José Roberto Aguilar (São Paulo SP 1941)
José Roberto Aguilar is a painter, video maker, performer, sculptor, writer, musician and curator. Self-taught, he joined the performative-literary movement Kaos in 1956, alongside Jorge Mautner (1941) and José Agripino de Paula. In 1963, he exhibited his paintings at the 7th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. Considered one of the pioneers of the new figuration in Brazil, he took part in the exhibition Opinião 65, at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ), in 1965. In this phase, he began using spray paint and the compressed-air spray gun in his paintings.
He lived in London from 1969 to 1972, and in New York from 1974 to 1975, when he began experimenting with video. He returned to São Paulo in 1976. The following year, he took part in the 14th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo with the installation Circo Antropofágico Ambulante Cósmico e Latino-Americano Apresenta Esta Noite: A Transformação Permanente do Tabu em Totem [Cosmic and Latin American Traveling Anthropophagic Circus Presents Tonight: The Permanent Transformation of Taboo into Totem], in which he used 12 TV monitors on the stage of the Teatro Ruth Escobar.
In 1981, he created the music group Banda Performática and released the book A Divina Comédia Brasileira [The Brazilian Divine Comedy]. In 1983, he became a disciple of the Indian spiritual leader Rajneesh and began signing his works as Aguilar Vigyan. In 1989, he staged the performance Tomada da Bastilha [Storming of the Bastille], with the participation of 300 artists, watched by some 10,000 people in São Paulo.
During the 1990s, he produced paintings on giant canvases and sculptures in glass and ceramics. From 1995 to 2002, he was director of the cultural center Casa das Rosas, in São Paulo. In 2003, he was appointed representative of the Ministry of Culture in the city of São Paulo.
Critical Commentary
From the 1950s onward, José Roberto Aguilar produced works with a magical-expressionist character, in dialogue with abstraction, marked by spontaneity in painting, achieved through the rapid application of paint. In the Série Futebol 1 [Football Series 1] (1966), he uses patches of color and dripping paint in contrasting colors, making a strong impact through the fantastic character of the misshapen figures. Around 1963, his work began to reveal political and social concerns. The artist experimented with spray paint and spray gun on large canvas surfaces. Through these techniques, he achieved original effects, capturing the atmosphere of neon signs typical of today's metropolises.
One of the pioneers of video art in Brazil, Aguilar has shown throughout his career an ease in moving from one medium to another. In 1981, he created the Banda Performática, which combined painting, music, theater and circus. In the mid-1980s, he made paintings in which gesture and the insertion of handwriting against a contrasting background stand out.
In 2002, in the exhibition Rio de Poemas [River of Poems], Aguilar produced a series of canvases inspired by literary texts, such as the short story A Terceira Margem do Rio [The Third Bank of the River], by Guimarães Rosa (1908 - 1967). Attraction to literature and mythology is a constant in the artist's production. He appropriates writing and graphic signs, making them integral elements of his canvases. His paintings display a multidirectional dynamic and reveal an articulation of emotions. In the canvases of the Rio de Poemas series, the artist reduced the gesturality, producing almost diaphanous paintings.
Critiques
"From earlier on, Aguilar has kept his inclination toward visual impact and conceptual aggressiveness. Today, the figures that inhabit his works have reached that point of critical-caricatural saturation that transfers them to the anonymous realm of graffiti. The boundary between good and bad taste breaks down; there is no longer any way to define or contain them, and they become, in the end, one and the same thing. But the anthropophagy becomes individualized and gains value from the fact that the seemingly chaotic and automatic accumulation of every kind of sign on the picture, gestures figuring and disfiguring, scribbling, commenting on or camouflaging the writing, still retains a great deal of rational action, in these narratives with signs and characters that remind us of Dubuffet or Enrico Baj, while remaining very much our own. His figures and references to landscape portray, in the investigative sense implicit in the term, rather than merely show".
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. Arte brasileira contemporânea: Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Jornal do Brasil, 1976.
