Jac Leirner (São Paulo SP 1961)
Jac Leirner is a multimedia artist. She graduated in visual arts in 1984 from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), where she taught between 1987 and 1989. In the 1980s, she played bass in the punk band U.K.C.T. In 1991, she was artist in residence at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, United States. That same year, in England, she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford and artist in residence at the city's Museum of Modern Art. To create her works, she carries out extensive collecting of ordinary objects, often linked to the world of consumption.
By bringing them into the art circuit, she removes these objects from their usual flow and gives them new meanings. From the Pulmão [Lung] series (1985–1987) on, she began producing works that explore the variety of shapes and colors of the materials, incorporating questions related to the presence of color, linearity and horizontality.
Critical Commentary
Jac Leirner's works begin with the collecting of ordinary objects, often linked to the world of consumption. Her collecting can go on for a long time: some series took 15 years to complete. In the 1980s, she made a series of works with paper money. In Os Cem [The Hundreds], 1987, she uses 100-cruzeiro bills. The bills are pierced, strung into long strips and spread across the floor. In Corpus Delicti, 1985/1993, she brings together objects taken from airliners, such as ashtrays, linked by a chain so as to evoke a piece of jewelry. In the series Nomes [Names], 1989, she joins together bags from museums or art bookstores, as if forming a fabric, with which she covers entire rooms or walls. In 1991, she made the series To and From, grouping correspondence envelopes kept and lent to her by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, United States. In all these works, she interrupts the predictable path of everyday objects toward disappearance and brings them into the art circuit, thereby giving them other meanings.
The series Pulmão [Lung], 1987, is more closely linked to her personal life. To make it, Leirner kept the cigarette packs after smoking their contents. She took them apart and used the plastic opening strips, the paper, the tax stamps and other parts as material for the works. She also showed X-rays of her lungs. For the critic Lorenzo Mammì, Pulmão marks an important stage in her production: in this series, the artist shows herself open to working with a greater variety of shapes and colors. In more recent works, such as Foi um Prazer [It Was a Pleasure], 1997, Leirner places on the walls business cards of artists, curators and gallery owners, and in the series Adesivos [Stickers], 2000/2002, she shows stickers from rock bands, warning signs, museums, bookstores and magazines, organized by theme, color or shape. As the artist points out, these latest works incorporate all the others and add questions related to the presence of color, linearity and horizontality.
Jac Leirner's work engages in dialogue with that of Marcel Duchamp, with the serialization of Minimal Art and with conceptual art, among other trends. It carries, however, a pronounced poetic and autobiographical sense.
Critiques
"What initially drives the artist's work seems to be the need to imprison objects, removing them from the flow of consumption, of life. Leirner acts like a collector or, rather, like a special kind of archaeologist, concerned with the typologies of certain objects that interest her for what they have in common and for the relationships - affective or not - that the artist maintains with them. Cigarette packs, banknotes, phrases, plastic bags, etc.
Having removed them from the circuit of consumption - having killed them, one might say -, in a first stage Leirner simply lets them gradually pile up somewhere in the studio for months, sometimes years. Dead because deprived of their original function, at a certain moment Leirner decides to bring them to life again, and this would begin the second stage of her process.
This is a stage the artist herself calls 'engendering', that is, gestation. A long, meticulous stage in which the artist, joining the carcasses of the same type of object, obsessively arrives at the final result of this stage: a new object, a new form, made up of several, countless specimens of a former object.
(...) once this stage is over, what does she do? She casts those many objects - now joined in a single form - back into the flow of life, of consumption, exhibiting them in the conventional circuit of conventional art".
Tadeu Chiarelli
Chiarelli, Tadeu. Jac Leirner. Galeria: Revista de Arte, n. 16, p. 101-103.
