| Biography
born in 1967 and lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1996-98 Royal College of Art, London
1989-94 Escola de Belas Artes UFMG, Belo Horizonte

| Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2007
Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo (BR) (upcoming>)
2006
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (USA)
2005
[... ], Klosterfelde, Berlin (D)
2004
Currents 04, Saint Louis Art Museum - Gallery 337, Saint Louis (USA)
2003
Eu Desejo o Seu Desejo Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo (BR)
Superficial Resemblance, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F)
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife (BR)
2002
To: From: Rivane Neuenschwander, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR)
IN0VA, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA)
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (GB)
2001
Spell, Portikus, Frankfurt (D)
The Americas Society, New York (USA)
ArtPace Foundation, San Antonio
2000 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo (BR)
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublín (IRL)
Syndrome: Rivane Neuenschwander, IASPIS International Artist’s Studio Program,Stockholm (S)
1999
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (GB)
1997
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (GB)
1996 Casa Triângulo, São Paulo (BR)
1992 Itaú Galeria, Belo Horizonte (BR)
Itaú Galeria, São Paulo (BR)


| Group Exhibitions & Projects (selected)
2007
Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making, MoMA, NY (USA)
2006
The Show Will Be Open When The Show Will Be Closed (curated by Adam Carr), STORE gallery, London
(UK); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (F)
Bienal de Havana, Havana, Cuba
Stopover, Centre d’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg (CH)
Tropicália (curated by Carlos Basualdo), Barbican Art Gallery, London (GB);
Centro Cultural Belém, Lissabon (P) ; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (USA)
Sinais na Pista, Museu Imperial de Petrópolis (BR)
2005
Internazionale d´Arte della Biennale di Venezia, Venice (I)
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon (F)
Impermanência e Transitoriedade, Museu do Espírito Santo (BR)
Magazin 3 Stockholm (S)
5ª Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (BR)
Water Event, The Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (N)
Romance [a novel], curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (P)
Educação, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2004
Never Never Landscape, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin (D)
Cinema e Arte, Culturgest, Lisboa (P)
Paisaje & Memoria (Landscape & Memory), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (E)
Novas aquisições 2003 Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Brasil: Body Nostalgia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokio; The National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto (J)
(dys)function, Lunds konsthall, Lund (S)
Paralela, São Paulo (BR)
2003
Modesty, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo (BR)
Modos de Usar, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo (BR)
Plunder: Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (GB)
Frankenstein,Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (USA)
The Wish (oliveira) Tree, Le Jardin, Gatieres
Delays and Revolutions, 50th Biennale Internazionale d’ Arte, Venice (I)
Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, MAM Miami Art Museum, Miami (USA)
Files (Catalogue), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon*
From Dust to Dusk: Art between light and dirt, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen (DK)
Land, Land, Kunsthalle Basel (CH)
2002
poT, II Liverpool Biennial of Cotemporary Art, Liverpool, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo (BR)
Haunted by Detail, CTP De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
Matéria Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba
Ptyx: o poeta fala com o menino que conversa com o poeta, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (BR)
Caminhos do Contemporâneo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Vivências, The New Art Gallery of Walsall, Walsall*
The Eye of the Beholder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (GB)
Luminous Mischief, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama (J)
2001
Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (BR)
Trans Sexual Express, Centro D´Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona (E)
Trajetória da Luz na Arte Brasileira, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (BR)
2000
Space Experiences: Homage to the National Museum of Art, Osaka (J)
Friends and Neighbours, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (IRL)
The Quiet in The Land 2: Projeto Axé, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador*
No es Sólo lo que Ves: Pervirtiendo el Minimalismo, Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madri*- Syndrome: Disappear, International Artist’s Studio Program in Sweden, Stockholm (S)
Bienal de Gravura, Curitiba - Brasil+500, Mostra do Redescobrimento, São Paulo (BR)
1999
Looking for a Place, The Third International Biennial, Site Santa Fé (USA)
Trace, First Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool (GB)
Calming the Clouds, Oslo (N)
Au Dela’, Galerie Klosterfeld, Berlin (D)
Cotidiano/Arte Objeto Anos 90, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (BR)
Powder, The Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (USA)
1998
XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
Bili Bidjoka, Los Carpinteros, Rivane Neuenschwander, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (USA)
The Garden of Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (DK)
1997
II Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg
V International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul*
Material Immaterial, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney*
Antarctica Artes com a Folha, São Paulo*
Cercanias, Gesto Gráfico, Belo Horizonte - Amanhã, Hoje, Faap, São Paulo - A Infância Perversa, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Solar do Unhão, Salvador - Guaicurus, Galpão do Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte* - Hic Manebimus Op Time, Galeria de Arte Manoel Macedo, Belo Horizonte
1994
A Imagem Não Virtual, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo (BR)
Abjeto, Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte (BR)
1993
A Linha no Espaço, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horizonte (BR)
XIII Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas da Funarte, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
1991
15.000 kg, Sala Arlinda Corrêa, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (BR)


| Grants and Awards (selected)
2004
Shortlisted Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA)
2003
Bolsas Vitae de Artes
2002
Menção Honrosa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais UFMG
2001
Delfina Studios, London (UK)
ArtPace-a Foundation for Contemporary Art, Texas
2000
IASPIS, International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm
1999
The Quiet in the Land 2: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and Projeto Axé, Salvador
1996
Antarctica Artes com a Folha, São Paulo