ERNESTO NETO
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Ernesto Neto: MENTRE LA VITA CI RESPIRA - SoPolpoVit'EreticoLe
The Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo 10 Jun - 26 Sep 2021Mentre la vita ci respira – SoPolpoVit’EreticoLe is the title of a solo exhibition by the renowned Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (Rio De Janeiro, 1964)...Read more -
Ernesto Neto: SunForceOceanLife
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 30 May - 26 Sep 2021This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Ernesto Neto: SunForceOceanLife, a major commission and one of the largest crochet works to date by...Read more
b. 1964 in Rio de Janero, Brazil
Lives and works in Brazil
EDUCATION
1994-1997
Escola de Artes Visuais Pargua Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Children of the Earth, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Sopro / Blow, Pinacoteca of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Soplo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018
GaiaMotherTree, Beyeler Foundation for the Zurich train station, Basel
One Day We Were All Fish and The Earth's Belly, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ernesto Neto, MdbK, Leipzig, Germany
2017
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
Water Falls from my Breast to the Sky, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (permanent commission)
2016
The Serpent’s Energy Gave Birth to Humanity, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Enresto Neto: Rui Ni / Voices of the Forest, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
2015
Ernesto Neto: The Jaguar and the Boa, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin ~ Aru Kuxipa | Sacred Secret, TBA 21 Contemporary, Augarten, Vienna, Austria
2014
Ernesto Neto: Haux Haux, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remanagen, Germany
O protesto e a serpente, Galeria Elba Benîtez, Madrid, Spain
Ernesto Neto: Gratitude, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Ernesto Neto: The body that carries me, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
2013
O ABRIGO E O TERRENO: Arte e sociedade no Brasil, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
notes, stones and dots, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
Linha da vida, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Olhando o céu, Brazilian Embassy, Rome, Italy
2012
Fecundation, Loucura é parte da vida, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan
O Bicho Suspenso na paisa gen, Estação Leopoldina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Não tenha medo do seu corpo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Cuddle on the Tightrope, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Slow iis goood, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Ernesto's Tongue. Survey Exhibition 1987-2011, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, MARCO Mexico; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Ernesto Neto: O Bicho SusPensa na PaisaGen, Los Molinos Exhibition Hall, Faena Art District, Buenos Aires, Argentina
While Nothing Happens, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Quando a gente para, o mundo roda, Casa de cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
Dancing Allowed, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
The Edges of the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Navedenga, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Intimacy, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Dengo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
2009
anthropodino, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
Variations, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Drill HallNova Iorque, EuaPilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
Ernesto Neto, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, England
A Culpa Civilizada, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
Ernesto Neto – Mentre niente accade/ while nothing happens, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
...Ai...ai..., Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
1/3, Fondazione Volume!, Rome, Italy
Ernesto Neto, I8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ernesto Neto: A sculpture can be another that can stand upright, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
2007
Um beijo de joguinho, MIMOCA, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma, Museum of Contemporary Kagawa, Japan
Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
From Sebastian to Olivia, Galeria Max Heltzer, Berlin, Germany Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NorwayGaleria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006
O Abraço do Tempo...Jazz (with Carlos Belvilacqua), Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
From what are we made, made, of of, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Leviathan Thot, Part of 35th Festival d’Automne, Panthéon, Paris, France
in / out, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Japan
Ernesto Neto, Gallery Koyanagi, Japan
Unlimited, Art Basel 37, Basel, Switzerland
How to put it up, dulcieneia!, Galerie Bob von Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Ernesto Neto - The Malmö Experience, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
2005
Ernesto Neto, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
Agora bolas , Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
There is Nothing Else to Be Seen but the World, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Tratatus/Deuses, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
O Corpo onde não há, Festival d’Automne-Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtriére, Paris, France
Ernesto Neto, Domaine de Kerguéhennec Centre D’art Contemporain, Bignan, France
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
4 Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Special Installation for Project Room, De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Citoplasma e Organóides, Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Ernesto Neto, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Ernesto Neto, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003
The silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA
Ernesto Neto, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
2002
Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Passing Time, Passing Space, Aarhus Artbuilding, Aarhus, Denmark
Directions – Ernesto Neto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
Ernesto Neto, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Ernesto Neto, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2001
Ernesto Neto / Matrix 190, A Maximum Minumum Time Space Between Us and the Parsimonious Universe, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA, USA
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Laura Marciaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Kiasma Museum of Comtemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Espelho Cego, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2000
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
SITE Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH, USA
Dundee Contemporary Art, Scotland
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
1999
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX, USA
James Van Damme, Brussels, Belgium
1998
Museo de Arte Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
1997
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brazil
1996
Elba Benitez Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela
1994
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
1993
Desenhos, Espaço, Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1992
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1991
Galerie de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1990
Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
1989
FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1988
Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Phenomena: Art as experience, Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, Australia