"Pulmão [Lung] (1987) was made at the time she quit smoking; 1,200 packs of Marlboro (three years of smoking) were taken apart into their constituent parts; each part, gathered together, became a distinct sculptural entity and a metaphor for the lung. Together they made up the whole exhibition. One was made of the cellophane strips that are torn off first, another of the inner foil wrappers, another of the tax stamps, and so on. Only the cigarettes were not there: they had 'gone up in smoke'. (...)
Recently, for a work I have not yet seen, Jac Leirner has been collecting plastic bags. Another ubiquity of everyday planetary life, usually atomized as small 'packages' in time and space, another ideological murmur. The bags will be turned into an environment that will envelop the viewer, like a padded cell. I have described JL as someone who employs a 'sculptural strategy', in the sense of working with the physical properties of things. But the important difference lies in the word 'strategy'. She is not putting things together to arrive at a finite, preexisting image, or at an 'abstract' aesthetic sensation. Her work makes such formalisms seem unnecessarily limited and narrow, like old protocols and etiquette. Along with a number of other artists today, Jac Leirner proposes a new definition of poetics, a kind of intervention that modifies the patterns of space and time in which we, and objects, move. A new way in which life can vitalize art, or art reveal life".
Guy Brett
LEIRNER, Jac. Jac Leirner. Tradução Nelson Ascher. Sao Paulo, 25 il. p. b. color. , 1989.
"It is in the passage of their use value through the fetish, in their dissolution into another configuration, that objects verge on being a Nothing, until Jac Leirner recomposes their identity. The dismantling of the objects' functions, their assignment as sign value, is Jac Leirner's critical action upon the empirical. The thing, drained of its primordial functionality, now becomes the very double of the real: the configuration as art. If the objects handed out on a flight (cutlery, blankets or earphones) undergo mutation into art material, then the airplane is the studio where Jac Leirner's work intensifies its temporal dimension, duration. 'A trip is a moment of excitement. I need those jewels.' Displaced, the objects purge their dysfunction. It takes up to four or five years of silence. It is the procedural time for qualities to be refined until they are distorted into art. 'Once I have chosen, I no longer have choices', says the artist. The accomplished fact of this 'object-based' will, akin to the Bachelardian material will, finds Jac Leirner open to phenomenal operations. Detaching things from grand ideas, cancelling their connotations, seeking what belongs to each thing until the epiphanic moment of the work of art. Everything comes about so harmoniously that it seems as if the place emerged from the object itself, as if its body unfolded from itself to offer itself to the haptic gaze".
Paulo Herkenhoff
LEIRNER, Jac. Jac Leirner. Sao Paulo: Galeria Camargo Vilaça, 1993. s. p. il. , figs. foto.
Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario - Toronto (Canadá)
Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Culturgest - Lisboa (Portugal)
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo - Santiago de Compostela (Espanha)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Washington DC (Estados Unidos)
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo - MAM/SP - São Paulo SP
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst - Ghent (Bélgica)
Phoenix Art Museum - Estados Unidos
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Nova York (Estados Unidos)
Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders - Bergisch Gladbach (Alemanha)
The Bohen Foundation
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA - Nova York (Estados Unidos)
University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis (Estados Unidos)
Solo Exhibitions
1982 - São Paulo SP - Objetos Brancos e Imagens Objetuais [White Objects and Object Images], at Galeria Tenda
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Os Cem [The Hundreds], at Petite Galerie
1987 - São Paulo SP - Pulmão [Lung], at Galeria Millan
1989 - São Paulo SP - Nomes [Names], at Galeria Millan
1991 - Boston (United States) - Currents, at The Institute of Contemporary Art
