One of the most influential conceptual artists today, Cildo Meireles creates complex installations and sculptures that entice the viewer and challenge political, philosophical, and aesthetic precepts.
Meireles’s artistic practice was shaped by the social and political conditions during the dictatorship of Brazil in the 1960s and ‘70s, and by the Neo-Concretist and avant-garde artists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica. Like his predecessors, Meireles merges physical, cerebral, and sensorial elements in works that elicit audience participation. While Meireles’s works are often created in response to specific political events and situations, they evoke universal themes that are communicated through the viewer’s experience in a shared, rigorously designed and defined space.
Meireles’s work has been the subject of several large-scale exhibitions at renowned institutions. In 2013, a retrospective organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain, traveled to the Fundação de Serralves, Portugal, and the HangarBicocca, Italy, the following year.
In 2008, Meireles had a full-scale retrospective at the Tate Modern, England; the exhibition traveled through 2010 to the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico.
His work is represented in major museums and institutions around the world including the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brazil; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium; and Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Meireles was born in 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he currently lives and works.
2023
One and Some Chairs / Camouflages, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, New York
Cildo Meireles: In the Kingdom of Fuck: 1964-1987, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019
Cildo Meireles , Entrevendo, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
Cildo Meireles: Close to Far Away, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo Cerrillos, Cerrillos, Chile
2015
Q & A, GALLERIA CONTINUA San Gimignano
Cildo Meireles, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2014
Cildo Meireles. Installations, curated by Vicente Todolì, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Pling Pling, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Like a needle in a haystack, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Askeby, Denmark
2013
Cildo Meireles, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain. Organized by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
Travelling through 2014 to Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
Obscure Light, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil. Traveled to Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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
Occasion, Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
Occasion, Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
2003
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 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 through 2002 to Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil;
Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio, Brasília, Brazil
2000
Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Galeria Luisa Strina, 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 through 1996 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
Projects, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Cildo Meireles: Missão/Missões How to Build Cathedrals & Cinza, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
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
Obscure Light, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil. Traveled to Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eureka/Blindhotland, Rio Arte Humaita, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1981
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1979
The Sermon on the Mount: Fiat Lux, Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Definitives Articles, Galeria Saramenha, 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
2024
Dancing with Daemons, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Angel With a Gun: Homage to Guy Brett, Alison Jacques, London, United Kingdom
For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
Feels Like Home: Kiasma's Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma,
Helsinki, Finland
2023
Viceversa: posiciones y perspectivas de una colección, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá,
Bogotá, Colombia
Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Gift and Beyond, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Uncertain Codes, University of Florida Galleries, Gainesville, Florida
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Moraes-Barbosa Collection, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2021
Rhe: everything flows; Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, New York
Spatial Affairs, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
TITAN, kurimanzutto, New York, New York
DECATEGORIZED: Artists from Brazil, Instituto Distrital de las Artes de Bogota (online exhibition)
2019
2ª Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de América del Sur, Ushuaia and other towns, Argentina.
Constructions and Geometries – Dulce and João Carlos Figueiredo Ferraz Collection, MuBE, São Paulo, Brazil.
Queda do Céu, Caixa Cultural, Brasília, Brazil.
Lado B: O Disco de Vinil na Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil.
The Source, Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France.
Arte-Veículo, Sesc Santos, Santos, Brazil.
2018
Conjuro de ríos, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.
A Sheet of Paper Can Become a Knife, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, Holand.
Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil.
Verzuimd Braziel – Brasil Desamparado, Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
AI-5 50 Anos – Ainda não terminou de acabar, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
Verzuimd Braziel – Brasil Desamparado, Centro Cultural Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Lugares do Delírio, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil.
Memories of underdevelopment: art and the decolonial turn in Latin America, 1960-1985, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico.
Verzuimd Braziel -Brasil Desamparado, MAC/GO Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
Visiones de la Tierra / El mundo planeado – Luís Paulo Montenegro Collection, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain.
The Matter of Photography in the Americas, Cantor Center for Visual Arts / Stanford University, Stanford, EUA.
2017
Everyday Poetics, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA.
Potência e Adversidade – Art from Latin America in the Portuguese Collections, Museu de Lisboa / Pavilhão Branco e Pavilhão Preto, Lisbon, Portugal.
Past/Future/Present, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA.
Jeux, rituels et récréations, lille3000, Lille, France.
14th Lyon Biennial / Mondes Flotantes, France.
OSSO exposição-apelo ao amplo direito de defesa de Rafael Braga, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
Modos de ver o Brasil: Itaú Cultural 30 anos, OCA Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
Pedra no Céu: Arte e a Arquitetura de Paulo Mendes da Rocha, MUBE Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, São Paulo, Brasil.
Avenida Paulista, MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
2016
The Shanghai Project, Shanghai, China
Os muitos e o um: Brazilian Contemporary Art in the Andrea and José Olympio Pereira Collection, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
Homo Ludens, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
Em Polvorosa, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A Cor do Brasil: de Visconti a Volpi, de Sued a Milhazes, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro.
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA.
Brazil, Beleza?! Contemporary Brazilian Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Holland.
Totemonumento, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
Situações: A Instalação no acervo da Pinacoteca, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo Brazil
How to (…) Things That Don’t Exist, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Resistance Performed – Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Systems in Latin America, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Imagine Brazil, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC Canada
How to (…) Things That Don't Exist, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, Germany
Cildo Meireles & Various Artists, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Encruzilhada, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Experiência da Arte, Sesc Santo André, Santo André, Brazil
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Made in Brasil, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A queda de céua de céu, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil
From the Object to the World, Inhotim Collection, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Imagine Brazil, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Possibilities of the Object: Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2014
Eu represento os artistas, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Que coisa é? uma conversa / a conversation, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
A pegada Pop, Galeria Carbono, São Paulo, Brazil
artevida: a City wide contemporary art exhibition: artevida (corpo), Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Other sections: artevida (política), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
artevida (arquivo), Biblioteca Parque Estadual, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
artevida (parque), Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
30 Bienal de São Paulo: Transformações na arte brasileira da 1ª à 30ª edição, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Imagine Brazil, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Planos de fuga: uma exposição em obras, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brasil
Circuitos Cruzados: O Centre Pompidou encontra o MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
O abrigo e o terreno, Museu de arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Americana: Overview Gallery, Purchasing Power, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Forida
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales | Masterpieces from the Scottish Lines and Realignments, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Suspicious Minds, Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
Secret Codes, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Documents: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York
Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil – Argentina, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967 – 1978, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, CUNY Hunter College, New York, New York
The Insides are on the Outside, Glass House, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
Extra Large, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Performing Abstraction, Luciana Brito Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil – Argentina, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Travelling to Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Air de Lyon, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cildo Meireles & Antoni Muntadas: Salt & Sugar…No SUGAR, No SALT, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland
Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956-1986, simultaneously at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, and M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2011
Galería Kurimanzutto, San Miguel Chapultepec, México
Athena Galería de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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
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
29ª Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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; andthe 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; 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
Marking time/ Making memory, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
Espelho Cego – Selcoes de uma Colecao Contemporanea, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Traveled to Espaco Cultural Venancio, Venancio Aires, Brazil
Minimalism Past And Presence, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
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 through 1999 to Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
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
Re-aligning 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
Salao de Bussola, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pre-Bienial de Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1965
Il Salao de Arte Moderna do Distrito Federal, Brasilia, Brazil
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
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