Songs in the Dark, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
2019
My Garden of Eden, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Installations from 25 Years of the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2018
Conjunctions, SFER IK Francisco Uh May, Quintana Roo, Mexico
2017
Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Past/ Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art São Paulo, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Bienalsur, National Museum of Decorative Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Enjoy: Art meets Amusement, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
Histórias da Sexualidade, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
Um dia todos fomos peixes, Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Out of Sight! Art of the Senses, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art of the Senses, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Floating Worlds, 14th Biennale de Lyon, curated by Emma Lavigne, Lyon, France
Specchio Paulo Reis, DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Art and Space, curated by Manuel Cirauqui, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Cosmic spring. The garden of metamorphoses, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Vive Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Arsenale and Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy
Sentido del Olfato, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
2016
The Many and the One: Brazilian Contemporary Art, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Political Intent and Beyond Limits, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Playground, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
ta.bu, Maison Particulier, Brussels, Belgium
Brasil, Beleza?!, museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands
Generosity. The Art of Giving, National Gallery, Sternberg Pallace, Prague, Czech Republic
2015
Belle Haleine: The Scent of Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Do Objeto para o Mundo, Coleção Inhotim, Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Nourishing: Art and Construction of Brazilian Food Heritage, Museu da Cidade, Lucas Nogueira Garcez Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
Dancing Museum, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
No hablaremos de Picasso, Fundación Maria Jose Jove, Palacio Municipal Kiosko Alfonso, A Coruña, Spain
A Experiência da Arte, Sesc Santo André, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alimentário: Arte e Construção do Patrimônio Alimentar Brasileiro, Exposição Universal - Expo Milão, São Paulo, Brazil
Manifesta 7 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Uma Coleção Particular, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Wie Raum wird, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Station to Station, Barbican, London, England
Made in Brasil, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Possibilities of the Object. Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Transfer Exercises: 9915 Collections, Centro de Arte, Alcobendas, Spain
2014
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influences on Modern Architectur, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany (catalogue)
do it Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Musée national d ́art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Seeking a New Genealogy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Experiencia com Arte - Série Arte para Crianças, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - Destrito Federal (CCBB/DF), Brasília, Brazil
Beyond and Between: Special Exhibition for Leeum’s 10th Anniversary, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Simple, Méditation sur la forme moderne (Simple, Meditation on the modern shape), Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
The Five Senses, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; travelled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT
Water Event: Yoko Ono, Half a Wind Show. A Retrospective. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2013
Permission To Be Global: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA
Brasiliana. Installationen von 1960 bis heute, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, UAE
Spun. Adventures in Textiles. Material World, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Travessias 2, Arte Contemporanea na Mare, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The insides are on the outside, Casa de Vidro by Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo, Brazil
Station to Station, Public art project organized by Doug Aitken, traveling by train from New York, NY to San Francisco, CA
43 Salón (inter), Nacional de Artistas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, Colombia
Remember Everything - 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentinia
Antigravity, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Sobre Papel / On Paper, Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
El Arte del Presente, Colección Helga de Alvear, Centrocentro, Madrid, Spain
Shelter And Land: Art and Society in Brazil, Museo de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales,National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
1st Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
SuperBodies, 3rd Hasselt Triennial, Hasselt, Belgium
El Panal/The Hive, Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico
11 Oncena Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
SAMMEN / TOGETHER, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
Arte e sociedade no Brasil, Museu d Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Food,Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Sculptures, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Open Spaces / Secret Places, Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Fruits of Passion, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Von Sinnen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Play With Me. Interactive Installations, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA
Es gibt.../ There is..., b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur, Germany
Abwehr. Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Matters of Fact, Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Foreign Excursions, McKee Gallery, New York, USA
2011
A Rua (The Street),Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Kunst-Stoff. Textilien in der Kunst seit 1960, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Ordem e progresso, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
International Biennial Of Contemporary Art, PandemoniumGöteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Spaceship Earth, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland
Biomorph! Hans Arp im Dialog mit aktuellen Künstlerpositionen,Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
Vestígios de Brasilidade, Santander Cultural, Recife, Brazil
Private / Corporate VI, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
2010
Art Foundation Mallorca, Centro Cultural Andratx, Spain
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Passages. Travels in Hyperspace, LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain
29th Biennale São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; The Garage, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Capturing Dimensions, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland
Communication Networks, City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Connect: A Gentil Carioca, ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, Germany
Die 60s in Brasilien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2009
AFTER UTOPIA - a view on Brazilian contemporary art, Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Sector plen air, art forum berlin, Berlin, Germany
ANABASIS. RITUALS OF HOMECOMING, Ludwik Grohman Villa, Lodz, Poland
Don't stare at the sun, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