1991 - Minneapolis (United States) - Viewpoints, at Walker Art Center
1991 - Oxford (England) - Solo, at Museum of Modern Art
1992 - Friedberg (Germany) - Blue Phase and Ghost, at Galerie Hoffmann
1992 - Washington D.C. (United States) - Directions, at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution
1993 - Geneva (Switzerland) - Corpus Delicti, at Centre d'Art Contemporain
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana
1993 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Camargo Vilaça
1994 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Galerie Lelong
1997 - New York (United States) - Nice to meet you, at Galerie Lelong
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Todos os Cem [All the Hundreds], at Paço Imperial
1997 - São Paulo SP - Foi um prazer [It Was a Pleasure], at Galeria Camargo Vilaça
1998 - New York (United States) - Hip Hop, at The Bohen Foundation
1998 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Solo, at Sala Mendoza
1999 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Centro Cultural São Paulo
1999 - São Paulo SP - Projeto Parede [Wall Project], at MAM/SP
2000 - São Paulo SP - Adesivos 0-9 [Stickers 0-9], at Galeria Camargo Vilaça
2000 - Madrid (Spain) - Solo, at Galeria Helga de Alvear
2001 - São Paulo SP - Cem Temas, Uma Variação, exposição relâmpago [A Hundred Themes, One Variation, Flash Exhibition], at MAM/SP
2001 - São Paulo SP - Hip Hop, at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia
2001 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Galeria Brent Sikkema
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Jac Leirner - Ad Infinitum, at CCBB
2002 - São Paulo SP - Jac Leirner - Ad Infinitum, at CCBB
2003 - Antwerp (Belgium) - Solo, at Galerie Kusseneers
2004 - Miami (United States) - Adhesive 44, at Miami Art Museum
2004 - Porto (Portugal) - James Dean (and other writings), at Galeria André Viana
2005 - Saint Nazaire (France) - Little Lights, at Centre d'Art de Saint Nazaire
Group Exhibitions
1980 - São Paulo SP - Xerox - Projeto Intersemiótico [Xerox - Intersemiotic Project], at Faap
1982 - São Paulo SP - Objetos Brancos e Imagens Objetuais [White Objects and Object Images], at Galeria Tenda
1983 - São Paulo SP - 17th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1983 - São Paulo SP - A Presença do Ready Made, 80 Anos [The Presence of the Ready-Made, 80 Years], at MAC/USP
1983 - São Paulo SP - Arte nas Ruas [Art in the Streets], at MAC/USP
1984 - São Paulo SP - Proposta para os Anos 80 [Proposal for the 1980s], at Pinacoteca do Estado
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - SP 3, at Petite Galerie
1986 - Cali (Colombia) - 5th American Biennial of Graphic Arts, at Museo de Arte Moderno
1986 - São Paulo SP - The New Dimension of the Object, at MAC/USP
1986 - São Paulo SP - Uma Virada no Século [A Turn of the Century], at Pinacoteca do Estado
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 10th National Visual Arts Salon, at Funarte
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Papel no Espaço [Paper in Space], at Galeria Aktuell
1988 - São Paulo SP - 19th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1989 - Geneva (Switzerland) - Basel Art Fair, at Galeria Andata
1989 - São Paulo SP - 20th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1989 - São Paulo SP - Projeto Arte em Jornal [Art in Newspaper Project], at Jornal da Tarde
1990 - São Paulo SP - Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art], at Masp
1990 - Atami (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Birmingham (England) - Transcontinental, at Ikon Gallery
1990 - Brasília DF - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - New York (United States) - $, at Gust Vasiliades Gallery
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - São Paulo SP - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Fundação Brasil-Japão
1990 - São Paulo SP - Espiral [Spiral], at Miriam Mamber Galeria de Arte
1990 - Sapporo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Tokyo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Tokyo Central Museum
1990 - Vancouver (Canada) - Past Future Tense, at Vancouver Art Gallery
1990 - Venice (Italy) - Aperto 90, Biennale di Venezia [Aperto 90, Venice Biennale]
1990 - Winnipeg (Canada) - Past Future Tense, at Winnipeg Art Gallery
1991 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Brasil: La Nueva Generación [Brazil: The New Generation], at Museo de Bellas Artes
