Arte ? Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“Correspondences: Contemporary Art from the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros,” Beard Gallery and Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
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
“Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas. Traveled to Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
“Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
“The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Traveled to Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New York, New York
2006
“Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection,” Morris and Helen Belkin Art
Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“Concreta ’56: A Raiz da Forma,” Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
“Defamation of Character,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2005
“Collection Remixed,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, New York
“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Spectrum,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Tropicália: A revolution in Brazilian Culture”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Traveled through 2006 to The Barbican Gallery, London, England; The Bronx Musuem, The Bronx, New York
2004
“Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940’s-70’s,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
“MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of
the Museum of Modern Art,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“Organized Delirium: New York 1970-1978,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2003
“The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982,” Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
“X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions of the 1960’s and 1970’s,” Factory, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2002
“Brazil: Body and Soul,” Guggenheim Foundation, New York, New York
“Caminhos do Contemporâneo,” Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“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
“poT,” Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Traveled to Galeria Fortes Vilaçia, São
Paulo, Brazil
“St. Petrischnee,” Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
2001
“Central Cities,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Da Adversidade Vivemos,” Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
“Geometric Abstraction in Latin American Art: the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2000
“Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment,” National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; Traveled to Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Paço 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
“Campos de Fuerzas: Un Ensayo Sobre lo Cinético,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
“Force Fields,” Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain
“Heterotopias Faces del Cinetico,” Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Mostra Redescobrimento – Brasil 500 Anos,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
“Vivencias,” Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1999
“Circa 1968,” Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“Exercise of Freedom,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
“Global Conceptualism,” Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida
“Objeto,” Itacultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Poéticas da Cor,” Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Trouble Spot Painting,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
1998
“30 Anos de Tropicalismo,” Museo de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
“Il Bienal Internacional de Fotografia,” Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
1997
“Bienal do Mercosul,” Porto Alegre, Brazil
“Documenta X,” Kassel, Germany
1995
“Bloco Experiences,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
“Hall of Mirrors,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1994
“22a Bienal de São Paulo: Fundação Bienal, Sala Especial Bloco – Experiêncas in Cosmococa – Program in Progress,” Galeria de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1992
“Brazilian Art,” Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
“Artistas latinoamericanos del siglo XX,” Comisaria de la Ciudad de Sevilla para 1992; Traveled to Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne as two shows, “Art d’Amerique Latine 1911-1968,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France and “Amériques Latines: Art Contemporain,” Hôtel des Arts, Paris, France; Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1991
“Experiência Neoconcreta: Rio de Janeiro, 59/60,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Imagem sobre Imagem,” Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1989
“Art in Latin America—The Modern Era, 1820-1980,” Hayward Gallery, London, England; Traveled to National Museum Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Palacio de Velásquez, Madrid, Spain
“Mundo Abrigo,” Galeria 110 Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States 1920-1970,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, New York
1988
“Arte Brasileira do Século XX,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
“Brazil Projects,” PS1—The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. and Sociedade Cultural Art-Brasil, Long Island City, New York
1987
“Latin American Artists in New York since 1970,” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texis at Austin, Austin, Texas
“Modernidade: Art Brésilien du 20e Siècle,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Palavra Imagica,” Museu de Arte Contemporana, São Paulo, Brazil
“Tropicalia: 20 Anos,” Centro de Lazer SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
“IX Salão Nacional,” FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“JK e Os Anos 50—Uma Visão da Cultura e do Cotidiano,” Galeria Investiarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Lygia Clark e Helio Oiticica,” Sala especial do 9 Salão Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Contemporãnea, São Paulo, Brazil
1985
“VIII Salão Nacional,” FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“A Arte e Seus Materiais-Atitudes Contemporaneas,” Sala Especial do Salão Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Opinião 65,” Galeria de Arte BANERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Tropicália, Gil-20 Anos Luz,” Anhembi, São Paulo, Brazil
1984