"José Roberto Aguilar formed the 'Grupo Kaos' with the musician Jorge Mautner and the writer José Agripino. Influenced by European new figuration, but incorporating the Abstract Expressionism of the American Pollock, and more recently elements of rock (he created and led a performance band, even recording albums) and religion (as a member of a sect founded by Rajneesh, he currently signs his canvases with the name Vigyan), he is an essentially urban artist, who captures and conveys the frantic rhythm of the modern megalopolis. Since his first appearances in group shows, in the early 1960s, Aguilar has worked with basically the same material: letters, words, phrases or entire quotations from texts by Oswald de Andrade, Borges, Bukowski. The letter as icon. These linguistic signs fill the space of the canvas uniformly or appear related to human figures, areas or bands of color. The figures - men and women - are crudely graffitied and seem to keep up an incomprehensible dialogue, in the manner of Ionesco. But the artist feels at ease in this torrential style of his and in producing, with images, the infernal noise of the modern city".
Frederico Morais
DACOLEÇÃO: os caminhos da arte brasileira. São Paulo: Júlio Bogoricin, 1986.
"Aguilar has always treated painting in an ecstatic way. An orgy of colors exposing traces of his body in turns, curves, movements expressed and impressed in the layers of paint on the canvas. From touch, paint on skin, canvas. With a similar intention, he ventured as a pioneer into video art. The camera-brush retracing the path of gestures. Sucking in the surface of people, things, colors, revealed by their transformation into a luminous flow; pulsating lines. 'The devil's eye'. Without abandoning painting - the safe harbor from which he has always set out for other discoveries -, Aguilar now arrives at a new crossroads-synthesis of the various media through which the image flows. Where matter and virtual reality feed each other, opening up virgin territories and repertoires to be explored".
Arnaldo Antunes
ANTUNES, Arnaldo. Tantra coisa: insights de um voyeur. In: ARTE e artistas plásticos no Brasil 2000. São Paulo: Meta, 2000.
Testimonials
"It was Mautner (Jorge) who taught me to paint. One day he came over and said, full of confidence and arrogance: let's paint. My grandfather is a painter. I'll go there, watch how he does it and bring back all the information. He spent an afternoon with his grandfather and came back: I know how to paint now. We have to buy a canvas, turpentine, some brushes and paints. He did all that and we stood watching Mautner paint. We also bought our own materials. When I opened the turpentine tube, that smell enveloped me. It was as if I had rubbed Aladdin's lamp. The smell evoked all the wonders, imagined and unimagined. I felt right then that painting would be very magical, a ritual. . . I think my madness came from my father. He was a child, a man who showed all his wonder before mankind. Ingenious, creative. During the war he bought a huge lot of miniature trains, hundreds of cars and locomotives. In 1949, he set up a mind-blowing railway park at the Galeria Prestes Maia. Then he organized the largest film library in São Paulo, A Rainha, which rented out films. That was in the early days of television. Later, he built the largest button factory in Latin America. There is also the maternal side; my mother played the piano very well. Today, my father lives a Zen placidity".
José Roberto Aguilar
AGUILAR, José Roberto. José Roberto Aguilar/Swami Antar Vigyan: tarot. São Paulo: Galeria de Arte São Paulo, 1984.
"Although these pieces speak of the 'Mahabharata', they have no will to be; they could be anything. They are anthropomorphic pieces not conceived as representation. They can be anything. They work as pieces of virtual reality, metaphors of art. The glass sculptures, on the other hand, would be syllables, frozen words of Ganesha's writing - untranslatable through logic and resistant to Cartesian dualism. They can be seen as brushstrokes. . . This exhibition was born from a proposal by a therapist friend of mine that I make an adaptation of the Mahabharata for the theater. It ended up taking shape through three series of paintings, the last of which was dedicated to the 'Bhagavad Gita', the one that uses the strongest colors".
José Roberto Aguilar
GONÇALVES FILHO, Antônio. Aguilar pinta e revela suas visões do Mahabharata. Folha de S. Paulo, São Paulo, 18 maio 1993.