1991 - Cologne (Germany) - Fluxus Virus, at Galerie Schüppenhauer
1991 - Stockholm (Sweden) - Viva Brasil Viva, at Kulturhuset
1991 - Malmö (Sweden) - Transmission, at Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art
1991 - Minneapolis (United States) - Viewpoints, at The Walker Art Center
1991 - Vancouver (Canada) - Past Future Tense, at Vancouver Art Gallery
1992 - Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) - Only Paper?, at Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders
1992 - Berlin (Germany) - Berlin 37 Räume [Berlin 37 Rooms], at Kleine hamburger 15
1992 - Cologne (Germany) - Fluxus Virus, at Galerie Schüppenhauer
1992 - Cologne (Germany) - Latin American Artists of The XX Century, at Kunsthalle Josef Haubrich
1992 - Curitiba PR - 10th Curitiba City Printmaking Show/America Show, at Museu da Gravura
1992 - Kassel (Germany) - Documenta 9, at Museum Fridericianum
1992 - Paris (France) - Amériques Latines: art contemporain, at Hôtel des Arts
1992 - Paris (France) - By Arrangement, at Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot
1992 - Paris (France) - Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, at Centre Georges Pompidou
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil na Documenta [Brazil at Documenta], at Museu da República
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art, at EAV/Parque Lage
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Quatro Brasileiros na Documenta [Four Brazilians at Documenta], at Museu da República
1992 - São Paulo SP - The Seduction of Volumes: The Three-Dimensional Works of the MAC, at MAC/USP
1992 - São Paulo SP - Dominant White, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
1992 - São Paulo SP - Brasil na Documenta [Brazil at Documenta], at Masp
1992 - São Paulo SP - Galeria Camargo Vilaça: Inaugural Exhibition, at Galeria Fortes Vilaça
1992 - Seville (Spain) - Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, at Estación Plaza de Armas
1993 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Brasil Hoy [Brazil Today], at Valenzuela & Klenner Galeria
1993 - Cologne (Germany) - Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, at Kunsthalle Cologne
1993 - New York (United States) - Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, at MoMA
1993 - São Paulo SP - A Arte Brasileira no Mundo, Uma Trajetória: 24 artistas brasileiros [Brazilian Art in the World, a Trajectory: 24 Brazilian Artists], at Dan Galeria
1993 - São Paulo SP - A Presença do Ready-Made, 80 anos [The Presence of the Ready-Made, 80 Years], at MAC/USP
1993 - Washington (United States) - Ultramodern: the art of contemporary Brazil, at The National Museum of Women in the Arts
1994 - Juiz de Fora MG - America, at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Reitoria
1994 - New York (United States) - Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties, at MoMA
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - BR / UK, at British Council
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - BR / UK, at MAM/RJ
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século XX, at Fundação Bienal
1995 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Coleção Valentina y Ignacio Oberto [Valentina and Ignacio Oberto Collection], at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber
1995 - Chicago (United States) - About Place: Recent Art in the Americas, at The Art Institute of Chicago
1995 - Denver (United States) - Latin American Women Artists, at Denver Art Museum
1995 - Essex (England) - Continuum - brazilian art, 1960s - 1990s, at University Gallery, University of Essex
1995 - Milwaukee (United States) - Latin American Women Artists, at Milwaukee Art Museum
1995 - Moscow (Russia) - On Beauty, at Regina Gallery
1995 - Rennes (France) - Classifications, at Galerie Art and Essai, Université de Rennes
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Anos 80: O Palco da Diversidade - Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand [The 1980s: The Stage of Diversity - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection], at MAM/RJ
1995 - São Paulo SP - The 1980s: The Stage of Diversity, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1995 - Seoul (South Korea) - Boarder Crowl, at Kukje Gallery
1996 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Sin Fronteras / Arte Latino americano Actual [Without Borders / Current Latin American Art], at Museo Alejandro Otero