“Colecão Gilberto Chateuabriand – Retrato e Auto-Retrato da Arte Brasileira,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
“Grupo Frente 1954-1956; I Exposicao Nacional de Arte Astrata – Hotel Quitandinha 1953,” Galeria de Arte BANERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Neoconcretismo 1959-1961,” Ciclo de Exposicoes sobre Arte no Rio de Janeiro – Galeria de Arte BANERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Portraits of a Country—Brazilian Modern Art from the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection,” Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
1983
“Quase Cinema,” FUNARTE / Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1981
“Latin American Artists,” Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
1978
“Objeto na Arte: Brasil Anos 60,” Museu de Arte Brasileira da FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
1976
“Arte Brasileira, Seculo XX – Caminhos e Tendencias,” Galeria de Arte Global, São Paulo, Brazil
1973
“Expoprojeção,” São Paulo, Brazil
1972
“Exposição,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1970
“Abstracao Geometrica – Concretismo e Neoconcretismo,” Galeria FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Information,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Ogramurbana,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1967
“IV Modern Art Salon,” Brasil
“V Biennale de Paris,” Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Apresentacao da Vanguarda Brasileira,” Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
“Barata, Waldemar Cordeiro, Helio Oiticica,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“I Bienal Nacional de Artes Plasticas,” Secretaria de Educacao e Cultura da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
“Ninth International Art Exhibition of Japan,” Tokyo, Japan
“Nova Objetividade Brasileira,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1966
Galeria Atrium, São Paulo, Brazil
“Opinião 66,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1965
“VIII Biennial,” São Paulo, Brazil
“Opinião 65,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Quarta Exposicao do Grupo Frente,” Cia Siderúrgica Nacional, Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1961
“Exposicao Neoconcreta,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
1960
“Konkrete Kunst,” Zürich, Switzerland
1959
“Exposicao Neoconcreta,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo; Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1957
“Arte Moderno en Brasil: Esculturas, Pinturas, Dibujos, Grabados,” Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Biennial,” São Paulo, Brazil
“Modern Art of Brazil,” Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1956
“Secuondo Exposicao do Grupo Frente,” Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Exposicao Neoconcreta,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Traveled to Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Pintura Brasileña Contemporanea,” Montevideo, Uruguay
1955
“Premiero Exposicao do Grupo Frente,” Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AWARDS
1970
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, New York
1969
Artist-in-Residence, Sussex University, Brighton, England
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, Switzerland
Frankel Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Tate Modern, London, England
Died 1980
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
“Museu É O Mundo,” Paço Imperial and Casa Fraça-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York,” Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York
2009
“Drawings: 1954–58,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2007
“Hélio Oiticica / Neville D’Almeida: Cosmococa Programa in Progress - Quasi-Cinema CC1 Trashiscapes,” Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
2006
“Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Traveled through 2007 to Tate Modern, London, England
“Hélio Oiticica / Neville D’Almeida: Cosmococa Programa in Progress - Quasi-Cinema CC1 Trashiscapes," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Penetrável,” Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Helio Oiticica / Neville d’Almeida: Cosmococa Programa in Progress,” Colección Constantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003
“Exposição Momentos: Frames, Cosmococa,” Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
2002
“Hélio Oiticica: Obra e Estratégia,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hélio Oiticica: Quasi-Cinema,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
“Paisagem Zero,” SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
2001
“Construção do Penetrável Magic Square No. 5,” Museu do Açude, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hélio Oiticica: Quasi-Cinemas,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Traveled to Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
2000
“Beyond Space,” Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba; Traveled to Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Espaços Públicos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998
“Hélio Oiticica e a Cena Americana,” Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hélio Oiticica DesenHOs,” Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro; Traveled to Centro de Estudos Brasileiros, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Hélio Oiticica Fotografias,” Galeria Paparazzi, São Paulo, Brazil
1996
“Hélio Oiticica” Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1992
“Hélio Oiticica,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Traveled to Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Fundación Tápies, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1990
“Hélio Mangueira Oiticica,” Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1989
“Grupo Frente e Metaesquemas,” Galeria de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1987
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
“O Q Faco e Musica,” Galerie de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1981
“Homanagem a Mário Pedrosa,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1980
“Hélio Oiticica,” Galeria Chaves, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1972
“Metaesquemas,” Galerie Ralph Camargo, São Paulo, Brazil
1969
“Hélio Oiticica,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1968
“Apocalipopotesis,” Aterro Park, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
1967
“Collective Parangole,” Aterro Park, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
1966