Brazil Contemporary - Contemporary art, architecture and visual culture, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Silent Writings, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Violence, Haife Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2008
When Lives Become Form, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Held together with Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Private Passions, Public Visions, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Poetica da Percepcao, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Call it what you like!,Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
Autoreverse,Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Sammlung als Aleph, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Psycho Buildings, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The implications of the image, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
2007
Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal
Space for your Future, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
To Be Continued...,Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Melting Point, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Don’t Look, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, WellesleyMA, USA
Acting in Utopia, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
The Hours: Visual Art of Contemporary Latinamerica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill NY, USA
Held together with water, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria
2006
Surprise Surprise, ICA London, UK
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (curated by Anna Kafetsi)
Seduções (Seductions), Daros Exhibitions, Löwenbrau-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
Sublime Embrace, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
3rd Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken, Japan
Tropicalia – A revolution in Brazilian Culture, Barbican Gallery, London, UK; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal; Bronx Museum, New York, USA
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Coleção, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
Chers amis, Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
Choque Cultural na Fortes Vilaça - Fortes Vilaça na Choque Cultural, Galeria Fortes Vilaça / Choque Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Abrigo poético: Diálogos com Ligia Clark, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005
150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Troca Brasil, Feldman Gallery & Project Space and A Gentil Carioca, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Bresil = Foot Art, Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris, France
Desenhos: A-Z (Drawings: A-Z), Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Porta 33, Funchal, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
La Caixa Colllection. 20 Years with Contemporary Art. New Acquisitions., Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston TX, USA
Tropicalia, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (curated by Carlos Basualdo)
5th Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
O Corpo onde não há, Festival d’Automne, Espace Topographie de l´Art, Paris, France (curated by Ligia Canongia)
Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives between Reality and Fantasy, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Educação, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
2004
Bedford Gallery – Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California, USA
A New Modernism for a New Millennium: Abstraction and Surrealism are Reinvented in the Internet Age, The Logan Collection, Vail CO, USA
The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
A Contemporary Woman: Disorientation of Beauty, Tilburg Triennial of Contemporary Art, De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Brazil: Body Nostalgia, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Sevilla, Spain
Perception of Space, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
21st Anniversary Show, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAMAM, Recife, Brazil
The Snow Show, Kemi/Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
The Real Royal Trip, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
Thin Skin: The fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, Boise Art Museum, Boise ID, USA
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (curated by Adriano Pedrosa)
Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Everything is connected he, he, he, Astrup Fearnley – Museum for Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Polyphony: Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Bazar de Verão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX, USA
2003
Collectiones Contemporain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
From Dust to Dusk – Art between Light and Dirt, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Imagination – On Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Thin Skin: The fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA; International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Texas, USA
8th Havana Biennial, Cuba
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
A Simple Plan, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Dreams and Conflicts: Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Real Royal Trip, P.S.1 – Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA
2002
Ernesto Neto & Rivane Neuenschwander, Museum of Modern Art, Recife, Brazil
El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Trip, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Thin Skin: The fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands; AXA Gallery, New York, USA; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA
Forever, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Skin, Soul, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Archivo Pons Artxiboa, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain
Shape, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Sleeping/Dreaming/Awakening, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
The Inside is the Outside, Bard College, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
New South Wales Museum, Australia
Art Auction 2002, Benefiting the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Montemedio Arte Contemporanea, Cadiz, Spain
poT, 2nd Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Matéria Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba, Brazil
Caminhos do Contemporâneo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Retalhar 2002, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil
The Drawing Center’s 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition Lottery, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Insieme / Together, Museo Nazionale di Archittetura, Ferrara, Italy
2001
The Inward Eye, Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
Space-Jack, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Elfinal Del Eclipse, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
Before Reflection Begins, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Bodyspace, The Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
Brazil: Body and Soul, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Short Stories, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
Outros 500 / Stela Nave, University Gallery, Essex College, Essex, UK
Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Plateau of Humankind, 49 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Trienal of Barcelona, Spain
Surface, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
El Final Del Eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; Palacio de Los Condes de Gabia, Salas Caja General e Instituto de América, Granada; Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz, Spain
Espelho Cego, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
TRANS>editions, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2000
OO, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Raumkörper, Netze und andere Gebilde, Basel Kunstverein, Basel, Switzerland