1996 - Graz (Austria) - Inclusion/Exclusion, at Graz Kunst Museum
1996 - Miami (United States) - Defining the Nineties: consensus-making in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles, at Museum of Contemporary Art
1996 - Nice (France) - Chimériques Polymères - Le Plastique dans l'Art du XXème Siècle [Chimerical Polymers - Plastic in 20th-Century Art], at Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Pequenas Mãos [Small Hands], at Paço Imperial
1996 - São Paulo SP - 15 Brazilian Artists, at MAM/SP
1996 - São Paulo SP - 4th Studio Unesp Sesc Senai of Image Technologies, at Sesc Pompeia
1997 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Así está la cosa: Arte, Objeto y Instalaciones de América Latina [That's How Things Are: Art, Object and Installations from Latin America], at Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 15 Brazilian Artists, at MAM/RJ
1997 - São Paulo SP - Além da Forma [Beyond Form], at Casa das Rosas
1997 - São Paulo SP - Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art, at Itaú Cultural
1997 - Venice (Italy) - 47th Venice Biennale
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art, at Itaú Cultural
1998 - Berlin (Germany) - Der Brasilianische Blick, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand [The Brazilian Gaze, Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection], at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
1998 - Brasília DF - Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
1998 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) - Transatlántico, at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
1998 - Penápolis SP - Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Petite Galerie - Uma Visão da Arte Brasileira (1954 - 1988) [Petite Galerie - A View of Brazilian Art (1954 - 1988)], at Paço Imperial
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Theory of Values, at Fundação Casa França Brasil
1998 - São Paulo SP - Beyond the Rainbow, at MAB/Faap
1998 - São Paulo SP - Annual Visual Arts Exhibition Program, at CCSP
1998 - São Paulo SP - Theory of Values, at MAM/SP
1999 - Lisbon (Portugal) - América Latina: De las Vanguardias al Fin del Milenio [Latin America: From the Avant-Gardes to the End of the Millennium], at Centro Cultural Culturgest
1999 - Liverpool (England) - 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art: ArtLovers, at Compton House
1999 - Liverpool (England) - Art Lovers, First Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
1999 - New York (United States) - Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, at MoMA
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - O Objeto, Anos 60-90 [The Object, 1960s-90s], at MAM/RJ
1999 - São Paulo SP - 26th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1999 - São Paulo SP - O Objeto, Anos 60-90 [The Object, 1960s-90s], at Instituto Itaú Cultural
1999 - São Paulo SP - Why Duchamp?, at Paço das Artes
1999 - São Paulo SP - Annual Visual Arts Exhibition Program, at CCSP
2000 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Brasil: plural y singular, at Museo de Arte Moderno
2000 - Colchester (England) - Outros 500: Highlights of Brazilian Contemporary Art in UECLAA, at Art Gallery - University of Essex
2000 - Curitiba PR - 12th Curitiba Printmaking Exhibition: Marcas do Corpo, Dobras da Alma [Body Marks, Soul Folds]
2000 - Castelló (Spain) - Zona F [Zone F], at Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló
2000 - Essex (England) - Outros 500: highlights of brazilian contemporary art [Other 500: Highlights of Brazilian Contemporary Art], at Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex
2000 - Fortaleza CE - 26th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura
2000 - Havana (Cuba) - 7th Havana Biennial, at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - 20th Century: Art of Brazil, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
2000 - Madrid (Spain) - Ads Logos and Videotapes, at Galeria Helga de Alvear
2000 - Madrid (Spain) - Versiones del Sur [Versions from the South], at Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
2000 - Niterói RJ - 26th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAC/Niterói
2000 - New York (United States) - Latin American Sale, at Christie's
2000 - New York (United States) - The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, at MoMA