“Environment of Nuclei and Bodies,” Galeria G4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1961
“Os Projetos de Helio Oiticica,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“The 1950s: (Neo-) Concretism,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with Europalia.Brasil
“Brazil.Brasil,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with Europalia.Brasil
“Terra Brasilis,” ING Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with Europalia.Brasil
“A Rua (The Street),” Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Malba: Ten Years,” Malba-Fundación Costantini (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires), Argentina
“Playing with Form: Concrete Art from Brazil,” Dickinson, New York, New York
Galería de Arte Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Athena Galería de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Reinvention of the Modern,” Gagosian Gallery, Project Space, Paris, France
“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
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
“Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,” The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. Traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark e Lygia Pape,” Baró Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
“Everlasting Gobstopper,” Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, California
“Expanded Horizon,” Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“The Shape of Abstraction,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Hélio Oiticica/Rirkrit Tiravanija: Contact,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Arsenal,” Baró Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
“Textiles: Art and the Social Fabric,” Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
“Mexico: Expected/Unexpected,” TEA Tenerife Space for the Arts, Canary Islands. Traveled through 2011 to Stedelijk Museum Scheidam, the Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
“Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
“Brazil Contemporary,” Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
“NÓS,” Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milan – Turin / Los Angeles, 1956–1969,” Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
“Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100,” The Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, New York
2008
“Here is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Color in to Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
“Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection, Mexico: Expected / Unexpected,” La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
“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
“Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object,” Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York
“Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selected Highlights from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art,” New York State Museum, Albany, New York
“Time & Place: Rio de Janeiro 1956-1964,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
“Face to Face: Part 2,” The Daros Collections, Zurich, Switzerland
“Arte ? Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“Correspondences: Contemporary Art from the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros,” Beard Gallery and Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
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
“Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas. Traveled to Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
“Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
“The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Traveled to Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New York, New York
2006
“Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection,” Morris and Helen Belkin Art
Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“Concreta ’56: A Raiz da Forma,” Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
“Defamation of Character,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2005
“Collection Remixed,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, New York
“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Spectrum,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Tropicália: A revolution in Brazilian Culture”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Traveled through 2006 to The Barbican Gallery, London, England; The Bronx Musuem, The Bronx, New York
2004
“Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940’s-70’s,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
“MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of
the Museum of Modern Art,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“Organized Delirium: New York 1970-1978,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2003
“The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982,” Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
“X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions of the 1960’s and 1970’s,” Factory, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2002
“Brazil: Body and Soul,” Guggenheim Foundation, New York, New York
“Caminhos do Contemporâneo,” Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“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
“poT,” Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Traveled to Galeria Fortes Vilaçia, São
Paulo, Brazil
“St. Petrischnee,” Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
2001
“Central Cities,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Da Adversidade Vivemos,” Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
“Geometric Abstraction in Latin American Art: the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2000
“Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment,” National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; Traveled to Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Paço 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
“Campos de Fuerzas: Un Ensayo Sobre lo Cinético,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
“Force Fields,” Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain
“Heterotopias Faces del Cinetico,” Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Mostra Redescobrimento – Brasil 500 Anos,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
“Vivencias,” Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1999
“Circa 1968,” Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“Exercise of Freedom,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