Solo Exhibitions
1964 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria São Luiz
1965 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Seta
1966 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Seta
1967 - Campinas SP - Solo, at MACC
1968 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Art-Art
1969 - New York (United States) - Print Exhibition, at Center for Inter American Relations
1969 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Petite Galerie
1970 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at IAB/SP
1971 - Birmingham (England) - Solo, at Ikon Gallery
1973 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Ralph Camargo
1974 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Permanent Transformation of Taboo into Totem, at Petite Galerie
1974 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Petite Galerie
1976 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Grafitti
1976 - São Paulo SP - 15 Years of Painting, at Masp
1977 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal
1977 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Fernando Millan
1977 - São Paulo SP - Video Art, at MAC/USP
1978 - Tokyo (Japan) - Solo, at Galeria Varig
1980 - Milan (Italy) - Video, at Galeria de Brer
1980 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte
1980 - São Paulo SP - Video, at Galeria Luisa Strina
1980 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Luisa Strina
1980 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Itaugaleria
1981 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte
1983 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Artespaço
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tarot, at Galeria São Paulo
1985 - Cologne (Germany) - Solo, at Inge Baecker Gallery
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Montesanti-Roesler
1987 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Montesanti-Roesler
1989 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Paradiso, at Subdistrito Comercial de Arte
1990 - Berlin (Germany) - Solo, at Galerie Rudolf Schoen
1991 - São Paulo SP - Pictorial Gigantomachy, at Masp
1993 - New York (United States) - Performance, at New York University
1993 - São Paulo SP - Visions of the Mahabharata, at Galeria São Paulo
1993 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
1996 - São Paulo SP - The Creation of the World and Time, at MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - River of Poems, at Escritório de Arte São Paulo
2003 - Curitiba PR - Visionaries, at Casa Andrade Muricy
2005 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Group Exhibitions
1963 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Labor Salon - honorable mention
1963 - São Paulo SP - 7th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1964 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 1st Young National Printmaking Exhibition
1964 - São Paulo SP - 1st Young National Printmaking Exhibition, at MAC/USP
1964 - São Paulo SP - 1st Art Salon, at Galeria de Arte das Folhas - first prize
1965 - Belo Horizonte MG - 1st Young National Printmaking Exhibition, at Museu de Arte da Pampulha
1965 - Campinas SP - 1st Campinas Contemporary Art Salon, at MACC
1965 - Curitiba PR - 1st Young National Printmaking Exhibition, at Secretaria do Estado de Educação
1965 - Florianópolis SC - 1st Young National Printmaking Exhibition, at Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina
1965 - Paris (France) - 4th Paris Biennale
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st Esso Salon of Young Artists, at MAM/RJ
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinião 65, at Faap
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinião 65, at MAM/RJ
1965 - s.l. - 4th Poetry Biennial
1965 - São Paulo SP - 14th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1965 - São Paulo SP - 8th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1965 - São Paulo SP - Propostas 65, at MAB/Faap
1965 - São Paulo SP - Esso Salon of Young Artists, at MAC/USP
1966 - Campinas SP - 2nd Campinas Contemporary Art Salon, at MAC/Campinas - first prize
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Man and the Machine, at MAM/RJ
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinião 66
1966 - Salvador BA - 1st National Visual Arts Biennial - acquisition prize
1966 - São Paulo SP - 15th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1966 - São Paulo SP - Man and the Machine, at Masp
1966 - São Paulo SP - Three Premises, at MAB
1967 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Three Aspects of Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1967 - Brasília DF - 4th Federal District Salon of Modern Art, at Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro
1967 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Three Aspects of Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1967 - Campinas SP - 3rd Campinas Contemporary Art Salon, at MACC - first prize
1967 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Three Aspects of Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1967 - Lima (Peru) - Three Aspects of Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1967 - Mexico - Three Aspects of Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1967 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Three Aspects of Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1967 - Santiago (Chile) - Three Aspects of Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1967 - São Paulo SP - 16th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal - Itamaraty Prize
1968 - Campo Grande MS - 28 Artists from the Collection of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, at Diário da Serra