SKIN, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
La Repetition, La Tete dans les nuages, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Sense and Sensuality, Body and Soul in Pictures, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Charles Long / Ernesto Neto / Siobhan Hapaska,Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Outros 500, University Gallery, University of Essex, Essex, UK
The Invisible Touch, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Investigações: O trabalho do artista, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Brasil 500 Anos, Artes Visuais, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
Desde el Cuerpo, Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Os 90, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999
Carnegie International 1999/2000,Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Zero G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American at Champion, Stamford, USA
Raumkorper, Netze und andere Gebilde, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Amnesia, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; Biblioteca Luis Arango, Bogota, Colombia
Wonderland, The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO, USA
Versiones del Sur, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Drawings, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA
Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, ICA, Boston, USA
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
A Vuelta com los Sentidos, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain
La Metamorfosis de las Manos, Irma Arestizabal, Mar Del Plata, Argentinia
1998
Amnesia, Track 16 Gallery and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil
Sidney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
Poeticas de Cor, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Camargo Vilaça Bis 46, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Corpos em Trânsito, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Contemporânea, Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1997
Puntos Cardinales, Fundacion Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Bienal del Barrio, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Bienal Barro de América, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura and Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Navedenga, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Material Immaterial, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Esto es: Arte Objeto e Instalacion de Piberoamerica, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Die anderen Modernen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Novas Aquisições, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Arte Contemporãnea da Gravura Brasil-Reflexão 97, Museu Metropolitano de Arte de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
1996
Transformal, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Sayde Branfman Center, Montreal, Canada
Defining The Nineties, Consensus-making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Mercer Union Center, Toronto, Canada
Suenos Concretos, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
Espaco 204, Caracas, Venezuela
Sin Fronteras/Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Colombia
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Internationales Projekt Für Bildende Kunst, Verein Für Bildende Kunst, Graz, Austria
Pequenas Mãos, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cutlural Alumni, São Paulo, Brazil
Transparencias, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Escultura Plural, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Suenos Concretos, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
The Drawing Center, New York, USA
The Five Senses, White Columns, New York, USA
Anos Oitenta: O Palco de Diversidade, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Country Code, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, USA
Entre o Desenho e a Escultura, Museu de Arte Moderne de São Paulo, Brazil
Libertaris Libertinos, Palacio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gwangju International Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Mostra de Gravura, Solar do Barao, Curitiba, Brazil
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
L'Educazione Dei Cinque Sensi, Palazzo Pamphili, Rome, Italy
1994
Escultura Carioca, Paco Imperial, Rio d Janeiro, Brazil
Esapço Namour, São Paulo, Brazil
A Espessura do Signo, Carmeliter Kloster, Frankfurt, Germany
1993
Brasil Hoy, Galeria Vanezuela & Klenner, Bogota, Colombia
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
1992
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1991
Brasil, la Nueva Generacion, Fundação Museu Bella Artes de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Panorama de Arte Brasileira Atual, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Formas tridimensionais: a questão orgânica, Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil
EAV - Processo n. 738.765-2, IBAC, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
1990
Premio Brasilia de Artes Plásticas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1989
XI Salão Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A ordem desfeita, 110 Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
O pequeno Infinito e o Grande Circunscrito, Galeria Arco, São Paulo, Brazil
1988
X Salão Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009
Best Show in a Public Space, AICA/USA, The United States Section of the AICA, The International Art Critics Association
2000
CENTRAL Art Prize, Cologne, Germany
1990
Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília, Brasil
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Daros Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Fundació Televisa, Mexico City, Mexico
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, IthacaNY, USA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporånea, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá, Madrid, Spain
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, MOT, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
The Monsoon Collection, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo (Ed.): Madness is part of Life, ernesto neto, Tokyo 2013
Nasher Sculpture Center (Ed.): Cuddle on the Tightrope, Dallas 2012
Center for Contemporary Art Cincinnati (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Ostfildern 2012
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO (Ed.): La lengua de Ernesto. Retrospectiva 1987-2011, Monterrey 2011
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Intimacy, Oslo 2011
Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim (Ed.): When people stop, the world turns, Rio de Janeiro 2010
Hayward Gallery Publishing (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. The Edges of the World, London 2010
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. Dengo Bala, São Paulo 2010
Park Avenue Armory, Gregory A. miller & Co (Ed.): Ernest Neto, anthropodino, New York, 2010
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes / Fage (Ed.): Ernesto Neto: a culpa civilizada, Lyon 2009
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea: Ernesto Neto 4, Milan 2008
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art/ The MIMOCA Foundation: Ernesto Neto, Kagawa 2007
Galerie Max Hetzler, Holzwarth Publications (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. From Sebastian to Olivia, Berlin 2008
Editions du Regard / Festival d’Automne: Ernesto Neto, Leviathan Thot, Paris 2006
Malmö Konsthal (Ed.): The Malmö Experience, Malmö 2006
Kunsthalle Basel / Schwabe & Co. / Peter Pakesch (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Basel 2002
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Washington D.C. 2002
Cecilia Pereira (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. O corpo, nu tempo, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 2002
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. Genealogy of Life, Stuttgart 2002
Aarhus Kunstbygning (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. Passing Time, Passing Space, Aarhus 2002