“Global Conceptualism,” Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida
“Objeto,” Itacultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Poéticas da Cor,” Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Trouble Spot Painting,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
1998
“30 Anos de Tropicalismo,” Museo de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
“Il Bienal Internacional de Fotografia,” Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
1997
“Bienal do Mercosul,” Porto Alegre, Brazil
“Documenta X,” Kassel, Germany
1995
“Bloco Experiences,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
“Hall of Mirrors,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1994
“22a Bienal de São Paulo: Fundação Bienal, Sala Especial Bloco – Experiêncas in Cosmococa – Program in Progress,” Galeria de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1992
“Brazilian Art,” Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
“Artistas latinoamericanos del siglo XX,” Comisaria de la Ciudad de Sevilla para 1992; Traveled to Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne as two shows, “Art d’Amerique Latine 1911-1968,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France and “Amériques Latines: Art Contemporain,” Hôtel des Arts, Paris, France; Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1991
“Experiência Neoconcreta: Rio de Janeiro, 59/60,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Imagem sobre Imagem,” Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1989
“Art in Latin America—The Modern Era, 1820-1980,” Hayward Gallery, London, England; Traveled to National Museum Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Palacio de Velásquez, Madrid, Spain
“Mundo Abrigo,” Galeria 110 Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States 1920-1970,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, New York
1988
“Arte Brasileira do Século XX,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
“Brazil Projects,” PS1—The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. and Sociedade Cultural Art-Brasil, Long Island City, New York
1987
“Latin American Artists in New York since 1970,” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texis at Austin, Austin, Texas
“Modernidade: Art Brésilien du 20e Siècle,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Palavra Imagica,” Museu de Arte Contemporana, São Paulo, Brazil
“Tropicalia: 20 Anos,” Centro de Lazer SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
“IX Salão Nacional,” FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“JK e Os Anos 50—Uma Visão da Cultura e do Cotidiano,” Galeria Investiarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Lygia Clark e Helio Oiticica,” Sala especial do 9 Salão Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Museu de Arte Contemporãnea, São Paulo, Brazil
1985
“VIII Salão Nacional,” FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“A Arte e Seus Materiais-Atitudes Contemporaneas,” Sala Especial do Salão Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Opinião 65,” Galeria de Arte BANERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Tropicália, Gil-20 Anos Luz,” Anhembi, São Paulo, Brazil
1984
“Colecão Gilberto Chateuabriand – Retrato e Auto-Retrato da Arte Brasileira,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
“Grupo Frente 1954-1956; I Exposicao Nacional de Arte Astrata – Hotel Quitandinha 1953,” Galeria de Arte BANERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Neoconcretismo 1959-1961,” Ciclo de Exposicoes sobre Arte no Rio de Janeiro – Galeria de Arte BANERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Portraits of a Country—Brazilian Modern Art from the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection,” Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
1983
“Quase Cinema,” FUNARTE / Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1981
“Latin American Artists,” Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
1978
“Objeto na Arte: Brasil Anos 60,” Museu de Arte Brasileira da FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
1976
“Arte Brasileira, Seculo XX – Caminhos e Tendencias,” Galeria de Arte Global, São Paulo, Brazil
1973
“Expoprojeção,” São Paulo, Brazil
1972
“Exposição,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1970
“Abstracao Geometrica – Concretismo e Neoconcretismo,” Galeria FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Information,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Ogramurbana,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1967
“IV Modern Art Salon,” Brasil
“V Biennale de Paris,” Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Apresentacao da Vanguarda Brasileira,” Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
“Barata, Waldemar Cordeiro, Helio Oiticica,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“I Bienal Nacional de Artes Plasticas,” Secretaria de Educacao e Cultura da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
“Ninth International Art Exhibition of Japan,” Tokyo, Japan
“Nova Objetividade Brasileira,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1966
Galeria Atrium, São Paulo, Brazil
“Opinião 66,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1965
“VIII Biennial,” São Paulo, Brazil
“Opinião 65,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Quarta Exposicao do Grupo Frente,” Cia Siderúrgica Nacional, Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1961
“Exposicao Neoconcreta,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
1960
“Konkrete Kunst,” Zürich, Switzerland
1959
“Exposicao Neoconcreta,” Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo; Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1957
“Arte Moderno en Brasil: Esculturas, Pinturas, Dibujos, Grabados,” Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Biennial,” São Paulo, Brazil
“Modern Art of Brazil,” Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1956
“Secuondo Exposicao do Grupo Frente,” Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Exposicao Neoconcreta,” Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Traveled to Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Pintura Brasileña Contemporanea,” Montevideo, Uruguay
1955
“Premiero Exposicao do Grupo Frente,” Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AWARDS
1970
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, New York
1969
Artist-in-Residence, Sussex University, Brighton, England
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, Switzerland
Frankel Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Tate Modern, London, England