1969 - Fortaleza CE - 28 Artists from the Collection of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, at Centro de Artes Visuais Raimundo Cela
1969 - São Paulo SP - 10th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1972 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Multiplied Art, at Múltipla de Arte
1972 - São Paulo SP - The Pioneers of Fantastic Realist Art, at Paço das Artes
1975 - Alabama (United States) - Brazilian Art Exhibition
1975 - Birmingham (England) - Brazilian Art
1975 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1975 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1975 - La Paz (Bolivia) - Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1975 - Lima (Peru) - Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Communication According to Visual Artists
1975 - Santiago (Chile) - Brazilian Contemporary Painting
1976 - Michigan (United States) - 20 Brazilian Artists, at Kresge Art Gallery
1976 - São Paulo SP - 7th São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço das Artes
1976 - Texas (United States) - Latin American Drawing Exhibition, at Universidade do Texas
1977 - São Paulo SP - 14th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal - State Governor Prize
1978 - Caracas (Venezuela) - International Video Art Meeting
1978 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st National Visual Arts Salon, at Palácio da Cultura
1978 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st National Visual Arts Salon, at MNBA
1978 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo International Video Art Meeting, at MIS/SP
1979 - New York (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Works on Paper, at Nobe Gallery
1979 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1979 - São Paulo SP - 15th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1980 - São Paulo SP - São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon - 1st prize
1981 - London (England) - Brazilian Contemporary Art, at Barbican Gallery
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art, at MAM/RJ
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Pablo, Pablo!: A Brazilian Interpretation of Guernica, at Funarte
1981 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Contemporary Art, at MAM/SP
1981 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary Brazilian Artists, at Escritório de Arte São Paulo
1982 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
1982 - London (England) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Barbican Art Gallery
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Between the Stain and the Figure, at MAM/RJ
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Universe of Football, at MAM/RJ
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 3 x 4 Large Formats, at Galeria do Centro Empresarial Rio
1983 - São Paulo SP - 14th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1983 - São Paulo SP - Art on the Street 1
1984 - London (England) - Group show, at Barbican Gallery
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Active Brazilian Painting, at Espaço Petrobras
1984 - São Paulo SP - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection: Portrait and Self-Portrait of Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1984 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at MAM/SP
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tradition and Rupture: A Synthesis of Brazilian Art and Culture, at Fundação Bienal
1985 - Brasília DF - Brazilianness and Independence, at Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinião 65, at Galeria de Arte Banerj
1985 - São Paulo SP - 18th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal - Sala Expressionismo Brasileiro
1985 - São Paulo SP - Art and Technology, at MAC/USP
1985 - São Paulo SP - Art New Media/Multimedia: Brazil 70/80, at MAB/Faap
1985 - São Paulo SP - Tendencies of the Artist's Book in Brazil, at CCSP
1985 - Tokyo (Japan) - Today's Art of Brazil, at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
1986 - São Paulo SP - 17th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - To the Collector: Tribute to Gilberto Chateaubriand, at MAM/RJ
1987 - São Paulo SP - 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Chapel Art Show
1987 - São Paulo SP - The Weave of Taste: Another Look at Everyday Life, at Fundação Bienal
1987 - São Paulo SP - Palavra Imágica [Imagic Word], at MAC/USP
1988 - Leverkusen (Germany) - Brasil Já [Brazil Now], at Morsbroich Museum
1988 - São Paulo SP - 63/66 Figure and Object, at Galeria Millan
1988 - Stuttgart (Germany) - Brasil Já [Brazil Now], at Galerie Landesgirokasse
1989 - Hannover (Germany) - Brasil Já [Brazil Now], at Sprengel Museum
1989 - São Paulo SP - 20th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1989 - São Paulo SP - Galeria São Paulo Collection, at Escritório de Arte São Paulo
c.1990 - Tokyo (Japan) - Brazilian Art, at Latin Art Gallery
1990 - Atami (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Berlin (Germany) - Art Brasil Berlin. José Roberto Aguilar, Cristina Barroso and Rubens Oestroem, at Galerie Rudolf Schoen
1990 - Berlin (Germany) - Berliner Galerien Zeigen Brasilianische Kunst
1990 - Brasília DF - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Brasília DF - Pantanal: Seven Visions, at Visual Galeria de Arte
1990 - Brasília DF - Brasília Visual Arts Prize, at MAB/DF
1990 - Los Angeles (United States) - Brazil Projects '90, at Municipal Art 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 - Brazil Projects '90, at Masp
1990 - São Paulo SP - Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Masp