2000 - Paris (France) - Voilà, Le Monde dans la tête [Voilà, the World in the Head], at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2000 - Richmond (United States) - Vanitas: meditations on life and death in contemporary art, at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brasil 500 Anos Artes Visuais [Brazil 500 Years Visual Arts], at Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
2001 - Campinas SP - Deslocamentos do Eu: o autorretrato digital e pré-digital na arte brasileira 1976-2001 [Displacements of the Self: The Digital and Pre-Digital Self-Portrait in Brazilian Art 1976-2001], at Itaú Cultural
2001 - Caracas (Venezuela) - 13 Horas [13 Hours], at Sala Mendoza
2001 - São Paulo SP - Deslocamentos do Eu: o autorretrato digital e pré-digital na arte brasileira 1976-2001 [Displacements of the Self: The Digital and Pre-Digital Self-Portrait in Brazilian Art 1976-2001], at Paço das Artes
2001 - Osaka (Japan) - Museum as Subjects, at The National Museum of Art
2001 - Oxford (England) - Experiment Experiência: Art in Brazil 1958-2000, at Museum of Modern Art
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Blind Mirror: Selections from a Contemporary Collection, at Paço Imperial
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Spirit of Our Time, at MAM/RJ
2001 - São Paulo SP - Antonio Saggese e Jac Leirner [Antonio Saggese and Jac Leirner], at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia
2001 - São Paulo SP - Blind Mirror: Selections from a Contemporary Collection, at MAM/SP
2001 - São Paulo SP - The Spirit of Our Time, at MAM/SP
2001 - São Paulo SP - Trajectory of Light in Brazilian Art, at Itaú Cultural
2002 - Essex (England) - Transit. latin american art at the university gallery, at University of Essex
2002 - Fortaleza CE - Ceará Rediscovers Brazil, at Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura
2002 - New York (United States) - Keep in Touch, at Brent Sikkema
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Caminhos do Contemporâneo 1952/2002 [Paths of the Contemporary 1952/2002], at Paço Imperial
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Between Image and Word: Module 2, at Sala MAM-Cittá América
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Parallels: Brazilian Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century in Context, Colección Cisneros, at MAM/RJ
2002 - São Paulo SP - The Plane as the Structure of Form, at MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Parallels: Brazilian Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century in Context, Colección Cisneros, at MAM/SP
2003 - Curitiba PR - Matéria Prima [Raw Material], at Novo Museu
2003 - Pennsylvania (United States) - s(how), at ICA, University of Pennsylvania
2003 - Porto (Portugal) - Secrets in the Light of Day, at Galeria André Viana
2003 - São Paulo SP - Printmaking Is Doing Fine, Thank You: Historical and Contemporary Brazilian Printmaking, at Espaço Virgílio
2003 - São Paulo SP - The New Geometry, at Galeria Fortes Vilaça
2003 - São Paulo SP - The Subversion of Media, at Itaú Cultural
2003 - São Paulo SP - Compressores e Condensadores [Compressors and Condensers], at MAM-Villa Lobos
2003 - São Paulo SP - Latinidades [Latinities], at Sesc Pompeia
2003 - São Paulo SP - My Friends, at MAM/SP
2003 - São Paulo SP - Tomie Ohtake in the Spiritual Fabric of Brazilian Art, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
2004 - New York (United States) - Group show, at Brent Sikkema
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art in Rio Collections, at MAM/RJ
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Tomie Ohtake in the Spiritual Fabric of Brazilian Art, at MNBA
2004 - São Paulo SP - As Bienais [The Biennials], at Galeria Bergamin
2004 - São Paulo SP - Opening group show, at Galeria Baró Cruz
2004 - São Paulo SP - Fragmentos e souvenirs paulistanos [São Paulo Fragments and Souvenirs], at Galeria Luisa Strina
2004 - São Paulo SP - New Acquisitions: 1995 - 2003, at MAB/Faap
2004 - São Paulo SP - Still Life / Natureza Morta, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
2004 - São Paulo SP - Transversal, at Galeria Baró Cruz
2005 - Porto Alegre RS - 5th Mercosur Biennial
2005 - São Paulo SP - 10 anos de um novo MAM: Antologia do Acervo [10 Years of a New MAM: Anthology of the Collection], at MAM/SP
Source: Itaú Cultural