1990 - Sapporo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Tokyo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1991 - Stockholm (Sweden) - Viva Brasil Viva, at Liljevalchs Konsthall
1992 - Campinas SP - Award Winners of the Campinas Contemporary Art Salons, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea José Pancetti
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - On the Way to Niterói: João Sattamini Collection, at Paço Imperial
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Eco Art, at MAM/RJ
1992 - São Paulo SP - The 1960s/70s: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection/Museu de Arte Moderna-RJ, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1993 - João Pessoa PB - Woodcut: From Cordel to the Gallery, at Fundação Espaço Cultural da Paraíba
1993 - Niterói RJ - On the Way to Niterói: João Sattamini Collection, at MAC/Niterói
1993 - São Paulo SP - Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - The Ephemeral in Brazilian Art: 1960s/70s
1994 - Penápolis SP - The Ephemeral in Brazilian Art: 1960s/70s, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at MAM/RJ
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Via Fax, at Museu do Telephone
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século XX, at Fundação Bienal
1994 - São Paulo SP - The Ephemeral in Brazilian Art: 1960s/70s, at Itaú Cultural
1994 - São Paulo SP - Woodcut: From Cordel to the Gallery, at Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo
1994 - São Paulo SP - Flags: 60 Artists Celebrate USP's 60 Years, at MAC/USP
1995 - Belo Horizonte MG - Babel Project, at Praça da Liberdade
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinião 65: 30 Years, at CCBB
1995 - São Paulo SP - 1st United Artists, at Casa das Rosas
1995 - São Paulo SP - Babel Project, at Sesc Pompéia
1995 - São Paulo SP - Contact Project, at Galeria do Sesc Paulista
1996 - Brasília DF - The Ephemeral in Brazilian Art: 1960s/70s, at Itaugaleria
1996 - Niterói RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art in the João Sattamini Collection, at MAC/Niterói
1996 - São Paulo SP - 1st Off Bienal, at Museu Brasileiro da Escultura
1996 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art: 50 Years of History in the MAC/USP Collection: 1920-1970, at MAC/USP
1996 - São Paulo SP - Flags, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1996 - São Paulo SP - The World of Mário Schenberg, at Casa das Rosas
1996 - São Paulo SP - Off Bienal One, at Museu Brasileiro de Esculturas
1998 - Brasília DF - Cien Recuerdos para Garcia Lorca, at Espaço Cultural 508 Sul
1998 - Niterói RJ - Mirror of the Biennial, at MAC/Niterói
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 16th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1998 - São Paulo SP - Elective Affinities I: The Collector's Eye, at Casa das Rosas
1998 - São Paulo SP - Canibáliafetiva, at A Estufa
1998 - São Paulo SP - The 1970s, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
1998 - São Paulo SP - Figurations: 30 Years in Brazilian Art, at MAC/USP
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Collectors - Guita and José Mindlin: Matrices and Prints, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1999 - São Paulo SP - United Artists: Journeys of Identities, at Casa das Rosas
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - 20th Century: Art of Brazil, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - 20th Century: Art of Brazil, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition. Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha, at Museu Histórico Nacional
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Situations: Brazilian Art of the 1970s, at Fundação Casa França-Brasil
2000 - São Paulo SP - Conceptual Art and Conceptualisms: The 1970s in the MAC/USP Collection, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brasil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition, at Fundação Bienal
2000 - São Paulo SP - Pirelli Collection in the MAM Collection: Brazilian Art in the 1960s, at MAM/SP
2000 - São Paulo SP - Cow Parade
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Spirit of Our Time, at MAM/RJ
2001 - São Paulo SP - Art Today, at Arvani Arte
2001 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Culture 1, at Casa das Rosas
2001 - São Paulo SP - Museu de Arte Brasileira: 40 Years, at MAB
2001 - São Paulo SP - The Spirit of Our Time, at MAM/SP
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Paths of the Contemporary 1952-2002, at Paço Imperial
2002 - São Paulo SP - Map of Now: Recent Brazilian Art in the João Sattamini Collection of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
2002 - São Paulo SP - Imaginary Mexico: The Brazilian Artist's Eye, at Casa das Rosas
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Projeto Brazilianart, at Almacén Galeria de Arte
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Caixa Treasures: Brazilian Modern Art in the Caixa Collection, at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
2003 - São Paulo SP - The Subversion of Media, at Itaú Cultural
2003 - São Paulo SP - Art and Society: A Controversial Relationship, at Itaú Cultural
2003 - São Paulo SP - Israel and Palestine: Two States for Two Peoples, at Sesc Pompéia
2003 - São Paulo SP - MAC USP 40 Years: Contemporary Interfaces, at MAC/USP
2004 - Campinas SP - Metrópolis Collection of Contemporary Art, at Espaço Cultural CPFL
2004 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary Nuclei, at Valu Oria Galeria de Arte
2005 - São Paulo SP - The Body in Brazilian Contemporary Art, at Itaú Cultural
2005 - São Paulo SP - Small Great Works, at Cultural Blue Life
Source: Itaú Cultural
